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The Case of False Confessions - Matt Livers
📻 Episode #119
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Mar 18, 2020
About This Episode
What do police do when a confession starts falling apart? Double down...or fix it up?
The Case
What do police do when a confession starts falling apart? Double down...or fix it up?
Sometimes farm life isn’t as tranquil as it seems... Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us to small-town Nebraska where two murders shattered a peaceful Easter Sunday. The story of Matt Livers is a major plot-twister: a coerced confession, dirty cops, planted evidence, and a mysterious clue that led police to a pair of natural born killers.
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00:04:02“Speaker 1: that they're seeing in front of him, they realize they're Speaker 1: in a bit over their heads, so they call in Speaker 1: the big guns. They call on the Crime Scene Investigation Speaker 1: Division of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. It's basically the Speaker 1: state's leading crime scene forensic experts. Now, the investigators find”
00:15:30“Speaker 1: You know, you listen to this, and you get the Speaker 1: impression that if the next question was and this crime Speaker 1: happened on the moon, right, Matt, he would say right too. Speaker 1: He was that much under their control, and. Speaker 2: He walked upstairs in our house after hours. Originally he”
00:26:28“Speaker 3: very emotional scene. Speaker 1: You know, this case shows the difference between bad police Speaker 1: work and good police work. On the one hand, we Speaker 1: have cops trying to solve this case by breaking an Speaker 1: obviously vulnerable man through an insanely coercive interrogation. Compare that”
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