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Here, to explain that there was nothing nefarious done. >> but even fassbender wonders if everything dassey said in the confession was true. >> we didn't try to manipulate brendan. we tried to get at the truth. and i don't believe that it was a false confession. are there parts of it that he may have not done? i don't know. you know, i just don't know. >> in august of 2016, a federal judge weighed in with a bombshell. in response to a brief filed by dassey's attorneys, judge william duffin ruled that brendan dassey's confession was involuntary. with that, the judge overturned his conviction an...

Anything like that to do something in the car? >> yeah. >> what did he do under the hood if that's what he did? >> i don't know what he did, but i know he went under. >> and dassey's attorney say in that same interview the investigators used another crucial detail they learned about the case from the forensics. they had received a report from the wisconsin crime lab indicating for the first time how teresa halbach had died. she had been shot in the head. they worked extremely hard to get brendan to say that. >> we have the evidence, brendan. we just need you to be honest with us. >> they cut o...

Her head? >> extremely, extremely important you tell us this. for us to believe you. >> come on, brendan. what else? >> that's all i can remember. >> all right. i'm just gonna come out and ask you, who shot her in the head? >> he did. >> why didn't you tell us that? >> because i couldn't think of it. >> those officers wanted that information in the worst way, and they got it in the worst way. by feeding it straight to brendan dassey. >> even they know that that's bad police practice. >> then, they discovered something at the end of that interview which was a revelation to them, something juror...

>> i'm a your friend right now. it's all right. you are doing the right thing. >> they should should have never have made those kind of suggestions that they wanted to comfort him, that all would be well bhch those kind of tactics when used on a kid like brendan are a recipe for false confessions. >> and they say the investigators' manipulation of the teen escalated far beyond simple coaxing. >> the officers needed brendan to provide information that only the real killer would know. and they knew what they wanted him to say. >> they accused the investigators of planting details about the crime...

>> there are people who disagree with that. >> oh, sure. >> but as dassey's attorneys delved further into those stunning statements the team made, they came to believe something more disturbing, that investigators tom fassbender and mark weaver had coerced the teen into making a false confession. >> these officers took advantage of a disabled youth and got him to say what they wanted him to say. >> don't lie to us now, okay? >> you're hurting yourself if you lie now. >> he's got severe learning disabilities, inability to respond in a narrative type answers, and they're in precisely the areas t...