12 Hours of Torture
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The detectives used extreme psychological pressures and tactics known to elicit false confessions during Kimberly’s interrogations lasting over 12 hours
These interrogation methods and tactics were applied on Kimberly as if she were a hardened and seasoned criminal. In reality Kimberly was just 21 years old, had never been in trouble with the law and had suffered a childhood of emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Kimberly fully cooperated and stated during the first interrogation that the assailant could very well have been John Boyd Frazier, but that she did not know for sure. She provided them with Frazier’s phone number and home address. On the final interrogation the detectives began psychologically pressuring, lying, yelling, repeating, confusing and working over Kimberly, trying to implicate her in their made up plot that they presented and laid out for her. They didn’t accept her denials all throughout, sometimes shouting “No!” back at them, as they kept repeating yes she did this and planned this, and this is how it was done, what she did.
We will be updating this page soon to post the actual audio from the interrogation tapes.
Critics of the technique claim it too easily produces false confessions,especially with children. The use of techniques that are acceptable in the United States, such as lying to a suspect about evidence, are prohibited in several European countries because of the perceived risk of false confessions and wrongful convictions that might result, particularly with juveniles.
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“Every one of us has a breaking point. When the tactics make the suspect feel that continuing to assert innocence is futile, the suspect reaches a point of hopelessness and becomes easier to manipulate.”
Steven Drizin
Law professor, Northwestern UniversityBecause of her past emotional, physical and sexual abuse as a child, Kimberly was highly vulnerable and susceptible to this manipulation
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Kimberly was at Brent’s wake when arrested and was interrogated the third and final time that night
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Kimberly was arrested under the charge of obstructing justice, and the timing of her arrest the night of Brent’s wake was no accident. The detectives wanted to ensnare Kimberly in a larger plot, and used the timing of this arrest—at her husband’s wake—to throw her off mentally before the interrogation and last push from the detectives to entrap her. Before the wake Kimberly’s mom had given her a dose of Lorazepam. Kimberly was under the effects of this drug during her arrest and during the last interrogation that night.