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
those items where there. what was that like? i mean, only those involved would know these details, where the instruments were used to kill someone. so that was that they had their story and their culprit. except, there was one more very significant detail, offered up by both jessica and rocky. something the towns rumor mill failed to catch. by the time kevin and robert went out for the evening, a couple of days later we went bowling. we went out to eat, just had a grand old time. by that time, it was after midnight. time to go home, to bed. sitting in the parking lot, talking, just laughing. and all of the sudden, multiple police cars pulled up. they get out, guns drawn. they get out the vehicle first, they get me walking backwards, with my hands up. then, through all of the terror and confusion, it dawned on kevin marsh. it was not him they had come for. so then i see them getting robert out, kicking him down, knocking him to the ground, ramming his face into the asp
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
if you push hard enough to find out, whether or not he was actually telling you the truth? i take with the client tells me. i do an independent evaluation, based on what i learned. so, he watched the tape of robert confession, and it did not look right to him. besides there was no physical evidence at the crime scene to tie robert to the crime. but just as intriguing, was this question. why would rocky and jessica include a kid like robert? the fugett siblings, as the kids at school and the neighborhood knew, bullied robert mercilessly. he was terrified of them. surely, he would not help them murder a neighbor? yet, rocky fugett was going to tell the court just that. his lawyer had advised me that rocky wanted to get a favorable sentencing, and was going to be testifying against robert.