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Originally Posted by markksman
Which of that information did the police not already know? We know his confession was coerced and leading to get him to say things to match with what they already knew.
Please point to the areas where Dassey mentioned things in his confession the police did not know about but then was later confirmed with evidence AFTER the fact. Pointing to all the things the interrogators set out to have him say does not really help your position. Having someone confess to an extensive murder and not tell the police a single thing, that could be corroborated, they didn't already know is pretty much unheard of. In fact that is one of the ways police with integrity can weed out false confessions. Of course if your goal is to get a confession to match the evidence you already have, as it did here, you wouldn't be interested in the integrity of weeding out any false confessions.
I have already laid this out.
But to summarize on whats important in his confession..
He was lying about having a bonfire when questioned about it in November. Now his narrative where he claims he is innocent has a bon fire, his mom says he was at a bon fire. Why did he lie about this in november?
He was given false truths to see if he would go along with them. I gave an example of this itt where police asked if he remembered the tattoo on her stomach (there is no tattoo on TH stomach) this is important because they are asking him as if they already know she has a tattoo on her stomach. if he was being coerced he would just say "ya" or "yes I remember that tattoo" but he said that he didn't remember a tattoo.
He described in lucid detail why TH was in the back of the rav4. Something that would be hard to make up.
He knew she was shot in the head multiple times, he knew what side of her head was shot
at the time, police did not know where she was shot, he told them the garage, then they corroborated that by finding the bullet in the garage with her dna on it
He said that SA shot her with the rifle above his bed, the bullet with her dna on it was matched to that gun above his bed by MR newhouse the ballistics expert
They found a section of 3by3 was bleached clean, BD had pants with bleach stains on it that he said he were while helping SA clean the garage, police didn't know any of this before questioning him
Thats just a few things.. Some of which are corroborated after the fact IE: the bullet, bleach in the garage. Some of which he shouldn't have known, how many times in the head she was shot, the side of the head that was shot..