An extraordinary story of justice denied in our continuing reports on crime and punishment in america. Also tonight shot in the arm, the case for childhood vaccinations gets a booster from an outbreak of measle, and worries about the return of other childhood diseases. Why a small but growing number of parents say though to shots. What would happen if nobody vaccinated their kids at all . Wed be a lot healthier. You do. I do. Michael okwu with a look at the measles epidemic and its connection to the Antivaccine Movement. And swept away. What the tide brings the artist shapes and the waters return to the sea. Gooeping thanks for joining us for america tonight, the weekend edition. Its hard to under the criminal mind, what is the truth about criminal congegss. Do people who are truly in the confess to crimes they dont commit. We examine false confessions. They happen more often than you might think. America tonight correspondent sara hoy begins with the story of a man who pent spent nearly decades behind bars, but has proof he didnt do it. Wsh this girl was roller skating when she was kill. Two detectives came. I was sleeping. My sister opened a door. Reporter that morning, sunday moses was dragged out of his apartment. It would be 18 years before he returned home. 19 years old. I didnt know why that they were there it happened so abruptly that no one questioned where i was going. Reporter we travelled with moses to the scope of the crime, a Public Housing complx in the process of being demolished. This is the first time youve been here, what is going through your head. Its an out of body experience. They tell me i was here and did something. Reporter police accused moses of shooting the little girl. They take me to the presight. When i arrived precinct. When i arrived they sat me in a cubicle with the detective and explained why i was there. When he told me i felt relieved, in the assistance that i know that i had nothing to do with it, and i knew nothing about what they were questioning me for. Moses thought he would be back with his family. It was the beginning of a gruelling 12 hour investigation. As time wept on and i denied it went on and i denied it they became aggressive. After i denied it for several hours, they got tired. And this is when detective scarsela came into the room and began to physically assault me. Reporter what does that mean . He physically used his hands, slapped me, choked me and the rest of the officers held me so i wouldnt protect myself or i wouldnt lash back out at him. Detective lewis scarsela was legendary at the time. Known for making arrests and getting convictions. In 1995, the year moses was charged with murder the charged with murder the citys crime rate took a nose dive, attributed to aggressive policing. The murder of the 4yearold girl outraged the community, and sunday moses was the suspect. At that point my mind went into survival mode. Reporter did you feel your life was in danger . Yes, i did. At that point they werent acting like detectives. They were acting like a gang. And im saying that they wouldnt accept anything outside of a confession, and now that im realising that, so that, with not knowing the law, of course, i said, well ill tell them what they want to hear, and i can prove that that was a lie. Detectives wrote up a confession for moses with their version of event. To pit an end to their problem put an end to their nightmare, moses signed it. Reporter why in the world would you confess to a crime you didnt do, a murder no less . I never thought i would get convicted. I just the on thing i prayed for was that the rite people would right people would hear it. Reporter the confession with his signature proved to be more influential than any other evidence in court. Who would falsely confess to a crime they didnt commit . Ron is president of a Public Relations firm. After playing a role in high profile wrongful convictions he founded false convictions. 50 of exonerations involved false confessions. 25 nationwide and wrongful convictions involved a false confession. It is common and police are encouraged to get confessions. Its the most compelling piece of evidence for a jury and almost always results in a conviction. Once its in prosecutors hands and before a judge or jury, its over. He received stacks of letters were inmates looking for help. What about the guys in prison im 33, incarcerated for is a years, i maintained that my confession is a false one, shaun harris wrote an alert. 33 years old, 15 years and prison. This is full of legal cases. Information about their families and about their cases and evidence of their innocence. Thats what they are sending us, me, every day. Interrogations should be recorded. In sunday moses case we needed to see the Police Officer, detective scarsela, we needed to see him choke moses and get his confession, anything less should not be allowed in court. Reporter less than half of all states require interrogations to be recorded. After a jury saw his confession, moses was sentenced to 16 years to life. I was in shock. Others were crying. I couldnt see i couldnt say much. Im a very strongwilled person, but for a second, just for a second suicide flashed through my mind. Moses mother elaine was beside herself at the thought of the youngst of eight children spending life in prison. I suffered a lot. I went through a lot of illnesses surgery, depression. It was so bad. I wanted to go in the subway and jump in the train track. Thats how bad it was. Moses began his sentence. In 2013, lewis scar sella, the detective that got mowses to confess became the target of an investigation himself. 