and then one night in 1993, six years after the incident, he told kevin zieleniewski. nd it was one telling detail that kevin never forget in the story. those people who jumped over the fence, they weren't white kids. they were black. >> you had no idea that two men went to prison for this? >> no, not until kevin called me in 2009. >> did you even know the highers brothers? >> no clue. >> total strangers? >> total strangers. i said this isn't right. it involved a different race. it was not two white people. >> that piece of information, more than 20 years after the murder, was what tommy and ray and their family had about lost hope they would ever find. >> when i finally got the whole story, it was like damn, somebody seen it. somebody knew. >> this all made sense. >> it was a matter of mistaken identity. >> absolutely. it proves everything we sat and believed for the last 25 years. >> john's story, which would have disappeared forever had it not been for mary's facebook post and kevin's steel trap memory, now gave aunt jan and all those who loved and believed in tommy