a statement from a then 17-year-old named linda primrose given to the police just a few months after w the murders happen with her own eyes. >> linda told the police that she was there. she told the police how they were killed. >> linda primrose took the police right to the crime scene and gave them a detailed account of what happened including details which had not been made public. >> and it matched what the police found. >> it matched what the police found. >> the primrose statement named the killer, a crazed and violent 5'8" hispanic man named ernie. when she took the stand at the trial, linda primrose retracted her original statement, said it was nothing but lies. >> she told the jury that she remembers making those statements back in 1962 but that she lied. that those were false statements. >> the defense was stunned. but they came back with another bombshell that now became the heart of their case. they put bill on the stand. he insisted he never confessed to the crime and claimed that his ex-wife who worked in the sheriff's office at the time of his arrest tampered with the ev