Those cops didn't just send a man to prison for murdering a child, they sent a broken father to prison to be probably assaulted by inmates once they found out what he was in for. And to have to pay for something you didn't even do for 5 whole years before it was looked into professionally is heartbreaking. I hope he is healing and is somehow able to live a happy life.
Losing a child is traumatic but the money he was awarded will at least make things a little easier or else why bother to get the money in the first place bringing up those painful memories instead of just moving on
@@OverRule1 what a shallow comment. No amount of money EVER could replace and fix the torment of losing a child. I truly hope your comment doesn't reflect the type of person you are.. although sadly I have my doubts 😒
There should be a law against this. Cops lying and forcing confessions should be convicted for all the crimes that happened after they just picked a scapegoat and went with it instead of investigating further. Every rape, every murder is their fault and they should be charged as such. Charge them as if they committed the crime themselves. That'll do.
It’s fine to lie to the suspects… framing them and forcing confessions should put them behind bars and have to spend the rest of their lives paying for the individuals comfort. When this happens it destroys every chance of a life afterwards. The same should happen to the officers/detectives.
No interrogation should be allowed to take place without a lawyer, regardless of perceived guilt- 𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑹. They shouldn't be able to lie to suspects either. All they're doing is creating more and more victims. Meanwhile, the real assailant continues -𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦- their violent attacks. Oh but it's just so reassuring to learn some of these corrupt ass prosecutors and dishonorable cops have continued unchecked/untouched, thriving in their careers as judges and high-ranking officers, respectively.
Jerry was my big brother. This was not the end of his tragic story. They did break him. He was in and out of jail. Mainly due to drug charges. He never hurt anybody. He only hurt himself. He was in jail and suffered a stroke. The C.O.'s ignored his plea for help. He called our mom for help. It was after his second stroke that the C.O's finally took him to the the hospital. By the time he got to the hospital he'd had 4 strokes. He was in a vegetative state and passed a week later. The system broke him. I held his hand and read to him while he was dying in our arms. The system broke him 😔 😔 😔
Such a sad, tragic, unnecessary loss of life all around 😢 I am so sorry for your loss/losses. I cannot imagine the pain he felt, you all as a family felt and feel. He was self medicating obviously and you’re absolutely right. The system absolutely broke him. They shouldn’t be able to get away with what they have done to him and your family. If it were any one of us, we would be rotting in prison. No amount of money could bring back him or his daughter, him having to find his baby girl and her friend like that then being tormented, blamed, treated like a murderer and thrown away because they couldn’t do their jobs! This made me sick to my stomach, just thinking about what he went through, I have a 9 year old daughter, 4 year old son and one baby girl on the way. I cannot imagine. I don’t want to. They took the little that was left of him. He was crying out for help obviously in the way of self medicating/using drugs to cope and I can’t blame him! I would do the same! I can’t say I would do anything differently. Again, I’m so sorry for your loss😢 I’m sorry you had to lose your brother and that he was suffering so much without the help he deserved. They broke him, that piece of shit murderer broke him, the system broke him and to be honest, nothing but loss of innocent, precious life here. There has been no justice. Justice for your brother, is what we should be advocating for now, his story deserves to be told far and wide and not just be shoved aside. For you, for him, his daughter, your niece, your family and to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else or their families. 🖤 Sending lots of love, hugs and prayers your way🖤 I’m so, so , so sorry for way they have done to him and your family 😢
I am so sorry for your loss 🥺 Unfortunately the victims of murder are rarely the ones that are put in the ground. May the system improve so as not to lose your brother’s life in vain. ♥️🇨🇦
This shows why it's so important that the crime lab technicians should never have any involvement with the police officers or prosecutors. They can too easily influence the outcome of the results. Blind testing, meaning the technicians themselves don't even know who the people are involved in the case, is one way to try and weed out some of the corruption.
There are so many things that need to be changed in our judicial system. From more training for cops, blind lab testing like you said, cops not being able to lie/exaggerate during interrogations and judges actually FOLLOWING THE LAW and NOT THEIR FEELINGS!! Doing things the way they were meant to be done.
It just makes me think of the one lady in the Netflix documentary (that narrowed it down, right?) Who was friends with the police or prosecutor and would mark substances as drugs and narcotics without testing them because it made them like her.
This is outrageous!!!! How many times do you suppose this has happened but the person is never exonerated?! I think the officers who did this to Jerry should serve jail time !!!
It happens all the time. And in most cases, the actual criminal never gets connected to the crime that an innocent person is serving time for. The law changed to allow for cops to blatantly lie to people during interrogations. That desperately needs to be changed back.
Everyday it happens Almost nothing goes to trial. They just scare people into pleading, even if they didn’t commit the crime. When you’re looking at 100 years, many people will plead to 5 years because 100 sounds way worse. Happens literally every single day in just America. People call the American justice system the greatest in the world. That might be true, but it isn’t a very high bar to measure against.
I could tell when he first started reading his “confession” that he was innocent. You could tell it was almost painful trying to read it. My heart hurts for him to loose a child and then be coerced into confessing when you’re innocent.
Nah, I think it can be painful enough to confess to something you actually did. I doubt they would have been able to tell from the confession. The method of coercion is likely where it went wrong.
Yes I agree with you. Not only that, he struggled with words( while reading his so called confession) that he would not have used, given his limited education.
Yeah, and the way he kept hiding his face as he was reading it. He was embarrassed just to be saying those things, but when they threaten to arrest the mother too, and keep interrogating for 24 hours, people will do most anything to make it stop.
The fact that prosecutors wanted to seek the death penalty knowing that his confession had been coerced is...enlightening. How many prosecutors over the decades have done the same thing and how many truly innocent people have been knowingly put to death?
It's why I can't agree to the death penalty. Morally, I agree that some crimes deserve death, but it's too easy to get convictions wrong or force convictions.
@@goody2shoes384 Since 1978, 150 people on death row have been exonerated. Those are just the ones that were uncovered. How many more slipped through and got executed anyway? There have have been approximately 1400 executions in the US since 1978, and doubtless many of them were innocent. "Not many" is too many.
@@Mephisto-ie2xg That’s a mistake. You shouldn’t believe in something just because you want it to be true. Karma would be a pretty great thing, but there’s no real reason to think that it’s real.
Took me about one and a half seconds of listening to him read that 'confession' to know he'd been coerced. How are we supposed to side with justice when sometimes they're as bad as the criminals themselves?
Yea same here. It's unreal I couldn't imagine knowing a man is innocent but forcing him to falsely admit to a crime he didn't do especially a crime such as murdering his own daughter and her friend. I couldn't live with myself knowing I had allowed that to happen.
Right! As soon as I heard that the police drafted the confession for him to read, I was like “Wait, WHAT?!” What that poor man went through/is continuing to go through is unfathomable.
I'm majoring in Criminal Justice and I've had 3 different professors (2 who were still detectives and one retired) tell me that if you are ever in an interrogation room; even if you are 100 percent innocent or 100 percent guilty you always ask for a lawyer. The reason? This exactly. Police can and will lie to you in interrogation rooms, there are some who just do not care about you and will do anything to close the case. It's disgusting that my main takeaway from these classes is how corrupt police truly are, and to hear it come from actual police officers. So lawyer up folks, it is your right.
He did ask for a lawyer.... they refused him one. What can you do then?? Livestreaming didn't exist back then, maybe today that would be your only hope (do it in secret so they don't yank your phone)
If someone can't go to college but can watch youtube, after about 6 videos from this channel, they will see that one should always ask for a lawyer. It's annotated all over the videos here that police CAN legally lie to you during this interrogation.
Dear God, some of these comments. This guy was awake for 24 hours before he found the eyeless body of his 8 year old daughter. Then he was kept awake for another 24 hours, assaulted, humiliated, shown gruesome pictures and denied access to a lawyer. I've been awake for a few days straight a few times in my life and by day 2 you start to have little hallucinations and hear things. Your mind starts to shut down. You literally die if you don't sleep. It's almost unfathomable what this guy was going through psychologically.
I've been awake for days before and the slightest thing makes me crumble. Just recently I had to pack for a trip and only got about 4 hrs sleep in 38 hrs. as I was trying to make breakfast I burnt my toast and fell to the ground sobbing. I barely function. I can't imagine dealing w everything he did on top of it.
@@snex000 how do you know he wasn't denied a lawyer? "with zero evidence these cops didn't read his rights, beat him, forced him to stay awake, and forced a confession...but they'd NEVER cross a line like denying someone a lawyer" you're profoundly naive if you believe that. we don't have video footage of the interrogation because of these cops and you STILL have faith that they were abiding by the law. that's incredible.
I've never had hallucinations from no sleep, though my bf last week said he was experiencing what you did after about 36 hours of no sleep. But your thinking is definitely dulled even after a day with no sleep, and your emotions can become more brittle.
I had a teacher once tell the school resource officer I had confessed to murder to her. They waited until after Spring Break to question me, dragged me into the principal's office to interrogate me for 8 hours. I cried, I begged for my mom, I asked for water, food, to use the bathroom, and all they would say was I could have those things once I told them I'd done it. Wasn't given Miranda Rights. A minor asking for their parent/guardian is the same thing as 'I want my lawyer'. They kept saying if I admitted to it, nothing would happen, and I could go back to class, and I almost fell for it. But I stuck to the truth and eventually it ended. The Resource Officer lost his job over it, as did the teacher. What had I said to trigger this? 'I took self defense lessons a couple years ago, but I was told to be really careful about some of them, because I could kill someone if I'm not careful.'
I once had a friend write me a note in class where he had dramatically written how he was so embarrassed about something ( i forgot about what now) that he could "just die!" The note was found when it fell out of my pocket and both he and i had to go see the principal and school counselor because clearly we were "suicidal" it was almost funny except they wanted to commit us and act like we were lunatics. Horrible experience. Sometimes teachers at school are pretty awful at jumping to conclusions. Thats horrendous that happened to you and im glad those people lost their jobs. The principal should have too
That poor man! I can’t even imagine finding my kid dead with a whole in her head then being arrested and interrogated with no sleep for over 24 hrs....forced into a lie of a confession and then sent to jail!! My heart goes out to Jerry and his wife. ❤️ that must’ve lead to severe ptsd that he will have to live with....so horrific!
I feel for him. I'm sure I'd give a false statement after all that, too. I get irritated, forgetful, all that after Ive had less sleep than that. I'm sure if I thought I'd finally get rest, sleep, whatever else after cops saying and doing all the stuff they do when interrogating people, I'd say whatever, especially if I thought there was no other way out.
@@OhanaLulu I, for one, am thankful that person cracked the code as I would've never figured it out. It was too complicated for this simple country girl. That person needs an award. Thats some 200 IQ level shit, right there. I bet they've never even had to use the backspace button EVER.
Yah you can tell rightly hearing the confession from both the father and the killer. While the father confessed he was crying helplessly and the killer just describe all his horrible killings as some kind achievement he had made in life. There was so difference. I have seen in many cases where the killer cries and try to make other to sympathies with them but their fake emotions give them away
False confessions are often hard to understand but I had an uncle who gave a false confession to axe-murdering his estranged wife - he said he did it under relentless police interrogation. He was one of the gentlest, least violent men you could ever hope to meet but the cops had made up their mind immediately. It turned out, a random homicidal maniac broke into the victim's home and she had the presence of mind to hit "record" on an audio tape recorder (and this was in 1975), immediately establishing the guilt of the real perp and her own horrific murder. The recording was found at the crime scene but initially missed, proving how quickly the cops had made up their mind about my Uncle.
The problem is that the cops and the prosecutors won't admit to being wrong so you end up having to prove your innocence and it should never be like that
I honestly can't decide what's worse, refusing to allow a suspect their right to an attorney preceding an interrogation, the fact that detectives somehow had the authority to selectively pick and choose which DNA tests they wanted the lab techs to conduct and not conduct, the fact that they forced this father to view photos of his murdered daughter and her little friend, or the idea that they knowingly egregiously used physical force in order to get a suspect to confess to a crime - a crime in which law enforcement and the prosecutors were very well aware of DNA from an unknown male being found on the victims and intentionally turned a blind eye to that all-important evidence. Jeez, just so incredibly shameful and just plain wrong on so many different levels, it's beyond appalling. Not to mention the complete unwillingness on the part of the police dept and attorneys to admit their wrongs in this matter, and the total disregard for all innocent parties involved in this case it shows by refusing to do so. None of these people should have kept their positions, absolutely none.
