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Witness. randi kaye reports. reporter: it was december 1989, all little christopher milky wanted to do was see santa claus but that s not what happened. he wasn t taken to the mall to sit on santa s lap but to the desert and shot execution style. he was just 4. within hours police identified two suspects. james rogers and roger scott. during their interrogation scott cracked, then led investigators to the boy s body. why did they do it? the story began to unfold when phoenix police detective armando saldonta said scott told him the boy s mother had also been involved so the detective zeroed in on debra milky. he, in his mind, based upon the little bit of information he had was just convinced that this woman did it. reporter: saldonte arrested milky, a 25-year-old insurance company clerk, and within 20 minutes announced she confessed ....
Witness. reporter: it was december, 1999, all little christopher milke wanted to do was see santa claus, but that didn t happen, he was taken to the desert and shot execution style. he was just four. within hours, investigators identified two suspects, james stires and roger scott. during the interrogation, scott cracked and then led investigators to the boy s body. but why did they do it? the story began to unfold when the phoenix investigator said the boy s mother had also been involved. so he quickly zeroed in on deborah milk . he, based on the bit of evidence he had, said she did it. he arrested milke, a 25-year-old insurance clerk, and within 25 minutes she confessed she had arranged for the ....
Circuit court of appeals decided debra milky should get a new trial. in a scathing opinion, federal judge alex cosinski, tossed out the conviction saying her confession was illegally obtained adding it probably never occurred. court documents show he didn t record the interrogation and no other officers and no one watching through a two-way mirror and no cameras or microphones to record it. and there is more. saldotnt never asked debra to put the confession in writing and skipped the most basic step of having her sign a miranda waiver. the federal appeals court judges didn t say she s innocent but there is no physical evidence linking her to the crime. the judge found prosecutors failed to disclose what they ....