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Table they can keep their freedom if they agree to one condition. what's clear they offering? >> to us to plead guilty, and we would get time served. >> would you? >> no. we were innocent and we screamed it for 25 years. for the people that got behind us and believed in us, for us to do that would just be a slap in their faces. it would just tear my integrity right out of my body. so, we're innocent. nothing is going to change that. >> there will be people in the audience who will still believe you did it. >> sure. you can't convince everybody. >> you are used to that? >> all we want to do is ...

And ray highers had been fighting to clear their names for 25 years. and now, judge lawrence had heard all the new evidence, this was the moment. >> this is the decision on the motion from relief from judgment. >> but with all the history, the legal ease, the new evidence the witnesses. >> the prosecution was meticulous in pointing out in consistencies and differences between testimonies. >> it took the judge two full hours to explain the basis for his decision. the reasons he said he had no choice but to rule the particular way. >> all my nerves were shaken. >> as tommy and ray, their court w...

Pictures of tommy and ray highers and confirm they were in prison. doing life without parole for the murder of old man bob. it was then it hit him like a brick in the face. something about those pictures was very, very wrong. only one thing to do. kevin picked up the phone and called that old college roommate. a man he hadn't seen for at least a decade. this man, john hielscher. >> he said it was about old man bob. i just started freaking out. like, i'm not doing it. i'm not doing any of this. >> how come? >> if i was scared. i felt scared. >> but if he was scared now, oh, just wait. mary's li...

Something called the northeast detroit alumni group. so, what did you do in this group on facebook? >> well, that was all about being in touch with long lost friends from the neighborhood. >> including a couple of brothers, old friends from the neighborhood, who she remembered with a twinge, did not turn out so. well tommy and ray highers. went to prison in fact, for murder. mary followed the case we back then in 1987. remembers just how she felt when they were found guilty. >> i was shocked. you know? i was shocked to hear that. i thought, no way. >> did it sound like them to? you >> know. >>...

Kevin was already on the computer that into thousand nine, so he pulled out the michigan department of corrections website and saw pictures of tommy and ray highers and confirm they were in prison. doing life without parole for the murder of old man bob. it was then it hit him like a brick in the face. something about those pictures was very, very wrong. only one thing to do. kevin picked up the phone and called that old college roommate. a man he hadn't seen for at least a decade. this man, john hielscher. >> he said it was about old man bob. i just started freaking out. like, i'm not doing i...