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The street. >> according to detective devlin they start questioning him, and at that point he bursts into tears. for the next two hours and 45 minutes he confesses this entire thing, and it comes out to be a 16-page confession. >> they called and they said that they arrested somebody for the murder, and i said who was it, and they said walter ogrod. >> it was just the best news i could have ever heard that they found her killer. >> walter ogrod would face the death penalty. >> as long as hes not...

Statement and gave it to jay wolchansky to use against walter ogrod, what would that mean to you? >> i dont know how you can do that. >> i have now documented that that story was fabricated by john hall. >> no, you havent and unless you have something from jay saying that none of that was told to him by walter and that he made it all up and haes willing to testify to the fact that he committed perjury, thats something else. >> at one point she said to me i thought you were trying to write a book...

I left their house feeling like i couldnt do it anymore. i couldnt be the one bringing this stuff up again for them. i cant imagine how i would feel if anyone were in touch with the guy who killed my father. every time i wanted to quit i thought about walter. what am i going to tell him. dear, walter it was really upsetting for me speaking to the fahys. how do you tell a guy that? >> after three years working on walters case, tom publish add two-part article detailing the snitch network used by ...

If someone kills your father and walks away from it and you dont kill them, then you dont exist. a human being doesnt allow that to happen to their father. >> there was a part where i was planning it and asked a friend of mine if he could get me a gun that couldnt be traced. i was probably 24 or 25 where i realized that i wasnt going to do it and had to accept that. >> in 2001 tom refocused his anger and started writing a book about the death penalty. tom set out to find a case where the killer ...

Set walter free, tom would learn that it had actually been a second confession that had sent walter to death row. our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition... for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure.

Right? but hurry offer ends soon. ♪ in 2001 tom lowenstein was writing a book about the death penalty when he began communicating with convicted child murderer walter ogrod. >> i had nothing to do with this, positively absolutely 100% nothing. im 100% innocent on this. >> walter told me early on that he was innocent, but i was intent on figuring the thing out for myself. >> tom learned that in 1993

>> and john sat down with jay and he gave jay the story, and he helped jay write the letter to the d.a.s office. at the trial, the prosecution told the jury that neither john hall or jay wo wilchansky got a teal for what they did. >> john wrote to me and said he got a sweet deal. john was looking at 50 years and the ogrod case got him off. jay wolchansky only got a few months. >> i had no idea that a d.a.s office such as in philadelphia could use a snitch ring, you know, could use a guy like joh...

Journalist, but i knew i was onto something, and i had to keep going. >> tom found clues that jay wolchanskys story may have actually been invented by a fellow inmate, an infamous snitch named john hall. >> john halls specialty was to take murder cases for which there is no evidence and give the prosecution a conviction. theres this 1997 article in the daily news about john hall, who everybody calls the monsignor because hes heard more confessions than a priest. >> the article said john hall had...