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Oh, my! >> congratulations. >> thank you. oh, my gosh. >> they told me you were in china. >> i was. >> and there was one last thing we wanted to do with eric. remember that bench eric could see from inside? not too long ago we took him back there. we watched him finally make good on that promise to himself. to get that other view of the prison. this time from the outside.
Retain or possess, it will consume me. it will affect me as well as the people around me. i don't have animosity against anybody at this point except the people who grow strawberries and raise the prices. >> because that's a crime. >> it is a crime. >> eric has a business partner, someone he met when he was still locked up. >> he's become my brother. >> it's charmaine. >> i'm the annoying older sister. >> they've been in business eight months now. eric says he loves it. >> big, pivotal point in my life. it gave me a lot of tools. >> on this day we had a little surprise for him. he hasn't seen ...
Phone minutes after the shooting. the numbers called traced back to relatives of two sex, money, murder gang members named jose rodriguez and gilbert vega. eric believed he finally had evidence showing who the real killers were. >> it took me 16, 17 years to get those through freedom of information. >> they were never provided to the defense? >> no. it turns out that the police and the district attorney had all of 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 foun...
>> it's like jumping up out of a coffin and walking, being read your last rites and all of a sudden a miracle happens, some doctor that just comes, walks in the room, and knows exactly how to resuscitate you and you're back living again, you're back out in society wondering, you know, will they accept you. yeah, you see? >> on his first night of freedom, eric's lawyer treats him to a hotel room. >> i have a key that's a plastic card. >> there we go. >> wow. oh, this is excellent. holy. wow. this has to be at least a 46-inch tv. the bed. wow.
>> eric was on to an important lead, sex, money murder and even veteran cops knew that name means danger. >> 1997, october, sex, money, murder became my assignment. >> pete was assigned to take down the gang. >> this was all sex, money, murder territory? >> yeah. we're in the heart of it. >> while forcelli there was a cab driver that was killed in the vicinity. >> he went to the 43rd precinct in the south side of bronx to see if there was any truth to the story. >> walked in the precinct and went upstairs and walked into the detective's squad room. >> you said what do you know about the murder...