in the small town of greenwood, both elmore and gilliam knew bishop spearman.nd before 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 o