@Bass Player wtf are you talking about with strict gun laws? This does happen to a lot of people, the only surprise here is that the man’s white. You never heard of the Central Park 5?
Agreed, it's one thing to lead a biased investigation which results in an innocent man being convicted of the crime but it's the active cover-up that blows my mind, the fact that the prosecutor could refuse release even after the DNA exhoneration is unbelievable. I personally think there should be civil and possible criminal repercussions for this kind of disgusting self-preservation.
@@ChuckChuckWood Right??? And just their behavior up until the very end, refusing to admit *any* bit of wrongdoing on their part... It makes the future look grim 😒
That is absolutely disgusting!!! Making a poor grieving father confess to killing his daughter and her friend!! What do they hope to achieve? They could have put an innocent man in prison for life or even death and let the true perpetrator go free. They truly need to be convicted and sent to prison. This poor man will forever have some people that believe he did it. The only thing worse then losing your child to a murder would have to be being framed and blamed by not only police but your loved ones too. Plus he would have had a terrible time in prison being a crime against children. Even if they believed that he did do it, forcing a confession could ruin the case against him if he did do it which I don't believe.
If they refused his request for a lawyer, those police officers belong behind bars. That is a crime and anything he said after that (or anything he signed) should never have been used against him. Those cops are pure slime.
You are correct. But those crooked cops, DA and judge get complete immunity no matter what they do! That is why this kind of thing happens over and over and over again! The very worst criminals on the planet or those that run this crooked system from the very top down!
These Cops are scum, the prosecutor is scum and his attorney should be disbarred for incompetence. How you could fail to get that confession thrown out is gross negligence
I can not imagine what this Daddy went through knowing he was innocent, but was so mentally broken about his daughter and her friend . Then having the police and prosecutor who are suppose to be there to help innocent people plotting against you the whole time . God Bless you brother and I pray you are still following the Lord .
As a criminal defense attorney, I have noticed that, generally, police and prosecutors do not try to solve crimes - they try to close cases. Once they settle on a theory of the case, they almost never let go. Never talk to law enforcement. If they think you are involved anything you sat will be construed to confirm your guilt.
My family is here and I was their age when this happened and drove by the spot almost every day. I will never ever forget this case… I’ve been looking for this case for years!!! I cannot believe I found this!!!
As a parent it's unimaginable to even think what Jerry went through as a father, having to read out what had happened to his little baby knowing he was completely innocent, tragic and so sad, I truly hope that the years passing, this family have thrived despite the tragedy.
He must have felt overwhelming guilt, depression and terror. And than the police started full head on brainwashing. So disgusting. Poor man. He must have been so proud of his daughter. What a horror! I cant imagine ;(
Showing him the crime scene photographs was a truly sadistic thing to do. There’s just no excuse for that. It doesn’t matter whether they thought he was guilty, showing him those photos is clearly going to affect his mental state, and how can they trust the statements of someone who would then obviously be in a psychologically damaged condition?
You could tell while he was reading it the information was new to him, he was disgusted reading that confession, it's so sad to see how heartbroken he was while reading that.
yeah the moment I saw him reading instead of telling it by heart I knew something was wrong. Criminals can describe their crime without the help of a script @@brookebryan4411
@@brookebryan4411 My first thought at the beginning of the video was, "That guy's being coerced." Reading your own written statement to a camera strikes me as weird enough, but it was so super obvious that those were not his words, and even if that video was the second take, reading it once in a state of intense trauma compounded with sleep deprivation and torment wouldn't be enough for him to pull off an Oscar-winning performance the second time. You really could see him trying his damnedest to power through that hideousness. I'm just glad they apparently didn't have the "male DNA" at that specific time or else they'd probably have made him confess to that, too. Jesus Christ, man.
Oh my God that poor man wasn't even allowed to go to his daughter's funeral. I can't imagine the emotional turmoil he went through. It's just too horrible, those cops have a lot to learn and I sure hope they're learning before someone else dies because of their mistakes. If they have went with that DNA they could have saved that young lady's life. God will have to forgive them, I doubt that many others will
God will forgive them but In order to receive his forgiveness, they need to repent and honestly be remorseful for what they've done. Often times people see that some one has a criminal history and view that person as less than someone who doesn't.
Thank you for informing your watchers about psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder. This is the first video I've seen mention anything about the diagnoses. My sister is a psychologist so I'm particularly sensitive about this.
As a father who has buried his daughter and only child, my heart breaks for this man. What's left of it that isn't already broken, anyway. I couldn't imagine someone accusing me of murdering my child when she died. It was hard enough dealing with that alone. I'd likely have flipped out on the cops. I can guarantee you I wouldn't have falsely confessed, though.
Oh wow you. I know there's nothing I can say or do to ease the pain for you but I knew if it happened to me I'd be devastated I'm sending you many blessings to help you heal
I heavily sympathize w you & I'm so sorry for your loss, but sadly false confessions are way more common than you'd think & no one can guarantee they wouldn't falsely confess in any given situation until they've been through it.
Amanda Snell was a friend of mine. She was the kindest, most generous person and those of us who knew her still miss her. She had such a heart for her work and she was taken from us too soon. She had her whole life in front of her. It was painful and sickening to listen to that horrible man describe what he did to her.
I'm sorry that your friend endured such a terrible death -- but did you watch the whole thing? You say that the "horrible man" described what he did to her -- but the confession was faked -- the murderer did not describe what was done to her -- I did read a statement from the lawyer who found the true murderer. This poor man confessed because he was in a weakened state -- he was taken for questioning after he hadn't slept for 24 hours and had just seen his dead daughter who had been brutally, sadistically, ritually stabbed to death. And he didn't sleep for ANOTHER 24 hours while the cruel cops created the confession he signed -- sleepless for 48 plus hours, having seen the children with even FACIAL stab wounds. I hope I've convinced you to watch the whole thing.
@@ntakovacj3644 I did watch the whole thing and I am referring to what her killer said. My heart goes out to the poor man who sat in prison for the terrible crime that he didn't commit- he is also a victim.
She isn’t talking about one of the two girls he was talking about the lady that went missing that the killer (Jorge)was also responsible for, not the innocent man that was framed, the explanation she’s talking about is not the innocent guy who was the sleep deprived and grief stricken father
Wow! That definitely took a turn I wasn’t expecting. Such a sick individual to do that to the little girls and the 2 women, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are other victims out there. So sad that Jerry was forced to give that confession, so glad he was exonerated. Thanks for sharing this story.
And if the cops had investigated further, they might’ve found the real killer and saved the lives of the women he murdered (and who knows if there were others).
God this made me cry… imagine losing ur child and then getting wrongly accused of killing her, forced to confess to it and living with that thought every single day for 5 years 🥺 i hope Jerry and his whole family find peace, the system let them down… and bless the souls of the two lost angels 😔
How do those scumbag detective's go through life knowing, and not caring, that they got a bullshit confession out of someone?! Their only goal is a confession at any cost so they can feel like badasses. Letting a monster loose to do it again. They should be punished.
If they belived him guilty, when should they have stopped the interrogation and call it a day? 2 hours, 6 hours? Maybe another hour and the killer would crack. Always easy to defend rights after the real killer is found.
@@snex000 Always easy? So after 10 minutes of interrogation, just let the killer of your kid go because he denied it? Yeah right bruh, you'd be the first one crying for justice with your blue hair.
That "confession" video reminds me more of a Terrorist hostage video than a confession video. You can see his reluctance to read it and his emotion was too real at the thought of what happened to his daughter. People who commit these crimes against innocent kids might try to fake that emotion, but they are hollow by comparison. The video looks all kinds of wrong. I'm glad the truth came out.
I thought of Otto Warmbier. Over to this father. You could tell be him just reading the "confession" written by the police. Exhausted, devastated for his little girl and her friend. This is torture IMO. And I bet the detectives had their doubts. Look at the tragic case of "The west 'Memphis 3" A total disaster for the victims. 6 victims. 3 dead young boys. 2 in prison, and 1 on death row because of an utter bat shit investigation. The police department just wanted their hero status. The killer or killers are still out there or dead. 'After 18 years they took an Alford plea to be free. And they couldn't sue the state or county for wrongfully sentencing them. This is just one of the reasons I'm against the death penalty.
I wonder if his wife believed that confession. I did a search and found that he had been arrested on drug charges after his release. I do hope that he has found some peace and balance in his life. He's a plain spoken man from a rough life who would have a hard time dealing with the calculations of these evil "law enforcers." and the life that followed once he was proven innocent.
No. He passed last year while in police custody. He had 2 massive strokes before they took him to the hospital. He suffered 2 more in the hospital. He passed a week later. He passed the day before his daughter's birthday. Hopefully they've found themselves in heaven 😔 😔 😟
Anytime a story involves a child, I just can't control myself. I'm left feeling so sad, angry, hurt, and confused. Why would anyone want to do something like this? I just can't imagine it.
It really is staggering how many people kill or do other nasty stuff to kids. Is it because there's just more people on this planet, or is the percentage going up and up? It's the same with how many guys try to meet underage people over the internet. It's pure evil and disgusting!
Horrifying to think that *Jorge literally got away with murder - while still at high school - and was at liberty for five years* Confessions made under duress are way too common - and almost always the result of investigating officers making assumptions instead of following the facts. *In this case Jerry's treatment was nothing less than a crime as well as an obvious attempt by police to pervert the course of justice* Another problem is that elected offices like District Attorney (that exist in non other country) politicise law enforcement and care more about closing cases than establishing justice
It’s torture. Plain and simple. And you don’t need to physically hurt anyone to do it. It’s all about breaking people to the point where they confess to make the torture stop
@@GhastlyCretin wow! That's so wrong! They did the same thing to Cory Bigsby who's son Codi is missing from his home in VA! They obviously believe he did something or knows something about his disappearance but that doesn't justify them denying him an attorney
@@GhastlyCretin You cannot be denied a lawyer. It is your Constitutional right. When taken in by police say, "I want to remain silent and want a lawyer." Repeat if necessary. Make it a statement and not a thought. Always speak to a lawyer. Make the police do their jobs.
My god... It's stuff like this that makes you lose faith in the police system. How is still legal for police to assault suspects? I get that they thought he was the murderer, but jesus. I'm so glad he sued them, they were so insanely out of line.
Suspects are probably guilty, especially this sad excuse of a human being called Jerry. I have no doubt he was guilty, seems too convenient for them to pin the blame on Jorge. They deserved to be beat.
I’m amazed what people suffering a trauma will do. I can’t even begin to imagine what losing five years of your life, and the death of your daughter would do to a person. Poor bloke 😟
I confessed and even plead guilty to something I didn’t do. It was easier for them to pull off than I ever imagined. My confession was the result of being told that it was the only option for me to be able to call anyone. I confessed thinking I could easily prove my innocence later. I just really needed help to get away from the police, at that moment. When I went to court, I had the evidence proving my innocence but I still plead guilty. Those evil crooks did everything they could to cut me off when I tried to talk about pleading not guilty. The judge was so intimidating and he finally lowered his voice and asked me if I wanted to get this over with and move on from it. I, of course, said yes. Before I knew what was happening, apparently, I plead guilty. I was so shaken that I just paid all the fees. Fortunately, it wasn’t for anything big but it proved to me how they work and just how messed up our system is. Btw, I’d never been in any kind of trouble before this happened. It happened bc I have Asperger’s and an employee at a local store thought I was being suspicious.
I am so sorry that happened to you,why didn't management stick up for you? This crap just gets worse and worse and it seems there is nothing we can do about it!
