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Anatomy of a Confession: The Debra Milke Case
Anatomy of a Confession The Debra Milke Case Author:Gary L. Stuart Anatomy of a Confession is the story of the 1990 murder trial of Debra Milke. Two men?Debra?s boyfriend at the time and a friend of his?murdered Debra?s four year-old son in the Arizona desert. One of them implicated the boy?s mother. Even before Debra was questioned, the police hung a guilty tag on her. Debra Milke spent twenty-three years on d... more »eath row for the murder of her four year-old son based solely on a confession she never gave. This is also the story of Detective Armando Saldate, his history of extracting forced confessions, and the role the Phoenix Police Department played in the cover-up and misconduct in its handling of the Milke investigation. Anatomy of a Confession is a vivid and shocking reminder of what America?s vaunted presumption of innocence is all about.« less