November 23, 2020 • 32 mins
One woman was forced to talk. The other was forced to listen. Both were powerless.
Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell us about a California man named Ricky Davis. In 1985, Ricky and his girlfriend, Connie, found their roommate brutally stabbed to death. Without any leads, the case went cold for 14 years until detectives convinced Connie that she had repressed memories of Ricky committing the crime.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Wrongful Conviction, False Confessions. I'm Laura and I
writer and I'm Steve Drisan. Today we're going to tell
you about a California man named Ricky Davis. In Ricky
and his girlfriend Connie found their roommate brutally stabbed to death.
Without any leads, the case went cold for fourteen years.
That's when detectives convinced Connie that she had repressed memories
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of Ricky committing the crime. Based on Connie's false statement,
Ricky spent twelve years in prison until very recently when
he and his mother Maureen, finally had something to be
thankful for. I think it's important to realize that on
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the road to a wrongful conviction there's a lot of
road kill. There's the defendant who gets wrongfully convicted. There's
the defendant's family who has to live with the fact
that their loved one is going away for a long
period of time or sentenced to death. Yeah. In this case,
it was Ricky's mom, Maureen, who had to bear the
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brunt of that pain. And then there are witnesses sometimes
who are pressured to lie to save their own skin.
Witnesses like Connie Doll and they have to live with
the guilt that accompanies that lie. Yeah, it's interesting. I
mean when you think about Connie and Maureene in that courtroom,
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one woman is being forced to talk and one woman
is being prevented from talking, and of course the two
of them have two very different stories to tell about
who Ricky Davis is and what Ricky Davis did. And
so the notion of powerlessness that Maurene experienced in this
case is something that we see all the time. I mean,
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while the trial is happening, there's nothing more can do
to stop the training from running over her son, and
Connie's being forced to drive that train. She's a victim
here too. Today's story starts in El Dorado Hills, California,
an upper class suburb about twenty miles east of Sacramento.
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In so many ways, El Dorado Hills epitomizes the American dream.
It's filled with expensive homes that back up onto lush
golf courses. Its shopping centers are filled with luxury stores
and fancy restaurants. It's families, by and large live lives
of privilege and peace. Ricky Davis's story is still unfolding today,
but it began back in Ricky was twenty years old.
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He lived in El Dorado Hills in a large home
on Stanford Lane, along with his mom, Maureen. Now Ricky
and Maureen were pretty different from their wealthy neighbors. Maureen
had been a teenage mom. By the time she turned twenties.
She was raising Ricky and his three sisters in southern
California without much support from their dad. Maureen worked to
pay the bills by waitressing. She and Ricky had come
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to El Dorado Hills just a few years before our
story begins. Ricky's grandmother, a successful businesswoman, had recently moved
the area, and she bought the house on Stanford Lane
for them. This family might not have been classic El
Dorado Hills, but they were close knit and loving. No secrets,
no drama, no lies. Ricky had a nineteen year old girlfriend,
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Connie Doll, who spent plenty of nights at the Stanford
Lane house. Now Ricky's mom, Maureen wasn't thrilled with Ricky
and Connie's relationship because Connie had a pretty serious meth habit.
Ricky smoked pot, It's true, but he wasn't into harder stuff,
and Maureen worried that Connie would drag Ricky into trouble.
But unlike Ricky, Connie didn't have a stable home. Sometimes
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she had no home at all and slept in her car.
Once she and Ricky started dating, Connie often spent the
night at Ricky's house, climbing in his bedroom window after
Maureen was asleep. One Friday, July five, the Stanford Lane
house gained two more residents. Rickie's grandmother was in the
real estate business, and she had recently learned that one
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of her employees needed a temporary place to stay. Fifty
four year old Jane Hilton had been fighting with her
husband over money, and those fights had apparently turned violent.
When Ricky's grandmother found out about this, she offered Jane
and her thirteen year old daughter Autumn a spare bedroom
on Stanford Lane as a safe harbor. They moved in
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on Friday July five, but that harbor wasn't quite as
safe as it seemed. The next day, Saturday, July six,
the house emptied out, at least for the most part.
Ricky's mom, Maureen, took off in the middle of the
day to go camping with her boyfriend. In the evening,
Ricky and his girlfriend Connie headed out to a party.
Even thirteen year old Autumn left the house to meet
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up with some new friends, three teenage boys she had
met earlier that day. For her part, Autumn's mom, Jane,
stayed home. Ricky and Connie got back at around three
thirty Sunday morning. When they arrived at the house, they
found Autumn outside standing alone in the front yard. Autumn
told them she'd been home for an hour, but she
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hadn't gone inside yet. She was worried about getting in
trouble with her mom for being out too late, she said,
and she was hoping Ricky and Connie would go inside
with her. The three going together upstairs, there's no sign
of Autumn's mom, Jane, so Ricky and Connie leave Autumn
in her room and had for bed themselves. But as
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they walked down the hall, Ricky spots blood on the
carpet outside the master bedroom, whereas mom Maureen usually sleeps.
She's on a camping trip, he reminds himself. He pushes
the door open and finds a nightmare. It's not his mom,
but Autumn's mom, Jane Hilton. She's lying on the bed
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wearing only a nightgown, and she's clear really dead. Jane's
been stabbed thirty nine times and is covered in blood.
