That day, when they said guilty, that's when my fate kind of disappeared.

And I actually started trying to prepare myself to die in prison.

In the spring of 1979, the lives of two teenagers from two very different parts of the country

were inextricably linked by murder.

In Brewer main, 17-year-old Amy Banks awoke one night to learn of her father's sudden

death.

A single gunshot wound claimed his life on a New Orleans Louisiana sidewalk.

One month later, authorities in New Orleans arrested 16-year-old Isaac Napper and charged

him with the killing of Amy's father, Dr. Ronald Banks.

But Isaac didn't commit the murder.

This is the story of a wrongful conviction, a young black man railroaded by the justice

system, and evidence with held a trial that would have saved him from a life sentence

at the nation's bloodiest prison.

The only thing worse than having a parent murdered for me was having a young 16-year-old

boy railroaded into a conviction for my, you know, like you can't imagine anything worse

than having a parent murdered, and then it got worse.

This is the case of Dr. Ronald Banks told by his daughter Amy Banks and Isaac Napper,

the man once charged and convicted of his murder.

I'm Kylie Lowe, and this is Dark Down East.

In 1979, Amy Banks lived with her younger sister in parents in a split-level home in

Brewer, Maine.

Her older siblings were out of the house and off to college, and 17-year-old Amy wasn't

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