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Dateline Originals

Letters from Sing Sing - Ep. 5: Integrity

Dateline Originals

NBC News

True Crime

4.6773 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Manhattan DA’s office reinvestigates JJ’s case. A tip surfaces about Mustafa and Dan follows it to Seattle.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Where are we going?

0:05.8

We go to watch this.

0:08.0

It's October of 2012, more than 12 years since JJ first entered prison.

0:14.3

I'm back inside Sing Sing to check in with him.

0:17.7

We're in his housing block, standing on the second tier outside his cell.

0:21.6

There's a TV mounted behind him that everyone in the unit shares.

0:25.6

It's been eight months since NBC aired my investigation into his case.

0:30.6

I was able to see the show. I watched it right here.

0:33.6

Right here on that team.

0:35.6

And how did I feel? I went through a mixed range of emotions, you know?

0:41.3

Like it was a purging process, but I was able to get through it.

0:45.3

I was happy, I was sad, I was confused, I went through a lot.

0:50.3

But it also gave you hope?

0:52.3

Definitely gave me hope.

0:56.0

I can say that based on the show, I received a lot of support.

1:00.0

I mean, I had junior high school kids riding me.

1:03.0

It was very touching.

1:04.0

A lot of people all over the United States riding me, letting me know if they support me.

1:09.0

Finally, for one time in my life, I realized, you know, I'm not alone, you know, that I wasn't the underdog anymore,

1:16.6

and that people believed in me, and it meant a lot to me.

1:19.6

But JJ tells me he's also frustrated that he's still locked up.

1:23.6

He thought my investigation had finally revealed the truth about his innocence, that someone in authority would take action, and he'd be free.

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