lamar monson's name is cleared for good. robert lewis the man whose fingerprints were found at the scene as to this day still not been indicted. you have his ex-girlfriend saying he did it and then all the people in the world whose fingerprints could be on that toilet in blood it's him that's pretty good evidence i mean that's that's a case where i think the the dumbest prosecutor in the world could win a conviction pretty easily. but. they made it clear they're not going to charge him because charging him would be admitting that they got it wrong with them armand's. kristina brown has been dead now for 22 years but she still deserves justice and her family still deserves justice and they won't get it because the prosecution the stuff. 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. i'm a taxpayer i've lived in this city in this world over 50 years. they don't care. all they want to do is get away and people. that try to keep families tog

with no evidence or witness statements against him on the 7th of march $997.00 lamar monson is sentenced to 50 years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of christina brown. only one element was used against him the confession that he signed. on and believe that this is going to be. off years we're not going to want to be in prison on. something that i wouldn't wish him off worst enemy just being processed for you to go into. wassail on the whole process of a stone i'm comfortable. you feel like your freedom is being siphoned away from. by you one thing about them are. i think that the last time he saw his daughters they were looking occurred to me. but everything he told me to do for her. in the matters and in his car i did everything he said do for her she never had a word for anything because a father was not around. and she was upset and angry her mother too was because them are was in 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 in the world for nothing but missing o

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 got him asinus false confession the police believe that christina brown had been stabbed to death they believe that because near her body in the bathroom sink there was a bloody knife and she had been stabbed so they extracted a confession or i wrote out a confession for lamar in which he says he stabs her to death the problem was is that she wasn't stepped but the police did know that time so a few days later when the autopsy report comes out it reveals that she had superficial stab wounds but actually she'd been bludgeoned to death with a heavy object. it does not take the lawyers long to find the heavy object that allegedly killed the victim on the photos in the case file they notice that the toilet tank lid is not in the right place. the likely murder instrument was the ceramic toilet tank with a heavy ce

we're at age 43 lamar monson has spent 21 years of his life behind bars. in 1996 he was convicted of murder and sentenced to 50 years in prison at the time he's making a living by selling drugs in an apartment building in detroit. is accused of killing christina brown one of his young clients on the night of the 19th of january 1996. however on the night of the murder lamar was far from the scene of the crime were. he was at home with his 6 year old daughter. and out watching cartoons with my daughter that's saturday morning and i sure won't mia and i was like mom we were watching cartoons and davey and a morning where my daughter saturday morning and i. best like i want to find this man and i was the last day i was out. that saturday morning lamar monson is the 1st to arrive at the scene he finds the apartment in a state of chaos and then he sees the young christina brown lying motionless on the floor on january 20th 1996 lamar went for his afternoon shift to the apartment and he found the body of christina brown he knew her as crystal. he thought she was

that saturday morning lamar monson is the 1st to arrive at the scene he finds the apartment in a state of chaos and then he sees the young christina brown lying motionless on the floor on january 20th 1906 lamar went for his afternoon shift to the apartment and he found the body of christina brown he knew her as crystal. he thought she was 17 years old it was a young tall young woman who does drive herself a 17. after she was 12 and she was another one of the dealers who dealt out of that apartment and what he found was this horrific bloody crime scene. were. she was in a state of needed medical attention and. or if it. was she was. she was waving at me and trying to say my name and i was told the nurse. just hold on i want to get you out. and i'm going to be long. and frantically. banging the knowledge doors and the apartment for asked to call the police or call him as the police came and lamar spoke to the police and the police immediately decided that he was their suspect and so on that day very day he was arrested in fact we have a police report where the detective basically says o

lamar monson sees that he is about to be caught in a trap police detective joan going places a file on the table. another brought to her office. and. she said she had a pile of files on the desk and she mentioned well you know this she was make a reference to those files being evidence begins you against me and i'm like. ok. i don't know what that is book i haven't done anything and i don't know why i'm down here and i want to go basically. what was inside of this fight. anything. lamar monson tries to ignore her but american police officers have the right to lie to a suspect lying is a normal part of the process used to put suspects under pressure. i can lie. about the evidence i can come i think i absolutely the courts allow me to live up to a point you know there's certain laws that are so outrageous that good records are going to let it but i can tell you all kinds of lies i can tell you that we have 3 or 4 we have 4 witnesses who say that they saw you take the money and you're going to cock oftentimes it will come in with a thick file folder filled with papers doesn't matter what'

lamar monson tries to ignore her but american police officers have the right to lie to a suspect lying is a normal part of the process used to put suspects under pressure. i can lie. about the evidence i can tell i think i absolutely the courts allow me to live up to a point you know there's certain laws that are so outrageous that good not records are going to lead it but i can tell you all kinds of lies i can tell you that we have 3 or 4 we have 4 witnesses who say that they saw you take the money and you're going to my cock oftentimes it will come in with a. file folder filled with papers doesn't matter what's in that file folder it could be take out menus from a restaurant ok and oftentimes there will be clipped on the top of that holder a d.v.d. ok and police officers will tell the suspect that there was a camera across the street that was filming the area where the crime occurred and that their images on the d.v.d. so there's technological evidence that police officers sometimes use other times they'll claim that they've had they found fingerprints or blood evidence or d.n.a. evi

with no evidence or witness statements against him on the 7th of march $997.00 lamar monson is sentenced to 50 years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of christina brown. only one element was used against him the confession that he signed. it and believe that this is going to pay. off usually they're not going to want to be in prison on. something that i wouldn't wish them off worst enemy just being processed for you to go into a sale. the whole process of a distressed i'm comfortable. you feel like your freedom is being siphoned away from. and tell you one thing about them are. i think that the last time he saw his daughter they were looking occurred to me. but everything he told me to do for her . in the letters and in his. everything he do for her she never had to want anything because the father was not around. and she was upset and angry her mother too was because the maher wasn't here to help her tray his daughter said 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 as is she didn't want for nothing but missing

with no evidence or witness statements against him on the 7th of march $997.00 lamar monson is sentenced to 50 years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of kristina brown. only one element was used against him the confession that he signed. martin believe that this is going to be. off years they're not going to want to be in prison on. something that i.

january 1996 at 6 o 2 am after 10 hours of interrogation detective obtains a single signature from lamar monson in this document he explains that he involuntarily stabbed christina brown detective going in was subsequently removed from the homicide unit and later terminated from the detroit police and the reason she was removed from the homicide unit was because she was accused of fabricating the words tricking people into signing false confessions. but he calls out america and other nations for not practicing what they preach not only when it comes to trade was the russian president's assessment came at the same petersburg international economic forum speaking alongside other world leaders. british prime minister theresa may officially steps down as leader of the conservative party now the race to replace her is on 11 candidates eyeing up the job. turned serial killer gets a 2nd life sentence for murdering 85 patients while working at 2 hospitals. with live news 247 this is the international. welcome to the program 1st and then where world leaders have taken to the stage including the russian