A Case With The Most INSANE Twist You've Ever Heard | Documentary

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.

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.

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 😔 😔 😔

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.

Someone reading a confession off a piece of paper always gives me false confession vibes honestly

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.

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.

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 😢

Just imagine how many innocent people have died behind bars and executed because of police detectives like those who interrogatied Jerry

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?

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.'

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.

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?

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 !!!

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.

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!!!

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.

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!

Props to this channel for revealing the very realistic and problematic issue of false confessions.

You guys are the best narrators on YouTube! Bravo!