On November 2, 1987 at 1.15 a.m. in Ada, Oklahoma, the victim felt a gun at the back of her

head as she unlocked the door to her home.

She was pushed inside, robbed and raped by a black man who was described as between 5.7

and 6.2 wearing a hat, a jacket, and perhaps a gold tooth.

Detectives filmed at crime stoppers' reenactment video about the robbery and rape, and they

approached Perry Lot, who was parked nearby.

While they asked him a few questions about his whereabouts during the incident, they noticed

that he had a gold tooth.

And Perry, a bit of a lady's man, explained that he was in the area to see his girlfriend

but had been with his fiance from 3.30 p.m. on November 1 through 6.30 a.m. the following

morning.

Despite his alibi, police brought him in for further questioning.

There, they put him into a lineup, and the rest of the men were given get this gold foil

from a nearby florist to simulate having a gold tooth.

The victim, not surprisingly, identified Perry Lot, that in there as her attacker.

A rape kid had been done the morning of the incident, but a 1987 DNA technology was

not yet available to exclude Mr. Lot, as it later would.

And Perry Lot, tragically, was sentenced to 300 years for rape, robbery, burglary, and

making a bomb threat related to the incident.

In this episode, which was recorded at an art show opening featuring the work of an innocent

man on death row in Texas, Rob Will.

We interviewed Perry Lot and Eric Cullen, the private investigator that was originally

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