This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system.
Tim Montgomery looked down and sighed as he tried to explain why he lied to police decades ago about the 1992 murder of two elderly sisters in Cleveland.
“I was not there. I said that thousands and thousands of times, but nobody will believe me. So I told them what they wanted to hear,” Montgomery testified at a hearing last year…