>> sure enough, four years after the murder, brooke sutton, now ten years old, recanted her testimony. >> do you think today that uncle clarence was the same man you saw in the kitchen that night with your grandma? >> no. >> i just had always had doubts. i knew i was wrong because i put him in there and i wasn't positively sure. >> melinda petitioned the court for a new trial and was denied. so melinda took matters into her own hands and decided to conduct her own investigation. creating a list of all known criminal offenders living near her mother's home. and she also sought help from an expert on wrongful convictions, martin yant. together, they poured over the case file and discovered some important pieces of information. first, the witness who testified clarence elkins threatened judy johnson's life during a telephone call also claimed judy called 911 to report the threat to police. but there was no evidence judy johnson ever called 911. >> the 911 call should have been logged. it was obvious no such phone call had been made. >> and they also discovered that the coroner took vagin