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On the outside. >> so you have detective donnelly as the officer assigned. >> yes. >> with eric as his guide, cross got up to speed. and he found some troubling information about how detectives donnelly and aiello connected the two murders. it was through this witness. her name is kathy gomez. >> kathy, were on the record. >> cross tracked her down and videotaped his interview with her. >> you know im here today because eric glisson -- >> gomez, who was 16 at the time of the murder, says she fir...

Worked alongside detective aiello. the two detectives donnelly and aiello ended up putting their heads and cases together, concluding the same group of several people committed both murders. >> did you know the other people? >> i knew two of them. >> from the neighborhood? >> from the neighborhood. >> these are good friends of yours? >> acquaintances. >> just guys you saw around? >> yes. >> february 4th, 1995. >> one of those guys was 19-year-old michael cosme, the first suspect arrested. >> you...

Justice. we wanted to speak to someone from the nypd or the bronx district attorneys office, but both declined comment citing the multiple civil suits they faced as the bronx six sought millions in damages against the city. and those two detectives, donnelly and aiello, portrayed as super sleuths back in 1995, are now both retired and they didnt have anything to say to us. but in court filings attorneys for the city of new york denied that either detective threatened witnesses or falsified state...

Transferred from sing sing and is waiting in a holding cell in the bronx county courthouse. >> apparently the court officers were advised -- >> its also been a long, painful road for lawyer peter cross. >> this is the one case kept me up at night for six years because i knew we had to find, really like the one-armed man to get him out of jail. >> eric walks into the courtroom. >> numbers 4 and 5 on the calendar, eric glisson and cathy watkins. >> standing next to him is cathy watkins, the only w...

Are you talking about, sir? he said, listen. i know the guys who committed this crime. >> how did omalley know? it turns out omalley worked with detective forcelli on that gang case ten years earlier and back then those two gang members, jose and gilbert actually confessed the cab driver shooting to omalley. >> he said, "when i read this letter, everything just came back to me from that day. i put it altogether. when these guys confessed to me." >> omalley didnt want to appear on camera but told...

It was worth investing my time in. >> attorney peter cross agreed to at least see if there was some truth to erics story. but there was still one problem. this is not the kind of law you normally practice. >> no, not at all. im a corporate lawyer. i do corporate litigation. i dont do criminal work. >> charmaine chester was peters assistant. this was also new territory for her. >> out of the blue one day, i get this call. you have a collect call from an inmate at sing sing correctional facility. ...

>> ready, set, go. >> she was just a week old when he was arrested. >> dont get too excited. you cheated. >> and that degree he began working on behind bars? eeric started taking classes again two days after his release. and finally received that long-awaited diploma from mercy college. today, a fully exonerated eric glisson became a businessman, an entrepreneur. >> im doing everything single handedly. all of the reconstruction of the ceiling. >> theres going to be four tables. >> on the one-yea...

Many times. but what if he was telling the truth? so, over time -- >> how are you doing, man? >> how did you get up here? >> we began visiting eric. >> whats up? >> youre looking good. >> and listening to his story. >> when i got arrested i was always under the impression that people who are guilty actually go to jail. i didnt believe that i would be convicted of a crime that i didnt do. >> when police put the cuffs on him in 1995 eric was 20 years old. a brand new father of a 1-week-old baby gi...

>> life was cheap that night in new york. two brutal murders just a half mile apart. >> here for a homicide crime scene. >> six people were convicted, including eric glisson. >> you actually think they read the wrong verdict. >> then divine intervention through a nun he called grandma. >> eric would say, "grandma, i think this all happening for a reason. " >> maybe a nun could help him get into heaven, but could she help him get out of prison? what she helped him do was get a lawyer, and togethe...

Eric glisson. >> originally you were charged with both murders, with denise raymonds murder and the cab driver murder. >> yes. >> but by the time eric went to trial prosecutors dropped charges against him in the denise raymond case, citing lack of evidence. so what evidence was there against him in the cab driver case? it was really pretty simple. there was a witness against him. her name? miriam tavares. tavares told the cops she looked out her window and saw it all, eric and the others, smack ...