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Originally Posted by dxu05
You realize she manufactured details? What kind of tape do you need? Do you think she was tortured into saying anything to make the pain stop? If you aren't being tortured, and you are innocent, at what point do you manufacture details? She stuck to the story even after interrogation.
There are so many stories in this case, its hard to tell what is true or false, but one I heard/read was that after Amanda repeatedly denied being involved and after being in the police station for several hours, the police starting asking Amanda to imagine who did it. What would she have done if she had been there? etc, etc.
So, if we had a video, we might be able to determine how the police questions were tabled and then make sense out of her answers.
If she just out of the blue offered up a story about how the bartender did it and she was there, it sounds worse than if she was asked to guess what might have happened and decided to play along.
I'm with you in the respect that I simply can't imagine ever confessing to a crime I didn't commit unless I was being tortured and then I'd probably say just about anything to make the pain stop (and I'm not saying torture was involved here).
Having said that, I've heard of many cases where individuals confessed to crimes they didn't commit under the simple duress of extended interogation. I still scratch my head and think WTF? I would fight to the bitter end and never confess to something I didn't do, but then again, I've never been in that situation, so who knows what I might do after 12 hours of endless interogation without food, sleep or water and possible fear tactics and light physical abuse or threats of physical abuse.
Amanda and her boyfriend sure didn't do themselves any favors with their multiple alibis, but I find it extremely hard to understand how a couple who had only know each other for 6 days could connect with another person she barely knew and her boyfriend had never met (Rude Guede) and commit this crime.
Here's an article that seems to echo some of my feelings about the case:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...questions.html
Last edited by yimyammer; 12-05-2009 at 05:08 AM.