My name is Greg Taylor. I spent almost 17 years in prison for a first-degree murder I did not commit.

I was exonerated in February of 2010.

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What can happen in 6,149 days?

Four leap years come and go, four presidential terms are served.

A child can become an adult and an aging parent can become elderly.

In the case of Greg Taylor, 6,149 days, almost 17 years, is the amount of time

he spent incarcerated for a murder he did not commit.

I lived in Kerry, North Carolina, which is a suburb of Raleigh. It's kind of middle-class neighborhood I lived in.

I was married to the girl who sat behind me in the home room, my senior year in high school.

We had an eight-year-old daughter.

My wife worked for IBM as a computer programmer, and I worked for a telecommunications company.

Just typical middle class, we had two cats and a dog and two cars in a boat. So we would go out

on the lake on the weekends or spend family vacations camp and things like that.

Both my wife and I grew up in Raleigh, and we had lived in Maryland for four years, and our daughter was just started school, and we decided to move back to North Carolina

where we could reestablish our roots and have the grandparents around, you know,

from my daughter and stuff. So, yeah, we all had family in the Raleigh area, long-time friends

and things like that. You know, we owned our own home. We had good careers. We, you know, liked the area.

Greg was living the typical middle-class life with his wife, daughter, two dogs, a cat, and his extended family nearby.

It sounds like Greg was a pretty fortunate individual until the night of September 26, 1991.

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