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For public drunkenness. once for assault. but now floyd was accused of robbing and killing 80-year-old katherine lynch here in her home. a witness told the sbi that a black man knew something about the murder. although floyd didn't match the scription of that man, the sbi questioned him and said he had confessed. mike clinkason and kelly deangeles, brown's lawyers, couldn't believe it. >> reporter: when you read that confession and when you saw floyd, did you instantly say, no way. >> yes. >> yes. there's no mistaking that floyd in a million years could never make that confession. >> friday, w...

This is floyd brown. a man with the iq of a 7-year-old. floyd brown was a familiar figure here in downtown wadesboro, north carolina. one of those guys you see hanging around the courthouse in a small town. he even became friends with the clerks there. took their paychecks to the banks for them. which is why it was such a shock when on july 16th, 1993, an sbi agent took floyd to jail. >> everyone loved floyd. they knew he was slow. they knew what his intellectual deficits were. and to them, he was just a fixture. >> reporter: he had had run-ins with the police before, mostly

>> reporter: but floyd was free. the judge dismissed the charges against him ruling that there was nothing in the case, including the alleged confession, that was convincing evidence. how long you been living here, floyd? >> a long time. >> reporter: you like it? >> yeah, i like it. >> reporter: three years to the day after that release, floyd brown struggles to understand what happened. you knew you weren't supposed to be there. right? >> yeah, i knew i didn't supposed to be there. >> reporter: but you were there for 14 years. >> yeah. >> reporter: that's a long time. >> yeah. >> reporter: fl...