@@jakdelaney3606 management is who called the police on me bc I apparently had been shopping for too long. It was Good Friday and I had just left work. I was taking my time at the store bc I was waiting for my husband to get off work bc we were meeting at a restaurant to eat. It’s not like was just walking around looking either. I filled my cart up and spent over $100 on Easter basket stuff and other items we needed. When I went to put my vehicle in reverse to leave, 2 cop cars blocked me in and made me get out. They pulled everything out of my SUV and went through everything in it. I had been hiding all the Easter stuff in the back, as I bought it. I had already put the items I had just bought back there bc I didn’t want my daughters to see it. They went through all of it and then claimed that everything that was back there that I didn’t have a receipt for was stolen. I had been buying stuff for several weeks, at this point. I tried to explain it to them, and they didn’t even care that most of the items weren’t even sold by the store they said I had just stole them from. The items that the store did carry were brought back inside and the barcodes were compared. They didn’t match, bc I didn’t buy them from there. They still confiscated them and gave them back to the store they didn’t even come from. Over an hour into this, I had been degraded, scared, and spoken to like I was less than human. I had already tried to show them my Autism card that verifies that I’m Aspergic and gives specific instructions on how to handle the situation. I tried to give it to one of them after saying “this is just a misunderstanding bc I’m awkward, they just don’t know me in there” and he snapped back with “They don’t want to know you”. All I wanted was my husband. They took my phone and wouldn’t let me call for help. Finally, the female officer stepped in, after reviewing the security tape from my entire visit, and was “nice” to me. She said all I had to do was go inside and apologize and I could go home because that store didn’t even prosecute shoplifters. Hesitantly, I went in with them and said I was sorry, but they had to hassle me, through my tears, to say I was sorry for stealing, bc I knew I didn’t. The manager immediately said “I want to press charges” and I was handcuffed and taken to the jail. I now know that they were embarrassed because their investigation didn’t produce any evidence of me stealing anything. They needed me to “confess” so they didn’t have to let me go and walk away with their tails tucked. It was also obvious that one of them had some kind of relationship with the young manager who called them on me. This was in 2019. It will affect me for the rest of my life.
@@povertylevelphilanthropy1524 Girl you need to get a lawyer, with your husband as support, and get this erased from your record! I’m so sorry you went through that!
@@povertylevelphilanthropy1524 I'm so sorry you had to experience that. From what I was taught early on is to "ask for a lawyer and shut up" or just say I plead the fifth. They legally cannot force you to speak without a lawyer present if you asked for one.
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i’ve seen this before. i especially appreciate that you posted it bc to someone who’s never even been pulled over (57 yrs) aka SHELTERED - stories such as this seemed to be like an urban legend. The police wouldn’t _REALLY_ do that? .. YES THEY WOULD - & DID! WOW it’s refreshing to know the TRUTH! 🤟🏻🕊️💕
I just watched Mind Over Murder about the Beatrice Six, and now this crazy case! It's an absolute disgrace to humanity when police coerced confessions from people just to make their theory fit. They don't care about getting to truth; just about being right. All the while, the public is still in danger and the list of people traumatized in effect of the crime grows longer...
This is heartbreaking. I get that the cops thought he was guilty, but when the DNA evidence came to light, they should have immediately set him free. That poor man lost his daughter then had to lie and say he was the monster that did it 😢
The knowledge that thousands, and more than likely, hundreds of thousands of men & women are unjustly living out their lives in prison right now is horrific. Not to mention the millions (?) world wide, who have already passed naturally or were executed when they were innocent souls all along is so heartbreaking and it really makes my blood boil. I cannot even begin to imagine being in their shoes. 🥺😭
Jerry deserves more than 8 million!!! Lake County Illinois should be ashamed of themselves. Just no words for what these people did! So they were not even interested in catching the real killer. They don't deserve to be called prosecutors or police. I hope the detectives and the prosecuters were held accountable for what they did. Shameful.
No one was held accountable. The crooked cops, DA and judge get complete immunity no matter what they do! That is why this kind of thing happens over and over and over again! The very worst criminals on the planet or those that run this crooked system from the very top down!
This story broke my heart. That poor father! Imagine what he must of suffered. He was innocent and found his child murdered and then forced into "confessing" killing her - 5 years!! I can't even imagine doing time for something I didn't do let alone for "killing my child"
I'm starting to feel like interrogations and confessions made during these interrogations should automatically be excluded from court, way too many investigators have no clue what they're doing and simply bully the suspect until they get the answers they want. It just seems like too often someone is wrongly convicted of a crime based on a confession that turned out to be false.
@@jenjayawearssocks Yeah, but as he claimed, he was denied a lawyer and assaulted while being sleep deprived so being silent wouldn't get you far. It's pretty much just you against corrupt individuals.
It depends upon the interview. I do feel many are inexperienced and will lie and taunt the person . I hate the " I KNOW you did it !" Bull. With each person they speak to. But many are above board and will walk away when a lawyer is requested.
@@Rzo139 He wasn't denied a lawyer. He never asked for one. The second you ask for a lawyer, the interview must stop. Never speak to police. Always demand a lawyer IMMEDIATELY.
I’m glad they finally caught the real killer, and that Jerry was released. The detectives and prosecutors should really be fired, fined and jailed, especially since they all knew that his confession was false.
So much missing, his statement said his daughter bit him... Where was the bite? Did they look for a wound? Surely this would have been used as evidence or his defense lawyers would pick up on it? Where was the knife the second child apparently pulled out? Absolutely disgusting that an innocent man was let down when an average person can see so many gaps.
One of my clients many yrs ago spent 4 yrs from a false confession, he was eventually cleared . I asked why he would confess when he was innocent, he said he was mentally exhausted and just wanted the interrogation to end..
None of this is by accident. Things are the way they are all by design. The crooked cops, DA and judge get complete immunity no matter what they do! That is why this kind of thing happens over and over and over again! The very worst criminals on the planet or those that have created and run this crooked system from the very top down!
Glad to see a video which reminds how often detectives trick and force confessions. Especially when they have a DNA yet they decide to still push just to close a case.
It's insane that the detail in his "confession" regarding the young girl having a knife wasn't questioned more. How common is it for a child that age to carry around a knife for crying out loud?! This whole case is so awful and it's disgusting how often this shit happens. The prosecutor and police, anyone involved, should've faced charges themselves! Justice system my ass.
Here in the UK, knife crime is off the scale, especially in London, kids carry knives like they would wear a watch! Its terrifying! USA have their gun crimes, we have the knives. 😔
The idea that any police department would accept a confession where the motive for murder is self defense against two nine year old girls is just insane. Under any normal circumstance if a suspect claimed they killed a child in self defense they’d usually grill him harder to find out the real motive.
@dharmallars There is ZERO mention of him or anyone else claiming self defense, it was just a stupid detail, any normal thinking person would know better & that would have definitely made huge headlines if the phrase "Self Defense " had been mentioned at all.. media would have been alllllll over that & shouting it from the roof tops
This is so enraging, and unfortunately it happens more often than you think. The worst part is that the justice system is loathe to admit they made a mistake so they rarely set things right even when there’s evidence proving their mistake. There needs to be more oversight and accountability over judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement.
The police that railroaded the father should be far from proud of themselves. They let a violent predator go (who went on to murder and assault other victims), whilst focusing all their attention on a broken father.
That's the sickest thing about these asshole policemen that don't do their jobs. Those police should face charges for any crimes committed by perpetrator's who have been allowed to continue with their crimes due to the police ineptitude and corruption.
Spot on. The crooked cops, DA and judge get complete immunity no matter what they do! That is why this kind of thing happens over and over and over again! The very worst criminals on the planet or those that run this crooked system from the very top down!
@@paulinejackson5861 stfu and stop acting like you know everything. Just because you’re guilty of some crime doesn’t mean an innocent man is also guilty
I rewinded this episode a few times simply because I kept missing why they moved from 2 girls to a different crime on a woman.. Only to find out that I might have been better off not knowing.. Absolutely heartbreaking ..Listening to him read that statement in the beginning already had me questioning things but damnit.. this one was tough
There should be a hard limit of something like 12-16 hours at most in interrogation. When you get beyond 24 hours you're entering the realm of torture and confessions under these conditions should have significant less weight.
This is appalling! How can prosecutors draft a statement for anyone? This is very disturbing. America seriously needs to reform its entire view on justice!
This case is a very good example of why death sentences are a bad idea. Once you end someone’s life you can never bring them back and correct the mistake. And I personally think that death is an easier option than spending 50+ years in prison until.
This. Also, so many people believe death is the worst that can happen to someone when in reality there are fates that are much worse than dying could ever be. Ironically those who do truly deserve death for their crimes (and where we know for a fact they did it beyond any reasonable doubt) shouldn't get it. Once they are dead, they are dead. Let them suffer in prison knowing they want to kill people but can't. If there is a hell (which I personally don't believe in) they will be headed there anyway sooner or later. Let them have a taste of it on earth before that.
WHEN there is a mistake...when you are 100% sure and proved beyond any doubt then you should put down the psycho. Death sentence is indeed a form of justice when conducted correctly.
@@AiremeldeI just disagree because it puts the victims through more trauma if they have to testify every time they're up for parole. Some monsters don't deserve to breathe anymore.
YEARS & YEARS go by before a death penalty is carried out, there are animals that have been on Death Row for 20+ years, it's actually ridiculous to put families through years of suffering with no closure & having to relive their nightmare over & over, , as well as costing tax payers upwards of $70 - $100 THOUSAND a year to take care of these animals. The victims & Families are the ONLY ones who truly receive a LIFE sentence, a life of sorry, mourning, heartbreak, grief. Families have to live the rest of their lives feeling the pain of what someone else has done. Not believing in Hell or Heaven in everyone's own choice, & I do not judge anyone either way, I personally believe 10000% without a doubt believe in both & the "suffering" that those animals think they have here on Earth/ prison is NOTHING compared to what's waiting for them if nothing changes.
@@E-Kat No that isn't the reason why I like this content, I like the videos they make because it spreads awareness all around the world and it takes time and effort to make these videos and I appreciate the work put into this.
Wonderful to hear this narrator again. Unfortunately, I’m discovering these false confessions happen too often due to bad policing and the focus on the first person suspected. Sad to say, that even if a loved one was hurt or killed, I’d no longer speak to police without a lawyer present. I know people think it makes you look guilty but that’s better than life in prison for something you didn’t do. I used to be a cooperate always and if they were caught they are probably guilty but I’m older and wiser, and seen far too many examples of the wrong person going to jail.
These cops should be charged and thrown in jail. Heartless monsters..how dare they coerce and relentlessly make a dad confess to his own daughter and friend’s murder. This dad just lost his precious angel and was so traumatized over that but then was forced to falsely confess that he was responsible for it? Are the cops that desperate to get a promotion or recognition of their police workmanship that they will stoop to something so low? I am feeling so disgusted and shocked at what these cruel cops did.
The crooked cops, DA and judge get complete immunity no matter what they do! That is why this kind of thing happens over and over and over again! The very worst criminals on the planet or those that run this crooked system from the very top down!
This honestly just gets me pissed with me and my brother's case about someone who had molested and rape me at the age of 5 for about a year, and him about 3 years from 5 to 8 by a boy one year older than he was. When we finally approached the police because we were ready, because we were going through therapy for at least 2 years before we reported and my dad knew about it, they did nothing, we were about 15 and 18 at the time, but only confessed molestation. I came back to them when I was 19, and told them that I had more evidence, or well memories, of him orally raping me. They took this evidence in about 2 months before I turned 20, and told me it'd be about 2-3 weeks until I would hear back. I called 4 weeks later and the investigator we were with snapped at me and said along the lines: This takes time! I get that, but you told me a time frame it usually takes. I honestly think the boy that did these heinous acts to me and my older brother had ties with the police in some way and they don't want to pursue anything, because the day after I turned 20, they told me something I already knew, after you turn 20 where I live, any acts of sexual abuse can no longer be tried. And what's worse, he went into the military as well. Fucking hate my state. On one hand I get it, it's a he said she said thing, but when you have 2 vs 1, the one of course denying it. On the other hand, having it happen to me, and twice being told there is nothing they could do, feels like they were lazy or someone fucking payed them off. I can't pursue any legal actions against this department either, since all I have are theories, and nothing to go off of. Laws need to change so badly. I hate bad and tunnel vision cops on these cases. Fuck them, I hope they burn for their choices.
The truth shall set you free My deepest condolences to Jerry and family members of the girls💗 rest peacefully sweet girls 😔 Thank you for uploading this! The awareness your spreading is crucial in this crazy world! Unfortunately innocent people being taken advantage of happens far too often.
As an outsider (I live in the UK) it really concerns me the tactics police in America use in their interrogation. It also amazes me the amount of people who speak to the police and don’t lawyer up. Innocent or guilty, say no comment and get a lawyer. I would rather be suspected of being guilty than be sent to prison when I’m innocent for being coerced or beaten down into a false confession. These forced confessions and circumstantial cases happen way too often.
Very sad situation. I'm soo happy he made it out of prison. May the 2 girls rest in peace. 😞 I couldn't imagine being in his situation, seeing the 2 girls dead, then immediately being interrogated by police for 24 hours. He was definately broken inside, he lost his little girl, he didn't care what happen to him at that point. Sadly, everyone who was involved in putting this innocent man behind bars will not be held accountable which makes me sick!
Prime example that you should request an attorney no matter if you did or did not commit the crime. Those detectives should have been (and hopefully were) fired.
People always need to be aware of just what the cops are allowed to legally do, including mass amounts of manipulation and deception. It's their job to get a confession and a conviction. Anytime you talk to the police about a crime even as a "witness", always know that they are trying to "hang you", metaphorically speaking (or even not so metaphorically). I think I hate the "good cop" act even more, when they talk to people like they're a therapist trying to help. But really, I think that whether we understand it or not we have to just accept that innocent people do sometimes confess. There are characteristics about people that can make them far more likely to, and having an 8th grade education can contribute to it. In the majority of cases they will not drop a case/conviction against a person no matter what evidence they gain for their innocence (or was there ALL ALONG), until the actual guilty party is found out. Actually, sometimes they'll try to claim that even though the innocent person didn't know the true culprit that they somehow were in it "together". It's all sickening.
They're not ALWAYS trying to hang you. Just most times. Last time I was questioned, I threatened someone over the internet the day after my daughter was killed. I told him if he said a word to me at the funeral, I'd slit his throat and he went to the cops. They called me and asked me to come up there and talk to them about what happened and said that if I did, they'd send me home with a ticket. But if I didn't, they were coming to find me and I'd get NO breaks. So I showed up. I talked to the detective and he asked me about what happened and I told him exactly what happened. You could basically say "full confession" as I explained to him that I did threaten Ole boy and this was why... So they did exactly as they said they would. Even with enough to NAIL me for FELONY cyberstalking, they gave me a ticket and sent me home. When I get to court, I find out cyberstalking is a felony 😯 so I skipped court the next time my court date came. When I skipped court and got a bench warrant, it somehow disappeared between leaving the courtroom and Making it to the clerk of courts office for them to put it in the computer. so I never even got a warrant for missing court. Not for a longgggg time anyway. Fast forward 7 yrs and I finally call to get a new court date and they can't find any warrant. So I explain what I'm talking about and they say they'll call me back. 15 mins later, they call. They found my case and that's when they explain that somehow my case got lost after court 7 yrs prior and my warrant was never entered into the system. WHAT!?? They entered it and set me a new court date over the phone, which they normally don't do. So I finally go to court almost 8 years later. The just and DA have more than enough to prove me guilty after I told the detective what happened. Instead, they had compassion and understanding and dropped my charge to disturbing the peace and I went home. They understood how emotional I was just 1 day after my only child died and they took that into account. Not everybody's out to get you. Just most of them.
@@J.C... first, I’m very, very sorry your daughter was killed, I can’t even imagine that. I do see how that would be likely to be taken into account in this case. Most people would at least try to understand where you were coming from. That said, as you said, usually they ARE out to get you. Everyone needs to be wary of them and their tricks. It sounds like you had done what you were accused of and it would be hard to deny anyway…but there were extenuating circumstances and you needed that chance to explain yourself. Their job is to get what’s needed to get a conviction by any means, though, and it sounds like you were going to be going down for a felony charge until the DA cut you a break. I feel the detectives got you to confess to a felony by using the “we’ll let you go with a ticket” bullshit to downplay the seriousness of what you’d be confessing to. Of course they left out that it was for a court date for a felony charge. I guess that was the kind of thing I was talking about.
I watch a lot of crime shows. I remember watching one where a detective stated "An interrogation room is a place to get the truth, not necessarily a confession"....that has always stuck with me.
I falsely admitted to a crime that I didn’t commit as a result of interrogation when I was younger. Big mistake. Glad I learned that lesson at a young age. If I’m ever in that situation again, I will definitely hold strong.
I don't know how anyone, hearing him read that confession could believe he was doing it voluntarily. The pain that imbued every word shrieked coercion. There were many victims here. The girls, the father, and the other women killed by the real perpetrator, who wasn't the only criminal either. What the police did to Jerry had a rippling effect. They couldn't undo the murders, but at least Jerry got SOME justice.
Best advise: Always ALWAYS stay silent no matter what and repeatedly ask for a lawyer. Once that lawyer comes then sue if they didn't give them to you the first time you asked
This is so tragic. They ruined his life. They stole it. They tore it up. What a tortured soul. I cannot even fathom. No winder ges no longer alive. I hope those in the interrogation room get fully whats due... i hope the suffer and their conscience never leaves them alone.
All I can say is, as soon as they interrogate you, ask for an attorney and do not bend. If they want you to read something you did not write, just repeat over and over that the police are trying to coherse a confession and will not allow you to get an attorney. Then sue them.
On a much smaller scale I have experienced the pressure that police may put someone under to force a confession. When I was 11 I was accused of stealing after school one day from a shop I didn't go into. I had 10 witnesses who walked home with me after school who could vouch for me, but this police officer did not care at all. He constantly made statements like "we know you did it, just admit it" over and over. He even said something about me being caught on security cameras stealing. This was when I knew they were clutching at straws for anything on me, since I did not go into any shops that day. I was stubborn and refused to budge on the matter, absolutely refusing to say anything. I had 2 grown adults against me at school saying I had done it. Naturally I cried but still refused to admit anything. Eventually they gave up after over an hour in the staff room. No charges were ever pressed, even when they found the actual person responsible (a girl with the same name, who they questioned for 5 mins then let go). Just want to add that I was the least likely to do anything like that since I was too scared to get into any trouble, the idea of not handing in homework made me gag. When the teachers who were close to me found out, they went absolutely insane, so did my mum and refused to send me back to school until I got some sort of apology. Again, obviously on a much smaller scale and I'm in no way comparing this, I just understand the pressure this poor man was under. Rest in Peace to all the victims, thank god the right man was punished eventually
Yes. And it is not by accident. It is by design. Everything is the way it is by design. The very worst criminals on the planet are those that run the system.
This is so sad poor little girls and other victims and I feel so bad for the dad, how dare those cops and detectives do him so dirty while he is mourning his child 😥❤️
Those cops didn't just send a man to prison for murdering a child, they sent a broken father to prison to be probably assaulted by inmates once they found out what he was in for. And to have to pay for something you didn't even do for 5 whole years before it was looked into professionally is heartbreaking.
I hope he is healing and is somehow able to live a happy life.
Cops that do this aren't true cops, they're scum
Losing a child is traumatic but the money he was awarded will at least make things a little easier or else why bother to get the money in the first place bringing up those painful memories instead of just moving on
@@OverRule1 money cannot heal everything.
@@OverRule1 That will never make up for what he lost.
@@OverRule1 what a shallow comment. No amount of money EVER could replace and fix the torment of losing a child.
I truly hope your comment doesn't reflect the type of person you are.. although sadly I have my doubts 😒
There should be a law against this. Cops lying and forcing confessions should be convicted for all the crimes that happened after they just picked a scapegoat and went with it instead of investigating further. Every rape, every murder is their fault and they should be charged as such. Charge them as if they committed the crime themselves. That'll do.
It’s fine to lie to the suspects… framing them and forcing confessions should put them behind bars and have to spend the rest of their lives paying for the individuals comfort. When this happens it destroys every chance of a life afterwards. The same should happen to the officers/detectives.
there is ..
@@adiared4687 Is there?
No interrogation should be allowed to take place without a lawyer, regardless of perceived guilt- 𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑹. They shouldn't be able to lie to suspects either. All they're doing is creating more and more victims. Meanwhile, the real assailant continues -𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦- their violent attacks. Oh but it's just so reassuring to learn some of these corrupt ass prosecutors and dishonorable cops have continued unchecked/untouched, thriving in their careers as judges and high-ranking officers, respectively.
@@adiared4687 Your profound words have been noted.
Jerry was my big brother. This was not the end of his tragic story. They did break him. He was in and out of jail. Mainly due to drug charges. He never hurt anybody. He only hurt himself. He was in jail and suffered a stroke. The C.O.'s ignored his plea for help. He called our mom for help. It was after his second stroke that the C.O's finally took him to the the hospital. By the time he got to the hospital he'd had 4 strokes. He was in a vegetative state and passed a week later. The system broke him. I held his hand and read to him while he was dying in our arms. The system broke him 😔 😔 😔
Such a sad, tragic, unnecessary loss of life all around 😢 I am so sorry for your loss/losses. I cannot imagine the pain he felt, you all as a family felt and feel. He was self medicating obviously and you’re absolutely right. The system absolutely broke him. They shouldn’t be able to get away with what they have done to him and your family. If it were any one of us, we would be rotting in prison. No amount of money could bring back him or his daughter, him having to find his baby girl and her friend like that then being tormented, blamed, treated like a murderer and thrown away because they couldn’t do their jobs! This made me sick to my stomach, just thinking about what he went through, I have a 9 year old daughter, 4 year old son and one baby girl on the way. I cannot imagine. I don’t want to. They took the little that was left of him. He was crying out for help obviously in the way of self medicating/using drugs to cope and I can’t blame him! I would do the same! I can’t say I would do anything differently. Again, I’m so sorry for your loss😢 I’m sorry you had to lose your brother and that he was suffering so much without the help he deserved. They broke him, that piece of shit murderer broke him, the system broke him and to be honest, nothing but loss of innocent, precious life here. There has been no justice. Justice for your brother, is what we should be advocating for now, his story deserves to be told far and wide and not just be shoved aside. For you, for him, his daughter, your niece, your family and to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else or their families. 🖤 Sending lots of love, hugs and prayers your way🖤 I’m so, so , so sorry for way they have done to him and your family 😢
I am so sorry for your loss 🥺
Unfortunately the victims of murder are rarely the ones that are put in the ground. May the system improve so as not to lose your brother’s life in vain. ♥️🇨🇦
That's so sad 😔, my eye is tearing up . God will deal with whosoever killed those babies and those horrible officers.
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Wow. Freaking tragic.
This shows why it's so important that the crime lab technicians should never have any involvement with the police officers or prosecutors. They can too easily influence the outcome of the results. Blind testing, meaning the technicians themselves don't even know who the people are involved in the case, is one way to try and weed out some of the corruption.
There are so many things that need to be changed in our judicial system. From more training for cops, blind lab testing like you said, cops not being able to lie/exaggerate during interrogations and judges actually FOLLOWING THE LAW and NOT THEIR FEELINGS!! Doing things the way they were meant to be done.
I thought most samples that are sent to labs are identified by numbers 🤷🏼♀️
It just makes me think of the one lady in the Netflix documentary (that narrowed it down, right?) Who was friends with the police or prosecutor and would mark substances as drugs and narcotics without testing them because it made them like her.
absolutely
I disagree.
This is outrageous!!!! How many times do you suppose this has happened but the person is never exonerated?! I think the officers who did this to Jerry should serve jail time !!!
