6 -  "I'm Never Gonna Lose Hope"

4 -  He Was Scared

13 Alibis - 5 - Breaks My Heart

After two decades with their father behind bars, Richard Rosario’s family has new hope that he may be set free. After an emotional prison visit, a court is about to decide if it is time for this family to be finally reunited.

5 - Breaks My Heart

It's been ten months since I first met Richard Rosario's kids, Amanda and Richard Jr.

Now, after nearly two decades of failed appeals, they have new hope that their father's

While they wait for news, they make one of their twice a year trips from Florida to visit

Here at the airport, about to get on the plane, and soon hopefully go see our father in New York.

When Amanda and Richard Jr. arrive in New York, I offer to drive them to the prison.

I'm curious what the visits are like for Rosario and his kids.

If they've spoken with their dad about what it's like growing up without him, Amanda's

He was a strange feeling in the car, a mixture of sadness and anticipation and excitement.

Along the way, we discussed how the relationship with their dad has evolved over the years.

I don't know if it's rare, I don't know if this relationship you have with him, you live

in a different state, the only way you've known him is in prison.

And yet you keep coming up, keep flying up, what is it that keeps that bond so tight?

Despite the fact that I wasn't able to see him when I was little, I always got a card.

I always got, I got so much from him as a little girl.

He always made it known that he was our father.

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	It's been ten months since I first met Richard Rosario's kids, Amanda and Richard Jr.
0:11.3	Now, after nearly two decades of failed appeals, they have new hope that their father's
0:16.5	latest motion will be granted.
0:19.1	While they wait for news, they make one of their twice a year trips from Florida to visit
0:23.5	their father.
0:25.0	Here at the airport, about to get on the plane, and soon hopefully go see our father in New York.
0:33.0	And they let me tag along.
0:35.0	I'm Dan Slepian, and this is 13 Alibis.
0:39.0	When Amanda and Richard Jr. arrive in New York, I offer to drive them to the prison.
0:55.2	I'm curious what the visits are like for Rosario and his kids.
0:59.0	If they've spoken with their dad about what it's like growing up without him, Amanda's
1:03.7	answer surprises me.
1:05.3	I haven't talked to him about it ever.
1:07.9	He was a strange feeling in the car, a mixture of sadness and anticipation and excitement.
1:14.6	Along the way, we discussed how the relationship with their dad has evolved over the years.
1:18.6	I don't know if it's rare, I don't know if this relationship you have with him, you live
1:23.5	in a different state, the only way you've known him is in prison.
1:28.5	And yet you keep coming up, keep flying up, what is it that keeps that bond so tight?
1:33.6	Despite the fact that I wasn't able to see him when I was little, I always got a card.
1:37.1	I always got, I got so much from him as a little girl.
1:41.4	He always made it known that he was our father.
1:43.7	And that he loved us.
	...

5 - Breaks My Heart

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