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Let's keep the faith and let's go and pray, and i said we have many, many sisters praying with you. >> sister joanna offered more than just her prayers. that's when she brought in peter cross who was now fighting for eric on the outside. >> so you have detective donnelly as the officer assigned. >> with eric as his guide, cross got up to speed, and he found some troubling information about how detectives donnelly and aiello connected the two murders. it was through this witness, her name is kathy gomez. >> kathy, we're on the record. >> cross tracked her down and videotaped his interview with ...

Sing's visiting room. >> i have a family who i love and who loves me. my daughter, i need to get home to her and be a father. >> eric often shared his story with sister joanna. over time, she felt compelled to do something, anything for him, so she called the only lawyer she knew. >> the first person i could think of was mr. peter cross. >> i trust her judgment. to me it was worth investing my time in. >> attorney peter cross agreed to at least see if there was some truth to eric's story, but this is just one problem. >> this is not the law you practice. >> no. i'm a corporate lawyer. i do lit...

>> not any crime? >> wasn't there. >> bad blood between you and miriam? >> yes. bad blood. >> eric says he had a brief sexual relationship with miriam that did not end well. >> you have a fling with a girl and then you just cut her off abruptly and she may feel slighted. >> slightly enough to make you a murder suspect? >> i guess so. >> whatever her motivation, the question is how reliable was she as a witness? all these years later, eric finally had someone to take another look at miriam's story, attorney peter cross. >> there's no doubt that this woman was lying. i went out to the crime scen...

Many, many sisters praying with you. >> sister joanna offered more than just her prayers. that's when she brought in peter cross who was now fighting for eric on the outside. >> so you have detective donnelly as the officer assigned. >> with eric as his guide, cross got up to speed, and he found some troubling information about how detectives donnelly and aiello connected the two murders. it was through this witness, her name is kathy gomez. >> kathy, we're on the record. >> cross tracked her down and videotaped his interview with her. >> you know i'm here today because eric glisson. >> gomez ...

Eric's been transferred sing sing and is waiting in a holding cell in a bronx county courthouse. >> apparently -- >> it's also been a long, painful road for lawyer peter cross. >> this is the one case that kept me up at night for six years because i knew we had to find like the one-armed man to get him out of jail. >> eric walked into the courtroom. >> numbers four and five on the calendar, eric glisson and kathy. >> standing next to him is kathy watkins. the only woman of the bronx six. >> like eric, she was tried only for the cab driver's murder and in 1997 they went on trial together. >> er...