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
life. every moment of those years, dictated by one, long night with officer randy snead, at the end of it, roberts edwards he could not take back. you stabbed that woman. i stabbed her. you stabbed, or didn t you? won, one or two times. most people would, say i would never, ever in 1 million years confess. or how could he be so stupid, and not know, you know? like, i was young. i did not know. i was naive. i was scared. robert is, of course, not alone. there are people like him in situations just like his, in jails all around the country, who confessed as teenagers to primes that they, maybe, did not commit. in fact, to prevent that very thing, police departments in many other countries banned or dispensed years ago, with interrogation techniques still used in america. had the murder happened elsewhere, for example, here in the united kingdom, it is probable that robert still would have been brought in for questioning.