Jack Lawrence

One Minute Remaining is a Mashed Pumpkin production.

Produced, hosted and created by Jack Lawrence.

Editing and sound design by Jack Lawrence and Dom Evans.

This show is part of the ACAST Creator Network.

So this was never brought up in your trial either, this whole cleaning of the car?

Hello and welcome back to One Minute Remaining.

My name is Jack Lawrence, the host and creator of this show.

Today is part five of my chat with Evaristo Salas Jr., the now man who was incarcerated for murder as a child.

At just 15, Jr.

would be arrested and at 16, found guilty of murdering Jose Aurelio and sentenced to over 30 years in a men's prison.

Having just under three years left, Junior has always maintained his innocence and continues to fight to clear his name.

So in our previous episode, we heard the shocking revelation that was discovered during the TV show, The Wrong Man, that one of the two main witnesses in this case came forward to admit that his entire testimony was false and that he was made to lie by the lead detective in the investigation, Jim Rivard.

Now, again, I must state that Mr. Rivard has always maintained that this is not true and that the entire investigation was done above board.

But let's not forget we have a child in an adult's world sitting in a courtroom being tried for murder.

Junior talks me through his feelings at that time.

So we know that the snitch has said he lied.

His testimony in court was less than convincing and bordering on laughable.

However, what about the prosecution's other main witness, Ophelia Gonzalez, the wife of the man who was killed that night?

By all accounts, she says that she catches a glimpse of the shooter that night.

But Junior tells me her version of events of that night change on more than one occasion.