Erin Moriarty (Host)

So if I'm understanding you, this is very helpful.

So it wasn't that Maurice pointed the finger at Forrest.

He's saying, all right, if you're telling me the truth that this gun was involved in the murder, well, I didn't have it at this time.

My friend Forrest did.

So that's then why they put a wire on Maurice and had him go talk to Forrest.

I found it really interesting, Marissa, that at the exoneration hearing, you talked about that and you said that in that room, there was no evidence, only a detective and a narrative, a narrative that was so completely false.

I'm using your words.

It feels evil.

What do you mean by that?

That detective doing the questioning of Maurice for hours was Hector Polanco.

Lead Detective John Jones took a statement after that.

But he had doubts and told me when I started that it was clear that Forrest

Wellborn knew nothing and there was nothing to connect Maurice Pierce.

None of the four guys were charged.

And so did you feel that it was over at that point?

We did.

So there's a period of time.

That's when Marissa was born and Marissa's growing up.

But then, almost eight years later in 1999, a new investigation and interrogations pushed two of the four men, Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott, to seemingly confess.

Michael Scott's confession came first.