It happens all the time. And in most cases, the actual criminal never gets connected to the crime that an innocent person is serving time for. The law changed to allow for cops to blatantly lie to people during interrogations. That desperately needs to be changed back.
Everyday it happens
Almost nothing goes to trial. They just scare people into pleading, even if they didn’t commit the crime. When you’re looking at 100 years, many people will plead to 5 years because 100 sounds way worse. Happens literally every single day in just America. People call the American justice system the greatest in the world. That might be true, but it isn’t a very high bar to measure against.
@@amybryant8813 A
@@amybryant8813 I'd love to see the statistics you're quoting here.
@@amybryant8813 no, it doesn't happen all the time
I could tell when he first started reading his “confession” that he was innocent. You could tell it was almost painful trying to read it. My heart hurts for him to loose a child and then be coerced into confessing when you’re innocent.
Nah, I think it can be painful enough to confess to something you actually did. I doubt they would have been able to tell from the confession. The method of coercion is likely where it went wrong.
Morgan Barfield *lose
Yes I agree with you. Not only that, he struggled with words( while reading his so called confession) that he would not have used, given his limited education.
When he said that when he grabbed his daughter to bring her home and the other little girl said let her go and pulled out a knife, my radar went up
Yeah, and the way he kept hiding his face as he was reading it. He was embarrassed just to be saying those things, but when they threaten to arrest the mother too, and keep interrogating for 24 hours, people will do most anything to make it stop.
The fact that prosecutors wanted to seek the death penalty knowing that his confession had been coerced is...enlightening. How many prosecutors over the decades have done the same thing and how many truly innocent people have been knowingly put to death?
Yes. How do they sleep at night? Because of "humans" like that, I very happily believe in karma.
It's why I can't agree to the death penalty. Morally, I agree that some crimes deserve death, but it's too easy to get convictions wrong or force convictions.
@@goody2shoes384 Since 1978, 150 people on death row have been exonerated. Those are just the ones that were uncovered. How many more slipped through and got executed anyway? There have have been approximately 1400 executions in the US since 1978, and doubtless many of them were innocent. "Not many" is too many.
I seen a video of the amount of people put to death that were actually innocent. The numbers are quite high
@@Mephisto-ie2xg
That’s a mistake. You shouldn’t believe in something just because you want it to be true. Karma would be a pretty great thing, but there’s no real reason to think that it’s real.
Took me about one and a half seconds of listening to him read that 'confession' to know he'd been coerced. How are we supposed to side with justice when sometimes they're as bad as the criminals themselves?
Yes my thoughts exactly, so obvious.
Yeah the way he was clearly struggling through it gave it away. Such a sad story
Exactly
Yea same here. It's unreal I couldn't imagine knowing a man is innocent but forcing him to falsely admit to a crime he didn't do especially a crime such as murdering his own daughter and her friend. I couldn't live with myself knowing I had allowed that to happen.
Right! As soon as I heard that the police drafted the confession for him to read, I was like “Wait, WHAT?!” What that poor man went through/is continuing to go through is unfathomable.
I'm majoring in Criminal Justice and I've had 3 different professors (2 who were still detectives and one retired) tell me that if you are ever in an interrogation room; even if you are 100 percent innocent or 100 percent guilty you always ask for a lawyer. The reason? This exactly. Police can and will lie to you in interrogation rooms, there are some who just do not care about you and will do anything to close the case. It's disgusting that my main takeaway from these classes is how corrupt police truly are, and to hear it come from actual police officers. So lawyer up folks, it is your right.
He did ask for a lawyer.... they refused him one. What can you do then?? Livestreaming didn't exist back then, maybe today that would be your only hope (do it in secret so they don't yank your phone)
You don't need to college to learn that
If someone can't go to college but can watch youtube, after about 6 videos from this channel, they will see that one should always ask for a lawyer. It's annotated all over the videos here that police CAN legally lie to you during this interrogation.
@@BigSplenda1885 You stop responding. You sit there in silence. You keep repeating you want a lawyer. That's all you can do.
So true!!!
Dear God, some of these comments. This guy was awake for 24 hours before he found the eyeless body of his 8 year old daughter. Then he was kept awake for another 24 hours, assaulted, humiliated, shown gruesome pictures and denied access to a lawyer.
I've been awake for a few days straight a few times in my life and by day 2 you start to have little hallucinations and hear things. Your mind starts to shut down. You literally die if you don't sleep.
It's almost unfathomable what this guy was going through psychologically.
I've been awake for days before and the slightest thing makes me crumble. Just recently I had to pack for a trip and only got about 4 hrs sleep in 38 hrs. as I was trying to make breakfast I burnt my toast and fell to the ground sobbing. I barely function. I can't imagine dealing w everything he did on top of it.
He wasn't denied a lawyer. He didn't ask for one. Never talk to cops. Always demand a lawyer IMMEDIATELY.
@@snex000 how do you know he wasn't denied a lawyer? "with zero evidence these cops didn't read his rights, beat him, forced him to stay awake, and forced a confession...but they'd NEVER cross a line like denying someone a lawyer" you're profoundly naive if you believe that. we don't have video footage of the interrogation because of these cops and you STILL have faith that they were abiding by the law. that's incredible.
@@mischr13 Nowhere was it claimed by ANY party that a lawyer was demanded and denied. You guys are just making shit up.
I've never had hallucinations from no sleep, though my bf last week said he was experiencing what you did after about 36 hours of no sleep. But your thinking is definitely dulled even after a day with no sleep, and your emotions can become more brittle.
Just imagine how many innocent people have died behind bars and executed because of police detectives like those who interrogatied Jerry
@@welsh.truth.dragon3914 That's the one I was thinking about after hearing this story
@@welsh.truth.dragon3914 yeah I saw that one too.
So sad
What about all the other victims he killed afterward. The entire city of Zion should be bankrupt paying all those lawsuits from ALL those families.
That's why I oppose the death penalty
I had a teacher once tell the school resource officer I had confessed to murder to her. They waited until after Spring Break to question me, dragged me into the principal's office to interrogate me for 8 hours. I cried, I begged for my mom, I asked for water, food, to use the bathroom, and all they would say was I could have those things once I told them I'd done it. Wasn't given Miranda Rights. A minor asking for their parent/guardian is the same thing as 'I want my lawyer'.
They kept saying if I admitted to it, nothing would happen, and I could go back to class, and I almost fell for it. But I stuck to the truth and eventually it ended. The Resource Officer lost his job over it, as did the teacher.
What had I said to trigger this? 'I took self defense lessons a couple years ago, but I was told to be really careful about some of them, because I could kill someone if I'm not careful.'
I once had a friend write me a note in class where he had dramatically written how he was so embarrassed about something ( i forgot about what now) that he could "just die!" The note was found when it fell out of my pocket and both he and i had to go see the principal and school counselor because clearly we were "suicidal" it was almost funny except they wanted to commit us and act like we were lunatics. Horrible experience. Sometimes teachers at school are pretty awful at jumping to conclusions. Thats horrendous that happened to you and im glad those people lost their jobs. The principal should have too
That poor man! I can’t even imagine finding my kid dead with a whole in her head then being arrested and interrogated with no sleep for over 24 hrs....forced into a lie of a confession and then sent to jail!! My heart goes out to Jerry and his wife. ❤️ that must’ve lead to severe ptsd that he will have to live with....so horrific!
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@@swampophelia2098 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@@swampophelia2098 I hope that made you feel good. No one would've ever cracked that code without you.
I feel for him. I'm sure I'd give a false statement after all that, too. I get irritated, forgetful, all that after Ive had less sleep than that. I'm sure if I thought I'd finally get rest, sleep, whatever else after cops saying and doing all the stuff they do when interrogating people, I'd say whatever, especially if I thought there was no other way out.
@@OhanaLulu I, for one, am thankful that person cracked the code as I would've never figured it out. It was too complicated for this simple country girl. That person needs an award. Thats some 200 IQ level shit, right there. I bet they've never even had to use the backspace button EVER.
Someone reading a confession off a piece of paper always gives me false confession vibes honestly
That's exactly what I thought.
Right!
Yah you can tell rightly hearing the confession from both the father and the killer. While the father confessed he was crying helplessly and the killer just describe all his horrible killings as some kind achievement he had made in life. There was so difference. I have seen in many cases where the killer cries and try to make other to sympathies with them but their fake emotions give them away
It definitely doesn't look good as a genuine confession should be from himself.
But they are to be written down after they confess verbally and read and agreed😅
False confessions are often hard to understand but I had an uncle who gave a false confession to axe-murdering his estranged wife - he said he did it under relentless police interrogation. He was one of the gentlest, least violent men you could ever hope to meet but the cops had made up their mind immediately. It turned out, a random homicidal maniac broke into the victim's home and she had the presence of mind to hit "record" on an audio tape recorder (and this was in 1975), immediately establishing the guilt of the real perp and her own horrific murder. The recording was found at the crime scene but initially missed, proving how quickly the cops had made up their mind about my Uncle.
Yeah sorry brother hes killed her....
The problem is that the cops and the prosecutors won't admit to being wrong so you end up having to prove your innocence and it should never be like that
I honestly can't decide what's worse, refusing to allow a suspect their right to an attorney preceding an interrogation, the fact that detectives somehow had the authority to selectively pick and choose which DNA tests they wanted the lab techs to conduct and not conduct, the fact that they forced this father to view photos of his murdered daughter and her little friend, or the idea that they knowingly egregiously used physical force in order to get a suspect to confess to a crime - a crime in which law enforcement and the prosecutors were very well aware of DNA from an unknown male being found on the victims and intentionally turned a blind eye to that all-important evidence. Jeez, just so incredibly shameful and just plain wrong on so many different levels, it's beyond appalling. Not to mention the complete unwillingness on the part of the police dept and attorneys to admit their wrongs in this matter, and the total disregard for all innocent parties involved in this case it shows by refusing to do so. None of these people should have kept their positions, absolutely none.
@Bass Player wtf are you talking about with strict gun laws? This does happen to a lot of people, the only surprise here is that the man’s white. You never heard of the Central Park 5?
@Bass Player What are you rambling about this has zero to do with gun laws FFS?
Agreed, it's one thing to lead a biased investigation which results in an innocent man being convicted of the crime but it's the active cover-up that blows my mind, the fact that the prosecutor could refuse release even after the DNA exhoneration is unbelievable. I personally think there should be civil and possible criminal repercussions for this kind of disgusting self-preservation.
Yep, and now SCOTUS changed the law that our Miranda Rights do not have to be enforced. What does that say?
@@ChuckChuckWood Right??? And just their behavior up until the very end, refusing to admit *any* bit of wrongdoing on their part... It makes the future look grim 😒
That is absolutely disgusting!!! Making a poor grieving father confess to killing his daughter and her friend!! What do they hope to achieve? They could have put an innocent man in prison for life or even death and let the true perpetrator go free. They truly need to be convicted and sent to prison. This poor man will forever have some people that believe he did it. The only thing worse then losing your child to a murder would have to be being framed and blamed by not only police but your loved ones too. Plus he would have had a terrible time in prison being a crime against children. Even if they believed that he did do it, forcing a confession could ruin the case against him if he did do it which I don't believe.
If they refused his request for a lawyer, those police officers belong behind bars. That is a crime and anything he said after that (or anything he signed) should never have been used against him. Those cops are pure slime.
When you take the sum of everything they did to him they deserve life in jail.
Frog blues. I definitely agree with you. If they started a real investigation sooner they could’ve prevented more assaults and killing
You are correct. But those crooked cops, DA and judge get complete immunity no matter what they do! That is why this kind of thing happens over and over and over again! The very worst criminals on the planet or those that run this crooked system from the very top down!
These cops should be doing life inside the worst prison ever ! In population
These Cops are scum, the prosecutor is scum and his attorney should be disbarred for incompetence. How you could fail to get that confession thrown out is gross negligence
I can not imagine what this Daddy went through knowing he was innocent, but was so mentally broken about his daughter and her friend . Then having the police and prosecutor who are suppose to be there to help innocent people plotting against you the whole time . God Bless you brother and I pray you are still following the Lord .
