And that, said Lt. John Cornicello, a key member of the task force searching for the man initially known as the Saturday Shooter, was what led to a highly unusual confession that came not in an interrogation room, in front of a video camera, but over a cellphone, from a man walking free, if tearfully, on the streets of Crown Heights.
I unfolded and might do so again in the near future, if I live the pizza-parlor scene in order to prepare him for one of the main points, which was that Burdick had admitted that he massacred the pizza parlor "for the hell of it because it was waiting for me to do it," he said, first in the initial police interrogation and then, later, in front of the packed courtroom.
"During their interrogation, many of them were badly beaten in front of us," said Aris Papadokostopoulos.
A: It's a combination of stressing the person out, exhausting the person through a very long interrogation and dangling some potential reward for confession in front of him, like a promise of leniency.
Grumpy questioning from the judge (clearly unimpressed with the man in front of him) and a tame interrogation from David Barr certainly didn't tell us anything much.
Demanding he reveal the location of a suspected insurgent, the men threatened to kill his daughter in front of the family before dragging Mahsan off for interrogation and telling his wife "he is finished".
Abdel Hadi was also hesitant to take drastic measures against the army, especially in front of its chief of staff, who was present during the interrogation, and subsequently released Nasser.
Many of these techniques overlap with other interrogation procedures – the use of stress positions, and in particular shackling a standing detainee with his hands in front of his body.
During interrogations, they threatened to sodomize her with a baton and once stripped her of her clothing in front of twenty men.
