Untrue Confessions
November, 2009
WHY CONFESS TO A CRIME YOU DIDN'T COMMIT?On September 7, 1988 Marty Tankleff woke up in his Belle Terre, New York home to discover his mother was dead and his father was unconscious but alive. The police were suspicious of TanklefTs emotionless response to the crimes, and the 17-year-old became the prime suspect. He was interrogated for hours by the Suffolk County police. The police discounted his persistent denials, telling him they knew he had committed the murders (his father died a month l...
