FIGHTING BACK - FIVE KIDS, THIRTY HOURS, NO LAWYERS: THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE - PART 1

Garret Fisher opens the Fighting Back series — two weeks of David vs. Goliath while the production team vacations — with one of the most devastating wrongful conviction stories in American history. April 19, 1989. A woman is attacked in Central Park. Five Black and Latino teenagers aged 14 to 16 are hauled in for questioning with no lawyers, no sleep, and interrogations lasting up to 30 hours. By the time it was over, four of them had confessed to a crime the DNA evidence already proved they didn't commit. And a real estate developer named Donald Trump spent $85,000 on newspaper ads calling for their execution. This is P...