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Stephanie's 14-year-old brother, Michael Crowe, was interrogated for hours by police using the Reid method without his parents’ knowledge and without legal representation. Michael denied any involvement hundreds of times during the interrogation but eventually confessed in what is regarded as a classic example of a false confession . [2]
Interrogation of Michael Crowe. During the questioning of Michael, he was asked to take a lie detector test and agreed. When pressed about why, even with an affirmative answer, he seemed reluctant, Mike said:
Oct 21, 2011 · Michael Crowe, 14, suffered an emotional breakdown during his two marathon interrogations, which were videotaped. Detectives lied to him about the evidence, saying his sister’s blood was...
May 22, 2012 · A San Diego Superior Court judge has found Michael Crowe and two of his friends factually innocent in the 1998 slaying of Crowe's 12-year-old sister, Stephanie. The compounded tragedy that...
- Mark Sauer
Oct 20, 2008 · It may seem like something you only see in detective shows, but this case of wrongful accusation is painfully real. On January 20, 1998, the Crowe family—parents Steve and Cheryl, 14-year-old Michael, 12-year-old Stephanie and 9-year-old Shannon—spent the evening visiting with their grandmother at their Escondido, California, home.
Nov 14, 2013 · In an exclusive interview with NBC 7, Michael Crowe called the defense’s argument that he and his friends, not Richard Tuite, killed his sister 15 years ago a conspiracy theory not unlike Big...
Apr 27, 2012 · A retired deputy testified he was sickened and lost sleep over the interrogation of a teenager and his friends in an Escondido girl’s death 14 years ago.