50 cases were tarnished which the distribute attorney is now reviewing. Moses is one of them. The torny took his case attorney took his case pro bono. No fibres, hairs, bullet traces, powder burns. Not a shred of physical evidence to connect him with the crime. We began to investigate the case the first thing we did was talk to the eyewitnesss. Those are people who had no reason to lie at the time or now. One of them was the cousin of the little girl who was killed. The other was the close friend of the little girl killed, and they told us that sony was not the person. Reporter in light of the new evidence and the das review, moses went before the parole board to proclaim his innocence. The new york board of parole released him. Welcome home. Reporter in december, days before his 38th birthday, sunday moses made his way home, and into the arms of those who never stopped believing in his inches. So much is running through my head. Im getting my freedom and happy. That freedom is basic to life. You know. You take away someones freedom they almost have no reason to live. Its like coming back from death. I dont take anything for granted. Reporter moses is not entirely free. The conviction review unit is looking at his case. Neither the District Attorney nor the detective would comment for this report. My name was dragged through the mud. My family was put through a lot of pain, and my son grew up without a father. Hes the age that i got locked up at. In all of this, it seems like the victim was forgotten. Theres still a mum out there who lost her child, who was looking at all of this stuff in the media, and she continues to blame me, despite everything that happeneds, she continues to blame me. So not only am i not vicinity kated by the system, but im not vindicated by the victims mum, and the victims family. Hes a strong young man. Will he ever get his life back . Will he ever be the same again . I pray for a long life, that i live to see this happen. And i know god will keep me, and i will see his name. For now moses has a focus, to clear his name and move forward. Im looking for the day that i will be cleared of the crime so i can move on with my life. Our story from america tonight sara hoy reporting from brooklyn. Coming up next on the programme chronically the lonely struggle to cross the border. Travellers unseen as they make long jourpies through the desert journeys through the desert leaving only the fabric of their lives. Im Joe Berlinger this is the system id like to think of this show as a watch dog about the system. To make sure justice is being served. With our personal liberties taken away from us, it better be done the right way. Is justice really for all . Border. Travellers unseen as they make long jourpies through the desert journeys through the desert leaving only the fabric of their lives. Families ripped apart. Racial profiling sometimes they ask questions. Sometimes they just handcuff people. Deporting dreams. Destroying lives. This state is literally redefining what it means to be a criminal alien fault lines Al Jazeera Americas hard hitting. Theyre locking the doors. Ground breaking. We have to get out of here. Truth seeking. Award winning investigative documentary series fault lines the deported only on Al Jazeera America [ music ] now to what is lost, and found, and what it can tell us about the long journey of migrants as they struggle to reach our borders. America tonights Lori Jane Gliha reports on the remnants of life that becomes art. Reporter deep inside arizonas Walker Canyon this is a trail migrants use to illegally enter the united states. How far are we from the Mexican Border right now . Right now 3 miles. Reporter okay. You say in order to get to this point they have walked for how long . Two days. Just to get to the border, the point of crossing. Reporter bob key showed us the way. Hes been tracking the packs and the people ta use them for years. Every week he leaves food and water for thousands of migrants who make the daring journey. Its rough terrain and not everyone nation it out alive. According to the u. S. Border patrol 194 people died along the border in 2013. Theres a blankets there. Yes, theres a blanket. If key doesnt see the people that cross, he knows theyve been here, from the things they leave behind. I have seen this sweater before. When i saw it, and the grease on it, it made me thing of the people i saw from the shelter, coming up from Central America riding the train. They get dirty, greasy, like that. Very dangerous. Reporter these traces of the migrant journey become Something Else entirely. When i look at Something Like this, i see the journey. Migrants crossed through jamess property. Its a main route for border crosses chasing the american dream. This was a fullon blanket torn in half. Reporter to some it may look like litter, but for james, an artist, its a glimpse into history, worth preferring. Over the past decade she has collected hundreds of items, most clothing twisted among tree branches or half buried. She collects the items with friend and artists antonia. When we first collected them it was collecting them to clean up the desert. As we started to collect them we realised that, you know, they were personal. They were no longer just objects we were picking up. This was material that was left behind, and i literally would stumble across it. Their collection of lights grew. They had stacks of medication, jewellery, womens bras and perfume. People carry perfume. After three or four days in the desert you want to be human again. Reporter they found photographs, handwritten letter, backpacks, shoes. Reporter you found this in the desert. Is it somebodys id. I think its the same person. Reporter you have birth certificates. Birth certificates, work permits. Reporter it was a leftbehind diaper bag similar to this that caught their eye and captured their hearts, giving them an idea that would transfer trash into history. It was strewn about across the bluff. A baby bottle, the shampoo bottle, diners all of it. There were little dresses, tiny dresses for a toddler. It was strongly identifying with this scene and with that material that i just i remember feeling panicked and fright ned for this frightened for this woman. Why did you pick it up and bring it home . I dont think there was a conscious intent at the time to display this material. We wanted to protect it and archive it. Here is one, jose, 44 years old, male from mexico much cause of death is pending. Reporter gradually the things they collected became art, like this piece, which weaves the names of people who perished in the desert with the blue jeans of border crosses. The two had a bigger idea. By the time