Confessing to a murder you didn’t commit seems like it could cause you some trouble.
They didn’t necessarily confess, but police question can leave a person so confused that it can seem like they did.
It’s why you don’t ever go to the police station to answer a couple of questions without your lawyer.
Yeah. on the other hand i’d like to have seen the ‘interviews’ that solicited the confessions. Read the article and theres no doubt that other guy did it.
I don't know what most cops actually do, but showbiz accounts of cops doing their thing show them suggesting to defendants that they'll be able to see their loved ones if they confess, with the (false) implication that they'll go free, if only they come clean. After a full day of interrogation and perhaps sleep deprivation, at the end of which they might not be able to see straight, let alone think straight, a confession might seem like something other than a confession to tired and discombobulated defendants. That's why they should really have lawyers present at their interrogations, so someone who understands the legal implications of defendant statements is keeping them out of trouble.