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HAVE HAPPENED?
JOHN CZARRELLA WENT TO FIND OUT.
>> Reporter: ROSCOE PUGH III WAS
ONLY 9 YEARS OLD WHEN HE SAW HIS
FATHER GUN DOWN DURING A HOME
INVASION ROBBERY.
>> OUR LIVES WOULD BE TOTALLY
DIFFERENT.
I'VE SAID THAT SINCE I WAS 9
YEARS OLD.
I SAID MY LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN
DIFFERENT IF I WOULDN'T HAVE SAW
IT.
>> Reporter: NOW 15 YEARS LATER,
ROSCOE IS RELIVING THE
NIGHTMARE.
ON CEMENT 27th, THIS MAN, JOSEPH
JENKINS, SERVE LIFE FOR THE
*** OF ROSCOE'S DAD WAS
MISTAKENLY RELEASED FROM A
PRISON IN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN THE
FLORIDA PANHANDLE.
FOR ROSCOE'S MOM, IT IS
IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND.
>> IT SEEMS LIKE MY WHOLE WORLD
CAME DOWN ON ME.
I THOUGHT I WOULD NOT HAVE TO
SEE THEM EVER AGAIN IN LIFE.
THEY HAD LIFE SENTENCE PLUS 100
YEARS.
>> Reporter: THE STORY DOESN'T
STOP THERE.
A WEEK AND A HALF AFTER JENKINS
WAS RELEASED, ANOTHER CONVICTED
MURDERER, CHARLES WALKER, WAS
ACCIDENTALLY SET FREE FROM THE
SAME PRISON.
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?
FORGED DOCUMENT SINGLE TO THE
PRISON, ORDERED THE RELEASES.
AND ON BOTH OF THEM, THE FAKE
SIGNATURE OF ORANGE COUNTY JUDGE
BELVIN PERRY.
>> TO BE FILED WITH THIS COURT.
>> Reporter: BECAUSE HIGH
PROFILE COURT, HE SAYS HE SEES
HOW IT IS POSSIBLE NO ONE WOULD
QUESTION IT.
AND HE IS NOT ENTIRELY
SURPRISED.
>> PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY PEOPLE
WITH CRIMINAL MINDS, COME UP
WITH INGENIOUS WAYS TO BEAT THE
SYSTEM.
THEY HAVE NOTHING BUT TIME ON
THEIR HANDS.
TO THINK OF THING.
>> THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF LAW
ENFORCEMENT WAS ONLY NOTIFIED OF
THE MISTAKE A COUPLE DAYS AGO.
CORRECTIONS OFFICIALS SAY THEY
FOLLOWED DEPARTMENT POLICY AND
PROCEDURES.
>> THOSE INMATES WERE RELEASED
BASED ON THOSE COURT ORDERS THAT
WE RECEIVED.
THE ORDERS WERE LATER DETERMINED
TO BE FRAUDULENT.
>> Reporter: IT IS A
TOO FAMILY FRIGHTENED.
>> IT IS FRIGHTENING,
TERRIFYING.
>> Reporter: SO HOW DID
AUTHORITIES ACTUALLY FIND OUT IN
WELL, THE FAMILY OF ONE OF THE
VICTIMS CALLED THE DATE IS
ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND SAID HOW
COME THIS GUY IS OUT OF PRISON?
THE STATE ATTORNEY'S OFFICE THEN
CALLS THE DEPARTMENT OF
CORRECTIONS AND THE FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT TO
INFORM THEM.
HOW DID THE FAMILY FIND OUT?
IT IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR FAMILIES
OF VICTIMS OF CRIMES TO BE
NOTIFIED WHEN THE PERPETRATOR IS
RELEASED FROM PRISON.
AND THE REASON WE'RE HERE AT THE