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>> the word erie was very fitting that day. >> lucy, was it chilling for you to walk into this place? >> yes, especially the office where the three gentlemen were. it was much smaller in person than i felt it was in the pictures. and just being in there, i wanted to get out. >> there they saw the ceiling tile that had been moved, where serrano had been accused of hiding a gun used in the murders. but as for a supposedly tell-tale dusty footprint on a chair beneath that tile, some jurors dismissed it as evidence. >> it shouldn't make no difference whatsoever. >> but what preoccupied jurors most...

Against his former business partners and the parking ticket and the long chain of circumstantial evidence was the proof that he was the killer. >> it's getting harder and harder and harder to think that all of these things could just be coincidences and they happened to poor mr. serrano. that's one diabolical son of a gun sitting over there. >> it was now up to a jury to decide. >> there was no evidence, no witness to put him in polk county, none of those things. and keeping an open mind, he was still innocent. when we return, as the jurors begin to weigh nelson serrano's fate, it is clear t...

>> they laid out their evidence for serrano being in florida that day. they called the nephew who rented a car for his uncle and he told a damaging story. the day after the murders, he said his uncle ordered him to retrieve that same car in the orlando airport parking garage and drop it off at the rental company. weeks later the uncle told his nephew to keep his mouth shut about the incident. >> he said you can't say anything. you know that because it could jeopardize my marriage and success, cops are not upon going to buy it. they're going to frame me and they're going to try to do something ...

The state had put on three fingerprint experts, two agreed that it was serrano's, but the third surprised the prosecutor when under cross-examination, he testified he wasn't entirely convinced. >> i had and i still have reservations about this particular latent. >> an expert in the field, the prosecution's own witness telling the court he had reservations about the fingerprint. why, he wondered, was a finger from serrano's right hand on the ticket and not one from his left. >> if you're wearing a seat belt, it's extremely restrictive where you are reaching across your body between your body an...

Committed, he said, we'll work it out. we'll get him out of ecuador. >> and that's just what tommy ray did with the full cooperation of ecuadorian authorities. when officials there discovered serrano had actually been a u.s. citizen for years, they deported him to america in the custody of detective ray. in september 2002, nelson serrano walked into a central florida courtroom and pleaded not guilty to the murder charges. after a snarl of legal delays in september 2006, nearly nine years after the murders, serrano finally sat before a jury, the accused in a first-degree murder death penalty ca...