with the killing and she saw that. she called a female corrections officer over. and told her, i was there. i know something about that case. the sheriff s department of lake county come talk to me. the inference was, we can give you a break if you saw something that we should know about. hint, hint. gwen testified against duckett and was let out of jail having served less than six months of a two-year sentence. a year after james duckett was sentenced to death gurley recanted her testimony and said she never actually saw duckett with teresa mcabee. in a sworn affidavit, she claimed she had been induced into it by rocky harris. rocky harris took me in and out of the jail. they asked a lot of questions, a lot of questions. the best i recall, i never
former police officer james duckett was on death row for the murder of 11-year-old teresa mcabee when retired miami homicide detective marshall frank began corresponding with him. i just wanted to see if this needed to be investigated further. if there is an innocent man on death row. i had no problem punishing people for doing a terrible crime. i put many away myself. but this guy may have been railroaded. watch out you don t trip. have a seat right here. don t stand up until yeah, yeah, i got you. i m james aren duckett and we are currently at florida state prison. i am sentenced to death so i am currently on death row. i ve been here since june 30th,
there were seven execution warrants. the day i was hired we had seven active warrants, that means seven men were going to be executed. and jim was one of my clients. if there ever was a godsend person, i believe beth is mine. she never gave up on me. i started investigating his case. and every time i would look into something i would discover well hang on, that is not as they say it was at trial. that doesn t flesh out. and you realize wait, we have an innocent guy here. the prosecution s key evidence against james duckett was pubic hair that was found in teresa mcabee s underwear, but they were not buying it. duckett was accused of sexually assaulting her. one of the things that troubled me was the prosecution said the pubic hair inside her panties was from the killer. but it was not uncommon for
back and his are right there between them. your vehicle was processed. do you know whose finger prints these are there? no, sir. teresa was sitting on the hood of your car. notes. nobody was sit go down at any time on the hood of my car. are you telling us that s not her fingerprints? like i said, she was not on the hood of my vehicle. these are all identified here, here, keeps moving up. and finally there s one here. mike brady had a separate notion of what happened that night. we later developed a theory that she could have jumped up on the car which would have been hot with the engine already having run for several hours so she might have jumped back off and that would leave his fingerprints there. his could have been on there from using it as a desk. they had our theory. we had our theories. the girl is sitting on your