it s not often that you get to be a hero. i got halfway through this again and went, oh my god. the murder happened in seconds. onewas coming straight for me with a gun leveled at us. i never ran so fast in my life. the truth took decades. i said, you know what, give me a lie detector tests. i never believed it for one minute. never. did someone have it all wrong. were innocent men in prison for a murder they did not commit? a 22 year mystery until facebook helped old friends find each other and justice. did you ever imagine you would actually cause such a thing? not in 1 million years. together they uncovered an almost unbelievable truth it all made sense. none of us knew what happened that nice night. this all made sense. somebody seen it. somebody knew. all rise. now, they just had to get someone to believe them. oh my gosh. we re losing. hello, and welcome to dateline . it started with a party. high school senior celebrating the end of t
the truth took decades. i said, you know what, give me a lie detector tests. i never believed it for one minute. never. did someone have it all wrong. were innocent men in prison for a murder they did not commit? a 22 year mystery until facebook helped old friends find each other and justice. did you ever imagine you would actually cause such a thing? not in 1 million years. together they uncovered an almost unbelievable truth it all made sense. none of us knew what happened that nice night. this all made sense. somebody seen it. somebody knew. all rise. now, they just had to get someone to believe them. oh my gosh. we re losing. oh my god, we re winning. we ll face whatever has to come. this was it? this was it for sure. hello, and welcome to dateline . it started with a party. high school senior celebrating the end of the school year and new beginnings. but before the night was through, one man would be dead and two others could not know it
and we just held our heads up. but to prove their innocence, they needed some solid new evidence. and by 2009, after 22 years, even their family had about giving up on that. had you actually gotten to the stage where you thought, well, they re just going to be there for the rest of their lives? nothing we can do about it? i did. to be honest, i did. so too did the private eye, julianne. who stopped working the case. or, try to. but tommy kept on calling. i d be like, you can t keep calling me. then, one day i picked up the phone and it was tommy again. and i just didn t have anything to do. i said, fine, fine. this was purely to get tommy off my back. i thought i was gonna do a couple things i d be done. yeah, i can get tommy out of my life. so, she picked up the phone, called tommy s lawyer, who sent her copy of the affidavit, the sworn story told by, guess who? that old college roommate of kevin s, john hielscher, the one who claimed he was there at old man bob s when the m
i did. to be honest, i did. so too did the private eye, julianne. who stopped working the case. or, try to. but tommy kept on calling. i d be like, you can t keep calling me. then, one day i picked up the phone and it was tommy again. and i just didn t have anything to do. i said, fine, fine. this was purely to get tommy off my back. i thought i was gonna do a couple things i d be done. yeah, i can get tommy out of my life. so, she picked up the phone, called tommy s lawyer, who sent her copy of the affidavit, the sworn story told by, guess who? that old college roommate of kevin s, john hielscher, the one who claimed he was there at old man bob s when the murder took place. and when the private eye read that i got halfway through this thing and just went, holy [bleep]! oh my god! coming up a close encounter with killers. i m done. that s the first thing that came to my head. he s going to shoot me. but are the the same man
who stopped working the case. or, try to. but tommy kept on calling. i d be like, you can t keep calling me. then, one day i picked up the phone and it was tommy again. and i just didn t have anything to do. i said, fine, fine. this was purely to get tommy off my back. i thought i was gonna do a couple things i d be done. yeah, i can get tommy out of my life. so, she picked up the phone, called tommy s lawyer. he sent her copy of the affidavit, the sworn story told by, guess who? that old college roommate of kevin s, john hielscher, the one who claimed he was there at old man bob s when the murder took place. and when the private i read that i got halfway through this thing and just went, holy [bleep]! oh my god! coming up a close encounter with killers. i m done. that s the first thing that came to my head. they re going to get me. that are the the same man spending life in prison for