By Pat Peterson

Former capital murder suspct Eric Buzbee talks exclusively to News 5 about life after his aquittal and about Baldwin County District Attorney Hallie Dixon re-opening the Bobby Wilson capital murder case.

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Arriving by boat, former capital murder suspect Eric Buzbee met us at his grandparent’s fishing camp in Spanish Fort. Buzbee, who spent nearly two years behind bars before he was found not guilty in the capital murder of Bobby Wilson, says he still can’t shake the label of “accused murderer.” Continued at WKRG.com

By Kim Lanier, Press-Register

A crew from the Discovery Channel television show “On the Case with Paula Zahn” was in Baldwin and Mobile counties last week conducting interviews for a show about the death of a Spanish Fort businessman and the man tried three times for capital murder before finally being acquitted. Complete coverage at al.com

Alex Pappas

SPANISH FORT, Ala. — Leslie Eric Buzbee stood on the bank of Bay Minette Creek at his grandfather’s fish camp Friday afternoon as a free man, holding his toddler son for the first time in two years.

“I’m honest and I told the truth,” said Buzbee, with a fishing boat behind him and clad in khakis and a button-down shirt. “And the jury found the truth.”

After two previous mistrials, the third jury to hear arguments in the Buzbee case sent the Spanish Fort man home Friday, acquitting him of capital murder in the 2007 killing of Arthur “Bobby” Wilson, 71.

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