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About how detectives donnelly and aiello connected the two murders. it was through this witness. her name is kathy gomez. >> kathy, we're on the record. >> cross tracked her down and videotaped his interview with her. >> you know i'm here today because eric glisson -- >> gomez, who was 16 at the time of the murder, says she first came in contact with the detectives for only one reason. she was friends with miriam tavares, who spoke only spanish. >> so you served kind of as a translator? >> yes. >> but by the time she had walked out of the police station, kathy gomez had become the key witness ...

Is only a few hundred yards from the prison but to eric it might as well be in china. how many times you look at that bench? >> every day. >> and thinking i'll be on there one day? >> i want to see what it looks like from that bench to the window because all i know is what it looks like from the window to the bench. >> finally, on october 22nd, 2012, four months after a federal investigator vouched for eric's innocence, his day in court has come. eric's been transferred from sing sing and is waiting in a holding cell in the bronx county courthouse. >> apparently the court officers were advised...

Happens. you're back out in society an you're wondering, you know, will they accept you? yeah. you see? >> on his first night of freedom, eric's lawyer treats him to a hotel room. >> i have a key that's a plastic card. wow. i used to sleep on a metal frame and now i'm on a comfortable bed. >> but the real joy for eric is reuniting with his daughter cynthia. >> cell phone towers. >> ready, set, go. >> she was just a week old when he was arrested. >> don't get too excited. you cheated.

>> and that degree he began working on behind bars? eeric started taking classes again two days after his release. and finally received that long-awaited diploma from mercy college. today, a fully exonerated eric glisson became a businessman, an entrepreneur. >> i'm doing everything single handedly. all of the reconstruction of the ceiling. >> there's going to be four tables. >> on the one-year anniversary of his release, eric opened a fresh juice business that he built himself named fresh take. >> afternoon, sir. how are you doing? >> nice place you have here. >> thanks. >> where did you get ...

>> apparently -- >> it's also been a long, painful road for lawyer peter cross. >> this is the one case that kept me up at night for six years because i knew we had to find like the one-armed man to get him out of jail. >> eric walked into the courtroom. >> numbers four and five on the calendar, eric glisson and kathy. >> standing next to him is kathy watkins. the only woman of the bronx six. >> like eric, she was tried only for the cab driver's murder and in 1997 they went on trial together. >> eric says he doesn't know her now and didn't know her then. >> when trial started the officers was ...