Last Chance for Freedom
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real people, real crimes, real life drama. There was no moon. You know, it's kind of a night you get where the stars are. You think you can reach up and touch them. They're so vibrant, but it's like pitch black out there. For more than 18 years, 48 hours has investigated what many say is a case of injustice. That case began in the early morning hours of April 4th, 1989, when a young woman called 911 saying she thought her boyfriend had been shot. The problem was she was three miles away from the crime scene, and she had trouble telling police how to get there. Something was not right. Why would somebody say there's something happening here and nothing's there? All we had was that he had been shot and that he was in the orange groves. I sent a deputy to pick her up because we absolutely would never have found him. It would have been there all night looking. I am Diane Clark. I was a patrol sergeant in Brevard County. When we got there, she wouldn't get out of the car. She remained in the vehicle out here and refused to walk down there. You don't want to see him? You don't want to know his condition? There's something wrong with that. It was a young white male laying on his side with his hands bound behind his back. The male victim was Chip Flynn. He had a bullet wound. He was flawed on the right side of his chest. We have a gun on the ground that we don't know who it belongs to. He was conscious? Speaking very clearly, just said give me out of here. Who shot you? Just take me home. God get me out of here. Could you at least tell us which way he went? Who did this to you? He won't tell us. This is so not typical. It defies explanation. My name is Mark Rixie. I was a road patrol deputy for the Brevard County Sheriff's Office. All of a sudden, his breathing got shallow. All of a sudden, you know, he deteriorated really quickly. He died before the ambulance got here. The woman who called 911 was Chip Flynn's former girlfriend, Kim Howlick. She said that she and Chip had been in his truck, this truck, when a black man with a gun hijacked and drove them to that remote grove. She alone managed to get back into the truck and escape, driving those three miles to Chip's friend's home. They needed someone to put that murder on. Can Crossley Green fit the bill? It's an example of race being a substitute for evidence. I didn't kill that young man. That guy got screwed. Today, 26 years after Crossley Green was sentenced to death for the murder of Chip Flynn.
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A Florida man has spent nearly three decades in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit.