George,

I have been present for a false confession. I was not the lead on the interview...a fire marshal was. The pressure was amped up and the interviewer kept feeding the kid (a volunteer fireman) information. You did it, didn't you (not using the Reid technique, but a television type interrogation) and yelled at the kid, threatened the kid and finally the kid said OK...you want me to say I did it, then I did it. I.....(then regurgitated all of the information that had been fed him on how he did it). That made the interviewer happy. I talked to the firefighter further and of course he immediately recanted his confession, but he was tired scared and just wanted to go home as promised if he confessed. As it turned out, he wasn't the fireman that set the fire....it was a different volunteer firefighter and the kid was fairly instrumental in catching the real guy.

It's all been adjudicated, so outside of names I will fill in whatever information you need beyond this story.

Dan Hebert