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When Teresa Halbach went missing and was presumed dead, the police
targeted Steven Avery for the crime. But Avery's 16-year-old nephew
Brendan Dassey told the police that he saw Halbach driving away
from Avery's property the day she supposedly was murdered. This
version of events would be devastating to the state's case if it
ever reached Avery's jury. The police decided to interrogate young
Dassey again. For their next go-around they questioned him four
times in 48 hours-each time without an adult present and often
without reading him his Miranda rights. During this process, the
interrogators not only coerced the learning-disabled child into
changing his story, but they also got him to confess to
participating in the murder! Even though Dassey's so-called
confession was contradicted by all of the physical evidence, the
jury believed it and found him guilty. Now, more than a decade
after the trial, the saga lives on. Although a federal district
court reversed Dassey's conviction, a flip-flopping federal appeals
court eventually reversed the reversal. Dassey remains convicted
and incarcerated; the Supreme Court of the United States is his
last hope. Anatomy of a False Confession: The Interrogation and
Conviction of Brendan Dassey answers several questions, including:
Why did Dassey agree to talk to his interrogators in the first
place? Why weren't they required to read him his Miranda rights?
Most significantly, how did the interrogators get Dassey to confess
to a crime he did not commit? If Dassey was innocent, where did he
get the details for his so-called confession? Why did the jury
ignore the physical evidence and convict Dassey of murder? And why
did the federal courts reverse Dassey's conviction, only to reverse
their own reversal? Anatomy of a False Confession takes the reader
inside the interrogation room and inside the courtroom to expose
the interrogators' tricks, the prosecutors' ploys, and the judicial
sleight of hand that conspired to put Dassey behind bars-probably
for the rest of his life. The book also discusses several ways that
the law should be reformed to avoid future injustices.
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