Well that is a lot of pressure.
It must be so intimidating to be questioned for hours by police officers about a horrific
crime.
Affording to a study through the innocence project it is estimated that there are about
30 percent of people who give a false confession due to many different contributing factors.
Either the person doesn’t really understand what is going on, sometimes the person just
gives up and can’t take it anymore so they just tell the officer or investigator what
they want to hear so its over, or just straight up intimidation.
Whats happening you guys I am Landon Dowlatsingh and welcome back to another most amazing top
10 video.
Lets jump right into this one this is the top 10 people who confessed to a crime they
didn’t commit.
so that was Louis Taylor who was an innocent man who served 42 yrs in prison.
Its really sad.
The re-search for this video for actually extremely hard for me because I feel so bad
for these people.
Alright so starting of this list at number 10 we have Tyler Edmonds who was 13 yrs old
when he fasley confessed to a murder he never did.
Well that moment will haunt him for the rest of his life because he spent 14 yrs behind
bars trying to prove he never committed the murder.
At 13 yrs old its hard to understand curtain things.
The legal system and how it works might be one of those things.
Well this is Tyler Edmonds story.
Tylers sister who committed the awful crime convinced her brother to take the blame for
her.
Tylers older sister kept telling him that you have to take the blame your only 13 yrs
old nothing will happen to you.
They don’t punish children.
Tyler who has never even been sent to the principles office before believed his sister
and why not its your sister.
He looks so young, I think there should have been a parent involved with this or if this
kid is about to give a confession I think a lawyer should be present.
What do you guys think?
Number 9.
So that was 22 yr old Damon Thibodeaux who was just 22 yrs old at the time his cousin
was murdered.
Well over 15 yrs went past and finally the truth came out that he wasn’t the one that
murderer his cousin.
Damon Thibodeaux was wrongly convicted.
He was actually on death row for the 15 yrs and it wasn’t until DNA testing became available
to him that it was proven that he can’t be the right person.
Also because Damon Thibodeaux was on death row he was put into solitary confinement the
whole time.
The interrogation last 9 straight hours and only 54 minutes of that was recorded.
During those 54 minutes you can hear Damon Thibodeaux confessing to crimes he never committed
just so it could end.
Now that he is out of prison he is now an active speaker for wrongful conviction reform
but now he will always relive these moments in his mind for ever.
Its so wrong, I know investigators are trying to do what they can do to put pressure on
people to tell the truth.
I think a conviction shouldn’t be solely from a confession after an extensive length
of interrogation.
The famous Brendan Dassey case comes up next on our list at number 8.
Brendan Dassey who has a very low IQ and wasn’t really good at communicating was interrogated
for a rape and murder when he was just 16 yrs old.
Well after clearly being coursed into a confession Brendon Dassey was convicted of first degree
murder, mutilation of a corpse and second- degree sexual assault.
Those are some pretty serious crimes.
He was sentenced to life in prison with the eligibility for parole in 2048.
So that’s when he is 59 yrs old that is extremely sad.
Brendan Dassey wasn’t able to understand much and he thought that if he just told investigators
what they wanted to hear that he could just go back
to school.
Brendan Dassey during the whole interrogation was feed information that they could use against
him.
Investigators were actually getting frustrated with Brendan Dassey at times when he wasn’t
understanding the hints they were giving him.
The investigators needed him to say that the woman was shot but he just wasn’t saying
it.
So the investigators just came out and said it, Ok Brendan we have all the evidence who
shot her in the head?
This case is a very interesting case and if you guys want to know more about the Brendan
Dassey or Steven Avery case which is his uncle check out making a murderer on Netflix I promise
you its really good but it will make you so angry.
Moving onto number 7. just 14 yrs old.
Come on justice system.
How does that make sense.
This is a minor who was intensely interrogated.
The poor teen wasn’t even given his rights by the police officers.
It took nearly 40 yrs for the actual truth to come out that Johnnie Lee Savory wasn’t
actually the person who rapped and fatally stabbed 14 yr old James Robinson Jr and his
sister 19 yr old Connie Cooper.
Johnnies confession was coursed and it took almost 40 yrs to figure that out.
If I was in that room for 31 hours I bet they could make me say what ever they wanted.
I am trying hard to not be over dramatic here but that kinda sounds like a form of torture.
Someone else who was in prison for a very long time is up next at number 6.
This right here is Ada Joann Taylor and her story is sad.
She was falsely in prison for 19 yrs for a rape and murder.
That is a pretty series crime that she didn’t commit.
Interigators threatened Taylor to come clean with the crime, they said they already know
what she had done, and they don’t have a problem with putting her on death row if she
doesn’t tell the truth.
Aka tell them the story that they want to hear.
I mean if someone threatens you with death row wouldn’t you just make up the lie they
are forcing you to tell because its better to be in prison than to be confined to solitary
confinement until its time for a lethal injection.
At thie time Taylor was in her 20s she just got married and had a 14 month old baby.
