in the small town of greenwood, both elmore and gilliam knew bishop spearman.ore the hearing, gilliam told spearman the truth. >> james gilliam and i go back i guess all our life. one night he called me and he will me, i lied and my conscience is bothering me. >> gilliam said he made a deal with the prosecutor to testify against elmore in exchange for release from prison. with elmore facing the electric chair, he felt bad about what he had done. >> i said, james, make it right. i got excited. i felt like once this come out, that ed would be free. >> gilliam said the testimony that i gave in these prior trials was false. that he made up this story to try to get better treatment for himself on his criminal sentence. >> gilliam would go on to state that the only thing elmore had ever said was that he didn't kill dorothy edwards. but diana's team also felt they needed to refute dorothy edwards' time of death which the medical examiner had placed on saturday night during the only hours elmore had no alibi. diana hired forensic expert jonathan arden. >> in my opinion

so, an awful lot of social spearman tatian -- the social experimentation. it was used as a hothouse for the radical plans. their objective was for them to see -- with regard to race relations, and in april 1862 this is nine months before the lincoln signed the declaration -- the emancipation. it is still celebrated in april of every year, the emancipation of the enslaved blacks in the district. not only did you have this progressive piece of legislation, that also because washington was under the control of the congress, congress's backyard, and thousands of what came to be known as contraband blacks particularly field hands from plantations in maryland, virginia, and further afield, just poured into washington to get away from the plantations slavery, and these were the -- it was a small but significant and educated and very hard-working free black community in washington, who had against great odds were trying to make the best of a very i nico economic situation. -- a very unequal economic situation. they had very few skills that were of value in the city