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Your family must love you very much. and he said, yes, because they know i'm innocent. and that's how the whole story began. >> a story that began with the 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? >> ye...

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. it's like being read your last rites, and all of a sudden a miracle 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 meta...

>> 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. >> 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...

Stand because she says detectives threatened to arrest her if she refused. >> they put me in handcuffs to take me, because i refused to go, you know, to court. i was just freaked out you know, because who want to be in handcuffs or in jail or something like that. nobody. >> in fact, court transcripts show she even attempted suicide as the trial began. but because she didn't testify against eric, her claims all these years later wouldn't help him. to have any chance at having another day in court eric knew he'd need powerful evidence. evidence of actual innocence. he started thinking, if he and...

Every day, personal things start to slip in. >> friendship. >> friendship. >> in the meantime, her boss was checking out eric's claims of innocence. did you believe it at the beginning? >> i'm not going to say -- i didn't disbelieve him. it's just i'm practicing law for a long time. okay? >> and people lie. >> they certainly color the truth. this is a man who was convicted of murdering someone. so, of course, i approached it with some skepticism. >> but once cross learned the facts, he agreed to take eric's case at no charge. representing a man who didn't seem hardened by prison but almost fri...