Graduation Night

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4.4 • 40.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

When a woman attempts to connect with old neighborhood friends on Facebook, she has no idea it will dredge up a shocking, long buried truth. Keith Morrison reports.

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0:00.0	I tell people it's the miracle of Facebook.
0:03.0	All I did was put one sentence, just one sentence.
0:07.0	It's not often that you get to be a hero.
0:10.0	I got halfway through this and just went, oh my God.
0:14.0	The murder happened in seconds.
0:19.0	One was coming straight for me and Jim, with a gun leveled at us.
0:23.6	I've never ran so fast in my life.
0:26.6	The truth took decades.
0:28.6	I said, you know what, give me a lie detector test.
0:31.6	I never believed it for one minute, never.
0:34.6	Did someone have it all wrong? Or innocent man in prison for a murder they didn't commit?
0:41.3	A 22-year mystery until Facebook helped old friends find each other and justice.
0:48.3	Could you ever imagine you would actually cause such a thing?
0:52.3	None in a million years.
0:53.3	Together they uncovered an almost unbelievable truth.
0:58.0	It all made sense.
1:00.0	None of us knew what happened that night.
1:02.0	This all made sense.
1:05.0	Somebody seen it.
1:06.0	Somebody knew.
1:07.0	All right.
1:08.0	Now, they just had to get someone to believe them. Oh my God, we're losing.
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