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Son. It could be me. Reporter was daniel innocent . Daniel villegas is a convicted murderer. Reporter could this survivor solve the mystery . I cant let this happen. I i gotta do something. Reporter everyone told him he was crazy. The case a longshot. Zero to five percent chance. Reporter and there was always the chance he was wrong. Everybody was holding their breath. Reporter im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Keith Morrison with the confession. Reporter it was good friday night. Late. Too late. Too dark. Too deep into gang territory in the border town of el paso, texas, the boys, teenagers, hurried down a side street toward home. Going to the party had been a bad idea. I was like, we gotta get home. And then there it was out of nowhere, the car, the screaming, the sudden burst of gunfire. I was just like, am i living a nightmare . This a nightmare . Im gonna wake up soon reporter in a bad neighborhood in a town in west ....
Everybody was holding their breath. Reporter im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Keith Morrison with the confession. Reporter it was good friday night. Late. Too late. Too dark. Too deep into gang territory in the border town of el paso, texas, the boys, teenagers, hurried down a side street toward home. Going to the party had been a bad idea. I was like, we gotta get home. And then there it was out of nowhere, the car, the screaming, the sudden burst of gunfire. I was just like, am i living a nightmare . This a nightmare . Im gonna wake up soon reporter in a bad neighborhood in a town in west texas, two innocent lives were snuffed in one violent moment and a strange story went into deep hibernation as much in the grave as those poor boys. For 12 long years. And then one day in 2005, in sunny el paso a place where a person could look ahead, build a business, fall in love a man walked into a bank and, that old story began i ....
Son. It could be me. Reporter was daniel innocent . Daniel villegas is a convicted murderer. Reporter could this survivor solve the mystery . I cant let this happen. I i gotta do something. Reporter everyone told him he was crazy. The case a longshot. Zero to five percent chance. Reporter and there was always the chance he was wrong. Everybody was holding their breath. Reporter im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Keith Morrison with the confession. Reporter it was good friday night. Late. Too late. Too dark. Too deep into gang territory in the border town of el paso, texas, the boys, teenagers, hurried down a side street toward home. Going to the party had been a bad idea. I was like, we gotta get home. And then there it was out of nowhere, the car, the screaming, the sudden burst of gunfire. I was just like, am i living a nightmare . This a nightmare . Im gonna wake up soon reporter in a bad neighborhood in a town in west ....
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