the vision materialized for me, and i talked to other artists about it, we felt strongly, especially those that lived here, that we had to do something. There was no public memorial at that time. Reporter they began to work on this, a sculpture to commemorate not only the migrants, but the mothers who lost them. They were inspired by reallife experience. Her husband came across two children that illegally crossed the border. He brought them inside, they were scratched up. They car youred bottles carried bottles of water that were empty. They were scared. They were so scared. Theyve been wandering lost for two nights. She and her husband helped the children reunite with relatives. Her encounter made the promote why james more important. Reporter you volunteered your own space to do the projects. She served as a model for the series of sculptures called the mothers. I like this one. Reporter each covered in fabric made from clothing discovered in the desert. The idea of making it out of the clothing that we found, the clothing that carried d. N. A. , sweat, tears, the blood on the clothing from the rips, from the thorps, and the fear. The first mother was made out of levis, she was blue. The second one was offwhite, and she was khaki. And the third made out of ber lap bags that marijuana was crossed in. The two women are part of a network of artists and historians determined to place what some might consider trash in a different light. The area made it into sections like this one, in the Detroit Museum of modern art. Visitors can see the journey up twice. Reporter what would you say to people that see the items this think they are trash. Id say go out there, walk around for yourself, and open up a backpack and pull out the letters and look at the pictures. Its in what you find. The stories are there. And you cant deny them. Theres people, ids, people that all their hopes are in the backpacks. We have to remember all of us, our culture is in what is left behind. Reporter its why these lifesized sculptures of mother are important. They made them a decade ago, but they have begun to deteriorate. To the artists its a symbol. We wanted them to break down the way the bodies do in the desert when they are left behind. Reporter its what is left behind they see as history in the making. And looking ahead on the programme tracking fumes at street level. A threat that could blow. Its a dangerous concentration. Reporter how bad a leak is that . Thats a high concentration. 70,000 parts per million, gas, over the explosion threshold. If you had a spark. Reporter which could be anything, a match, a telecommunication line. That is potentially dangerous. Its not common, its not normal, thats something that the Gas Companies care a lot about and work hard to fix. Thats an example of something that could go wrong in a rare case some of the most historic cities in america, and oftenpacked urban areas. What lies beneath may be a danger to ageing pipes lacking and exposing risks. Is there a way for government and Gas Companies to protect us. That report next week on america tonight. Straight ahead in this hour parents and sometimes tough choices about whether to vaccinate or not, and that that means to other families. An indepth report is next. It has been decades since the measles virus has been a problem so long that man in the medical community dont know what the symptoms look like. But it is back, and in a big way. The c. D. C. Reports 200 cases in 18 states thats more than in all of last year already. Public Health Officials warn that will be the worst year for measles since it was eradicated in 2000, and tie the return to a decision made by a small number of parents. An indepth look from michael okwu in Orange County, california. So we dont vaccinate our kids. Reporter that might shock many parents, but holly and her husband shannon are part of a growing minority in wellheeled Orange County in southern california. I think we are very aware from the foods that we eat, being more organic, nong. M. O. , we want the healthiest family we can. Reporter instead of vaccine they rely on holistic rentalment. Including adjustment. They own a Chiropractic Office catering for young families. Bloom heart thought about vaccines before she had kids, back when she was a lieutenant in the air force. The military required she get vaccines before deploying. She researched them and found studies linking vaccines to conditions like asthma and add. There were other concerns. I learnt that some of the vaccines had abortal foetal tissue or different d. N. A. Things from animals or insects, and those kind of things concerned me. Reporter the fact is at various times foetal issue and insect cells have been used. None of that tissue was in the vaccine. Bloomhart declined to take them and it ended her military career. She had no regrets. Reporter what would happen in no one vaccinated their kids. I think wed be a lot healthier. You do. I do. Reporter as opposed to the fact ta we may expose ourselves to diseases easily. I do. Ultimately the body is a selfhealing organism. When a doctor says to you these methods are safe, effective and necessary, what do you say . I think thats their opinion. I disagree. Reporter many parents gree. In the wealthy beach front communities vaccination rates are plummeting, that has this doctor worried. I think people have to realise that when your child is not getting vaccinated your child is generally safe against measles, they are hitching a ride on the protection that all the other commug in that School Children in that school are getting to keep them getting sick. Its because all the other kids are vaccinated. If we have numbers drop in orange country or around this country well see increases in numbers of cases of measles. Reporter thats what happened here. The country is battling a large outbreak of measles. 22 cases all Young Children and health care workers. Theres one paediatrician who is not troubled by the vaccination rates. Dr bob sears, half his young patients are not vaccinated. I tell the parents that thats an okay decision. I think its a legitimate decision. Do you say, look, if a bunch of parents m