Tyree Musier said he'd been framed for murder. Evidence may finally prove it.

As Jonte Slater sat in a jail cell, charged with murder, he plotted to free himself — and frame another man for the crime.

Days after his 2008 arrest, Slater told relatives to track down a witness to the shooting and pay her to say that Tyree Musier — not he — fired the bullets that killed Nathaniel Crawford on a West Philadelphia street.

“They can get a check if they come down there and say it ain’t me,” Slater told the mother of his child in a recorded phone call from jail.

“A thousand dollars apiece, for whoever the witnesses is,” he told her in a separate call. “Each one of them.”

The plan worked.

The 14-year-old girl who saw the shooting testified that Musier killed Crawford. Slater was freed. And Musier was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison.

The witness now s