i didn t do nothing. hearing the judge say guilty. two brothers convicted of murder fight back against the justice system. a pattern. how to gain a conviction. i knew they were innocent and the question is do we have enough? there are several witnesses saying the testimony is coerced. can they all be lying? if i have to die in this situation trying to prove i m an innocent man. never gave up. never. hello, and welcome to dateline. imagine spending nearly your entire adult life behind bars for a crime you did not commit. the man you are about to meet say that nightmare felt too real threat decades long journey to prove their innocence, they faced countless giving up is not an option, but, with their fight lead to freedom? here is the long road to freedom. tulsa, oklahoma. look at a list of top places to live and you will often find it. a city of promise of a new kind of energy, as its motto says. look a bit closer. just over the railroad tracks the separate t
he was saying, just hang in there. keep your eyes open. you know, and he was holding my hand. and i remember him squeezing, hold on, hold on, hang in there. . losing his brother to prison, then seeing his friend almost die, hardened malcolm. he inched a bit closer to the streets. in fact, police caught him with a handgun. something he says probably would not have happened if corey had been around. he s always been the one that said, man, no, you don t need to be involved with none of that. you need to be in school. get that football. malcolm had always wanted to follow in his brother s footsteps. and he was about to. soon another tulsa murder and another shock for young malcolm. coming up, fingers are pointed at malcolm and his friend. these witnesses said that they saw malcolm and de marchoe there.
next to impossible. the road to freedom, if it ever came, would be long, filled with unexpected twists and revelations. coming up a private investigator tracks down one of the eyewitnesses who i.d. d malcolm and de marchoe as the killers. he said, man, i ve been carrying around a burden. those boys didn t do that. when dateline continues. - oh.oh. - what s going on? - oh, darn! - let me help.
i was seeing a lot of cases where there were no facts that supported what i was seeing on these convictions. when you re seeing that lack over time involving the same departments, sheriff s office, police department, prosecutor s office, that s what really bothered me. cullen and the innocence team tracked down the second eyewitness who testified he had seen malcolm and de marchoe. but police records showed he had been shot in the buttocks and his back was turned. common sense tells you if you got shot in the butt and you re running away, you re not able to see anything. the eyewitness recanted and he claimed detectives had coerced his testimony too. this is a kid who got pressured into saying something he did not see. i was just watching him. and i could tell. this was a man who was remembering something that was extremely traumatic. and as a black woman, i get that. i understand that.
risk. while malcolm and de marchoe waited, wilson lost his final appeal on january 2nd, 2014. he was set to die by lethal injection a week later. and then the phone rang. it was wilson s lawyer. and she said to us, if you want to talk to him, this is the window you ve got. and it was, literally, i think 48 hours before his execution. my name is michael wilson. when murphy met with wilson in a death row visiting room, a video camera was rolling. i was incredibly nervous, because i knew what was on the line for malcolm and de marchoe. now, what might be their last chance at freedom came down to whether a condemned man would decide to come clean. within minutes he did. i wasn t trying to shoot karen summers, i was just she was one of those type of things you know, and she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.