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. when i came back here to new york, i thought all this was all 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
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 are 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
the rapist. i don t know. barry scheck reacted strongly when told of the former prosecutor s statement. you are telling me that eddie lowery gave a false confession that he and he alone committed this crime and protected brewer, a serial rapist who was raping other people in the neighborhood? that s what you re telling me? then you ve learned nothing. and that kind of prosecutor who refuses to learn anything, we don t need. you might say freedom is a theme for eddie lowery. today he lives in a town called liberty. and he s written a song about his life titled, what else, freedom. i write music and speak at different places and people have asked me, you know, do i get bored? i m never bored. i am enjoying life. i think among all the