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Days after chris morton was murdered. and it's a police report made by the chief investigator don wood. and it's a transcript of a conversation he has with chris' mother rita kirkpatrick. the story that rita tells to don wood about what eric saw. >> and it describes in eerie detail, the monster's here. what's he doing. he hit mommy. mommy's crying. is she still crying. no, mommy stopped. the monster threw a blue suitcase on the bed. he's mad. a monster coming into the house. that's what eric called the murderer. and i think it's a great description. he said it was a big man with a big mustache...

But there was nobody -- there was nobody that i would rather spend my life with. when eric was born, chris changed. i didn't see the change in me coming, but when i saw him, everything changed. every parent has that chemical reaction that happens inside when they have a child. beforehand, you're the center of your universe. and afterwards, your child is. well, because he was ill, because he had heart disease,

Whole workup, my co-counsel, nita morrison with the innocence project sent a freedom of information act request for the sheriff's file. and what was found in that file was amazing. >> there is an offense report from 11 days after chris morton was murdered. and it's a police report made by the chief investigator, don wood. and it's a transcript of a conversation he has with chris's mother, rita kirkpatrick. the story that rita tells to don wood about what eric saw. >> and it describes in eerie detail the monster's here. what's he doing? he hit mommy. mommy's crying. is she still crying? no, mom...

Visitation is like oxygen. it's just -- it's such a breath of fresh air. you see normal people thinking normal things and saying normal things and doing normal stuff. they're a reminder of what the real world is. visitation was -- it is special for prisoners' children. and in my situation, there was court-ordered visitation every six months. eric would have to be brought to me by my sister-in-law. >> we went to check in outside the prison. my aunt would come with me every time. everybody else would wait outside. but my aunt would walk with me. we'd have to check in, and there was a big tower. ...

So he was real small. you know, a 3-year-old kid. if you can imagine the size of a 3-year-old, and then scale that down to how big the heart is at that age, that's a small little complex muscle that they're messing with. it was a big deal. but it came out really, really well. august 12th, 1986, i turned 32. and it was one of the best days of my life. we had had three dark years where we had a sick child. and everything seemed to be heading up, so we all went to the city grill. and i remember feeling really, really good as we were leaving because we were crossing the street, and eric was walkin...