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One question that comes to mind is whether Randy Steidl's co-defendant — Herbert Whitlock — will receive a similar pardon, and if so, when.

Michael callahan now knew the case against randy steidl was deeply flawed and needed to be reinvestigated. in the year 2000, he took his findings to his superiors. >> we went into lieutenant colonel parker's office. very plush. she closes the door, and she's in uniform. she sits down behind her desk. >> callahan walked parker through the evidence, the conflicting testimonies and the recantations. he even highlighted reports that detectives parrish and eckerty had plied reinboldt and herrington with alcohol to shape their testimony. >> she looks at us, and she says, you cannot reopen the rhoads...

>> we're able to go through and view all of the police reports that included polygraph reports that had never been disclosed to us. a polygraph report where darrell herrington had failed the polygraph. >> but if reinboldt and herrington were lying, why had both of them fingered steidl and whitelock for the crime? randy thought he knew. >> two weeks before dike and karen were murdered, herb whitlock and myself had went to the fbi about prosecutor mike mcfatridge. >> they believed the state's attorney mike mcfatridge was unfairly targeting them for drug deals they had nothing to do with. >> and ...

That newly focused media attention might cause problems. >> my initial thought was, of course, they got the right guys. the illinois police don't make mistakes. we don't put innocent people in prison. but i will never forget the day i walked in and looked at the file sitting there, and i had not even turned the first page when i got a phone call from sergeant jake ekerty who was the sergeant on the case. and he blurted out, please don't ruin my reputation. i'm not a dirty cop. so it was a definite red flag to me. >> callahan began by going through the prosecution's timeline of events, starting...

That's what alerted me to the fact that he would do anything he could, you know, to frame me for the rhoads' murder. >> for callahan, this upped the stakes. >> my question was, would a state's attorney try to railroad and frame two men that were willing to go to the fbi and maybe have him arrested for his own illegal doings? >> callahan also learned disturbing information about one of the lead detectives in the case, jim parrish, who had secured debbie reinboldt's testimony. >> there was instances where both herrington and reinboldt will talk about how police induced them with alcohol. never i...