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
he had known robert and 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 robert 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 the fugett siblings told police they had accomplices from their high school, and he was one of them. another one was pulled in that same night interviewed by detective giles and his partner. at the end of the interview, he was looked at each other. this kid has no idea what we are talking about, he was clueless to what we were asking him. so the fugett s lied when
somebody else first, and then at some point, she put herself there. it was supposed to be routine, we go in, we find her purse, we take her money, and then we leave that was all that was supposed to happen. then, rocky went way off script, said jessica. tied ann to a bed with duct tape, and turned it into murder. broke in. okay who cut ann s throat? rocky. who stabbed her in the back? rocky. okay. jessica told detective giles, the murder weapons were a kitchen knife and a metal rod for bludgeoning, which they stashed in a hole outside of anns house she said they could not find it without her, we drove her out there, and we walked the entire path until we got to the hole. she said, that is it right there. lo and behold, we had some evidence folks with, us and
high school. people were afraid of them. they come through the hallway, people would just move out of the way, try not to be around them. kevin s friend, a shy and awkward robert seemed to be a favorite target. the used to pick on him all the time. they call them retarded, fat, ugly, stupid. robert said he tried to ignore it, but they knew his vulnerabilities. i tried to keep my distance when i could, and stay cordial wherever we were, in close proximity to each other safer that way, said robert. at any case, the detectives paid a visit to the fugett s house, where they learned enough to march the pair down to police headquarters for questioning. rocky admitted he was there, to rob the place. i was in the house, i started downstairs, jessica was there, i was supposed to just watch. detective phil giles interviewed jessica. she eventually acknowledged that, she tried to say it was