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Statement and gave it to jay wolchansky to use against walter ogrod, what would that mean to you? >> i don't know how you can do that. >> i have now documented that that story was fabricated by john hall. >> no, you haven't and unless you have something from jay saying that none of that was told to him by walter and that he made it all up and hae's willing to testify to the fact that he committed perjury, that's something else. >> at one point she said to me i thought you were trying to write a book, not get the guy a new trial. >> i said i'm trying to find the truth of this. the notion that t...

>> and john sat down with jay and he gave jay the story, and he helped jay write the letter to the d.a.'s office. at the trial, the prosecution told the jury that neither john hall or jay wo wilchansky got a teal for what they did. >> john wrote to me and said he got a sweet deal. john was looking at 50 years and the ogrod case got him off. jay wolchansky only got a few months. >> i had no idea that a d.a.'s office such as in philadelphia could use a snitch ring, you know, could use a guy like john hall over and over and over again. i have the paperwork. i have phyllis, and it's all fitting to...

Journalist, but i knew i was onto something, and i had to keep going. >> tom found clues that jay wolchansky's story may have actually been invented by a fellow inmate, an infamous snitch named john hall. >> john hall's specialty was to take murder cases for which there is no evidence and give the prosecution a conviction. there's this 1997 article in the daily news about john hall, who everybody calls the monsignor because he's heard more confessions than a priest. >> the article said john hall had spoken with police about walter. tom wanted to know why. >> just boggled my mind. the story tha...

Had serious doubts about how walter had landed on death row. >> the key point about the first trial is that walter testified, and it was from hearing walter talk, hearing how he expressed himself that the jury came to the belief that he couldn't have given the confession. and then you say, okay, well, what got him convicted at the second trial? >> this is the second time a jury has been charged with deciding the fate of walter ogrod. the first trial ended in a hung jury. >> in the 1990s, the philadelphia d.a.'s office sought the death penalty more than any other in the country. walter's second...