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338. Intellectual dishonesty epic, pt. 2

By Joel Jacobsen

In its May 23, 1955 edition, Time Magazine ran this story:Just about dinnertime, on May 11, 1941, a garment worker named Santo Caminito was picked up by New York police for the holdup-murder of Coney Island Merchant Murray Hameroff. Although Caminito had never been arrested before, the cops were sure they had their man. They set out to get a confession—and they did.Santo Caminito was thrown into a bedless cell. His family and a lawyer retained by relatives were denied permission to see him. Relays of detectives questioned him for 27 hours, giving him almost no rest. To show Caminito how hopeless his cause was, the police worked a trick: a male detective and two women from the pickpocket squad, posing as witnesses to the crime, confronted Caminito and pretended to identify him as the driver of the getaway car...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on January 17, 2008 (boomark / email).