Death Row on a Lie: Bob Motta on the Wrongful Yogurt Shop Convictions in Austin
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🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this second segment of Hidden Killers Live, Bob Motta reacts to the most painful revelation of the press conference: the state’s admission that Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen were innocent all along. Convicted in 2001 and 2002 on the basis of confessions extracted after 18‑ and 5‑hour interrogations, these men served years behind bars — one on death row — for crimes they didn’t commit.
Bob takes us inside the mechanics of coerced confessions. He explains how long hours, suggestion, minimization, and tunnel vision can make innocent people say anything to end an interrogation. He also lays out why juries still believe these confessions, even when no physical evidence supports them, and why prosecutors keep pushing cases that DNA has already undermined.
This isn’t just about one bad case in Austin. It’s about a system that prioritizes “solved” over “proven” — and the lives ruined when that shortcut becomes policy.
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| 0:38.6 | Hi there. My name is Annie Elise, aka your True Crime BFF and host of the podcast Serialously. |
| 0:44.7 | I have been a true crime enthusiast forever, but I wished somebody would break down the cases for me like a friend, |
| 0:50.1 | giving all the details and discussing every twist and turn. So I decided to create a podcast that |
| 0:54.5 | does just that. Serialessly with Annie Elise is topping the charts with over one million weekly downloads. |
| 1:00.2 | I do the deep dives in these cases so you don't have to, diving into all the raw details, saying what |
| 1:04.6 | we're all thinking and in a conversational way, just like having a conversation with your best friend. |
| 1:09.2 | So join me and let's talk all things true crime. |
| 1:11.7 | Serialously with Annie Elise. |
| 1:13.4 | New episodes drop every Monday and Thursday wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:17.3 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 1:26.3 | The Innocence Project says nearly a third of DNA exonerations involve false confessions. |
| 1:33.6 | I mean, this is obviously kind of a new thing we're coming about now with the DNA technology that exists and looking back at these older cases. |
| 1:40.4 | Bob, I want to ask you, I mean, as a defense attorney, how difficult is it to to take on a case or |
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