Three detectives obtained a false murder confession. Was it one of dozens?
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By: Jan Ransom
Huwe Burton was wrongly convicted because of deceptive interrogation techniques. How many more cases were "solved" the same way?
For Huwe Burton, the breaking point came late on the night of January 5, 1989, as
he sat with detectives in a cramped, windowless room on the second floor of a Bronx police precinct. He had not eaten or slept much in 48 hours.
A detective leaned in and said, "Tell us again about what happened that day."
Burton, who was 16 then, repeated his story. He had come home two days earlier after spending the day at school and then at his girlfriend's house, to find his mother, Keziah Burton, facedown on her bed, stabbed to death. Her nightgown was pulled up to her waist. A blue telephone cord was wrapped around her wrist.