Narrator, Will Lyman. Originally produced for public television broadcast on the television show Frontline on Nov. 9, 2010.
Contents:
Incredibly, how it all began -- No DNA match, they go after another -- And still no DNA match -- Inside the interrogation room -- An unexpected turn, and astonishing new theory -- What's next.
Summary:
Eight men charged. Five confessions. But only one DNA match. Why would four innocent men confess to a brutal crime they didn't commit? Program investigates the conviction of four men -- current and former sailors in the U.S. Navy -- for the rape and murder of a Norfolk, Va., woman in 1997. In the first television interviews with the "Norfolk Four" since their release, Bikel learns of some of the high-pressure police interrogation techniques -- the threat of the death penalty, sleep deprivation, intimidation -- that led each of the men to confess, despite the lack of any evidence linking them to the crime.
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