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The gulf and moved on with his life and never told a soul apart from his girlfriend and one night in 1993 six years after the incident he told kevin and it was one telling detail in john's story that kevin never forgot. those people that jumped over the fence, they weren't white kids. they were black. >> you had no idea two men went to prison. >> did you even know them? >> i had no clue who they were. never seen them in my life. >> total strangers? >> total strangers. this isn't right. it involved a different race. it was not two white people. >> that piece of information more than 20 years af...

It doesn't seem that extraordinary to me. >> and john, who can finally put the past where it belongs, behind him. >> it's like i told them, i wish i could have done something earlier. you wouldn't have had to sit there for too many years. tommy looked at me, gave me a hug and said it was the way it was supposed to happen. it had to happen like this. >> they don't seem bitter at all. >> not when i met them. glad they're home and they're out and free. >> free men who know none of it would have happened without family and friend, that dream team of lawyers and investigators and, of course, facebo...

Post. >> next he retold the story that john the old roommate told him in 1993. >> made a comment to the effect that wow you wouldn't believe what happened that night so he felt it his duty to step in. >> why are you here today? >> two innocent people are in prison for life. i learned information that could help set them free. and i felt compelled to help bring that information forward. >> then one by one the witnesses. the now 40 somethings that told them about that outside of old man bob's house where they have gone to buy marijuana for their graduation party and that it was their friends, no...

Prison for life and then out of the blue, 2010, just because some woman had a moment of nostalgia and posted a casual note on facebook, an after the landed on her desk from a man she never heard of. >> it had to be real. it had to be true. >> a little piece of heaven falling in your lap. >> yeah. >> john told her what happened that awful night in the detroit summer of 1987. it was party night he said. they had just graduated from high school. and after a few beers they decided to drive over and buy some marijuana from old man bob. >> you just call up and say you're coming by and go to the back...

Native turned d.c. lawyer that got curious and looked up the pictures and -- >> couldn't sleep at the beginning just thinking about it. >> wondering what you should do? >> yeah. wondering what to do about it. >> what he did was call his old college roommate. the man that way back in 1993 told him a story about the murder of old man bob. tell me why you called him. >> to see if he remembered telling me the story he told me back all of those years about the night that old man bob was killed. and he did. he remembered it exactly as he did when he first told me the story. >> that he had been the...