. >> did you kill barbara jean horn? >> no, i did not do.ot do anything to that child at all. >> did you look at the jury. >> yeah. they were stone faced. yeah, we want to just get rid of you. >> that's coming up, but we'll begin in afghanistan with nbc's kelly cobiella in kabul. kelly, the march of the taliban, rapid, one city after another. >> reporter: that's right. the provinces continue to fall like dominos today. andrea, you mentioned kandahar now being in the hands of the taliban. that was confirmed by nbc news early today, kabul time and then we saw a string of other announcements and herat confirmed to be in the hands of the taliban as well as it looks like helmand province right next to kandahar in the south and we haven't yet confirmed that, and it looks as though helmand is also in taliban lands, and you see sort of a consolidation of their territory from the south into the west into the border with iran and then up into the north and really down to only two major cities that are still controlled by the government. mass ary shari

walter ogrod, a single 27-year-old truck driver who once lived across the street from 4-year-old barbara jean hornnnocent and that detectives coerced a false confession from him. the little girl's parents were outraged how did you feel to hear him describe that story? >> angry >> i wanted him dead i did. >> did you kill barbara jean horton >> i did not i did not do anything to that child at all >> the jury didn't believe him and he was found guilty and sentenced to die did you look at the jury >> yeah. they were stone faced. >> five years later, he wrote a letter to a journalist and imploring him to investigate his case lowenstein was stunned by what he discovered. >> i was plucking a weed and i pulled more of of this tree and it keeps coming up >> there is a systemic pattern unbridled misconduct in the city of philadelphia, and it shocks t the conscience >> reporter: civil rights attorney amelia green says the city's corrupt criminal justice system has ensnared walter and countless others >> i found another case, a man claiming he was innocent you keep digging and then you find another one >> in