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Have any chance at having another day in court eric knew he'd need powerful evidence. evidence of actual innocence. he started thinking, if he and the other five co-defendants had nothing to do with the two murders, then who did? after more than a decade of trying finally some of eric's requests for documents in his case began trickling in. >> i came across one document which had my name as well as my other co-defendants, but one name stood out, it was an individual i found out was part of a gang called sex, money, murder. >> eric was on to an important lead. sex, money, murder. even veteran c...

Looked only in the open homicide drawer and never bothered to even look to see if there was anything other than an unsolved homicide that fit that description. >> as far as you know, that's the end of it. >> right. like i said, i'd moved on. >> forcelli soon retired from the nypd, not knowing six people had already been convicted. in the meantime eric was stuck in prison. it wasn't until 2012, 14 years later, that he hit paydirt and it came in the form of cell phone records. remember, the cab driver's cell phone had been stolen by whoever killed him. >> i found hundreds of calls after his deat...

That's enormous differences in prosecution styles and prosecutorial interpretation of laws in each jurisdiction. now, dave vogt, the group's supervisor of phoenix group seven in his frustration and despair was actually writing in prosecutors in other jurisdictions. they were going as far as new york to see if they could find prosecutors who would take tease cases. and that was described in some congressional testimony by an atf agent named pete forcelli. it's hard to say. i think what you have is a perfect storm of incredibly weak laws in arizona, prosecutors who did not seem particularly eage...

Downhill since. >> this is what we were ordered to do and every time we question that order, there was punitive action. >> reporter: the atf forced agent john dodson out of phoenix, leaving him with a house he can't sell. he now lives in a south carolina apartment with his two children, a little larry alt says he has unresolved retaliation claims against the agency, agent pete forcelli was black bald by the u.s. attorney's office and demoted to a desk job, despite what they claim publicly. >> the department of justice will never retaliate against whistleblowers. >> reporter: meanwhile the exec...