Jack Lawrence

One of those investigators was former Detroit police officer Ira Todd.

Pleasure to finally get to chat with you, sir.

Yeah, no worries, no worries.

Wherever you want to get started, I'm okay.

Ira has had an impressive career in law enforcement, working many different areas, including gangs and homicide squads.

And his specialty is interrogations.

Ira, however, is a little different to your average cop in the fact that he can sympathise with those who have been wrongfully accused of a crime.

In September of 1993, while on duty, Ira Todd himself was wrongfully accused and arrested for murder, a murder he was later acquitted of at trial.

During episode two of the show Wrong Man, Ira Todd sits down with a man whose identity is protected.

a man who says he is the informant who gave the statement to Jim Rivard.

He then proceeds to tell Ira that his entire statement was false.

He says that Jim Rivard one day pointed out Junior to him and said, you see that piece of shit right there?

I'm going to get him.

The informant then says that Rivard tells him, I need you to go and hang out with him.

I'll give you some weed and you need to get him to talk and tell you what he did.

So Rivard tells the informant where Junior hangs out and off he goes.

The informant says that Junior tells him absolutely nothing.

He goes back to Rivard and he says Rivard gets a photo line-up out and he points out Junior Salas.

He says Rivard then hands him a statement and says that he needs to put it into his own words.

He apparently assures the informant that it would never go to trial as they had another witness and that Junior would take a plea.