You know, Maggie, sometimes we see cases where someone's almost on the verge of being

exaggerated and they die.

And yet the attorneys or the Innocence Projects, whoever's involved in the case, continue

the fight to prove their innocence.

Many people must wonder why don't they just drop it at that point, if the person's gone.

You know, I think specifically because these people's families still exist and they're

still around and there's generations of kids and grandkids that want to have justice

for their loved one and for themselves.

So I think it's really important to make sure that all of these wrongs are righted.

You know, as I said there and I talked to them and he was just hooked up to so many machines

and I whispered in his ear and said, how you going to come back in my life and you're

just going to die on me, you can't be my husband if you die, right?

From Lava for Good, this is wrongful conviction with Maggie Freely.

Today, Troy Burner.

On April 21st, 1990, 27-year-old Michael Wilson was walking with his friend Joseph Canard

when two masked gunmen suddenly ambushed them.

Joseph fled unharmed but Michael was shot at least six times.

He passed away days later in the hospital.

Although Michael named the attackers before he died, investigators were somehow at a loss

and the case went cold for three years.

But in the years following the crime, things heated up when police arrested multiple men

looking to strike deals in exchange for lighter sentences.

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