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Can you re-word this? It's hard to understand what you mean. Are you saying his mother was murdered, he confessed, but they mixed up the "unknowable details" f

• pests 3y ago
  To me it sounds like he was in custody for an unrelated case and was questioned on the murdered mother case and admitted to all those details. Who knows though until the original poster decides to come back.
• bena 3y ago
  "Chicago" and "false confession" turns up way more hits than it should. I couldn't find a story that matched those particular details. I've found others, like one where a kid was put in prison for confessing to fatally stabbing a woman. A woman, who was choked and beaten to death, not stabbed. Not even once. And the same cold reading techniques that allow psychics to know intimate details of your life can be done in reverse to get people to admit to details they shouldn't know. If the victim wore a red shirt. You don't ask what color shirt they were wearing, you ask if they were wearing a red shirt. If they say "I don't know", you tell them that's not good enough. They need to answer "yes" or "no". You got a 50/50 chance for them to admit it was red. And if it was pink, when they say, "I don't know", you can then say, "Would you say it was more of a pink than a red?". Regardless, you badger, intimidate, and coerce into getting them to come to the same conclusion you did before you walked into the room. That they did it.
• analog31 3y ago
  Yes, exactly as you describe.