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
where he met a man by the name of bob dennison. he said, i don t know if yo know anything about my case, and once he started i m like o course i do everyone knows wha the case dennison is the forme chairman of new york state springboard. he showed me the articl that bill hughes had written about him. did he tell you he wa innocent he did, he told me he was innocent and you rolled your eyes, thinking - something about johnny stuc with me. dennison decided to reach out to hughes, and all of sudden, handicap ea had former parole commissioner and a reporter teaming up to reinvestigate his case we laughingly referred to ourselves as the white house guy squat. we were going around queen looking for potentia witnesses. after nearly a year o searching, they found one. a man who said he knew th truth about johnny hincapie. we sat down his kitchen, he was shaking. he was visibly nervous we saw this table and h started crying he took a napkin and he dre