On Tuesday, June 26, Dionne Miller, Corey “C-Murder” Miller’s Ex-Wife, and Alexis Miller, the icon’s oldest daughter, learned that one of the two key witnesses who identified the rapper as the lone gunman in a 2002 nightclub killing in Harvey, LA has recanted, claiming in a sworn statement that Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives pressured him to lie under threat of a criminal charge.

This news comes just before Dionne, and Alexis’ episode of Reasonable Doubt airs on Investigation Discovery later today. 

Miller’s attorney, Paul Barker, filed a memorandum Tuesday in 24th Judicial District Court, arguing that the newly obtained affidavit from the witness, Kenneth Jordan, warrants a hearing and, ultimately, Miller’s release.

The growing validity of Miller’s innocence claims are the subject of an episode that airs Wednesday in a true-crime series on Investigation Discovery, featuring Dionne and Alexis. On the TV episode, Jordan says that he was threatened with a 10-year sentence over the death of his child if he didn’t ID Miller as the nightclub shooter. “If I could turn back the hands of time, I wouldn’t have did it. In that moment it felt like that’s what I had to do,” says Jordan.

Christina Watkins reported via wdsu in New Orleans, LA that Jordan recanted testimony that the rapper shot & killed a teen in 2002. He said, “I can no longer live with knowing that Corey Miller is sitting in jail for something he did not do because of my fabricated statement.” Per the official affidavit. 

Per Full affidavit: witness alleges police arrested him in 2003 when his newborn baby died. They questioned him about #CMurder instead, 

“the JPSO officer approached me & offered me leniency in my criminal case if I agreed to cooperate & give a statement implicating Corey.” Via Christina Watkins’ Twitter 

“I was distraught and scared,” Jordan claims in the affidavit. “JPSO officers told me that if I testified against Corey Miller I could ‘go home’; they told me what to say; they fed me facts about the fight and details about the DJ and the dance party, none of which I really knew.”

We spoke with Alexis Miller, Corey’s oldest daughter, and her sentiments were that she wasn’t particularly moved by the timing of the recanting statements, but she knows that ultimately it’s groundbreaking in confirming her Dad’s innocence which she has been fighting for, for quite some time. Alexis has made a name for herself in the music industry, after graduating from Baylor University. She has been curating events, developing talent, and even helped her Dad with the release of four albums from prison. They include “Penitentiary Chances,” an April 2016 release that spawned a music video for the song “Dear Supreme Court,” in which Miller implored the state’s high court to free him. In speaking to Alexis, she says that the iconic rapper has huge things lined up for, not if, but when he comes home, and with this new evidence that when looks even more concrete. 

Corey’s Ex-Wife, Dionne, spoke about her Ex-Husbands “code of silence” when we spoke to her. “Let me tell you something about me,” Miller says during a telephone interview played on the episode of Reasonable Doubt “You ain’t never gonna hear nothing come out my mouth pointing the finger at nobody else. That just ain’t gonna happen. That’s just the way I live. That’s the way I come up.” Everyone took this, and passed judgement on C-Murder’s perceived unwillingness to snitch, but Dionne had a contrasting outlook, she says, “The show ‘Reasonable Doubt’, did an amazing job of portraying Corey and the true events of that night. However, this so called “code of silence”, as was heavily focused on in his featured episode, suggested that Corey should have named the killer. If hundreds of people who were in that nightclub could not identify the shooter, why should it have been his burden? Maybe this “code of silence” simply meant that he had no information to offer. Dionne, like her daughter Alexis, has continued to elevate herself, and her brand in Corey’s absence. She is an Author, owner of several businesses, and she raised, and put Corey + her’s three daughters through college. Her quote towards this new information, and it’s timing was, “I am just so mad about this. How could you even be that heartless to do this?”