How Confessions Can Be So Powerful

5min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Steve Mills and Maurice Posely went back to Stateville Prison. They interviewed Daniel Taylor, who had been convicted of a double murder in 2001. A confession is such a potent piece of evidence that police often focus on getting it. The reporters found an alibi supported not by relatives or friends, but by police records.

This episode continues where Episode 208 leaves off.

In 2001, Daniel Taylor wrote a letter from prison to a reporter at the Chicago Tribune named Steve Mills. Steve Mills spent months investigating before publishing a detailed examination of Daniel’s case as part of a series called “Cops and Confessions.” Daniel told us, “To have someone finally say that they believed me changed my whole life.”

Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow.

Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast.

We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery.

Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.

Episode transcripts are posted on our website.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices