The Murder of Riley Fox
As I stated in my last blog, I have several cases put together that involve the murder of children. I also discussed the issue of false confessions in my last entry. In my last blog there was a confession and while the person later apparently pleaded not guilty and took his case to trial, he never seemed to not only change his story, but never claimed he was coerced in any way, and he told the same story to several different people at different times. This case is not like that and while I cannot tell you exactly how the confession came about, or what was said, I can tell you that the man who confessed almost immediately recanted and claimed coercion. The other difference in this case is that while investigators had a confession, DNA would later prove that confession to be false. We talk so often about mishandled investigations and crime scenes and this case is one in which this was very evident. On the morning of June 6, 2004 six year old Tyler Fox woke his father, Ke...