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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 together they hunted for the truth. >> this is the one case that has kept me up at night for six years. >> he says i know you're innocent, i know the guys who committed this crime. >> will justice finally arrive...

>> immediately, john o'malley just stood up and he asked me. did you write this letter? i said, yes. he shook my hand and he said, "i'm sorry. " i said, sorry for what? he says, "you know, i know you're innocent." when he said that, i said, what are you talking about, sir? he said, listen. i know the guys who committed this crime. >> how did o'malley know? it turns out o'malley 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 o'malley. >> he said, "when i read this letter, eve...

Are you talking about, sir? he said, listen. i know the guys who committed this crime. >> how did o'malley know? it turns out o'malley 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 o'malley. >> 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." >> o'malley didn't want to appear on camera but told us he also checked with the nypd after getting those confessions back in 2002 and, like detect...

Then those two gang members, jose and gilbert actually confessed the cab driver shooting to o'malley. >> 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." >> o'malley didn't want to appear on camera but told us he also checked with the nypd after getting those confessions back in 2002 and, like detective forcelli before him, o'malley was told there was no record of the crime. after getting eric's letter in 2012, o'malley addressed the court in a sworn affidavit stating that eric glisson and the others were i...

The defense? >> no. it turns out that the police and the district attorney had all the evidence at their disposal to solve this crime from the beginning. >> so he wrote a letter to the u. s. attorney proclaiming his innocence and detailing the information he'd found out about the sex, money, murder gang. it was a hail mary pass. in an amazing stroke of luck, eric's letter landed on this man's desk. his name, john o'malley, an investigator for the u. s. attorney in new york. days after reading eric's letter, o'malley made a personal trip to see eric in sing sing. >> immediately, john o'malley j...