defendant guilty. as you can they read the wrong verdict. you feel so hopeless. it s like a shot in the chest. despair to hope. darkness to light. a fight for freedom. what happened to this teenager could happen to any one of our children. at 18, he was arrested for murder. adamant he was innocent. i had nothing to do with this. i swear to god. so, what could ve possibly led to this? you stab that women. why would he confess to something you didn t do? why would he? what s really happened during that police interrogation. the evidence shows you were there. i cannot lie about the evidence. i can t lie to you about this. the officers lying about lying. and extraordinary look inside the interview room. if you don t talk to me i can t keep this is one of the most intense interrogations i ve ever seen. welcome to dateline. how could you confess to a crime you didn t commit? it seems to defy logic and common sense, but advocates say, it s h
adamant he was innocent. i had nothing to do with this. i swear to god. so, what could ve possibly led to this? you stab that women. why would he convince to something you didn t do? why would he? what s really happened during that police interrogation. the evidence shows you were there. i can lie about the evidence. i can t lie to you about this. the officers lying about lying. and extraordinary look inside the interview room. if you don t talk to me i can t keep this is one of the most intense interrogations i ve ever seen. welcome to dateline. how could you confess to a crime you didn t commit? it seems to defy logic and common sense, but advocates say, it s happens for more often than any of us realizes. here s keith morrison with the interrogation. a freak snowstorm, like an omen, smothered the little town in the blue ridge mountains. february 19th, 2003, just before 9 am, winter or no, crozet, virginia was not used to this. and then throu
but, this was interesting. chief sellers did not support needs interrogations. not at all. i would say this, i believe the confession is an unreliable confession. what s more, the chief updated police methods when he took over. helping to prevent the kind of interrogation that ended up in roberts confession. as you look at it, what are things that would not be done? using terms like the ultimate punishment, length of the interview. those kinds of things would be clearly not done today. cold comfort for robert davis, who by 2014, had been president, going on 11 years. a decade plus to go. unless, there was a new governor. rosenfield renewed his appeal for clemency. though, he was well aware that a tiny percentage of these
who would listen. robert remained right where he was, in prison. during those same years, we asked repeatedly for an interview with randy snead, the officer who took roberts confession. but, as close as we got was county police chief, colonel steve sellers, since retired. he wasn t in office when snead was detective, but we ve talked to him. what s your sense of how he feels? i think he acted in his best interest. i think there wasn t malice in his actions. i think he had a very strong relationship with robert davis. but, this was interesting. chief sellers did not supports needs interrogations. not at all. i would say this, i believe the confession is an unreliable confession. what s more, the chief updated police methods when he took over. helping to prevent the kind of interrogation that ended up in the confession.
Archeologist Whitney Spearing says she and her team are using science to validate what survivors of the former St. Joseph's Mission Residential School already know.