When we were taken into custody I thought I was being saved, rescued, and then later on I realized that we weren't being rescued at all and that this was just the beginning of a nightmare that would last for 17 years.

Sunny Jacobs and her husband were jailed for murder. Sunny's husband was executed in the electric chair for the crime. After 17 years previously suppressed evidence was uncovered proving him innocent of the crime. Sunny was released but 17 years of her life are gone and her husband is dead. Are some injustices too great to be forgiven? What does it mean to forgive? Where's God when the bad things happen? I'm Dwight Nelson. Let's look at the evidence.

The year was 1976. Sunny Jacobs received a call from Jesse Defaro, her common law husband and the man of her dreams. Every once in a while Jesse left to go earn some extra money for the family. Sunny didn't know how he earned it and she didn't want to know. Jesse Defaro had promised Sunny this particular trip would be the last. But the business he was conducting with his friends in South Florida fell through leaving him broke and in need of her help.

I packed up the kids in this old car that we had with a case of oil because it was the kind of car that just spewed black smoke out behind it down the road and every once in a while you had to stop and pour in in another can of oil and spew more black smoke and I drove with the kids, breastfeeding my daughter, singing songs to my son, driving.

After picking up Jesse, their old car broke down. So they called one of Jesse's friends, ex-con, Walter Norman Rhodes. Rhodes eventually agreed to take them to another friend's house where they would wait for money to be wired from her parents, but it was getting late. So they pulled in to a rest area to sleep. In the early morning hours trooper Phillip Black and visiting Canadian constable Donald Irwin stopped to do a routine check. In the process, ex-con Walter Rhodes shot and killed both officers.