Police lies, a botched investigation and a homicide confession: ‘I’m going to jail for something I didn’t do’
6 October 2021
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6 October 2021
In a windowless interrogation room, Syracuse police kept telling Robert Adams that he beat to death a friend in May 2019. Detectives told Adams that a 911 caller and multiple witnesses had identified him as the attacker, down to his green-lettered “Bird Game” hat. They told him that doctors had disproven his version of what happened. That Adams’ blood was on the victim’s knuckles and that security video captured the whole thing. Confronted with such evidence, Adams — a 55-year-old drifter suffering from mental illness — confessed: He must’ve beaten Charles Jones, 28, with a stick in a drunken fight. ...
How lies by Syracuse police pushed wrong man to confess to a killing (interrogation video)
Syracuse police lied to a suspect and missed key evidence, producing a false confession that left an innocent man jailed for more than 8 months.
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