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Leon's trial, police had requested that fingerprints from a beer can found at the crime scene be tested for a match to a known felon living in the area. >> that was extremely significant because someone from law enforcement made a connection that this particular person must have been a suspect in the sabrina buie murder. next to this guy's name there was an s, s for suspect. >> that suspect was none other than roscoe artis, who had taken henry and leon under his wing on death row. >> roscoe artis had committed a very similar murder in the same small town in a very similar manner. that was the ...

That she had had on are found on the edge of the field. there are cigarette butts, beer cans, broken sticks with what appear to be blood on the ends of them. her body is taken to the state medical examiner's office. physically there's evidence that she's been raped. there's evidence she's been sodomized. then they start an internal examination to determine the cause of death, and they discover she has something stuck in her wind pipe. her underwear had been balled up and put on the end of a stick, and forcibly pushed down her throat, and the stick broke, and she suffocated. >> it was the most ...

And presented the closing statement. >> the state does not have the case to prosecute against mr. mccollum and brown. i said that based on the strength of that evidence if the judge was to order a new trial, i would elect not to retry the cases because the dna evidence negates the confessions. >> the court vacates the convictions of mr. mccollum and mr. brown. >> the judge overturned the conviction and sentence and the judge ordered mr. mccollum and mr. brown to be immediately released. >> this really happened? i'm really getting ready to go home? >> i was stunned. i heard a lot of people scre...

>> many people proclaim their innocence. >> in this case there are a number of things that stink. >> this man is remorseless. >> he needs to pay for it with his life. >> the electric chair flashed in front of my eyes. >> get a conviction at all costs. let the truth fall where it may. ♪ please take the stand and state your name. >> ronnie lee buie. >> and where do you live, mr. buie? >> red springs. >> and what happened the night of september 24th of 1983? >> i worked until about 12:00 that night, got home about 25 after 12:00. after i got there and looked all around, i realized sabrina was...

Is like a crucible and you have to heat it up to boil the truth out of them. >> the trial began on october 15th, 1984. the prosecution's case was built around henry and leon's confessions, but britt also showed graphic crime scene photos to the jury and called to the stand henry's friend, l.p. sinclair. >> sinclair testified that mccollum had admitted to him that he had murdered and raped sabrina buie. >> it was an easy case to try. there was nothing there for the defense to counter. guilt wasn't a question in anybody's minds. the issue boiled down to what was going to happen to them. >> in br...