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On the outside. >> so you have detective donnelly as the officer assigned. >> yes. >> with eric as his guide, cross got up to speed. and he found some troubling information 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, w...

Worked alongside detective aiello. the two detectives donnelly and aiello ended up putting their heads and cases together, concluding the same group of several people committed both murders. >> did you know the other people? >> i knew two of them. >> from the neighborhood? >> from the neighborhood. >> these are good friends of yours? >> acquaintances. >> just guys you saw around? >> yes. >> february 4th, 1995. >> one of those guys was 19-year-old michael cosme, the first suspect arrested. >> you have the right to remain silent. >> he was the only one videotaped by police. >> i have one thing t...

Justice. we wanted to speak to someone from the nypd or the bronx district attorney's 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, 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 both new york city and state would ultimately agree to pay each of the bronx six mi...

Transferred from sing sing and is waiting in a holding cell in the bronx county courthouse. >> apparently the court officers were advised -- >> it's also been a long, painful road for lawyer peter cross. >> this is the one case kept me up at night for six years because i knew we had to find, really like the one-armed man to get him out of jail. >> eric walks into the courtroom. >> numbers 4 and 5 on the calendar, eric glisson and cathy watkins. >> standing next to him is cathy watkins, the only woman of the bronx six. like eric, she was tried only for the cab driver's murder and in 1997 they w...

Are you talking about, sir? he said, listen. i know the guys who committed this crime. >> how did o'malley know? it turns out o'malley worked with detective forcelli on that gang case ten years earlier and back 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 detect...