Read Online The Forgotten Killer: Rudy Guede and the Murder of Meredith Kercher (Kindle Single) by Douglas Preston, John Douglas, Mark Olshaker, Steve Moore, Judge Michael Heavey, Jim Lovering, Thomas Lee Wright - Free Book Online Page A
Authors: Douglas Preston, John Douglas, Mark Olshaker, Steve Moore, Judge Michael Heavey, Jim Lovering, Thomas Lee Wright
Ads: Link
about that for a minute. That’s not a number in dispute. Forty-three hours of sitting at a table, being badgered by questions from detectives in five days. Eight hours a day for an entire workweek. In a foreign country. In a foreign language.
The All-Nighter
Of even greater ignominy are the last eight hours of the interrogation. They took place from approximately 10:30 p.m. until 6 a.m. All night. Ask yourself: Why would detectives schedule an interrogation overnight? Detectives are, for the most part, different from other policemen in that their regular schedule is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or something similar. Sure, they get called out in the middle of the night, but all things being equal, unless you are in a department like the NYPD or LAPD where a skeleton crew covers the evening shift, normal schedules for detectives are not overnight.
But on the final evening of Amanda’s interrogation, she was interrogated all night. Not by just one or two detectives, but by adozen—twelve—detectives. Again, the police not only do not dispute this; they have entered this evidence into court. Perugia has a population of approximately 165,000 people. I live in a town of 100,000, and there are less than a half-dozen detectives to cover the city, much less work an all-night shift. Perugia had to call in resources from Rome to help that night. It was not a spontaneous interrogation. It was preplanned, and preplanned to be an all-nighter.
Why interrogate all night? There are few legitimate reasons:
• It’s a rapidly unfolding case in which lives are at risk, such as a bombing spree.
• It’s the only time the suspect is available.
• There is a deadline.
However, this was not a rapidly unfolding case. Rudy Guede, the real murderer, had left town. Amanda wasn’t leaving. Murders weren’t continuing. Amanda was available any time they needed her. She had proved that. There was no deadline except that posed by ego.
The purpose of interrogating at night has more to do with torture than law enforcement. What they were going to do was something I first encountered years ago, when my squad went to take custody of a terrorist suspect in a remote part of an obscure country.
When the agents arrived to pick up the suspect, they realized that he was in the middle of a process we came to call “tag-teaming.” It takes dozens of operatives/officers to make it work. Here’s how it works: Two officers are assigned to the suspect for approximately an hour at a time. Their prime responsibility is simply to keep the person awake and agitated. They do this for only an hour, because it takes a lot of energy out of the detectives. After an hour, a fresh pair of “interrogators” come in. Again, the questions they ask are secondary to their main task, which is keeping the person awake and afraid. By tag-teaming every hour, the interrogators remain fresh, energetic, and on-task. The suspect, meanwhile, becomes increasingly exhausted, confused by different questions from dozens of different interrogators, and prays for the interrogation to end. In extreme cases, people can become so disoriented that they forget where they are.
As evidence of the existence and effectiveness of this technique, I provide excerpts from a declassified CIA document published by Research Publications in Woodbridge, Conn. This document was provided to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by the CIA director in 1956 and describes brainwashing techniques used by Communists in North Korea. Several techniques are discussed, but No. 5 is of particular interest:
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR 25 APR 1956
_________________________________
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable J. Edgar Hoover
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
SUBJECT: Brainwashing
TECHNIQUES AND THEIR EFFECTS:
5. Induction of Fatigue. This is a well-known device for
The All-Nighter
Of even greater ignominy are the last eight hours of the interrogation. They took place from approximately 10:30 p.m. until 6 a.m. All night. Ask yourself: Why would detectives schedule an interrogation overnight? Detectives are, for the most part, different from other policemen in that their regular schedule is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or something similar. Sure, they get called out in the middle of the night, but all things being equal, unless you are in a department like the NYPD or LAPD where a skeleton crew covers the evening shift, normal schedules for detectives are not overnight.
But on the final evening of Amanda’s interrogation, she was interrogated all night. Not by just one or two detectives, but by adozen—twelve—detectives. Again, the police not only do not dispute this; they have entered this evidence into court. Perugia has a population of approximately 165,000 people. I live in a town of 100,000, and there are less than a half-dozen detectives to cover the city, much less work an all-night shift. Perugia had to call in resources from Rome to help that night. It was not a spontaneous interrogation. It was preplanned, and preplanned to be an all-nighter.
Why interrogate all night? There are few legitimate reasons:
• It’s a rapidly unfolding case in which lives are at risk, such as a bombing spree.
• It’s the only time the suspect is available.
• There is a deadline.
However, this was not a rapidly unfolding case. Rudy Guede, the real murderer, had left town. Amanda wasn’t leaving. Murders weren’t continuing. Amanda was available any time they needed her. She had proved that. There was no deadline except that posed by ego.
The purpose of interrogating at night has more to do with torture than law enforcement. What they were going to do was something I first encountered years ago, when my squad went to take custody of a terrorist suspect in a remote part of an obscure country.
When the agents arrived to pick up the suspect, they realized that he was in the middle of a process we came to call “tag-teaming.” It takes dozens of operatives/officers to make it work. Here’s how it works: Two officers are assigned to the suspect for approximately an hour at a time. Their prime responsibility is simply to keep the person awake and agitated. They do this for only an hour, because it takes a lot of energy out of the detectives. After an hour, a fresh pair of “interrogators” come in. Again, the questions they ask are secondary to their main task, which is keeping the person awake and afraid. By tag-teaming every hour, the interrogators remain fresh, energetic, and on-task. The suspect, meanwhile, becomes increasingly exhausted, confused by different questions from dozens of different interrogators, and prays for the interrogation to end. In extreme cases, people can become so disoriented that they forget where they are.
As evidence of the existence and effectiveness of this technique, I provide excerpts from a declassified CIA document published by Research Publications in Woodbridge, Conn. This document was provided to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by the CIA director in 1956 and describes brainwashing techniques used by Communists in North Korea. Several techniques are discussed, but No. 5 is of particular interest:
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR 25 APR 1956
_________________________________
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable J. Edgar Hoover
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
SUBJECT: Brainwashing
TECHNIQUES AND THEIR EFFECTS:
5. Induction of Fatigue. This is a well-known device for
Similar Books
![Taming Heather [Cariboo Lunewulf 1]](https://fs.dianahicksbooks.com/447568/thumbs/152x264/taming-heather-cariboo-lunewulf-1.jpg)