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And in 2008, the newly minted private eye walked into the oregon state penitentiary, where at the visitors' desk, he recognized an inmate named scott cannon. he said i tried to find you, i have been looking for you, i knew you were a good investigator, would you take on my case. i said absolutely. i didn't hesitate at all. >> you covered the story as a journalist. >> correct. >> now you're investigating as a private eye. >> um-hum. >> is scott cannon the killer? >> i don't think so. i have confidence that scott cannon did not do this crime. >> mason joined forces with mark geiger, an attorney ...

Sheriff's investigators thought they had an answer and they would make an arrest. the suspect, 32-year-old scott cannon, a plumber who on the day of the murders was at the trailer providing an estimate for repairs. the father of one young son with another on the way. but he was also a pot and meth user and his motive, investigators believed, was a drug deal that went sideways. >> they had a guy who was on drugs. he was in the meth world. >> former investigative reporter eric mason. >> he looked like a good suspect. he knew drug dealers. he liked weapons. and when police showed up and started l...

And they just ignored other evidence that was just very overwhelming pointing to a whole cast of other characters. >> but if scott cannon didn't kill the three victims, then who did? that unknown hispanic looking man whom cannon claimed was inside the mobile home? estate owner turned convicted killer bimla boyd? or someone else? no one would listen. first, mason, the reporter turned private eye, revisited the scene of the murder. he found this woman. she lives at the bottom of the road leading to the house on the hill. >> we were standing at the bottom of the hill down here. >> irene morrow to...

Not the only one, because as they began trying to identify the hispanic looking man whom cannon had always claimed was at the mobile home the day of the murders, look what they found in the dusty court file. a photo array or throwdown, as it's called, made by polk county detectives in the hours after the murder. like a police lineup with photos. in it, only dark-haired hispanic looking men. mason, the reporter turned private eye, took the photo array to prison and showed it to convicted killer scott cannon. >> ten years after this crime, i walk into the oregon state penitentiary and i said if ...

Evidence that was just very overwhelming pointing to a whole cast of other characters. >> but if scott cannon didn't kill the three victims, then who did? that unknown hispanic looking man whom cannon claimed was inside the mobile home? estate owner turned convicted killer bimla boyd? or someone else? no one would listen. first, mason, the reporter turned private eye, revisited the scene of the murder. he found this woman. she lives at the bottom of the road leading to the house on the hill. >> we were standing at the bottom of the hill down here. >> irene morrow told the private eye that on t...