Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lee Clark and Josh Storey spent their first full day of freedom just looking around at everything that has changed over the past 25 years. They say it feels like a dream.
Lee Clark (00:12):
Did I sit there for many years wondering if the truth was ever going to come out? I thought … There was times that I was starting to lose hope.
Josh Storey (00:20):
Nah, I thought I was going to die in prison. I really did. I never thought I would ever see the free world again.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Lee Clark and Josh Storey say a lot has changed in the world since they first went to jail more than two decades ago.
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Clark and Storey were 17 years old when their friend, Brian Bowling, died from a gunshot wound to the head while playing Russian roulette. But a witness testified the two men told her they killed Bowling.
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Clark and Storey were convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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Thursday night, they were released from jail, their convictions overturned; all of this after the Georgia Innocence Project got involved,
Speaker 4 (01:06):
We and Caine are free.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
And Proof Crime Podcast uncovered the murder convictions were based on manufactured evidence
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Relief that something finally worked and that something actually got through the system.
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(Singing).
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Josh Storey picked up a guitar for the first time since he was a teen.
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Lee Clark says it may take time to adjust to life outside prison walls.
Lee Clark (01:39):
It is really a shock being behind prison walls for 25 years and to walk out and to see how the world has changed.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
We let the Lord take it. He’ll take it. And he did. And let me tell you something, the Lord is shining. He’s shining today.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Both men say they aren’t angry about everything that happened. Lee says, “Toting around anger doesn’t help a thing.”
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In Floyd County, Denise Dillon, Fox 5 News.