That's why you should never talk to police without an attorney present.
..so what happened to the stupid police and the prosecutors to make innocent father to murderer?
@@aeranchun2588 I was wondering the same thing
@@RageBaby587 It was said that he ask multiple times for an attorney, but they would not get one
As a criminal defense attorney, I have noticed that, generally, police and prosecutors do not try to solve crimes - they try to close cases. Once they settle on a theory of the case, they almost never let go.
Never talk to law enforcement. If they think you are involved anything you sat will be construed to confirm your guilt.
My family is here and I was their age when this happened and drove by the spot almost every day. I will never ever forget this case… I’ve been looking for this case for years!!! I cannot believe I found this!!!
As a parent it's unimaginable to even think what Jerry went through as a father, having to read out what had happened to his little baby knowing he was completely innocent, tragic and so sad, I truly hope that the years passing, this family have thrived despite the tragedy.
He must have felt overwhelming guilt, depression and terror. And than the police started full head on brainwashing. So disgusting. Poor man. He must have been so proud of his daughter. What a horror! I cant imagine ;(
Showing him the crime scene photographs was a truly sadistic thing to do. There’s just no excuse for that. It doesn’t matter whether they thought he was guilty, showing him those photos is clearly going to affect his mental state, and how can they trust the statements of someone who would then obviously be in a psychologically damaged condition?
You could tell while he was reading it the information was new to him, he was disgusted reading that confession, it's so sad to see how heartbroken he was while reading that.
yeah the moment I saw him reading instead of telling it by heart I knew something was wrong. Criminals can describe their crime without the help of a script @@brookebryan4411
@@brookebryan4411 My first thought at the beginning of the video was, "That guy's being coerced." Reading your own written statement to a camera strikes me as weird enough, but it was so super obvious that those were not his words, and even if that video was the second take, reading it once in a state of intense trauma compounded with sleep deprivation and torment wouldn't be enough for him to pull off an Oscar-winning performance the second time. You really could see him trying his damnedest to power through that hideousness. I'm just glad they apparently didn't have the "male DNA" at that specific time or else they'd probably have made him confess to that, too. Jesus Christ, man.
Oh my God that poor man wasn't even allowed to go to his daughter's funeral. I can't imagine the emotional turmoil he went through. It's just too horrible, those cops have a lot to learn and I sure hope they're learning before someone else dies because of their mistakes. If they have went with that DNA they could have saved that young lady's life. God will have to forgive them, I doubt that many others will
100% truth
God will forgive them but In order to receive his forgiveness, they need to repent and honestly be remorseful for what they've done. Often times people see that some one has a criminal history and view that person as less than someone who doesn't.
*If they have would have gone with that DNA...
Thank you for informing your watchers about psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder. This is the first video I've seen mention anything about the diagnoses. My sister is a psychologist so I'm particularly sensitive about this.
As a father who has buried his daughter and only child, my heart breaks for this man. What's left of it that isn't already broken, anyway. I couldn't imagine someone accusing me of murdering my child when she died. It was hard enough dealing with that alone. I'd likely have flipped out on the cops. I can guarantee you I wouldn't have falsely confessed, though.
Oh wow you. I know there's nothing I can say or do to ease the pain for you but I knew if it happened to me I'd be devastated I'm sending you many blessings to help you heal
So sorry for your loss
My deepest sympathy, but you really never know what you would do until you were in that position.
I heavily sympathize w you & I'm so sorry for your loss, but sadly false confessions are way more common than you'd think & no one can guarantee they wouldn't falsely confess in any given situation until they've been through it.
@@MSevelynjacobs yeah it said they denied him a lawyer and hit him and likely threatened him further
Amanda Snell was a friend of mine. She was the kindest, most generous person and those of us who knew her still miss her. She had such a heart for her work and she was taken from us too soon. She had her whole life in front of her. It was painful and sickening to listen to that horrible man describe what he did to her.
Absolutely heartbreaking. I am sorry for the loss of your sweet and beautiful friend.
Wow I’m so sorry for your loss.
I'm sorry that your friend endured such a terrible death -- but did you watch the whole thing? You say that the "horrible man" described what he did to her -- but the confession was faked -- the murderer did not describe what was done to her -- I did read a statement from the lawyer who found the true murderer. This poor man confessed because he was in a weakened state -- he was taken for questioning after he hadn't slept for 24 hours and had just seen his dead daughter who had been brutally, sadistically, ritually stabbed to death. And he didn't sleep for ANOTHER 24 hours while the cruel cops created the confession he signed -- sleepless for 48 plus hours, having seen the children with even FACIAL stab wounds. I hope I've convinced you to watch the whole thing.
@@ntakovacj3644 I did watch the whole thing and I am referring to what her killer said. My heart goes out to the poor man who sat in prison for the terrible crime that he didn't commit- he is also a victim.
She isn’t talking about one of the two girls he was talking about the lady that went missing that the killer (Jorge)was also responsible for, not the innocent man that was framed, the explanation she’s talking about is not the innocent guy who was the sleep deprived and grief stricken father
Props to this channel for revealing the very realistic and problematic issue of false confessions.
Wow! That definitely took a turn I wasn’t expecting. Such a sick individual to do that to the little girls and the 2 women, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are other victims out there.
So sad that Jerry was forced to give that confession, so glad he was exonerated. Thanks for sharing this story.
Same here!!! Thank God it worked out.
Yea he’s a fucking monster
And if the cops had investigated further, they might’ve found the real killer and saved the lives of the women he murdered (and who knows if there were others).
God this made me cry… imagine losing ur child and then getting wrongly accused of killing her, forced to confess to it and living with that thought every single day for 5 years 🥺 i hope Jerry and his whole family find peace, the system let them down… and bless the souls of the two lost angels 😔
Thank God the real killer was finally found otherwise this poor man could still be in jail
Not only did they ruin this man’s life, they let the real monster go on ruin so many other lives.
How do those scumbag detective's go through life knowing, and not caring, that they got a bullshit confession out of someone?!
Their only goal is a confession at any cost so they can feel like badasses. Letting a monster loose to do it again. They should be punished.
If they belived him guilty, when should they have stopped the interrogation and call it a day? 2 hours, 6 hours? Maybe another hour and the killer would crack. Always easy to defend rights after the real killer is found.
@@mongoose6685 No, it's just always easy. Stop justifying cops who break their oath to the constitution.
@@snex000 Always easy? So after 10 minutes of interrogation, just let the killer of your kid go because he denied it? Yeah right bruh, you'd be the first one crying for justice with your blue hair.
Your so right. They let the real killer get away to kill again. Unimaginable!!!
@@mongoose6685 They actually had DNA and did not reveal that it was not Jerry's DNA!!!
That "confession" video reminds me more of a Terrorist hostage video than a confession video.
You can see his reluctance to read it and his emotion was too real at the thought of what happened to his daughter. People who commit these crimes against innocent kids might try to fake that emotion, but they are hollow by comparison. The video looks all kinds of wrong. I'm glad the truth came out.
I thought of Otto Warmbier. Over to this father. You could tell be him just reading the "confession" written by the police. Exhausted, devastated for his little girl and her friend. This is torture IMO. And I bet the detectives had their doubts. Look at the tragic case of "The west 'Memphis 3" A total disaster for the victims. 6 victims. 3 dead young boys. 2 in prison, and 1 on death row because of an utter bat shit investigation. The police department just wanted their hero status. The killer or killers are still out there or dead. 'After 18 years they took an Alford plea to be free. And they couldn't sue the state or county for wrongfully sentencing them. This is just one of the reasons I'm against the death penalty.
The first couple minutes in watching that, I knew something wasn't right.
I wonder if his wife believed that confession. I did a search and found that he had been arrested on drug charges after his release. I do hope that he has found some peace and balance in his life. He's a plain spoken man from a rough life who would have a hard time dealing with the calculations of these evil "law enforcers." and the life that followed once he was proven innocent.
No. He passed last year while in police custody. He had 2 massive strokes before they took him to the hospital. He suffered 2 more in the hospital. He passed a week later. He passed the day before his daughter's birthday. Hopefully they've found themselves in heaven 😔 😔 😟
I'm his sister. He passed away 2 years ago. He and his daughter are together now.
Anytime a story involves a child, I just can't control myself. I'm left feeling so sad, angry, hurt, and confused. Why would anyone want to do something like this? I just can't imagine it.
I concur. I would love 30 minutes in a room with people who harm children
Some people are so irredeemably depraved, they have lost their humanity and have become grotesque creatures.
It really is staggering how many people kill or do other nasty stuff to kids. Is it because there's just more people on this planet, or is the percentage going up and up? It's the same with how many guys try to meet underage people over the internet. It's pure evil and disgusting!
I know. He hurt his own little baby. Why?
@@BarrywHiteFTW You obviously didn't watch the whole thing..
Horrifying to think that *Jorge literally got away with murder - while still at high school - and was at liberty for five years*
Confessions made under duress are way too common - and almost always the result of investigating officers making assumptions instead of following the facts.
*In this case Jerry's treatment was nothing less than a crime as well as an obvious attempt by police to pervert the course of justice*
Another problem is that elected offices like District Attorney (that exist in non other country) politicise law enforcement and care more about closing cases than establishing justice
Well it was Jerry’s fault for confessing, if he made them do their jobs Amanda would still be alive
@@rockon772 This is bait
@@mrsharpie7899 Jerry is guilty of being a huge for not learning to get a lawyer... He had been arrested so many times already why didn't he learn?
It’s torture. Plain and simple. And you don’t need to physically hurt anyone to do it. It’s all about breaking people to the point where they confess to make the torture stop
Never talk to the police without a lawyer, it doesn't prove you're guilty... it proves you're intelligent.
This is why you never talk to cops without a lawyer, including interrogations. Even when you’re innocent. The cops aren’t here to help you.
They denied him a lawyer though.
@@GhastlyCretin wow! That's so wrong! They did the same thing to Cory Bigsby who's son Codi is missing from his home in VA! They obviously believe he did something or knows something about his disappearance but that doesn't justify them denying him an attorney
@@GhastlyCretin You cannot be denied a lawyer. It is your Constitutional right. When taken in by police say, "I want to remain silent and want a lawyer." Repeat if necessary. Make it a statement and not a thought. Always speak to a lawyer. Make the police do their jobs.
@@chelechele5871 Tell that to the cops that denied him a lawyer...
The cops need some vigilante justice.
My god... It's stuff like this that makes you lose faith in the police system. How is still legal for police to assault suspects? I get that they thought he was the murderer, but jesus. I'm so glad he sued them, they were so insanely out of line.
Suspects are probably guilty, especially this sad excuse of a human being called Jerry. I have no doubt he was guilty, seems too convenient for them to pin the blame on Jorge. They deserved to be beat.
@@AmysAttitude 🤦🏼♀️
@@paulinejackson5861 literally tho stop projecting
@@paulinejackson5861 bad bait.
I’m amazed what people suffering a trauma will do.
I can’t even begin to imagine what losing five years of your life, and the death of your daughter would do to a person. Poor bloke 😟
I confessed and even plead guilty to something I didn’t do. It was easier for them to pull off than I ever imagined. My confession was the result of being told that it was the only option for me to be able to call anyone. I confessed thinking I could easily prove my innocence later. I just really needed help to get away from the police, at that moment. When I went to court, I had the evidence proving my innocence but I still plead guilty. Those evil crooks did everything they could to cut me off when I tried to talk about pleading not guilty. The judge was so intimidating and he finally lowered his voice and asked me if I wanted to get this over with and move on from it. I, of course, said yes. Before I knew what was happening, apparently, I plead guilty. I was so shaken that I just paid all the fees. Fortunately, it wasn’t for anything big but it proved to me how they work and just how messed up our system is. Btw, I’d never been in any kind of trouble before this happened. It happened bc I have Asperger’s and an employee at a local store thought I was being suspicious.
