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Just have to maintain as long as i can and try to keep him healthy and happy. >> for more information on the i'll be me alzheimer's punt g to ibmef.org. >> on this episode of "death row stories" in a tiny florida town, an 11-year-old girl is found raped and murdered. >> that little girl died in the dark, alone with a monster. >> and the investigation leads the police back to one of their own. >> of course, we didn't want to believe a police officer would do this. >> i had always wanted to get in law enforcement and here i am going to death row. >> but a miami detective becomes convinced the ex...

He said i'm a retired detective from the miami police department. he said i want to help you out. i want to see what your case is. i told him, i walked in this building scared to death as a young man. never been inside a prison. never been in any trouble before. and here i am going to death row. i had a career going. i had a beautiful wife, i had two young sons, i had a future that i was moving towards and all of that was taken for no reason except to satisfy somebody's idea that i was the one that did this. >> frank decided to put the novel he was writing on hold and get more involved in duck...

I know something about that case. >> the sheriff's department of lake county come talk to me. the inference was, we can give you a break if you saw something that we should know about. hint, hint. >> gwen testified against duckett and was let out of jail having served less than six months of a two-year sentence. but a year after james duckett was sentenced to death, gurley recanted her original testimony and said she never actually saw ducat with theresa mcabee. in a sworn affidavit, she claimed she had been induced into testifying against ducat by investigator rocky harris. >> rocky harris ...

Because often it is. >> there's a body in the water. >> he was butchered and murdered. >> many people proclaim their innocence. >> in this case there are a number of things that stink. >> this man is remorseless. >> he needs to pay for it with his life. >> the electric chair flashed in front of my eyes. >> get a conviction at all costs. let the truth fall where it may. >> i was the chief of police for the city of mascotte. mascotte, florida, a small, poor community, about 1,700 residents.

>> with the case at a dead end and duckett headed toward execution, marshall frank had an idea. >> he said i've got a friend that used to work for the "miami herald." and i had read edna buchanan's stories before over the years. and so i knew who the name was. and so i felt excited. >> edna buchanan was a pulitzer prize winning crime reporter for the "miami herald." >> an outstanding reporter, one of the best i've ever known. i wanted to tell her what the story was. >> marshall frank kept calling me. i had noun him. he had been a source of mine over the years and he said he found this case whe...