and even more outrageous they never disclosed that. that s classic exculpatory evidence that should have been disclosed, and they covered it all up. in fact, the innocence project learns that detectives harry malugani and doug johnson were interrogating eddie lowery the very same day daniel brewer was booked into county jail in connection with another rape, a rape with a similar m.o. in the same neighborhood. and here they have lowery where there s no evidence where he s guessing at details that they re feeding him, and they know all this information. i mean it s inexcusable. both the individual officers involved in the case and the department itself declined repeated requests for interviews or a statement of any sort. on january 28th, 2010, nypd detectives along with agents of the kansas bureau of investigation knock on the door
i was just trying so hard to prove convince them i didn t commit this crime that i went along with them and took the polygraph test. i figured i could pass it. though the polygraph results have been lost, this much is known. the examiner tells lowery that he flunked the test. mr. lowery goes, my results are saying that you re lying. my results say that you know this woman, that you raped her, that you were involved with this. and i am shocked. i m like i can t believe this is happening. i can t believe that he s telling me i failed this polygraph test when i told him the truth. i didn t have anything to do with this. i don t know anything about this. when you tell him he fails, it s like an oh [ bleep ]. jace holt peter is a former nypd detective who is an expert in interrogations. you just put them high down to low. i thought that was going to help me. i thought it was going to get me out, detective. i passed. i know i didn t do it. i had to pass. and you tell him you fa
that there s something wrong with me. i m mentally something wrong with my head. by that time, i m like i m scared. i didn t know what to do. i m crying. i got my i ve got my arms folded like this on the desk and my head on my arms, and i m crying. wear them down. wear them down to the point where their only way out of that room psychologically is to confess. so until about the eighth hour of this interrogation that day, i m just so broken down i just kind of said, you know, what is it you want to know. malugani says, well, i want to know how you committed the crime, and i didn t know what to say. lowery says he drove up to a house in ogden and broke down the front door. what did you do after that? i said i couldn t think of anything to say. he goes, did you grab a knife? i said, yeah, i grabbed a knife. the whole time he s asking me what happened after that. and giving me a choice of what i did. i was just agreeing to whatever he told me that i did.
outside you hear that is being closed on you and you know you re staying now. i sat there for a few minutes and malugani walks up to the table where i was sitting and he goes, i got you now. i know you did this. he started pointing his fingers in my face. you d better confess to this crime because i ve got ten more years on this force. i m going to prove you did this. he slammed his hands down on the desk and goes, i know you did this, mr. lowery. come clean with me. detectives doug johnson and harry malugani have colorful nicknames. johnson was mad dog and malugani was known as dirty harry. well, i assume it s from that movie with clint eastwood. you ve got to ask yourself one question. do i feel lucky? well do you, punk? he would start telling me
in riley county, kansas, a young soldier named eddie lowery stands trial for the brutal rape of a 74-year-old woman. the case against him rests almost entirely on a confession. the forensic evidence wasn t there, and the only way they, in my opinion, that they were going to get a conviction was to get a confession. lowery takes the stand and testifies that the breaking point came during the second day of interrogation. when detective harry malugani, the veteran of the riley county police department suggested he take a lie detector test. and they kept on saying, well, if you don t have anything to hide, this lie detector test is going to help you, it s going to clear your name, you ll be home by this afternoon. though he s eager to clear his name, lowery is nervous about the polygraph. he decides to lawyer up. it kind of set back malugani a little bit.