She had a lot going for her when she was arrested and interrogated.
During this time Taylor just really wanted to go home to her family but she really didn’t
know what the police officers were talking about.
She didn’t know about the crime or details they were describing.
The interrogators really emotionally drained this woman to the point where she was crying
so much and she was becoming upset and even more confused
to what was going on.
So after suffering from delusions and fearing the death penalty she just admitted to murdering
Helen Wilson.
Because of the long prison sentence Taylor lost a connection with her family.
She didn’t even come face to face with her 14 month old son until she got out of prison
that’s really sad.
Number 5.
that is Terrill Swift who was convicted back in 1994 for a murder.
An autopsy report concluded that the woman who was murdered was strangulated to death.
Terrill Swift was brought in for questioning to find out if he had any involvement with
this murder.
There was no trace of physical evidence that connected this man to the crime but it was
his own conviction that got him locked up for 15 yrs. its so sad and a tragedy.
It really is.
It just seems like police just wants to be able to close a case and it doesn’t matter
if they have the right person or not.
I mean for the past 15 yrs Terrill Swift lost his life while the actual person who commit
the murder is out living their life probably killing someone else or commit other horrible
crimes.
Terrill Swifts story got me really emotional.
Number 4 that is Juan Rivera who was released after he served a long time in prison after
he gave a false confession.
Juan Rivera was actually wrongly convicted 3 times and because of what happened to him
he was given the largest wrongful conviction settlement in US history.
He was given $20 million dollars.
Good I think everyone wrongly convicted should be entitled to a settlement pay out.
Juan Rivera was convicted of rape and stabbing an 11 yr old to death 27 times.
There was no physical evidence or DNA evidence that linked Juan to this crime back in 1992.
After years of being in prison Rivera kept fighting to try and get more DNA tests done
to prove he isn’t the right person.
For some reason it can take years to have certain tests done and some times these tests
or motions are denied.
Well for Rivera finally his motion to test swabs taken at the crime scene was granted
and the tests came back showing that he wasn’t the right person.
Number 3.
So that was Ryan Ferguson who is a person trainer and an author who spent almost 10
yrs in prison after being wrongly convicted of a murder in his hometown of Columbia Missouri.
Ferguson was a 17 yr old high school student at this time.
even during the intense investigation Ryan Ferguson said your trying to make me admit
to something I didn’t even do.
The case against Ryan Ferguson was so brutal it seemed like police or investigators got
other people to admit to things they didn’t do.
One of Ryan’s friend seemed to admit to doing the crime as well and in court it seemed
like Ryan’s friend knew of all the details of what happened.
well after 10 yrs we find out that everything was a life.
Ryan Ferguson wasn’t even at the scene of the crime, and he was 100 percent not involved
with the murder he was being accused of.
It just shows you the length that police or investigators would go through to try and
have a conviction.
It just seems like to them it doesn’t matter who is the fall person.
Number 2.
Lets actually talk about Ryans friend.
His friends name is Chuck Erickson and he totally gave a false confession that affected
himself and his friend.
Well I should probably say former friend because what the heck.
It seemed like the pressure of the interigation got to Chuck Erickson as well that he had
to make up a story to try and get out going to prison for a very long time.
He admitted to things he never did, and Chuck Erickson wanted to make it seemed like Ryan
was the one who did the killing and he was just there.
But we now all know that both of them weren’t even at the scene of the crime.
I know for me I use to wonder why the heck would people even confess to something they
didn’t do and well we have our answers its for many different reasons and the pressure
can get to you.
Sometimes it seems better to confess and take deals.
Take a look at this next clip about how pressured Chuck Erickson felt.
He felt like his life was on the line.
Finally at number 1, we have James Harden and not we are not talking about the NBA player.
James Harder was convicted of a murder after he confessed to the crime.
He was sentenced to 120 yrs in prison.
that
is just not right.
James never got home that night.
Instead he had to pump on the orange jump suit.
James Harden had to wear that jump suit for the next 16 yrs.
Is this real life right now.
He was frightened, terrified, confused, and only 17 yrs old when he was forced into a
confession that would change the rest of his life.
James Harden literally signed his life away.
This is why it is super important to know exactly what your signing.
I remember I think it was in 6th grade or 7th grade.
The first day of school I had a new teacher.
The teacher handed out this sheet of paper with information on it.
He told us to turn over the paper and sign it.
He than told us he was going to collect the paper.
He than read out what the paper said.
It said if you agree to if you agree to all the terms on this paper sign it.
The paper also said everything we own now belongs to the teacher.
There was a bunch of things on the paper that if we knew what it said we wouldn’t of signed
it.
The teacher taugh us a tough lesson on the first day of school.
Luckily he had a shredder and he shredded it all up.
We all found it very funny but for these people on this list, its not funny at all.
I think it’s a horrible crime to make someone sign something they have no idea what it is,
or make them confess to something they didn’t do with false promises.
Well there you guys have it.
Thanks so much for watching.
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