who killed leah freeman? >> whoever did this needs to pay. >> "nightline" will be right back. >>> good evening. thank you for joining us. young love and a decades-old murder mystery. locking a rocking a small community in oregon. now sitting down for the first interview ever since the conviction was overturned. why he maintains his innocence to this day. >> i just figured the truth will come out. i'm an innocent man and innocent people don't go to jail. >> they said it's for the murder of leah freeman. >> did you do it? >> no, i didn't do it. >> they have nothing else to go on, and i'm the boyfriend. >> this afternoon, the body of a teenaged female, tentatively identified as leah freeman was discovered. >> hoev dwho ever did this need pay. >> what's he hiding? >> i had medley yet leah when i walking through the gym. she was a freshman, i was a senior. leah was always a sparkle. >> he was always in love. the girls liked him. >> he was definitely a flirt. he was kind of into every girl. but he did seem like he

and it went for weeks and weeks and weeks. >> a major reversal tonight in the case of leah freeman, thenick mcguffin, who was leah's high school sweetheart at the time has been overturned. >> the post-conviction court issued the ruling to overturn nick's conviction on a friday right after thanksgiving. and i was with my family and got the news by email. everybody was so excited. this was the moment we had been waiting five years for when we got this ruling. >> that was a great day. i get on the phone, and janis is like, hey. i'm like, hi. so, well, we won. i said, that's the best news i have had in nine years. and yeah, it was amazing. from then on it was just kind of a waiting game of when i was going get out. >> just because the judge throws out the conviction does not mean that nick mcguffin is going to be a free man. >> so now it comes back to me. i have to make a decision. >> the question now for prosecutors gonna retry nick mcguffin, or does he walk away a free man? (sprintern) paul- i'm loooooving the all-new dual camera system with ultra-wide on iphone 11! (paul) and i love how

who killed leah freeman? >> whoever did this needs to pay. >> "nightline" will be right back.