it s not often that you get to be a hero. i got halfway through this again and went, oh my god. the murder happened in seconds. onewas coming straight for me with a gun leveled at us. i never ran so fast in my life. the truth took decades. i said, you know what, give me a lie detector tests. i never believed it for one minute. never. did someone have it all wrong. were innocent men in prison for a murder they did not commit? a 22 year mystery until facebook helped old friends find each other and justice. did you ever imagine you would actually cause such a thing? not in 1 million years. together they uncovered an almost unbelievable truth it all made sense. none of us knew what happened that nice night. this all made sense. somebody seen it. somebody knew. all rise. now, they just had to get someone to believe them. oh my gosh. we re losing. hello, and welcome to dateline . it started with a party. high school senior celebrating the end of t
the truth took decades. i said, you know what, give me a lie detector tests. i never believed it for one minute. never. did someone have it all wrong. were innocent men in prison for a murder they did not commit? a 22 year mystery until facebook helped old friends find each other and justice. did you ever imagine you would actually cause such a thing? not in 1 million years. together they uncovered an almost unbelievable truth it all made sense. none of us knew what happened that nice night. this all made sense. somebody seen it. somebody knew. all rise. now, they just had to get someone to believe them. oh my gosh. we re losing. oh my god, we re winning. we ll face whatever has to come. this was it? this was it for sure. hello, and welcome to dateline . it started with a party. high school senior celebrating the end of the school year and new beginnings. but before the night was through, one man would be dead and two others could not know it
state prison. what s it like to be sitting here, talking about what s happened to you? you can t even put it into words, the feelings that go through you. which gave us a chance to talk to them as they prepared for their biggest fight yet. for exoneration and they hope permanent freedom. we will fight, we will face whatever has to come. and here they told us their version of what happened the night old man bob was killed. we got involved in things we should ve been. drugs, that was the main thing. and that night, june 26 1987, the brothers did indeed go over to bob s house, they said. saw the police were there, and assumed you know, we figured he was being raided. that s exactly what we thought. that he was being raided. never even stopped, there were
no, it couldn t be. were those old stories somehow connected? maybe mary could tell him. i sent back to her, they wouldn t happen to be in prison for killing old man bob? and she got back and said, yes, they are in prison for killing old man bob. old man bob was robert karey, our well-known loan shark, drug dealer. murdered in the back of his easter trite home in 1987. kevin was already on the computer that into thousand nine, so he pulled out the michigan department of corrections website and saw pictures of tommy and ray highers and confirm they were in prison. doing life without parole for the murder of old man bob. it was then it hit him like a brick in the face. something about those pictures was very, very wrong. only one thing to do. kevin picked up the phone and called that old college roommate. a man he hadn t seen for at least a decade. this man, john hielscher. he said it was about old man bob. i just started freaking out, like, i m not doing it. i m not doing any of
connections it pulled up in kevin s brain, had just made john hielscher part of a team he was unsure he wanted to belong to. and the next move was his. as a band of friends sets out on a journey to find justice, they first need to find out what really happened the night old man bob was murdered. coming up i got halfway through this and just went, oh my god! when dateline continues. announcer: type 2 diabetes? discover the power of 3 in the ozempic® tri-zone. in my ozempic® tri-zone, i lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight. announcer: ozempic® provides powerful a1c reduction. in studies, the majority of people reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events