KEVIN FOX SUIT | Dad says harsh questioning made him confess to killing Riley amid harsh questioning

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/681221,CST-NWS-Fox05.article

December 5, 2007
BY LEONARD N. FLEMING Staff Reporter/[e-mail]
Kevin Fox was ready to crack.

He was hungry. He had failed a polygraph. He was led to believe his wife had abandoned him, his son had implicated him and his father told Will County investigators to "do what you want with him."

In lurid and dramatic testimony in federal court Tuesday, Fox said one detective showed him a picture of his dead 3-year-old daughter Riley with duct tape over her mouth and panties missing. After nearly 14 hours of interrogation in October 2004, they offered Fox a deal to admit to involuntary manslaughter.

"I was thinking my wife left, my father left and my son said I did it," Fox said from the stand in his civil rights lawsuit against Will County authorities. "I had no one. I went along with an accident story just to get out. I knew the story was bull---- and that it would be checked out and I would be cleared."

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1. it possible, but once you've confessed you have screwed yourself

unless there is proof positive evidence that it wasn't you.

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2. I know

That became painfully obvious when it was discovered that 13 of 25 condemned men on death row here in Illinois were factually innocent of the capital crimes of which they were convicted.

Don