others who joined her efforts for the highers' brothers believe the newly discovered witness john hielscher the truth. now, if they could only find those four high school friends hielscher claimed were with him. were with him the night when he and they took a trip to buy marijuana from a neighborhood drug dealer known as old man bob back in 1987. a trip that ended in gunfire. first, bad news. julianne discovered the driver of the car died. but his family confirmed he drove a white plymouth horizon. the same type of car an eyewitness had seen fleeing the scene. >> that was important, to be able to make that connection? >> right, because the linchpin is that these guys were in a white omni, omni horizon. they're the same car basically. >> reporter: then one by one they did find them. the kids now 40-something, who had been in the car, heard the very same things john hielscher told them. this man, john korver was riding in the front passenger seat and he confirmed the story. >> you can just see it dawn on his face that two guys have been sitting in jail for nearly 25 years. >> the woman who wa