Thats fd up 🥺🥺🥺🥺
I am so sorry that happened to you,why didn't management stick up for you? This crap just gets worse and worse and it seems there is nothing we can do about it!
@@jakdelaney3606 management is who called the police on me bc I apparently had been shopping for too long. It was Good Friday and I had just left work. I was taking my time at the store bc I was waiting for my husband to get off work bc we were meeting at a restaurant to eat. It’s not like was just walking around looking either. I filled my cart up and spent over $100 on Easter basket stuff and other items we needed. When I went to put my vehicle in reverse to leave, 2 cop cars blocked me in and made me get out. They pulled everything out of my SUV and went through everything in it. I had been hiding all the Easter stuff in the back, as I bought it. I had already put the items I had just bought back there bc I didn’t want my daughters to see it. They went through all of it and then claimed that everything that was back there that I didn’t have a receipt for was stolen. I had been buying stuff for several weeks, at this point. I tried to explain it to them, and they didn’t even care that most of the items weren’t even sold by the store they said I had just stole them from. The items that the store did carry were brought back inside and the barcodes were compared. They didn’t match, bc I didn’t buy them from there. They still confiscated them and gave them back to the store they didn’t even come from. Over an hour into this, I had been degraded, scared, and spoken to like I was less than human. I had already tried to show them my Autism card that verifies that I’m Aspergic and gives specific instructions on how to handle the situation. I tried to give it to one of them after saying “this is just a misunderstanding bc I’m awkward, they just don’t know me in there” and he snapped back with “They don’t want to know you”. All I wanted was my husband. They took my phone and wouldn’t let me call for help. Finally, the female officer stepped in, after reviewing the security tape from my entire visit, and was “nice” to me. She said all I had to do was go inside and apologize and I could go home because that store didn’t even prosecute shoplifters. Hesitantly, I went in with them and said I was sorry, but they had to hassle me, through my tears, to say I was sorry for stealing, bc I knew I didn’t. The manager immediately said “I want to press charges” and I was handcuffed and taken to the jail. I now know that they were embarrassed because their investigation didn’t produce any evidence of me stealing anything. They needed me to “confess” so they didn’t have to let me go and walk away with their tails tucked. It was also obvious that one of them had some kind of relationship with the young manager who called them on me. This was in 2019. It will affect me for the rest of my life.
@@povertylevelphilanthropy1524 Girl you need to get a lawyer, with your husband as support, and get this erased from your record! I’m so sorry you went through that!
@@povertylevelphilanthropy1524 I'm so sorry you had to experience that. From what I was taught early on is to "ask for a lawyer and shut up" or just say I plead the fifth. They legally cannot force you to speak without a lawyer present if you asked for one.
EWU Crew are the real MVPs. The narration and attention to detail is always on point. You guys put so much work and dedication into your videos, you’re amazing. 💚💚
i’ve seen this before. i especially appreciate that you posted it bc to someone who’s never even been pulled over (57 yrs) aka SHELTERED - stories such as this seemed
to be like an urban legend. The police wouldn’t _REALLY_ do that? .. YES THEY WOULD - & DID! WOW it’s refreshing to know the TRUTH! 🤟🏻🕊️💕
I just watched Mind Over Murder about the Beatrice Six, and now this crazy case! It's an absolute disgrace to humanity when police coerced confessions from people just to make their theory fit. They don't care about getting to truth; just about being right. All the while, the public is still in danger and the list of people traumatized in effect of the crime grows longer...
Where can one watch this? Sounds interesting.
@@lindseyyoung9149 it's a 6 episode documentary on HBO Max
@@duchessbaby711 Thank you for replying!
This is heartbreaking. I get that the cops thought he was guilty, but when the DNA evidence came to light, they should have immediately set him free. That poor man lost his daughter then had to lie and say he was the monster that did it 😢
Soooo sad. This is terrible
The knowledge that thousands, and more than likely, hundreds of thousands of men & women are unjustly living out their lives in prison right now is horrific. Not to mention the millions (?) world wide, who have already passed naturally or were executed when they were innocent souls all along is so heartbreaking and it really makes my blood boil. I cannot even begin to imagine being in their shoes. 🥺😭
Hundreds of thousands? Come on🥴
WOW! Never thought I'd feel so much sympathy for a man who had a legitimately criminal past. Just wrong how they made him record a false confession.
Fucking yikes @ ur comment. People with criminal histories are still people and the justice system is insanely corrupt. Check urself.
There's a reason this stuff was put into the constitution, ya know..
@@snex000
Agreed.. even bad guys have rights. Also, just because you have a criminal past doesn't mean you are irredeemable.
Jerry deserves more than 8 million!!! Lake County Illinois should be ashamed of themselves. Just no words for what these people did! So they were not even interested in catching the real killer.
They don't deserve to be called prosecutors or police. I hope the detectives and the prosecuters were held accountable for what they did. Shameful.
He recieved 7 million.
No one was held accountable. The crooked cops, DA and judge get complete immunity no matter what they do! That is why this kind of thing happens over and over and over again! The very worst criminals on the planet or those that run this crooked system from the very top down!
This story broke my heart. That poor father! Imagine what he must of suffered. He was innocent and found his child murdered and then forced into "confessing" killing her - 5 years!! I can't even imagine doing time for something I didn't do let alone for "killing my child"
I'm starting to feel like interrogations and confessions made during these interrogations should automatically be excluded from court, way too many investigators have no clue what they're doing and simply bully the suspect until they get the answers they want. It just seems like too often someone is wrongly convicted of a crime based on a confession that turned out to be false.
Oh no they know exactly what they are doing. They will do anything to get what they want out of someone. That’s why you stay silent.
@@jenjayawearssocks Yeah, but as he claimed, he was denied a lawyer and assaulted while being sleep deprived so being silent wouldn't get you far. It's pretty much just you against corrupt individuals.
It depends upon the interview.
I do feel many are inexperienced and will lie and taunt the person .
I hate the " I KNOW you did it !" Bull.
With each person they speak to.
But many are above board and will walk away when a lawyer is requested.
@@Rzo139 He wasn't denied a lawyer. He never asked for one. The second you ask for a lawyer, the interview must stop.
Never speak to police. Always demand a lawyer IMMEDIATELY.
There at least needs to be a cap on how long an interrogation can be
The cops and prosecutors who did this should get the death penalty. Period.
Agree 100%
Old Sparky beckons...corrupt officials are the lowest.
And preferably a slow death.
You got that right!
I’m glad they finally caught the real killer, and that Jerry was released. The detectives and prosecutors should really be fired, fined and jailed, especially since they all knew that his confession was false.
So much missing, his statement said his daughter bit him... Where was the bite? Did they look for a wound? Surely this would have been used as evidence or his defense lawyers would pick up on it? Where was the knife the second child apparently pulled out? Absolutely disgusting that an innocent man was let down when an average person can see so many gaps.
And it's amazing that a highly educated DA and judge would actually go along with such a ridiculous story.
One of my clients many yrs ago spent 4 yrs from a false confession, he was eventually cleared . I asked why he would confess when he was innocent, he said he was mentally exhausted and just wanted the interrogation to end..
None of this is by accident. Things are the way they are all by design. The crooked cops, DA and judge get complete immunity no matter what they do! That is why this kind of thing happens over and over and over again! The very worst criminals on the planet or those that have created and run this crooked system from the very top down!
Glad to see a video which reminds how often detectives trick and force confessions. Especially when they have a DNA yet they decide to still push just to close a case.
That department should be held accountable for the woman's death who died as a result of them doing this; it allowed the real killer to hurt others.
The trouble is that these criminals get immunity no matter what they do!
It's insane that the detail in his "confession" regarding the young girl having a knife wasn't questioned more. How common is it for a child that age to carry around a knife for crying out loud?! This whole case is so awful and it's disgusting how often this shit happens. The prosecutor and police, anyone involved, should've faced charges themselves! Justice system my ass.
Here in the UK, knife crime is off the scale, especially in London, kids carry knives like they would wear a watch! Its terrifying! USA have their gun crimes, we have the knives. 😔
@@joeypinkpants5203 Jeez... what a world we're living in huh? So sad!
@@joeypinkpants5203 Nowhere near the scale of gun crime in the US though.
The idea that any police department would accept a confession where the motive for murder is self defense against two nine year old girls is just insane. Under any normal circumstance if a suspect claimed they killed a child in self defense they’d usually grill him harder to find out the real motive.
@dharmallars There is ZERO mention of him or anyone else claiming self defense, it was just a stupid detail, any normal thinking person would know better & that would have definitely made huge headlines if the phrase "Self Defense " had been mentioned at all.. media would have been alllllll over that & shouting it from the roof tops
This is so enraging, and unfortunately it happens more often than you think. The worst part is that the justice system is loathe to admit they made a mistake so they rarely set things right even when there’s evidence proving their mistake. There needs to be more oversight and accountability over judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement.
The police that railroaded the father should be far from proud of themselves. They let a violent predator go (who went on to murder and assault other victims), whilst focusing all their attention on a broken father.
That's the sickest thing about these asshole policemen that don't do their jobs. Those police should face charges for any crimes committed by perpetrator's who have been allowed to continue with their crimes due to the police ineptitude and corruption.
Spot on. The crooked cops, DA and judge get complete immunity no matter what they do! That is why this kind of thing happens over and over and over again! The very worst criminals on the planet or those that run this crooked system from the very top down!
When you said the police drew up the 1st confession I knew that the guy was innocent. Please always ask for a lawyer.
Appare y he did and was denied
And rightly so that he is denied, the man is definitely guilty.
Right, police should never be allowed to write someone's confession for them...
@@paulinejackson5861 so you guilty too
@@paulinejackson5861 stfu and stop acting like you know everything. Just because you’re guilty of some crime doesn’t mean an innocent man is also guilty
I rewinded this episode a few times simply because I kept missing why they moved from 2 girls to a different crime on a woman.. Only to find out that I might have been better off not knowing.. Absolutely heartbreaking ..Listening to him read that statement in the beginning already had me questioning things but damnit.. this one was tough
Yes, his tears seemed unusual for someone who’d killed two little girls.
There should be a hard limit of something like 12-16 hours at most in interrogation. When you get beyond 24 hours you're entering the realm of torture and confessions under these conditions should have significant less weight.
EWU Crew videos are always informative and entertaining while being terrible and sad at the same time! Thanks for the awesome content!
Poor guy, so sad he had to endure all that pain and then have the cops make him confess to something he didn’t do.
i just got out of school, i love watching about these cases on the bus! keep up the good work!
This is appalling! How can prosecutors draft a statement for anyone? This is very disturbing. America seriously needs to reform its entire view on justice!
The reason why he cried as he was reading it...was because he had described how his daughter was murdered...HIS DAUGHTER!! His heart was broken.
This case is a very good example of why death sentences are a bad idea.
Once you end someone’s life you can never bring them back and correct the mistake.
And I personally think that death is an easier option than spending 50+ years in prison until.
This.
Also, so many people believe death is the worst that can happen to someone when in reality there are fates that are much worse than dying could ever be. Ironically those who do truly deserve death for their crimes (and where we know for a fact they did it beyond any reasonable doubt) shouldn't get it. Once they are dead, they are dead. Let them suffer in prison knowing they want to kill people but can't. If there is a hell (which I personally don't believe in) they will be headed there anyway sooner or later. Let them have a taste of it on earth before that.
WHEN there is a mistake...when you are 100% sure and proved beyond any doubt then you should put down the psycho. Death sentence is indeed a form of justice when conducted correctly.
@@AiremeldeI just disagree because it puts the victims through more trauma if they have to testify every time they're up for parole. Some monsters don't deserve to breathe anymore.
