kristina brown has been dead now for twenty two years but she still deserves justice and her family still deserves justice and they won't get it because the prosecution is stubborn. is still free want to know well and they know that he's guilty so what does that tell you about the system. system don't care about me about my son i'm a taxpayer i've lived in this city in this world over fifty years. they don't care . all they want to do is get away and people. that try to keep families together at separate are it doesn't matter. the country is untrue. we live with certain notions of justice. of what the loss of those what we all believe in our. that the person really responsible for something as innocent as the murder of a twelve year old girl should answer for that crime. yet over and over and over again i have been party to evaluating cases where there are innocence claims and the person responsible is known and named and the current police department the made the mistake does nothing to go back and capture and charge the person who was really responsible because it's difficult. because i

ninety seven lamar monson is sentenced to fifty years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of kristina brown. only one element was used against him the confession that he signed. it and believe that this is going to be. off years and i would not want to be in prison on. something that i wouldn't wish him off worst enemy just being processed for you to go into a sale. the whole process of a distressed comfortable. you feel like your freedom is being siphoned away from. you one thing about america. i think that. door dish. they were looking occurred to me. but everything he told me to do for her. in the letters and in his calls did everything he said do for her she never had a word for anything because the father was not around. and she was a little upset and angry home mother too was because tomorrow wasn't here to help her train his daughter and they could but he had the best interests in the world for his. he just wasn't here to do it so i did it. and like us is good in the world for nothing but myths and of. twenty years later the single event changes the course of lamar monson's life just

retire he receives a call from an unexpected witness who claims to know the real identity of kristina brown's murder. two months before i retired after thirty three years in terms of that she called me on the phone it was one of the more shocking calls i'd ever taken. as an investigator do you get many but this woman said to me on the phone. and me even if you don't remember that murder that you covered back then on boston you got it wrong. you got it wrong and i said ok i'm listening. and she explained that she was with the person who did the murder of the person in prison was not the killer that he wasn't there but she was with the man who did the killing and came back from the event dripping in blood and confessed to her that he had killed the. ad the character life for twenty years twenty plus years and carried. and the made it and. i'm outta here me i'm tellin om i'm not on holiday and that. at the time of the events shalane a bentley resides in the building where the crime takes place she shares her life with a certain mr robert louis both of them were regular crack users on the day of

kristina brown dies a few hours later in hospital. the officers of the detroit police force take more monson to the station and begin to question her. questions like she was my girlfriend and she was my girlfriend she's more like the little sister of a bunch. we live in there i never live there in the one me i'm there. just stuff like. questioning was core from a witness to suspect. part of the interview process is you're supposed to use what recalls the behavioral analysis interview. and in that if you use these techniques it's like you know you're watching a person's body language or you're watching the way that they say something or the way that the answer your questions there's also a series of seventeen questions that we teach is that you can ask the person and you know based is that based on your answers on their answers and based on your observations you will be able to tell whether or not they're being deceptive or not they're guilty with over eighty percent accuracy. verify judgment i'm very it's like being a human lie detect

were regular crack users on the day of the crime showing a claims to have seen lewis return from kristina brown subpart meant covered in blood the the in. and then a little bit of my door open and the local m.p. throwing them out the way and blood. and. blood. boots on. it like blood and nails he just killed. me. you know wrong as it is. whatever else he was charged with i feel like eighteen year he. too much. i'm the one that told that girl was not fair she was beat. they had and he. no he did not be. sure lena bentleys witness statement changes everything a team of lawyers and students from the university of michigan decide to reopen lamar monson's case they are part of a national network of dozens of american universities who fight against judicial errors over the course of a year they retraced the police investigation step by step trying to prove lamar monson's innocence the big problem right away with this confession was that it didn't match the crime scene so at the time they interrogated lamar and then extracted this false confession and got him to sign this false confession the police b