they read the wrong verdict. that this can t be true. the nypd was quite proud of detectives donnelly and aiello s work, so proud that five months after the arrests the department allowed the detectives to be featured in new york magazine about how they amazingly cracked the cases. how the detectives could have believed that and decided to run with this and send them to jail for the rest of their lives on the basis of this garbage still shocks me today. all these years later, attorney cross knew his opinion of the detective work in this case wasn t going to free eric glisson or anyone else. i think the only kind of evidence that s going to sway a court is if we can point to who the real killers are. that was quite a lot to hope for. but from behind bars, eric glisson was already on the trail. i got some documents and so i see this guy s name keeps coming up. coming up
him? he was the only one videotaped by police. i only have one thing to say, though. i m innocent. i didn t do it. i wasn t there. this is michael 18 years later. finally, someone believed him. and while we now know those two gang members confessed to the cab driver s murder, fed-ex executive denise raymond s killer or killers have never been brought to justice. we wanted to speak to someone from the nypd or the bronx district attorney s office, but both declined comment citing the multiple civil suits they faced as the bronx six sought millions in damages against the city. and those two detectives, donnelly and aiello, portrayed as super sleuths back in 1995, are now both retired and they didn t have anything to say to us. but in court filings attorneys for the city of new york denied that either detective
they got on the horse early on in this case and they rode that horse and they weren t going to change direction. we wanted to speak with miriam tavares. she died of a drug overdose in 2002. other than her testimony, there was no physical evidence, no forensics, no prints, nothing that tied eric or the others to the cab driver s murder. even so, detectives donnelly and aiello went with what they had and closed both murder cases. within three weeks, they arrested their suspects and the bronx district attorney tried them. in all, six people were convicted. we ll call them the bronx six. five men and a woman. all sent away facing 25 to life. one of them was eric glisson. what s it like to hear that verdict read? it s like a shot in the chest. it s like your heart just melts. just dissolves. you actually think that, you know, they read the wrong verdict. that this can t be true.
times, the victim of an apparent robbery. the driver s money and cell phone were missing. the investigation of the cab driver s murder would be headed by 31-year-old detective mike donnelly, who worked alongside detective aiello. the two detectives donnelly and aiello ended up putting their heads and cases together, concluding the same group of several people committed both murders. did you know the other people? i knew two of them. from the neighborhood? from the neighborhood. these are good friends of yours? acquaintances. just guys you saw around? yes. february 4th, 1995. one of those guys was 19-year-old michael cosme, the first suspect arrested. you have the right to remain
the nypd was quite proud of detectives donnelly and aiello s work, so proud that five months after the arrests the department allowed the detectives to be featured in new york magazine about how they amazingly cracked the cases. how the detectives could have believed that and decided to run with this and send them to jail for the rest of their lives on the basis of this garbage still shocks me today. all these years later, attorney cross knew his opinion of the detective work in this case wasn t going to free eric glisson or anyone else. i think the only kind of evidence that s going to sway a court is if we can point to who the real killers are. that was quite a lot to hope for. but from behind bars, eric glisson was already on the trail. i got some documents and so i see this guy s name keeps coming up. coming up a surprise visitor and an