i want to, and, you know, that s the best feeling in the world. the victim of the rape passed 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.
so i hope that these will help you and your healing, you know, with our relationship to let you know, you know, that i never forgot you. today eddie and amanda are trying to make up for lost time. 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
night, july 27th, 1981. all of the crimes happened within a half-mile radius in ogden, kansas. it was outrageous that they didn t, a, see that from the point of view of good policing 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
lowery hopes the journals will be another step along their road to recovery. so i hope that these will help you and your healing, with our relationship to let you know, you know, that i never forgot you. today eddie and amanda are trying to make up for lost time. 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.
i don t know why i lasted this long. brewer s pathetic condition is in stark contrast with the brutal crimes he s suspected of. innocence project lawyers soon learn that brewer was actually a suspect in four rapes during the spring and summer of 1981. two rapes occurred before the case of the 74-year-old victim. and one rape, the very next night, july 27th, 1981. all of the crimes happened within a half-mile radius in ogden, kansas. it was outrageous that they didn t, a, see that from the point of view of good policing 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 mulugani and doug johnson were interrogating eddie lowery the very same day daniel brewer was booked into county jail in