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13 Alibis - 2 - 1000 Miles Away

The murder case against Richard Rosario was based on two eyewitnesses. But Rosario claims there are more than a dozen people who can prove he was nowhere near the scene of the crime. Dan Slepian packs his bags and heads to Florida to speak with some of those alibi witnesses. Along the way, he also meets Rosario’s wife and two children.

2 - 1000 Miles Away

So last episode, I visited the Bronx Street where 17-year-old George Colazzo was murdered

And he turns and shoots the kid point-blank.

Shot in the face, shot right above the lip.

And I visited Richard Rosario in prison, the man who was convicted of killing George.

Rosario insisted he was completely innocent, and that he gave the police the names and

numbers of 13 people, who he said could confirm he was in Florida, not the Bronx during

I'm innocent, and I'm always being innocent no matter what the justice system does.

In the months after I met Richard Rosario, I start collecting as much as I can about

Thousands of pages of trial transcripts and court filings.

The case was based entirely on those two eyewitnesses, the victim's friend Michael Sanchez and the

No physical or forensic evidence was ever found against Rosario, and neither was a murder

I also learned Rosario was telling me the truth about at least two things.

How did a man who claims he had 13 alibi witnesses get convicted of murder and serve 20 years in prison? In this original series from Dateline NBC, producer Dan Slepian chronicles the case of Richard Rosario, who was convicted of a 1996 murder in New York City. Rosario has always insisted that he is innocent, and that 13 alibi witnesses will swear he was a thousand miles away in Florida while the crime was happening in New York. Ride along in real time as Slepian spends two years digging deep into Rosario’s case in a quest for the truth.


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0:00.0	So last episode, I visited the Bronx Street where 17-year-old George Colazzo was murdered
0:09.7	to learn the details of the 1996 crime.
0:12.5	And he turns and shoots the kid point-blank.
0:15.2	What's up, man?
0:16.2	And it's bad.
0:17.2	Where was he shot?
0:18.2	Shot in the face, shot right above the lip.
0:20.1	And I visited Richard Rosario in prison, the man who was convicted of killing George.
0:24.5	Rosario insisted he was completely innocent, and that he gave the police the names and
0:29.1	numbers of 13 people, who he said could confirm he was in Florida, not the Bronx during
0:34.8	the murder.
0:35.8	I'm innocent, and I'm always being innocent no matter what the justice system does.
0:43.0	I'm Dan Slevian, and this is 13 Alibis.
0:59.7	In the months after I met Richard Rosario, I start collecting as much as I can about
1:03.4	his case.
1:04.4	Thousands of pages of trial transcripts and court filings.
1:09.0	Here's what I learned.
1:12.0	The case was based entirely on those two eyewitnesses, the victim's friend Michael Sanchez and the
1:17.9	porter Robert Davis.
1:20.1	No physical or forensic evidence was ever found against Rosario, and neither was a murder
1:24.8	weapon.
1:26.2	I also learned Rosario was telling me the truth about at least two things.
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2 - 1000 Miles Away

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