#356 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Peter Reilly - UPDATE

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

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🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Why do we tell these stories?

Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell us the story of Peter Reilly, one of the first modern-day false confessors.

In 1973, police continued to interrogate 18-year-old Peter until he started to believe he was actually guilty of murdering his own mother. But Peter’s friends and neighbors believed in his innocence. Their small-town campaign for Peter’s freedom was eventually joined by a host of big name celebrities.

This episode was originally the finale of Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions Season 1. We are releasing this update because of its profound impact on Laura and Steve’s work and the movement for uncovering false confessions and wrongful convictions. It inspires the work that Steve and Laura do to this day.

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1:42.2	Hey there, it's Lauren Eyreider. I'm here with an update on a case we shared with you back in
1:50.6	season one of False Confessions. The subject is Peter Riley, whose really unusual case marks the
1:57.6	starting point of the modern movement to expose false confessions. It's a case that's had a profound
2:03.4	impact on my own work and the work of my co-host, Steve Drizzon. Now the case of Peter Riley is in
2:09.3	some ways a classic false confession story. It involves a young and vulnerable suspect,
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