Gretchen Swinn

No.

No, we did not look into her medical history.

Each new detail Gretchen shared with Brian, from Nikki's medical history to the outdated science, chipped away at what Brian believed he knew about the case.

But it's what she told him next that forever changed the way he thought about Robert Robertson.

Brian began to see the case through a different lens.

He now believed he'd made a grave mistake.

We didn't hear Robert.

Gretchen believed Brian's support could be a turning point.

She asked if he would testify at the upcoming hearing.

Brian said yes.

The lead detective who oversaw the investigation was willing to testify for the man he helped put on death row.

Robert's case was gaining strength, but there was still one piece of critical evidence Gretchen couldn't find, CAT scans of Nikki's head, taken soon after she arrived at the hospital.

Gretchen was convinced they could be crucial, possibly holding the answer to what really happened to Nikki.

They'd been missing for 15 years.

They were about to show up when she least expected it.

Only the power of love can save him and defeat her, the Snow Queen.

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On an August morning in 2018, inside the Palestine, Texas courthouse, Robert's lawyer, Gretchen Swinn, stood before a judge to make her case that Robert deserved a new trial, that the evidence that convicted him had been discredited, that he was innocent.

Gretchen said the doctors had simply gotten it wrong, mistaking illness for violence, all because of outdated, shaken baby science.