They confessed to beating all holy hell out of ………..
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EmElleCee — 12 years ago(April 18, 2013 05:36 AM)
Their confessions were inconsistent with her bruisings and they didn't even know where the crime occured. The documentary mentioned they were in a different location than where the actual criminal was when he beat and raped her. They mentioned an 18 inch wide trail from where Matias Reyes, the man whose DNA was found at the scene, which the jogger was dragged on. I assumed they believed if five guys dragged her at once the trail would've been wider. That made sense. They were under stress from the extensive interrogation. The prosecutors just needed faces to put to the crime so thry could get paid and go home. They were selfish people.
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WeLoveYouWayMore — 12 years ago(April 18, 2013 04:36 PM)
Exactly, the OP is forgetting these were 14 year old chidren, what an idiot.
This is documented how the police coerce people into giving false confessions b promising to let them go. Now i would never confess to something i diddn't do unless uner great psychological duress but when you're 14 yo child and the cops are lying to you and intimidating you, you might say anything.
The OP's a racist fool dirtbag. -
twilliams76 — 12 years ago(April 27, 2013 08:52 PM)
not to mention that NONE of the "confessions" could hold water when stacked on top of each other. Not one of them described the "events" in the same manner. Not one of their stories could be held up side-by-side with another because the details were all different (he hit her, he watched, he held her hands while the other stories all said something different).
The one juror brought this up none of the "confessions" described the same event and couldn't have been true. He only decided to say they were guilty after his fellow jurors became upset and tired of his opposition. Hmmm he did exactly what the boys did with the cops.
I'm thinking some people failed to watch and/or pay attention and/or grasp what it was he/she was watching. -
twilliams76 — 12 years ago(May 01, 2013 09:47 PM)
^ Applaud, applaud Seriously I could put it this way, allthewine: "what evidence?"
There was no natural, REAL evidence against them. There were even eye-witnesses elsewhere in the part that could pinpoint them to a different location at the exact time of the central crime! These kids were guilty of "wilding" (?) and throwing rocks and harassing some bikers and citizens around the lake in an entirely different portion of Central Park. People knew this! Some of these kids had caused some trouble (and maybe damage) elsewhere but it was ALL overlooked to connect them to a case they had NOTHING to do with.
I posted this thought/idea on another thread but it is something to try to wrap your mind around: "This whole doc is troubling; but one of the most disturbing things I have since taken from the film after having watched it a few days ago is the FACT that a murderous rapist ended up having a bit more integrity than the lawyer who couldn't fess up to her mistake." The evidence was ALL made up and those two ladies knew this. -
CheshireCatsGrin — 12 years ago(October 17, 2013 09:54 PM)
In fact, I thought the parallel between the juror and the boys said it all about agreeing with others out of exhaustion and frustration.
I often wonder if placed in the same situation as these boys, as well as the West Memphis Three, I would give a false confession. I want to think I wouldn't because I'm strong enough. Yet honesty I bet the majority of us would fold and give the cops what they want. -
There_Is_No_Sayid — 12 years ago(May 10, 2013 05:44 PM)
What about the fact that there was absolutely no evidence connecting them to the crime? That their confessions were inconsistent both with each other and with the facts of the crime? Or that the crime scene suggested one person committed the crime rather than the half dozen or more the cops suggested? Or that the established timeline these kids had with the mob harrassing parkgoers was inconsistent with them being the jogger's attacker(s)?
We know who did it. He confessed and gave an account which fit perfectly with the details. He was also a serial rapist (as opposed to the other kids who had no trouble with the law IIRC). And he insisted that he acted alone.
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Cheeky — 4 months ago(November 09, 2025 11:48 PM)
Exactly
The cops just grabbed any of the kids there because they were going to pin it on someone and you were guilty just by being there
The 5 weren't even in that area of the park. Korey didn't stay, he left early on
The cops coerced them because they decided they were guilty just by being in the park
Matias Reyes was a serial rapist and killer. He stalked the jogger, hit her over the head with a heavy tree branch and dragged her into the woods, raped her and left her for dead
The interrogations of the boys weren't recorded until they had been coerced into saying what they were told
Those cops were dirty and drunks
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana -
LorqVonRay1999 — 4 months ago(November 09, 2025 11:54 PM)
They were guilty and it was only through the confession of someone years later who just so happened to be in the same prison and had absolutely nothing to lose that they were somehow exonerated.
So they beat and raped this woman and left her to die. She miraculously survived though she was never the same and those five men were then given millions.
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Cheeky — 4 months ago(November 15, 2025 03:30 AM)
What's the evidence against them?
You would believe these kids, who weren't criminals, all of a sudden decide to rape and kill a woman? Instead of someone who was actually convicted of being a rapist and murderer
Matias knew all the details of the crime without be coached. His DNA was at the scene. The boys didn't know what her injuries were and got the details wrong and the cops corrected them
Matias didn't know that Korey was still locked up until they crossed paths and Matias decided to do the right thing
Those cops were dirty. One of them would clock in and go sit on his ass in a bar and drink. Another got busted for DUIs.
They also didn't let their parents in the room when they were being interrogated. Could it be they didn't want them to see what they were doing?
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana -
LorqVonRay1999 — 4 months ago(November 15, 2025 04:20 AM)
He knew all the details because he was in the same prison.
They concocted this confession and the DA was only too happy to oblige.
The cops weren't dirty. It's just that woke hit America using Ken Burns as a conduit.
This is liberal justice. They let a woman beat nearly to death, raped, left to die and then screwed her over the rest of her life and those guilty are rewarded millions.
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Cheeky — 4 months ago(November 15, 2025 04:52 AM)
How did his DNA get at the crime scene?
Yes, those cops were dirty. They hit Korey when they were interrogating him
Only a racist bootlicker would believe those cops
If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana