you stabbed her, didn t you? one, one or two times. everything you ve told me is true, correct? true. everything that you have done, and been part of it is true, correct? true. later that day, officer snead allowed robert to call his mother. i said robert, what did you say? he said, since they wanted to hear that, i told them, fine. what did it feel like in here, when you heard that from your son? i felt like i was going to have a heart attack and die. around the neighborhood, people who had known robert for years could not believe it. he was always polite, amicable and, but i knew robert was a follower. and, i still could not believe that robert was involved. and yet, the boys said it himself. why would he confessed to something he did not do? roberts mother could not
in, robert begins to bargain. how many years is going to be, if i was just on the porch? how many years will be if you just on the porch? robert, when will i go home? when will i go home today? when i go hom i can t promise. you work with me, and i ll do everything i can to make sure your mom, and we get you home. hoping it might get him home to his mother, robert offers a story, he hopes will satisfy snead. i never went upstairs. i stood right there at the door. once i heard something, i got scared, i freaked in iran. robert, sitting here and trying to tell me and hard for me to accept a place, it s ridiculous. snead lies the robert again. this time, about one of the murder weapons. there s an item that you touched. that had left some particles on
what is wrong with it? what confessions tended to do, if they shape a confirmation bias, people look for supporting evidence just to support what is being said, it because the confession exists. so we asked the detective to watch with us, robert davis s interrogation. and what this guy s problem was, he was arrested last what they are saying is we gospel believe the people who are arrested first, so you just need to confirm what we know. and that s clearly not a good approach to investigating. you obviously think that i m lying, i swear to you that i m not. i m ready to go to sleep. so take me, because i did not do nothing. the time of day of the interview, at the length of the interview, the use of halfway through the interview, the clear requests for medication, sleep at various points in the interview, they are all red flags when you look at the whole thing as you did, you sat back and thought afterwards the lifeline of any account is reliability. and the way t
you were. you were there! that evidence shows you were there. i can lie about the evidence. not only was that false, there was no dna found in this case. lobster then goes on to say, i can t lie to you about this, robert. in fact, he s lying about ing. officer snead tells robert, he faces what s new calls, the ultimate punishment. he also says, falsely, that he s been talking to robbers mother on the phone. i told your mom that i would sit here and try to keep you from the most ultimate punishment you can get. and i m trying to do that. you re not even helping me help you. i can do no more. what was going on in there? there, you see the police officer suggesting to robert, he s gonna face death. you also see the officer, very cleverly, using robbers relationship with his mother. that s when robert resolve begins to weaken. what can i say that i did to get me out of this? just before 7 am, five hours
health care, a nurse like, i was. robert did get into trouble once over a petty fast. he s learning disabilities landed him in a special school for several years. but the good thing? a family acquaintance was a school resource police officer. his name was randy sneed. he knew his mother for years. robert looked up to randy, trusted him. so an officer snead, now a detective with the albemarle county police came looking for him after the fire, sandy told him, without hesitation where he could find her son. i said is robert in trouble? he said he was in serious trouble. but sandy had no idea just how serious. or, what was about to happen in that parking lot, where robert was hanging out with his friend. guns pointed at you, you are wondering what is going on. i was scared, i was shaken. why robert? because a few good siblings told police van accomplices from their high school, and he