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God, she's coming out of rigor. >> gannon believes had the medical examiner's time of death been correct stacey's body would have been entirely stiff from rigor mortis. >> she had been deceased for a 24-hour period more than 12 hours. >> gannon estimates the actual time of death was around 11:00 p.m., the night before her body was discovered. >> gannon saw things that were glaringly obvious that frankly both the state and the defense missed, and really it changed our entire perspective of this case. i began a ground-up reinvestigation of the case. >> benjet asked three of the top forensic expe...

On death row watching all of his appeals fail. then, in 2002, innocence project attorney bryce benjet joined the case. >> when i was first approached it seemed like a pretty wild story and something that you know, we had to take with a pretty big grain of salt. but as we investigated the case, basically everything that rodney was telling us panned out. >> benjet soon found witnesses to support reed's claims and evidence against the original prime suspect in the case, stacey's fiance, police officer jimmy fennell. >> they subjected jimmy fennell to two polygraphs and he was found deceptive on q...

Rodney, and that she was worried about what her fiance, jimmy, was going to think about it. >> benjet turned his focus to jimmy fennell, stacey's former fiance, who was the original prime suspect in the case. fennell started dating another woman just three months after stacey's murder and his new girlfriend accused fennell of stalking and harassing her. >> she described jimmy fennell as extremely jealous, as possess of a and as virulently racist to the point where he would object to her going to an african-american to cut her hair. >> when benjet met rodney on death row, rodney said that fenne...

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After an excution date was set for him today. >> the state argued the case has gone on for years. courts denied reed an appeal. the judge set reed's execution date for this january. >> by 2014, many independent observers began questioning reed's guilty verdict, and as his execution drew closer, public outcry grew. >> free rodney reed! free rodney reed! >> honesty, integrity, truth. that's all we want is the truth. that's what justice is about, the truth, and they in bastrop made a mockery of justice. >> so we at that point had roughly seven months to prepare the last round of appeals to save r...