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The confessions

Call Number

  • DVD 345.05 C74893 (CEN)

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Edition

Widescreen version.

Languages

English descriptive audio, English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Publication Information

[Boston] : PBS Distribution, [2011]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

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? Frontline producer Ofra Bikel investigates the conviction of four Navy sailors for the rape and murder of a Norfolk, Virginia, woman in 1997. In interviews with the "Norfolk Four," 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.

Notes

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Originally broadcast on PBS in 2010 as an episode of the television series Frontline.

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