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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 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.

Who the real killers were. >> it took me 16, 17 years to get those through freedom of information. >> they were never provided to 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 n...

Me for something that i didn't do and just expect me to accept it. i'm going to fight to the end. i'm a fighter. i die on my feet, not on my knees. >> as the years passed, eric took college courses offered by the prison. he learned about the law and fought his case. >> how did he get that evidence in his possession? >> the courts denied all his appeals. >> i don't have any appeals left. nothing. >> it was a lonely fight and then in 2006, he met sister joanna chan in one of the prison's programs, the woman he calls "grandma." >> there's particular dark time. he would say, grandma, it's really h...

Seen sister joanna chan since he was released. a woman who put eric on a quest for freedom all those years ago. >> oh, my god! oh my god! oh my god! grandma. oh my god. >> congratulations. >> thank you. oh my god. they told me you were in china. >> i was. >> and there was one last thing we wanted to do with eric. remember that bench eric could see from inside sing sing? we took him back there. and we watched him finally make good

Home free. you'd be wrong. >> coming up -- eric glisson isn't giving up. >> this is my wall of hope. everyone here has been unjustly convicted and freed. >> when "dateline" continues. ents' job is to look after them. and it's my job to test the product. the best almonds make the best almondmilk. blue diamond almond breeze. facing expensive vitamin c creams with dull results? olay brightens it up with new olay vitamin c.ndmilk. gives you two times brighter skin. hydrates better than the $400 cream.