of daniel brewer. he s arrested for the 1981 rape of the 74-year-old woman and the rape of another woman in ogden three months prior. on july 15th, 2011, brewer pleads guilty. it s taken 30 years. but eddie lowery believes a crooked case has finally been made straight. and i ll never understand all this why this all happened and all that stuff. you know, but, you know, the whole thing is coming around full circle. coming up, lowery s reunion with the daughter who was lost to a wrongful conviction.
every three months when lowery must report to the clay county sheriff s office to register as a sex offender. i would walk into the sheriff s office and look into the window and make sure it was empty before i walk in there and to register because i was so humiliated to walk in there and say, hey, you know, i m here to register as a sex offender. and so i d wait for it to clear out. sometimes i d be up there 30, 45 minutes to an hour. and it was humiliating. lowery feels like a stranger in his own town. and the simple pleasures of being a father, things that so many take for granted, are held back from him. i couldn t coach my son s teams. i couldn t coach any of my daughter s soccer teams. i love sports so much. i couldn t get involved with my son and my daughter the way i wanted to. the agony is made worse by the knowledge that one bad decision made under extreme pressure when he was just 22
who brutalized her. she couldn t know that the real rapist was still on the loose. that s always been a hope of mine too. besides being exonerated was, you know, to completely convince everybody that i didn t do this, whether they believe in dna or not was to find the real perpetrator and convict him. for that, eddie lowery will have to wait six years. in may 2009 the fbi s dna database of convicted offenders turns up a cold hit. the rape evidence matches daniel brewer, a 53-year-old man living in the bronx. you know, when i came back here to new york, i thought all this was over with, but i was wrong. as a young man, daniel brewer served in the army and was stationed in ft. riley in kansas at the same time eddie lowery was there.
compares it to eddie lowery s dna. and the result of that analysis eliminated him as a sperm source. no possibility whatsoever. after 20 years, eddie lowery has been vindicated. we wanted a finding from this court not just that eddie was not guilty and that the judgment should be vacated. we wanted a finding that he was actually innocent because he was. on april 3rd, 2003, district judge meryl wilson signs an order declaring eddie james lowery actually innocent. he totally gave my freedom back to me, you know, to do what i want to, and, you know, that s the best feeling in the world. the victim of the rape passed away in 1992. in the twilight of her life, she thought eddie lowery was the man
after the sixth hour of interrogation, there s a turning point. lowery breaks down and confesses. he says he broke down the front door of the house and found the woman sleeping. he says he covered the woman s face, hit her in the head with the butt of a knife, and raped her. and that s when they stopped the interrogation and they actually arrested me for rape, aggravated burglary, and aggravated assault. the prosecutor pat caffey, kansas versus lowery, seems like an open-and-shut case. he never denied that he made the confession. there wasn t a situation where he said, no, i didn t really confess. this was he never said that. i thought it was a solid confession and that he was guilty. but almost immediately, eddie lowery hires an attorney and recants the confession. he really didn t realize at that point the consequences of