and at the time of his conviction no one was considered worse than damien echols.udged as the leader of a grotesque and senseless murder spree, a jury of his peers sent him here to be executed. but that happened 17 years earlier. when i first met the once cocky and defiant teenager who horrified and enraged thousands of people, he was pushing 40. >> hi. >> escorted to our interview, handcuffed and shackled, the damien echols i see appears frail, lonely and eager to tell his story. you know, people are going to be watching you throughout this interview, and they're going to be judging you. >> right. >> how do you think they're going to judge you? >> i don't know. >> you're either innocent and a terrible victim of a justice system gone wrong or you're a terrible, cold-blooded killer of children. >> i think you'll probably have people who think both. >> with prison officials listening to our every word, i'm allowed to talk to damien for almost two hours. through a thick glass window, i listen as this obviously intelligent and articulate man describes why he believes t

until then, echols wanted to prevent woloson from fleeing so he tried a ruse.confronted woloson with some made-up evidence. >> it was important for me to extract some type of information from him that would give me enough to get an arrest warrant. i gave him the story about the witness which is not true. i tell him that there was a person that he worked with at the quad apartments who had stepped forward and had seen daniel woloson walking down a path behind wright 1 carrying a yellow backpack during the evening that she was murdered. and i took it just a little bit further and i told him that i had a fingerprint that was identified to him from that backpack. and then immediately without me saying a thing he said you know, i only took $10 from that backpack. so i knew he was telling me the truth. >> so woloson was arrested and he was forced to provide an additional dna sample. that test left no doubt he was the source of the dna found on susan schumake. prosecutors cannot fathom a reason for susan schumake's murder. they believe woloson saw her walking alone al