It's been almost 21 years since Donna Brown was murdered in a Taco Bell parking lot in

Adel, Georgia.

It's been 18 years since Devania and Men was sentenced to life in prison for killing her.

Eight years ago, DNA testing on a key piece of evidence connected a different man to Brown's

murder.

Even so, five years ago, a Georgia judge shrugged his shoulders, saying, just because there

wasn't any evidence linking Devania in into the crime didn't mean he didn't do it.

Devania and Men has spent his whole adult life behind bars for this crime.

A crime he swears he did not commit.

For the matter of what, every time I wake up and just do, I feel the same way.

I cannot be closer to you.

And finally, after all this time, he now has a chance to prove he's been telling the truth

all along.

From the intercept, I'm Liliana Segura.

And I'm Jordan Smith.

Welcome back to Murderville, Georgia.

Back in episode six, we told you about a legal challenge to Devania Inman's conviction

filed in January 2018 by his new lawyers with the Atlanta Firm Troutman Sanders.

It was a long shot, but it was based on powerful new evidence.

Evidence that should have come out long before Devania was ever tried.

In fact, it should have come out during the investigation of Donna Brown's murder.

It had to do with a woman named Kim Brooks.

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