Summary
Anthony Graves spent eighteen years in prison, twelve of them on death row, for murders he did not commit. In 1992, a grandmother, her teen-aged daughter, and her four young grandchildren were all killed in their beds. Texas Rangers quickly zeroed in on Robert Carter, the father of the youngest victim. He admitted that he was at the crime scene, but said Anthony Graves committed the murders. "48 Hours" correspondent Richard Schlesinger reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 3/17/2012. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays and stream on demand on Paramount+.
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| 0:00.0 | This is definitely a life and death struggle. |
| 0:14.0 | I don't think the stakes get any higher than what's at stake here. |
| 0:18.0 | This is a man's life who's on the line the thing about this case it's hard to |
| 0:27.3 | deal with is that those little babies in this fire gutted house firefighters |
| 0:32.2 | found six bodies it was a shock to everybody it was probably the most brutal |
| 0:37.0 | crime that ever happened |
| 0:38.0 | in that part of the state. You're talking about four little babies asleep in their bed, |
| 0:44.0 | a 16-year-old asleep in her bed, and their grandmother, who's also killed at the age of 45. |
| 0:50.6 | When she took that last breath, I guarantee you, her last thought was, how am I going to protect those babies now? |
| 0:57.0 | Whoever committed the crime was in a frenzy. |
| 1:00.0 | There were 66 stab wounds. |
| 1:03.0 | 66, 66. |
| 1:06.0 | Minimum of 66, by the way. Those are the ones that they counted. |
| 1:11.6 | Those were living people. |
| 1:13.6 | Those were my daughters. |
| 1:14.6 | That was my niece and my nephew. |
| 1:17.6 | Who can do that? |
| 1:18.6 | That's what's so horrible. |
| 1:20.6 | There's a lot of pressure to find this person or these people that have done this. |
| 1:25.6 | Four days after the crime law |
| 1:28.6 | enforcement had their suspect they got their man and that's the end of the |
| 1:33.2 | story they did not do their job tunnel vision total tunnel vision Anthony |
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