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>> i speak with her a few times. she declines to go on camera but tells me, michael sanchez was just a friend. >> hi. how are you? >> and she has no idea who killed george or why he slammed her two weeks before the murder. she said she doesn't remember filing a harassment report about with it the nypd. >> what they said to me, if you request it, you can get it. >> when i tell her i know it exists, she assures me that she'll help me get it. that's when i stop hearing from lymari. i'm definitely interested in finding out more about that slapping incident and i'm trying to get my hands on that report. i'm on my way to speak with richard's current attorneys. they run an organization called the exoneration that focuses on claim innocence. >> this case smells terrible and it looks like a terrible injustice has occurred. >> you have to like glance at the case to understand how significant it is. >> glenn and rebecca are the
him a new hearing. with everything that's now known about the murder of george collazo, rosario's attorney glenn is livid that his client still sits in prison. >> when people see this, they don't get it. what do you make of it? >> we live in a world that is upside down where juryists who have sworn to uphold justice is have sworn to uphold justice don't do it. they look for ways to turn a blind eye to this [ bleep ] and it is [ bleep ] gross. that's why. it's not rational. so don't ask us to give you a rational answer. >> in january, 2016, after serving for nearly 30 years, robert johnson stepped down as the bronx district attorney. the new d.a. is dorsel clark. she had been an appellate judge for years and she come from the same neighborhood where the murder happened.
who has a get away car for something random? >> his sister says the official theory of the crime is wrong and she's not the first person i've heard say that. >> what is your gut saying about this? >> i don't think it is random. >> months earlier at the crime scene, the form he detective thought the same thing. >> to me it looks like a hit. a set-up. >> meaning george collazo was targeted to be killed. >> yes. >> bobby says his first clue, that getaway car parked at the corner. >> they pull up. and they happen to get the corner spot. >> a perfect place to wait until george showed up. >> let's play this out. if i'm sitting there, he can see
moves to dismiss all charges against mr. rosario in the interest of justice. >> then rosario and his lawyers stand up and stun the courtroom. >> i would like to express my condolences to the family of the deceased but the bottom line here is that their son deserves justice, their family deserves closure and the public deserves the truth. i have been in prison for 20 years saying that i'm innocent. i have been transparent and forthcoming with information to prove my innocence and the public should know the truth. >> that's when rosario's lawyer actually asks the judge not to dismiss rosario's case. until the d.a. says on the record that he didn't commit the murder. the judge says this is a first for him. >> an open homicide case, you will hang this over your head. you understand that? >> yes. >> the judge tells everyone to come back in august to sort it out. outside court, george's father doesn't mince words about how he feels about richard rosario. >> he goes around saying he's
more of a motive than a random bump in the street. it didn't seem like the detectives vigorously investigated that, did they? >> it is my understanding that they did not do very much to follow up on it. >> the attorneys tell me they don't know much about it either but believe they found something even more important. when they began to focus a woman named nicole torres. >> nicole torres was a witness originally interviewed by the police at the scene of the crime. who never testified at trial. >> nicole torres went to school with both the victim george collazo and his friend michael sanchez. according to this police report, she appeared on the scene just minutes after george was shot. >> the 28 police report was written around nicole torres is as if she was an immaterial witness who didn't see anything or hear anything. >> but that's not what glenn and rebecca heard when they spoke with her in person. nearly two decades after the murder, nicole signed this affidavit swearing that police report was wrong. in fact, she now says she was right there and saw the whole thing. the gunman, the getaway car. she even heard what the killer
said. >> she saw the killer jog up behind them and say, hey, george, this is for you, before shooting george collazo in the head once. then she saw him turn around and jog to an intersection where there was a car waiting. >> much of the police report from nicole torres' interview on the day of the crime is blacked out, redacted. but in the file, rebecca found an unredacted copy of the report that had been from years later. >> in the redacted version of the police report, it is hard to even tell who is speaking. when you see the unredacted version, you see that she told the police, michael sanchez said to her at the scene of the crime, he didn't see the shooter. >> but remember, michael sanchez was the first one who pointed to rosario's picture a few hours after the shooting.
you. if you're laying in wait, here they come. let's go. >> and it appears they may have been laying in wait. according to police reports, a hotdog vendor on that block said he saw the men around earlier that morning, and even told a passerby to be careful, that the men had guns. then there was that bump that supposedly started it all. >> it is not like you're walking in a tight area. okay? you're not walking where it is manhattan. you bump into people all the time. it is like you had to go out of your way to bump into each other. it is a wide open spot. >> and bobby says the way george was killed speaks volumes. >> shot once in the face point blank. this was personal. it was face to face. >> so if bobby is right and it was a hit, that means there was a plan. and that's why there's one key person we want to know more about. the main eyewitness, michael sanchez. >> if it's a hit, you have to know that the victim would be at that location where you parked
weeks before her brother's murder? this is where the plot thickens. michael's girlfriend. >> she said that girl was michael sanchez' girlfriend at the time. >> but here's something i find even more interesting. the original detectives knew about the shaping incident back then. it is all documented in their reports. in fact, it was michael sanchez who told them about it. in his interview with police, he said that george and his girlfriend did not get along so the detectives actually went and spoke with her. in her interview she said she filed a harassment report two weeks before the murder with the police department. so now i'm going to get my hands on that report. >> i file a freedom of information request with the nypd and about a month later, i get a letter denying me the report. so i called a lawyer from the nypd to follow up. >> i have filed a freedom of information request. he tells never only one who can get it is lymari leon so i tracked her down.
about this? >> it wasn't random. that's my -- i don't think it is random. >> months earlier at the crime scene, former detective bobby addolorato said the same thing. >> it looks like a setup. >> meaning he was targeted to be killed. >> yes. >> bobby says his first clue, that getaway car parked at the corner. >> they pull up and happen to get corner spot. >> a perfect place to wait until george showed up. >> play the scenario out. if i'm sitting there, i can see you. just say if you're laying in wait, here they come, let's go. >> and it appears they may have been laying in wait. according to police reports, a hot dog vendor on that block said he saw the men hanging around earlier that morning and even told a passerby to be careful, that the men had guns. and then there was that bump that supposedly started it all. >> not like you're walking in a tight area. okay. you're not walking where it is, like, manhattan, you bump into people all the time.
crime, who never testifies at trial. >> nicole torres went to school with both the victim george collazo and his friend michael sanchez. and according to this police report, she appeared on the scene just minutes after george was shot. >> so the way the police report was written around nicole torres, as if she was an immaterial witness who didn't see anything and didn't hear anything. >> but that's not what glenn and rebecca heard when they spoke with nicole torres in person. nearly two decades after the murder, nicole signed this affidavit swearing that police report was wrong. in fact, she now says she was right there and saw the whole thing. the gunman, the getaway car, she even heard what the killer said. >> she saw the killer jog up behind them, and say, hey, george, this is for you, before shooting george collazo in the head once, and they she saw him turn around and jog to an intersection, where there was a car waiting. >> much of the police report