Empire on Blood

4: Father Frank to the Rescue

<p>Cal has been in prison a few years when Dwight, lording over the Corner on Blood, “catches a body” and is sentenced to 25 years to life for murder. Not long after, Cal and the man who put him away meet in prison, something that’s not supposed to happen. Both Cal’s and Dwight’s worlds are turned upside down, and prosecutors in the Bronx are alarmed.</p>

<p>In the Bronx, in the early 90s, two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.”  They lived large, wearing mink, drinking champagne, getting rich.  Then their fraught relationship fell apart, dead bodies piled up, and one accused the other of a double homicide he didn’t commit.  Or did he?  We hear from the cops, the DA, the terrified eyewitnesses, the dealer doing life, and the dealer who put him there.  They all tell their stories to award-winning journalist Steve Fishman, who has spent seven years untangling the twisted web of justice in the Bronx, and chronicling one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence.</p>