and we saw all of the other people running towards bob. especially a guy with a shotgun. i just remembered, i m dead. that s the first thing that came to mind. you know? in my head he s going to shoot me. we froze. and all he said was, get the [bleep] out of here. and we turned so fast and run back to the car. i ve never ran so fast in my life. we were running back, they had heard the gunshot. i said, get the [bleep] out of here. and he screeched the tires and we got out of there as quick as we could. and after? the five returned to the graduation party. i was still freaking out. we all were. people were wondering what s the matter with you? what happened? and that then someone told him what happened. part of the people are going all, i don t believe. you they didn t believe us. what you are freaking out? oh, yeah. i could ve been killed that day. came close? came close. i had a gun pointed right to my face. then when they went home, said john, he watched the news,
when i got to the hearing, it was all out warfare. the defense began laying out this strange tale from the start. with mary evans and her 2009 facebook post. ms. evans, why have you come forward in this case? you know, on the streets i always heard that highers didn t do it. next, the d. c. lawyer who just happened to answer that post of mary s. would you please set your name for the record? kevin zieleniewski? on the stand kevin re-told the story that john, the old roommate told him way back in 1993. he made a comment to the effect that, well, you wouldn t believe what happened that night. and so, said kevin, he fell a duty to step in. and why are you here today? two innocent people are in prison for life. i learned information that could help set them free. and i felt compelled to bring that information forward. and then one by one, the witnesses, the now 40 some things who told the court about that night outside old man
in the wind in detroit. the summer turned to fall of 2009. a woman s simple facebook post about old friends now in prison for life was read by a detroit native turned d. c. lawyer who got curious and looked at their pictures and i couldn t sleep really at the beginning just thinking about it. wondering what you should do? yeah, wondering what to do about it. what he did was call his old college roommate, john hielscher. the man who way back in 1993, told him a story about the murder of old man bob. tell me why you call john hielscher? to see if he remembered telling me the story he told me back all those years about the night that old man bob was killed. and he did remember? he did, he remembered it exactly on the phone, as he did when he first told me the story.
voted to unionize. they voted in favor of unifies-ing the victory follows a similar vote to unionize at another store in wisconsin. now back to dateline! back to dateline welcome back to dateline. i m craig melvin. after spending more than 20 years behind bars for a murder they said they did not commit, tommy and ray highers were given to valuable things hope and that a potential eyewitness. a stranger named john hielscher had come for to insist he saw the real killers. but could one man s claim be enough to overturn a conviction? for tommy and ray s team it was time to go about the task of proving it. once again, here is keith morrison with graduation night . private eye julianne and the others, who joined her efforts for the highers brothers, believe the newly discovered witness john hielscher was
man bob, but that is not what happened. not even two weeks later when the judge decided to release the brothers on bond to await trial. [applause] and tommy and raymond highers walked out of jail for the first time in more than 25 years. it s certainly felt like victory. looked like victory. it was like someone hit a grand slam at the ballpark. oh my god. oh man, hell yeah. this is my wonderful attorney. i m telling you now. hey, she is the bomb. but, tommy and ray merely men on bail awaiting trial for murder. a trial the prosecution gave every indication it was especially determined to win. and thus send these two men right back where they came from,