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Wrongfully convicted of rape, he lost ten years of his life to prison, followed by ten years of shame and humiliation as a registered sex offender. there may be no better illustration of lowery's loss than his relationship with his daughter. >> my name is amanda marie galvan. i am eddie james lowery's daughter. >> amanda was 3 years old when he went away. now she's 33. in the past few years, eddie and amanda have tried to establish a father/daughter relationship that never was. >> it's very hard. it feels like a completely different world. >> today amanda has flown in from her home in californ...

Signs, and yield signs and things like that. >> after serving six years, lowery goes before the parole board, but parole is denied. the board insists parolees admit guilt and take responsibility for the crime. and that's one thing lowery won't do. >> i figured i was going to be in there for life. you know, i just -- i just knew that i was going to be in there for life. i was walking one night. i was angry at god. if there's a god, why am i here? why did this happen to me? i just kind of prayed to myself. you know, god, if you're there, do something for me. you know i'm innocent. why am i here?...

I'm going to prove that you did this. slams his hands down on his desk and says, i know you did this, mr. lowery. come clean with me. >> detectives doug johnson and harry malugani have colorful nicknames. johnson was mad dog and malugani was known as dirty harry. >> well, i assume it's from that movie with clint eastwood. >> you've got to ask yourself one question. do i feel lucky? well do you, punk? >> he would start telling me that there's something wrong with me. i'm mentally -- something wrong with my head. by that time, i'm like -- i'm scared. i didn't know what to do. i'm crying. i got m...

All of a sudden they tell you you can't have a lawyer, hey, gee, i thought that was part of the constitution. no, you can't have a lawyer. police officers in these situations can be extremely intimidating to the ordinary citizen. >> i was just trying so hard to prove -- convince them i didn't commit this crime that i went along with them and took the polygraph test. i figured i could pass it. >> though the polygraph results have been lost, this much is known. the examiner tells lowery that he flunked the test. >> mr. lowery goes, my results are saying that you're lying. my results say that you...

Or anybody else. i was just thinking the worst, that they were probably getting the letters and just throwing them in the trash. >> another inmate suggests he write a journal to his daughter. he fills volumes. with time, the old eddie lowery dies and is reborn as prisoner number 37839. he gets big, gets tattooed, and learns to fit in. >> i got me a job in there working as a silk screen printer, printing neighborhood watch signs, you know, stop signs, and yield signs and things like that. >> after serving six years, lowery goes before the parole board, but parole is denied. the board insists pa...