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Front page of the next day s paper. amazingly, sam millsap was saying that he thought a mistake had been made. that was definitely going to be a huge story. but les lise s story was going to be more than an expose about ruben cantu s innocence. lise was about to point to who she felt the real killer was. ....
Finishing touches on her story set to run on the front page of the next day s paper. amazingly, sam millsap was saying that he thought a mistake had been made. that was definitely going to be a huge story. lisa s story was going to be more than just an expo say about ruben cantu s innocence. lisa was about to point to who she felt the real killer was. on november 20th, 2005, lise olsen s story about the case for ruben cantu s innocence hit news stands in texas. the san antonio express news and the houston chronicle both ran those stories on their front page for two days in a row, juan moreno retracting his testimony was lightning story. it went everywhere. it got picked up all over the country. as part of his story, lisa spoke with the accomplice to the murder, david garza, about who the real killer was. david took a plea for armed robbery, a lessor offense and was sentenced to 20 years. he said, ruben wasn t there that night. he said, there was someone else ....
San antonio police had pressured juan moreno into fingering the wrong man. after seeing how the texas courts had handled ruben s case, richard turned to investigative reporter, lise olsen, for help. lisa reported on crime and corruption at the houston chronicle. i got a tip that a private detective, who i later learned was richard reyna, had interviewed this eyewitness and that he had recanted. i was very skeptical. there are a lot of people on death row that have innocence claims and a lot of times they are fabricated. it is very unusual for a case to rest on such limited evidence but with someone in texas sentenced to death based on the wrong information. lisa would begin investigating ruben s story and in the process come face to face with the man who sent ruben to death row, sam millsap. ....
Police as a suspect in the murder before telling detectives that cantu had been the shooter. romero told the police that ruben confessed to him that he was the shooter but consider who is saying that ruben confessed to them. do you think that romero is going to say, yeah, i did it? that s never going to happen. so he fixed it up pretty good for himself. he shoved everything over to ruben. it wasn t me. it was ruben. if romero did implicate ruben cantu for the murder, why was he never called to testify at the trial? a transcript from a pre-trial hearing, it says that police beat and handcuffed romero, through him into a wall and threatened to charge him with the offense. romero was the guy we suspected did it. he had kinky hair. the police just turned him loose. susan reed, the judge that signed ruben s death warrant was now district attorney of san antonio. under pressure to respond to lisa alston s charges of misconduct, reed ordered an internal investigation. ....