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Before and telling a tulsa homicide detective exactly the same thing -- i'm innocent. >> i'm like, whoever is telling you this, they're obvious ly mistaken. i didn't have nothing to do with it. >> but despite the fact that no physical evidence pointed to malcolm and de'marchoe, prosecutors believed they were the shooters, so they cut a deal with michael wilson. they allowed him to plead guilty to a lesser charge in exchange for testifying against malcolm and de'marchoe. at trial, the prosecution presented the two eyewitnesses and what wilson had told them. then demarchoe said the prosecutor ap...

He thought he'd get out as soon as he filed his first appeal. then his second. and third. >> denied. denied. denied. >> so malcolm and his friend de'marchoe started writing letters. who'd you write to? >> anybody in the legal field that you could think of -- >> and what would you say in these letters? >> i'm an innocent man. you know, i just need somebody to look at this case and they will see. >> they wrote thousands of letters, day after day, for is 11 years. finally, in 2006 private investigator eric cullen, the son of a tulsa homicide detective, took on the case. >> i kind of describe malc...

And it's not always right. >> cullen tracked down the first eyewitness who had identified malcolm and de'marchoe as the killers. >> and he couldn't even look me in the eye. he said, man, i've been carrying around a burden. man, those boys didn't do that. >> the man told cullen he shot at the drive-by car as it sped away and claimed that detectives threatened to put him behind bars for firing his weapon if he didn't testify against malcolm and de'marchoe. >> he says that they told him he could be charged with felony murder for firing that gun and that it might have been him that killed karen su...

And death row inmate michael wilson. but could they reach him in time? back to "the long road to freedom." by 2013, malcolm had been in prison for 19 years, his brother corey for 22. >> are you ready to go? >> the days when their mom ruthella came to visit helped them hold on. the brothers drew strength from her. >> man, that lady been right there. i never had to wonder if she still cared or if she was still fighting for me, still believing in me, still praying on me. >> and malcolm was hopeful his mom's prayers would be answered. two prosecution witnesses had told his investigative team tha...

>> wilson confessed to killing karen summers and even said he thought it was all over when police actually caught him with the gun he used. >> so it kind of blew me away that i got caught with a gun and they just let me go. all i know is i had a murder weapon on me and they let me go. >> wilson said it seemed the detective had already made up his mind that malcolm and de'marchoe were the killers, and he just played along. >> all i had to do was answer questions, yes or no. did i give some bullets to de'marchoe carpenter? i said yes. >> did de'marchoe give you a gun? >> no, he didn't give me a ...