the murder. this is my oldest son. scary part about it is this is how much time that has gone by that richard has been in jail. you know. from the time that he was born, this is how long it s been. john and janine seem so credible to me. but 12 jurors didn t believe their testimony. and when he testified in his own defense, the jury didn t believe rosario either. prosecutors painted him as a liar, saying rosario failed to disclose that a couple of months before the murder he had spent a few weeks in jail on a robbery charge. obviously there is more to the story and it is important that i keep an open mind. and that s what i m doing, working my way down the rest of rosario s list of alibi witnesses, the ones who never testified at his trial. so no one has ever interviewed you like this? no. that s next on conviction. per roll
two out of 13 testified. two. but no one spoke with all these other alibi witnesses. do you take any responsibility, saying to the lead detective, by the way, i put something in the folder. the guy said he had 13 alibi witnesses. did anyone call them? i most likely did. here. i took the statement of i may have said i would suggest that you have all these people speak with you. would it be upsetting to you if they didn t do that? sure. why not? with that information that i got that night, i would assume that those people would have been spoken to. if that didn t happen, i would feel things were left out. i also find another former detective who worked on the rosario case. carls kruger. he was the one who showed the main eyewitness books of mug shots hours after the crime. he said he needs to refresh his
the first time since his release. tomorrow, he will be heading back to court to learn his fate. we meet up with him at chip loewenson s office, one of rosario s attorneys who has been by his side for more than a decade. you have court tomorrow. yes. how you feeling about that? i m feeling confident. the truth is on my side. what do you think is going to happen? i have no idea. i have no clue. are you nervous at all? no. not at all. he says he s confident that anyone who looks at the facts of his case can only come to one conclusion. so what does the district attorney think about that? so it s been almost three months to the day actually. yes. since we last spoke. she agrees to sit down with me again on the eve of the hearing. when we last spoke, you said your office needed more time to investigate. have you done that? yes, we have. what have you learned? we have thoroughly interviewed a number of witnesses, his alibi witnesses,
they had an appeal and the answer was due. so before i did anything else on mr. rosario s case, i thought it was necessary to do the preliminary steps of investigating the case. or the allegations. he had an alibied defense that was never investigated. the first thing i did was let s investigate the alibi. it sounds so simple the way she says it. you said why don t we call them? no. i sent somebody down. you sent somebody down to talk to them. yes. why has that not happened in 20 years? i cannot speak for that. i ve been the district attorney since january 1. was it surprising to you? that no one from the bronx d.a. s office or the nypd, no one in law enforcement has ever reached out to those alibi witnesses until last week when you did it. i have to say, i was surprised. i was surprised. and it didn t take long for her to conclude richard rosario did not get a fair trial.
but it is a part of my life that i can t deny. i was a kid growing up in the bronx and i learned the wrong habits. that doesn t make me a murderer and that doesn t make it right for me to be in prison for a crime i did not commit. now, this is where things get tricky for me. he sounds like he s being honest. maybe i m being played. admit to the robbery. deny the murder, fool the reporter. but if this was a lie, it was such a bold faced one. he said he was in florida at the time of the crime. literally 1,000 miles away. and remember, he said that on the night he turned himself in 20 years ago. he gave detectives a list of alibi witnesses who could confirm his story. their phone numbers, their addresses. how many names of witnesses? 13. 13. 13 alibi witnesses? it sounds like a lot to me. when i read the police reports, i didn t see any interviews with any alibi witnesses. i m thinking if he gave police