This is The Guardian.

In early January 2012, four men were brought into the police station on Chicago's northwest side. Some were friends,

some nearly strangers. Within 72 hours, three of those men confessed to having murdered

officer Clifton Lewis. But in time, they all recanted, insisting they never had anything to do with the murder.

Two of those confessions would be tossed.

One man was never even charged.

So if they didn't kill Officer Lewis,

why did they say they did?

From The Guardian, I am Melissa Segura, and this is off-duty.

Episode 2, The Interrogations.

The Murder of Clifton Lewis was one of the highest profile crimes the city had seen in years.

A cop had been killed, and CPD had been tasked with finding the killers.

This was the priority. A $10,000 reward was offered. The shooting was making headlines.

Calls to a tip line pointed to a gang called the Four Corner Hustlers.

They'd supposedly been involved in a shooting at the mini-mark three weeks before the murder.

Days were passing.

Three, four, five.

The pressure to make an arrest was enormous.

Finally, that pressure came down on a man named Edgartho Cologne.

On the evening of January 3rd, five days after the murder,

he was riding with friends in a beat-up Honda Civic.

A CPD officer pulled them over and found a gun in the car. Agartha wasn't that worried at the time. I've dealt with the police in the past, and the police would be like, okay, well, if you give me a gun or you give me whatever, I'll let you go. He figured this would be the same thing. The Chicago police want to get as many illegal guns off the street as they can.

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