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Dateline Originals

13 Alibis - Ep. 7: Lost Time

Dateline Originals

NBC News

True Crime

4.6773 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

It’s been more than 20 years since Richard Rosario was convicted of a murder he says he could not possibly have committed. If he didn’t do it, who did? And what’s next for Rosario and his family? This is the final episode of Dan Slepian’s 3-year investigation. This episode was originally published on May 16, 2019.

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0:00.0

The ruling is according,

0:07.0

League is hereby ordered as a motion

0:10.0

the vinci conviction is granted.

0:12.0

You are hereby release.

0:14.0

They let you go like if nothing ever happened.

0:26.9

And I have to live with all the scars internally.

0:30.3

And people expect me to be happy.

0:36.7

It's now been three years since Richard Rosario was freed after spending 20 years in prison.

0:42.9

He says the transition has been harder than he expected.

0:45.9

It was in a cage, and I would lay in that bed thinking all day about what I would do if I came home,

0:51.1

and when I finally came home, it was't nothing like I thought it would be.

0:58.8

I'm Dan Slepian, and this is the final episode of 13 alibis.

1:24.4

Being released was the happiest day in my life, but then I had to try to figure out how to, you know, just deal with society, deal with people, you know, just to learn the rules of life again.

1:29.9

And it's been difficult what to do, what not to how to talk how to present myself there's a stereotype that after an innocent person has been freed he must be thrilled

1:36.2

but it's a little more complicated than that says Rosario I caught up with him in mid-March

1:41.9

2019 he says he has flash, almost like a prisoner of war.

1:48.6

Just recently I was in the kitchen, just cutting something.

1:53.2

I was preparing food and I started crying and it was because I had a dream when I was in jail that I was home doing exactly that.

2:03.9

And I froze.

2:05.0

I didn't know if I was still there.

2:07.6

I didn't know if I was still in jail.

2:09.3

So a lot of times I feel confused.

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