YEARS & YEARS go by before a death penalty is carried out, there are animals that have been on Death Row for 20+ years, it's actually ridiculous to put families through years of suffering with no closure & having to relive their nightmare over & over, , as well as costing tax payers upwards of $70 - $100 THOUSAND a year to take care of these animals. The victims & Families are the ONLY ones who truly receive a LIFE sentence, a life of sorry, mourning, heartbreak, grief. Families have to live the rest of their lives feeling the pain of what someone else has done. Not believing in Hell or Heaven in everyone's own choice, & I do not judge anyone either way, I personally believe 10000% without a doubt believe in both & the "suffering" that those animals think they have here on Earth/ prison is NOTHING compared to what's waiting for them if nothing changes.
@@jro9365 that money is a sliver of a fraction of a drop in a bucket to the amount that ceos and billionaires siphon out of society.
“Reading the confession that the police wrote for him?” Uhhh what
My thoughts too and that's only 2 minutes in😳
The temerity of the investigator to ask "Is this YOUR statement Jerry?" @3:48.
I love your content so much, it's sad what these children had to go through, already can't wait for the next video. Justice will always prevail.
@@E-Kat No that isn't the reason why I like this content, I like the videos they make because it spreads awareness all around the world and it takes time and effort to make these videos and I appreciate the work put into this.
@@Ryuu_25 Justice doesn't ALWAYS prevail. Go sit down
@@karma4greedyslumlords490 I am sat down already.
@@Ryuu_25 Good. Stay there until rigor mortus sets in
Just started, can't wait for the most insane twist I've ever heard
NEVER, NEVER say one word to police interrogators without your lawyer! No matter what they say or do!
Doing such a horrific thing to children words simply escape me about the evilness of it.
Well done E.W.U. The years of experience really shine through in this one. This case was 150 miles from me. Chilling…..
This is absolutely DISGUSTING and inhumane on part of law enforcement!!!!
Wonderful to hear this narrator again. Unfortunately, I’m discovering these false confessions happen too often due to bad policing and the focus on the first person suspected. Sad to say, that even if a loved one was hurt or killed, I’d no longer speak to police without a lawyer present. I know people think it makes you look guilty but that’s better than life in prison for something you didn’t do. I used to be a cooperate always and if they were caught they are probably guilty but I’m older and wiser, and seen far too many examples of the wrong person going to jail.
These cops should be charged and thrown in jail. Heartless monsters..how dare they coerce and relentlessly make a dad confess to his own daughter and friend’s murder. This dad just lost his precious angel and was so traumatized over that but then was forced to falsely confess that he was responsible for it? Are the cops that desperate to get a promotion or recognition of their police workmanship that they will stoop to something so low? I am feeling so disgusted and shocked at what these cruel cops did.
The crooked cops, DA and judge get complete immunity no matter what they do! That is why this kind of thing happens over and over and over again! The very worst criminals on the planet or those that run this crooked system from the very top down!
Peak nightmare. You child is killed, you are accused of it and forced to admit to something you took no part in.
This honestly just gets me pissed with me and my brother's case about someone who had molested and rape me at the age of 5 for about a year, and him about 3 years from 5 to 8 by a boy one year older than he was. When we finally approached the police because we were ready, because we were going through therapy for at least 2 years before we reported and my dad knew about it, they did nothing, we were about 15 and 18 at the time, but only confessed molestation. I came back to them when I was 19, and told them that I had more evidence, or well memories, of him orally raping me. They took this evidence in about 2 months before I turned 20, and told me it'd be about 2-3 weeks until I would hear back. I called 4 weeks later and the investigator we were with snapped at me and said along the lines: This takes time! I get that, but you told me a time frame it usually takes. I honestly think the boy that did these heinous acts to me and my older brother had ties with the police in some way and they don't want to pursue anything, because the day after I turned 20, they told me something I already knew, after you turn 20 where I live, any acts of sexual abuse can no longer be tried. And what's worse, he went into the military as well. Fucking hate my state.
On one hand I get it, it's a he said she said thing, but when you have 2 vs 1, the one of course denying it. On the other hand, having it happen to me, and twice being told there is nothing they could do, feels like they were lazy or someone fucking payed them off. I can't pursue any legal actions against this department either, since all I have are theories, and nothing to go off of. Laws need to change so badly.
I hate bad and tunnel vision cops on these cases. Fuck them, I hope they burn for their choices.
Hopefully y and your brother will get revenge on the scumbag that did sick things to both of y someday
The truth shall set you free
My deepest condolences to Jerry and family members of the girls💗 rest peacefully sweet girls 😔
Thank you for uploading this! The awareness your spreading is crucial in this crazy world! Unfortunately innocent people being taken advantage of happens far too often.
As an outsider (I live in the UK) it really concerns me the tactics police in America use in their interrogation. It also amazes me the amount of people who speak to the police and don’t lawyer up. Innocent or guilty, say no comment and get a lawyer. I would rather be suspected of being guilty than be sent to prison when I’m innocent for being coerced or beaten down into a false confession. These forced confessions and circumstantial cases happen way too often.
Yes, ALWAYS get a lawyer before talking with police.
And cops wonder why so many people don't like or respect them?
SHIT LIKE THIS IS WHY!
Very sad situation. I'm soo happy he made it out of prison. May the 2 girls rest in peace. 😞
I couldn't imagine being in his situation, seeing the 2 girls dead, then immediately being interrogated by police for 24 hours. He was definately broken inside, he lost his little girl, he didn't care what happen to him at that point.
Sadly, everyone who was involved in putting this innocent man behind bars will not be held accountable which makes me sick!
Prime example that you should request an attorney no matter if you did or did not commit the crime.
Those detectives should have been (and hopefully were) fired.
My day is now made. Keep up the great work guys!!
People always need to be aware of just what the cops are allowed to legally do, including mass amounts of manipulation and deception. It's their job to get a confession and a conviction. Anytime you talk to the police about a crime even as a "witness", always know that they are trying to "hang you", metaphorically speaking (or even not so metaphorically). I think I hate the "good cop" act even more, when they talk to people like they're a therapist trying to help. But really, I think that whether we understand it or not we have to just accept that innocent people do sometimes confess. There are characteristics about people that can make them far more likely to, and having an 8th grade education can contribute to it.
In the majority of cases they will not drop a case/conviction against a person no matter what evidence they gain for their innocence (or was there ALL ALONG), until the actual guilty party is found out. Actually, sometimes they'll try to claim that even though the innocent person didn't know the true culprit that they somehow were in it "together". It's all sickening.
They're not ALWAYS trying to hang you. Just most times. Last time I was questioned, I threatened someone over the internet the day after my daughter was killed. I told him if he said a word to me at the funeral, I'd slit his throat and he went to the cops.
They called me and asked me to come up there and talk to them about what happened and said that if I did, they'd send me home with a ticket. But if I didn't, they were coming to find me and I'd get NO breaks.
So I showed up. I talked to the detective and he asked me about what happened and I told him exactly what happened. You could basically say "full confession" as I explained to him that I did threaten Ole boy and this was why... So they did exactly as they said they would. Even with enough to NAIL me for FELONY cyberstalking, they gave me a ticket and sent me home. When I get to court, I find out cyberstalking is a felony 😯 so I skipped court the next time my court date came.
When I skipped court and got a bench warrant, it somehow disappeared between leaving the courtroom and Making it to the clerk of courts office for them to put it in the computer. so I never even got a warrant for missing court. Not for a longgggg time anyway.
Fast forward 7 yrs and I finally call to get a new court date and they can't find any warrant. So I explain what I'm talking about and they say they'll call me back. 15 mins later, they call. They found my case and that's when they explain that somehow my case got lost after court 7 yrs prior and my warrant was never entered into the system. WHAT!?? They entered it and set me a new court date over the phone, which they normally don't do.
So I finally go to court almost 8 years later. The just and DA have more than enough to prove me guilty after I told the detective what happened. Instead, they had compassion and understanding and dropped my charge to disturbing the peace and I went home. They understood how emotional I was just 1 day after my only child died and they took that into account.
Not everybody's out to get you. Just most of them.
@@J.C... first, I’m very, very sorry your daughter was killed, I can’t even imagine that. I do see how that would be likely to be taken into account in this case. Most people would at least try to understand where you were coming from. That said, as you said, usually they ARE out to get you. Everyone needs to be wary of them and their tricks.
It sounds like you had done what you were accused of and it would be hard to deny anyway…but there were extenuating circumstances and you needed that chance to explain yourself. Their job is to get what’s needed to get a conviction by any means, though, and it sounds like you were going to be going down for a felony charge until the DA cut you a break. I feel the detectives got you to confess to a felony by using the “we’ll let you go with a ticket” bullshit to downplay the seriousness of what you’d be confessing to. Of course they left out that it was for a court date for a felony charge. I guess that was the kind of thing I was talking about.
Oh my, the pain he went through when he confesses those details... it breaks my heart
I watch a lot of crime shows. I remember watching one where a detective stated "An interrogation room is a place to get the truth, not necessarily a confession"....that has always stuck with me.
Unfortunately, it doesnt seem as this is the usual way it's approached.
Are you sure that wasn't the other way around?
@@Consequence
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Cops are only the good guys in TV shows.
He deserves every cent of that eight million. Absolutely deplorable action by the interviewing officers. They should be sentenced and put away.
That poor father, the trauma of finding your child like that, the guilt that you weren't there to protect her, I would lose my mind too. 😭
I falsely admitted to a crime that I didn’t commit as a result of interrogation when I was younger. Big mistake. Glad I learned that lesson at a young age. If I’m ever in that situation again, I will definitely hold strong.
Lawyer. Lawyer. Lawyer. Glad you’re okay now.
If there was ever an argument for banning the death penalty, this is it.
Situations like this are exactly why I'm against the death penalty unless there's indisputable evidence and in most cases there isn't
I know right?
I don't know how anyone, hearing him read that confession could believe he was doing it voluntarily. The pain that imbued every word shrieked coercion. There were many victims here. The girls, the father, and the other women killed by the real perpetrator, who wasn't the only criminal either. What the police did to Jerry had a rippling effect. They couldn't undo the murders, but at least Jerry got SOME justice.
Best advise: Always ALWAYS stay silent no matter what and repeatedly ask for a lawyer. Once that lawyer comes then sue if they didn't give them to you the first time you asked
Poor dude. I'm glad he got paid so much and made the police look terrible in the end 💯
This is so tragic. They ruined his life. They stole it. They tore it up. What a tortured soul. I cannot even fathom. No winder ges no longer alive. I hope those in the interrogation room get fully whats due... i hope the suffer and their conscience never leaves them alone.
All I can say is, as soon as they interrogate you, ask for an attorney and do not bend. If they want you to read something you did not write, just repeat over and over that the police are trying to coherse a confession and will not allow you to get an attorney. Then sue them.
Yes I hear people can be coerced to confess.
On a much smaller scale I have experienced the pressure that police may put someone under to force a confession.
When I was 11 I was accused of stealing after school one day from a shop I didn't go into. I had 10 witnesses who walked home with me after school who could vouch for me, but this police officer did not care at all. He constantly made statements like "we know you did it, just admit it" over and over. He even said something about me being caught on security cameras stealing. This was when I knew they were clutching at straws for anything on me, since I did not go into any shops that day. I was stubborn and refused to budge on the matter, absolutely refusing to say anything. I had 2 grown adults against me at school saying I had done it. Naturally I cried but still refused to admit anything. Eventually they gave up after over an hour in the staff room. No charges were ever pressed, even when they found the actual person responsible (a girl with the same name, who they questioned for 5 mins then let go).
Just want to add that I was the least likely to do anything like that since I was too scared to get into any trouble, the idea of not handing in homework made me gag. When the teachers who were close to me found out, they went absolutely insane, so did my mum and refused to send me back to school until I got some sort of apology.
Again, obviously on a much smaller scale and I'm in no way comparing this, I just understand the pressure this poor man was under.
Rest in Peace to all the victims, thank god the right man was punished eventually
Yes. And it is not by accident. It is by design. Everything is the way it is by design. The very worst criminals on the planet are those that run the system.
This is so sad poor little girls and other victims and I feel so bad for the dad, how dare those cops and detectives do him so dirty while he is mourning his child 😥❤️
We need police reform now. The things the police did to that poor father is absolutely appalling.