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Office but both declined comment citing the multiple civil suits they faced as the bronx six sought millions in damages against the city. and those two detectives, donnelly and aiello who were portrayed as super sleuths back in 1995, are now both retired and they didn't have anything to say to us. but in court filings attorneys for the city of new york denied that either detective threatened witnesses or falsified statements. and yet o'both new york city and state would ultimately agree to pay each of the bronx six millions of dollars in damages. but for eric the immediate challenge was starti...

Experiences all of it. >> oh! i seen this in the magazine. >> eric's first few hours of freedom -- >> hello? >> are part exhilaration. >> hello? >> part discovery. >> hello? >> he's never actually used a cell phone. >> yeah. where's cynthia? hello? >> you have it upside down, eric. >> hello. >> no, no, upside down. like this. >> hello? huh? can you hear me now? like the commercial? >> his first meal? lamb chops. >> wow. >> it's like jumping up out of a coffin and walking, you know. like being read your last rites and all of a sudden a miracle

Unlikely friendship between a nun and a convicted killer would grow into a quest that would shake the faith of even those sworn to uphold the law. >> i thought if he was innocent god has to see him through. >> so who is this convicted murderer? he is inmate 97a7088. eric glisson. we first met him in the spring of 2012 when a "dateline" producer working on a different story in sing sing met eric in his cell. >> you're going to film me? >> yeah. >> he had been locked up for 18 years. >> you want to see what it's like to live in here? i can touch the walls with my hands. >> eric told us he didn't...

Sing a convicted murderer had convinced a nun and a corporate lawyer that there had been a terrible miscarriage of justice. eric glisson was in the 18th year of a 25 to life murder sentence. he claimed he was innocent. you ever been in prison before this? >> no. >> what's it like to live in prison? >> it's hell. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> eric glisson's nightmare began on the night of january 18th, 1995. the new york city detectives lining this hallway in the bronx were entering a crime scene as chilling as it was violent. the victim's name was denise raymond. she was an executive with fed-ex. cops

Then those two gang members, jose and gilbert actually confessed the cab driver shooting to o'malley. >> he said, "when i read this letter, everything just came back to me from that day. i put it altogether. when these guys confessed to me." >> o'malley didn't want to appear on camera but told us he also checked with the nypd after getting those confessions back in 2002 and, like detective forcelli before him, o'malley was told there was no record of the crime. after getting eric's letter in 2012, o'malley addressed the court in a sworn affidavit stating that eric glisson and the others were i...