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ANNIE ARMEN LIVE Tributes: Stephanie Ann Crowe
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Show Aired 12/16/04
AAL Tributes
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Special Guests:
Cheryl and Steven Crowe - Parents of Michael,
Stephanie, and Shannon Crowe. Expert Guest:
Richard A. Leo, Ph.D., J.D. - Recognized False
Confession Expert, Associate Professor of Criminology,
Law and Society, Psychology, and Social Behavior at the
University of California, Irvine. Dr. Leo has served as
a consultant on more than 500 criminal and civil cases
involving disputed interrogations and confessions; he
has testified as an expert witness more than 100 times
in state, federal, and military courts in 18 different
states – the interrogation of Michael Crowe case being
one if not one of the most significant case for Dr. Leo.
Topic: Cheryl and Steven Crowe Speak Out Post
Double Family Tragedy! The Loss of Their
12 year old daughter, Stephanie Crowe on January
21, 1998. The Inhumane Interrogation of their 14 year
old son,
Michael Crowe.
Tonight on Annie Armen Live, be prepared to be shocked
and disgusted with what you are about to hear from
Cheryl and Steven Crowe as they speak of their
humiliation, despair, anger, helplessness, devastation,
frustration, while being stripped of their dignity, from
their home, and away from their family throughout the
interview / interrogation process - the very legal
system designed to protect them! Imagine losing a child,
while undergoing inhumane, torturous interrogations and
treated as possible suspects, all the while being
separated from your other two children, who were being
lied to by officers out to get one thing only – a
confession at any price!
Join Annie Armen together with the Crowes,
and with false confession expert guest Dr. Richard
Leo, and experience a horrific reality no family
should ever have to endure at the price of honesty,
truth, and justice. Cheryl and Steven will share with us
how they coped with and survived through this double
jeopardy. But for the videotaping of Michael Crowe’s
interview and interrogation, Michael would still be in
prison today.
Referring to the article “Untrue Confessions” written by
Edward Humes in the Orange County Register, dated
October 10, 2004:
“In the videos shot inside the Escondido Police
interrogation room, 14-year-old Michael writhes,
screams, sobs, appears to nearly choke, and begs the
police to please, please stop. He bangs his head against
the wall and cries out, ‘Oh, God, Oh God, no.’ He curls
into an upright fetal position and says over and over
that he could not possibly have killed his sister, that
he would remember it if he had.
But the detectives are relentless. They lie to him, they
claim a voice stress analyzer reveals him as a killer,
they say blood and other evidence links him and his
friends irrefutably to the crime. They imply prison and
rape by older inmates will be inevitable unless he
confesses and gets help. And, finally, Crowe cracks. …
At last he says on the tape that he may have done it
without really remembering it. …The detectives declared
this a triumph and called Crowe's words an admission of
guilt. Leo calls it a "coerced-persuaded" confession
- when the confessor doubts his own memory and makes an
admission based on the "facts" the police give him.”
Referring to the Union-Tribune Article – Haunting
questions: The Stephanie Crowe Murder Case, Part 5 –
written by Mark Sauer and John Wilkens: Richard Ofshe,
a nationally recognized false confession expert, stated:
“Michael Crowe was under intense psychological duress
and that the confessions were classic examples of the
results of coercion.”
False Confession Expert and Criminologist Richard
Leo states: “In my professional opinion, the
interrogations of Michael Crowe were psychologically
brutal, coercive and highly improper."
Tune in tonight on Annie Armen Live!
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