After our class discussion on false confession during
Tuesday's class I have been noticing the integration techniques we discussed is
class. One news report on the E channel stood out above the rest. Kevin Fox's 3
year old girl was said to be missing on the morning of June 6th 2004.
Kevin's wife Melissa was in
After the confession investigator told the FBI to stop DNA testing. Kevin spent 8 months in jail before he would be cleared through the DNA testing that the FBI stopped. Interestingly enough this is also the same procedure that was used during the interrogation of JonBenet Ramsey. Both fathers in this cases we told the killing of their daughter was an accident and they were trying to cover it up, and both fathers were exonerated by DNA evidence that in both cases were originally never carried out.
Below are a couple of links to some highlights of the ABC broadcast of the situation. The whole hour version of the episode in the links below because they were presented in parts and I was unable to find all the video clips. However, if you are interested there is a lot of information about the case on the ABC website if you search for either Kevin Fox or Riley Fox.
Introduction to the Case and the 911 phone call
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6210664
News article:Kevin Fox and his statements on the integration process.
http://www.truthinjustice.org/kevin-fox.htm
Video Clip about DNA exoneration of Kevin Fox
This case is a very sad one. Its just a prime example of how evil our justice system can be though. I cant believe that the police ignored the fact that there was evidence that there was an intruder. All they cared about was gettin a confession; not gettin the right person. 14.5 hours of interigation is a LONG time. I cant even imagine what that was like. The police coerced him to confess. I also cant believe that once he confessed, they stopped the DNA from being processed. It was almost like they were trying to hide the fact that they were going to be wrong, and didnt want anybody to find out. There is no reason to stop DNA testing, even if someone does confess. DNA is concrete evidence; its pretty hard to minipulate that. When you have DNA evidence, that should always be processed. I'm just glad that they figured out he was innocent after 8 months. Thats still a long time in jail, but at least it wasnt years and he can still have a life with his wife and other child.