The Refeas were a Pakistani-Canadian immigrant family who moved to Bellevue, Washington,

while their son-a-team finished his freshman year at Cornell University.

Ateef's father, Dr. Tareeg Refe, was a prominent and outspoken moderate Muslim with controversial

views in their old community in Vancouver.

While ateef and his best friend Sebastian Burns were out for the night on July 12, 1994,

ateef's father, mother, and sister were brutally bludgeoned to death in their home.

Burns on either side of the Refeas home, independently reported hearing the sounds of the murders

at a time for which the boys were about to be well known.

Their vocal operation revealed no incriminating evidence.

DNA evidence mixed with Dr. Refeas blood belonged to neither the victims nor ateef or Sebastian.

Yet, despite all of this, as well as compelling leads implicating religious extremists, the Bellevue

police never took their focus off of ateef and Sebastian.

While the boys went up to live with Sebastian's parents in Canada, investigators enlisted

the help of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to perform an undercover sting called Mr.

Big that extracted two false confessions that were riddled with inconsistencies and

contradictions.

To solidify their case, they coerced ateef and Sebastian's friend, Jimmy Miyoshi, to give

a third inconsistent statement.

When expert testimony on false confessions as well as the evidence of other possible suspects

were ruled inadmissible, the jury was only able to weigh the inconsistent false confessions

against the physical evidence and eyewitness accounts that clearly contradicted them.

This is Ron Paul Convection with Jason Plum.

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