i thought about that. he says the answer might be simple, as far as the nypd was concerned, this homicide was solved and closed. the detective may have looked in the open homicide drawer and may have never bothered to look into anything other than that. and he soon retired from the nypd not knowing six people have already been convicted. in the meantime, eric was stuck in prison. it was not until 2012, 14 years later that he hit pay dirt and it came in the form of cell phone records. remember, the cabdriver s cell phone had been stolen by whoever killed him. i found hundreds of calls after his death. the record showed the first call was made from the victim s phone minutes after the shooting. the numbers called trace back to relatives of two sex, money, murder gang members, named jose
he said, i know you are innocent. i said, what are you talking about? he said, i know the guys that committed this crime. how did john o malley know? he worked with the detective on the gang case ten years earlier, and back then the two gang members, jose and gilbert actually confessed the cabdriver shooting to o malley. he said when i read the letter everything came back to me from that day, i put it altogether when these guys confessed to me. john o malley did not want to appear on camera but told us he also checked with the nypd after getting those confessions back in 2002, and o malley was told there was no record of the crime. after getting eric s letter in 2012, o malley addressed the court in a sworn affidavit stating that eric glisson and the others were innocent of the cabdriver shooting.
relationship with her that did not end well. you had a fling with a girl and cut it off abruptly, and she may feel slighted. slighted enough to make you a murder suspect? i guess so. the question is how reliable was she as a witness? all of these years later, eric finally had somebody to take another look at miriam s story. attorney peter cross. no doubt this woman was lying. i went out to the crime scene and she could not possibly have seen what she said occurred. so what could miriam really see? here is the problem with her story. from that police video we know this is where the cab came to rest. we also know the shooting happened a couple car lengths back where the red suv is, and we know a man in that building called 911 when he heard the shots and he said he saw only one person running away from the
scene. now, a couple weeks later, miriam tavares comes forward and she lives in that building over there. now you are looking at me from just outside the window through which miriam says she said she saw it all happened, and she said she saw six people from the neighborhood commit the crime. she said she heard what they said and saw what they stole and she said she saw all of it looking through this bathroom window. the only problem is, if you go back to where the shooting actually happened, it s pretty clear miriam could not have seen anything at all. she said from her bathroom window she heard these conversations going on inside the car. it s just incredible testimony. but detective donnelly never looked at the crime scene from the perspective you just did. wouldn t that sort of be standard operating procedure to check out what witnesses say? you would think so. i think they got on the horse early on in the case and they rode that horse and were not
this is where the cab came to rest. we also know the shooting happened a couple car lengths back where the red suv is, and we know a man in that building called 911 when he heard the shots and he said he saw only one person running away from the scene. now, a couple weeks later, miriam tau various comes forward and she lives in that building over there. now you are looking at me from just outside the window through which miriam says she said she saw it all happened, and she said she saw six people from the neighborhood commit the crime. she said she heard what they said and saw what they stole and she said she saw all of it looking through this bathroom window. the only problem is, if you go back to where the shooting actually happened, it s pretty clear miriam could not have seen anything at all. she said from her bathroom window she heard these conversations going on inside the car. it s just incredible testimony.