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Place to be, but you have been on death row, and there were not a lot of employers who would take that on, and the army had to take him back, so he stayed in. >> after readjusting to army life, tim hennis built a successful 25-year career in the military. >> tim hennis served in somalia and desert storm honorably, and tim's supervising colonel told me that he was without a doubt the best nco that he had ever worked with. >> he retired in 2004 and he and angela had a son who they would not have had if he had not gotten his life back together. >> but tim had no idea that the eastburn case was ab...

>> the army paperworks everything, paperwork for paperwork. >> we looked for that and looked for that, and there was a checkout sheet for everything but that day. so the prosecutor had a field day. >> but before the second trial, richardson discovered why the paperwork went missing. >> the reason why is because the prosecutors had it. they didn't take a copy and leave it, they just took it. so this piece of evidence that would have exonerated him in 1986 was kept in the prosecutor's custody all of that time. >> and richardson also uncovered information that would undermine eyewitness pat cone....

Successful 25-year career in the military. >> tim hennis served in somalia and desert storm honorably, and tim's supervising colonel told me that he was without a doubt the best nco that he had ever worked with. >> he retired in 2004 and he and angela had a son who they would not have had if he had not gotten his life back together. >> but tim had no idea that the eastburn case was about to be breaking wide open. a 21-year-old rape kit yielded new results. and the prosecutor called gary eastburn and said that there was a hit on the dna. and he said, who? and they said hennis. >> you could have...

Have riled up the jury and pointed at him over and over again and you see that picture? he did it. you see that picture? he did it. >> our supreme court didn't just read the briefs but they got a projector and saw the show themselves, and within 22 day, they said, give them another trial. >> it broke all of our hearts, because we had to call gary and say, you have to go through it one more time. >> billy richardson reinvestigated every aspect of the case. >> we were so much better prepared for the second trial. when i started digging, we found how many things that we didn't know at the first t...

Double jeopardy in this country. >> i understand that, but certain cases like this, that you have a dna now that says this is the man who raped this woman and killed her, i think you should be able to and somehow the judicial system has to work around that. >> that was the d.a.'s office who decided to see if the army was interested in bringing him off of retirement and trying him for the murders. >> a team of lawyers from the ranks helped evaluate the case for the army. >> my personal opinion about why this is important to the military is that the military sent gary eastburn for duty in alabam...