and i pray to god. i say, you know, i don t wan to live. it was a crime that engulfe the city, a young touris murdered he was stabbed trying to protect his mother we had to get everyone. seven teams convicted one says he s innocent you don t have to believe me look at the facts in this case now we are doing just tha tracking down witnesses. he was shaking. he started crying revisiting evidence - the most emotional thing wa reading the letter is he telling the truth or lying to win his freedom? we are about to find out this is a perry mason moment right, she s a surprise t everyone hello, and welcome to dateline in the late 19 80s, robberies, muggings, and even murders wer a sad reality of life in new york city. then, in 1990, a tourist was stabbed while trying to protec his family the public demanded action and then got it. police made arrests and pu suspects behind bars but one of the man convicted said he wasn t there was an innocent man in jail
I started to tell them please, dont kill me, please dont kill me. Narrator an attack in the night. I was really freaking out. I was like, whats going on . Whats going on . Narrator a mother murdered. An attack in i was freaking out like whats going on . A mother, murdered. It looked like two ghosts committed the ultimate crime. He lived to tell police a harrowing story. Was it true . He survived, he is practically unharmed. They are treating me like a suspect. Now an undercover plan to solve the mystery. Step out of the car right now. Was the real mastermind . I wanted to be wrong. I really wanted to be wrong. The American Dream so many of us want, a loving family, the honest job, the home you can afford, the idea that you can start over here. And in this new country that better life will be yours. This is a story about that dream , about a family that worked for it, and then what happened to them. This wasnt part of anyones dream. Caller yeah, well, someone just broke into our house,
hincapie said he told the detective what he did that night. i detective didn t believe a word of it he called me a liar and he said that he had all my friends in another room, h knew what happened - and what happens he started blowing smok into my face from the cigarett that he started smoking. he slapped me in my face, he pulled my hair and he kicked me right down to the floor. what is he saying to you? and what are you saying back you tell me you didn t do this crime. so, i m assuming you were very forceful i m telling him, listen i m innocent hincapie says, that s whe the detective offered him a wa out. he just said, listen, if yo really, really want to go home all you have to do is memorize a story that i want you to - i ll have you driven hom immediately. you believed him? yes, i did. hincapie says the detective led him to believe he was witness, now the suspect so, in my mind, i m thinking,
tourist on a subway platform i manhattan. his own words sealed his fate. so you could see that was a night? yeah. anybody looking at it, it sounds like you re agreein with them, that s the story. but it wasn t a jury convicted him, and over the years, hincapie couldn t get a court to hear his case again when all my appeals wer finished, i literally got down on my knees last time and told god, i don t want to be here anymore i don t want to live and then one day, 16 year into his prison sentence, reporter heard about hincapi claim of innocence i ve got a lot of letters from prison inmates-ing thei innocence, i never believed an of him it was bill hughes. i met with johnny, i listen to him for a few hours, and didn t believe him i saw his confession, and thought he was guilty. but, i read the transcripts, i started to look into it.
roll over on you. that s not going to work? right. this is not a virgin. exactly. but, they did get something. you said to him, i have your dna had a murder scene. yes. and? and he said, where? he said, we re not, i hadn t committed any murder. did you ask him if he knew no, we never got that far. here is what bridget didn t know. the prosecutor and the detective didn t really care what he set. their target was magdi girgis, and all they wanted was to prove a connection between him and anthony bridget. that s why, before they left orange county, they set up a wiretap on magdi s phone. he was back living in the house where his wife was murdered. even had a new girlfriend. and now, investigators listened to see brigitte would tip off magdi. i was hoping that at least my visit would inspire him in