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>> the first person i could think of was mr. peter cross. >> i trust her judgment. to me it was worth investing my time in. >> attorney peter cross agreed to at least see if there was some truth to eric's story. but there was still one problem. this is not the kind of law you normally practice. >> no, not at all. i'm a corporate lawyer. i do corporate litigation. i don't do criminal work. >> charmaine chester was peter's assistant. this was also new territory for her. >> out of the blue one day, i get this call. you have a collect call from an inmate at sing sing correctional facility. i'm lik...

Looked only in the open homicide drawer and never bothered to even look to see if there was anything other than an unsolved homicide that fit that description. >> as far as you know, that's the end of it. >> right. like i said, i'd moved on. >> forcelli soon retired from the nypd, not knowing six people had already been convicted. in the meantime eric was stuck in prison. it wasn't until 2012, 14 years later, that he hit paydirt and it came in the form of cell phone records. remember, the cab driver's cell phone had been stolen by whoever killed him. >> i found hundreds of calls after his deat...

The department allowed the detectives to be featured in "new york" magazine about how they amazingly cracked the cases. >> how the detectives could have believed that and decided to run with this and send them to jail for the rest of their lives on the basis of this garbage still shocks me today. >> all these years later, attorney cross knew his opinion of the detective work in this case wasn't going to free eric glisson or anyone else. >> i think the only kind of evidence that's going to sway a court is if we can point to who the real killers are. >> that was quite a lot to hope for. but from...

The defense? >> no. it turns out that the police and the district attorney had all the evidence at their disposal to solve this crime from the beginning. >> so he wrote a letter to the u. s. attorney proclaiming his innocence and detailing the information he'd found out about the sex, money, murder gang. it was a hail mary pass. in an amazing stroke of luck, eric's letter landed on this man's desk. his name, john o'malley, an investigator for the u. s. attorney in new york. days after reading eric's letter, o'malley made a personal trip to see eric in sing sing. >> immediately, john o'malley j...

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