who brutalized her. she couldn t know that the real rapist was still on the loose. that s always been a hope of mine too. besides being exonerated was, you know, to completely convince everybody that i didn t do this, whether they believe in dna or not was to find the real perpetrator and convict him. for that, eddie lowery will have to wait six years. in may 2009 the fbi s dna database of convicted offenders turns up a cold hit. the rape evidence matches daniel brewer, a 53-year-old man living in the bronx. you know, when i came back here to new york, i thought all this was over with, but i was wrong. as a young man, daniel brewer served in the army and was stationed in ft. riley in kansas at the same time eddie lowery was there.
and even more outrageous they never disclosed that. that s classic exculpatory evidence that should have been disclosed, and they covered it all up. in fact, the innocence project learns that detectives harry malugani and doug johnson were interrogating eddie lowery the very same day daniel brewer was booked into county jail in connection with another rape, a rape with a similar m.o. in the same neighborhood. and here they have lowery where there s no evidence where he s guessing at details that they re feeding him, and they know all this information. i mean it s inexcusable. both the individual officers involved in the case and the department itself declined repeated requests for interviews or a statement of any sort. on january 28th, 2010, nypd detectives along with agents of the kansas bureau of investigation knock on the door
there you go. good. but there s no way to get back 30 lost years or even to put a value on something so priceless. still, a civil suit filed after lowery s exoneration attempts to right the wrong. after dna testing links daniel brewer to the rape of the 74-year-old victim, a bombshell that reveals the extent of the police department s grave error. riley county, kansas, settles with lowery for $7.5 million. this money has helped me out a lot. and i ve been able to help my kids out, you know, some cars and college and things like that, but it will never no amount of money could ever pay me for what happened to me. you know, i don t care. you could offer me $10 million to relive all this again, and i would never take that. though the riley county police department never admits
away in 1992. in the twilight of her life, she thought eddie lowery was the man who brutalized her. she couldn t know that the real rapist was still on the loose. that s always been a hope of mine, too. besides being exonerated was, you know, to completely convince everybody that i didn t do this, whether they believe in dna or not was to find the real perpetrator and convict him. for that, eddie lowery will have to wait six years. in may 2009 the fbi s dna database of convicted offenders turns up a cold hit. the rape evidence matches daniel brewer, a 53-year-old man living in the bronx. you know, when i came back here to new york, i thought all this was over with, but i was wrong.
detectives along with agents of the kansas bureau of investigation knock on the door of daniel brewer. he s arrested for the 1981 rape of the 74-year-old woman and the rape of another woman in ogden three months prior. on july 15th, 2011, brewer pleads guilty. it s taken 30 years. but eddie lowery believes a crooked case has finally been made straight. and i ll never understand all this why this all happened and all that stuff. you know, but, you know, the whole thing is coming around full circle. coming up, lowery s reunion with the daughter who was lost to a wrongful conviction. dream. on my count. .the one where you step up and save the day? make it happen.