She's got defensive wounds up and down her arms. One
of her fingernails is missing, and her hand is clutching
a tuft of someone's hair. There's even a bite mark
on the back of her left shoulder. Ricky and Connie
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were horrified. They called the police, who arrived and interviewed
both of them on the spot. Ricky and Connie told
the police they'd been at a party all night and
it was pretty easy to corroborate their story. The hood
of Ricky's car was still warm, suggesting he and Connie
were being honest about only recently getting back to the house,
and thirteen year old Autumn told police she'd seen Ricky
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and Connie arrive home and gone in with them. To
these officers at the scene, it seemed pretty clear that
Ricky and Connie were innocent, so clear that the police
didn't bother to interview the other people who had been
with them at the party. Of course, those people would
have been alibi witnesses. Instead, police moved on to check
out the obvious suspect, Jane's husband the guy with whom
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she had been fighting, but he seemed to have an
alibi too. He'd apparently spent the evening at a local restaurant.
So next the police tried to find the three teenage
boys Autumn had been hanging out with earlier that night.
The problem was Autumn only knew first names for two
of them, Michael and Calvin. After scanning through a few
yearbooks from local high schools, the detectives came up with nothing. Unfortunately,
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that was it for the investigation. Without any suspects or
solid leads, the case went cold for fourteen years. Fast
forward from July to November. Ricky and Connie had broken
up long ago. Their relationship ended up lasting less than
a year. Since then, Connie had continued using meth off
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and on. For his part, Rickie had spent those years
in and out of prison for a series of relatively
minor offenses, mostly drug related crimes and robbery, but neither
of them had ever been involved in anything close to murder.
In nine nine, the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office decided
to reinvestigate Jane Hilton's killing. Two detectives were assigned to
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this cold case, and they started by reviewing old news coverage.
Their attention was caught by a story that had run
in a local newspaper just a few days after the murder.
A reporter from the paper had shown up at the
Stanford Lane house. Connie had let her in and shown
her the room where Jane had been killed. The reporter
asked a bunch of questions about finding the body, and
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that's when Connie had said something that struck these new
detectives as suspicious. Connie had told the reporter that Jane's
body had been positioned on the bed as though she
were sleeping. Whoever had killed Jane, Connie speculated, must have
moved her body onto the bed afterwards. Connie's comment was
pretty obviously a guess, but the police began wondering if
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she actually might know something about the body being moved.
So over the next fifteen months, between November and February
two one, the police decided to interrogate Connie on three
separate occasions. It was all caught on videotape, every last word,
and that videotape makes it clear the police weren't aiming
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only for Connie. They wanted her to confess to being
present when Jane died, and they wanted her to name
her ex boyfriend, Ricky Davis as the killer. The theory
was that Jane was brutally beaten and stabbed to death
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by a man, and demand that the police officers had
in mind was Ricky Davis. Police officers often go after
ex girlfriends or ex wives on the assumption that there
was a bad breakup, that there's some animous there that
may motivate the aggrieved party into revealing information that they
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had been unwilling to reveal at the time of the investigation.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned is the
thinking here. Connie is first brought in for questioning only
days after the new cops take over the case. At first,
she insists repeatedly that she had nothing to do with
Jane's murder, that all she remembers is coming home and
finding the body. But right away Connie is hit with
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a barrage of lies. Police tell her that a witness
had placed her in Ricky at the homicide scene, although
no one had. Police tell Connie the d n A
established her presence in Jane's bedroom even though it didn't,
and they tell Connie that the hairs found clenched in
Jane's hand belonged to Ricky. Another lie. Police had actually
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lost those hairs. They were never tested at all. Were
present in the house when this happened. I was not.
What do you mean? Like I said, you know, we've
got all kinds of physical evidence there happened. Oh my god,
there's no way. Over time, though, the police's cascading lies
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begin to break Connie down. Like most of us, Connie
has no idea that police are allowed to lie during interrogations,
So after hearing all this apparent evidence of her own involvement,
Connie starts questioning her memory of what happened all those
years ago. Okay, if I was there, I had no
memory of that. She's desperately trying to make sense of
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what they're saying, and eventually tells the investigators that maybe
she was there and just couldn't remember it. The investigators
suggest that Ricky had programmed her memory so that Connie
would blank out her recollections of the crime. She agrees,
maybe I have amnesia. I couldn't watch that happen. That
would have been if I've written happening. At least she
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wouldn't hive pointed at they are absolutely confusing the hell
out of her. They are causing a crisis of confidence
where she begins not only to doubt her memory, but
she can't really distinguish between what she actually remembers and
what she thinks she might remember. Investigators Warren Connie that
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if she doesn't somehow recover her memories, they might have
to interrogate her again, and they say that could lead
to her arrest. On the other hand, they imply that
Connie will receive leniency, even immunity from prosecution, if she
provides them with a statement, right now, we're first one
to jump on the brandwagon. I always get the easiest ride.
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And so what happens here is that the police provide
incentives to adopt their preconcy theory, promises of leniency or
threats of harm, suggestions that the first person to jump
on the bandwagon is going to get the best deal,
and that if she doesn't jump on first, someone else
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is going to take your spot and she's going to
get punished more severely. These tactics work. Connie breaks and
agrees to confess, to say that she helped Ricky killed Jane,
but she has no idea what to say about the crime. Remember,
Connie wasn't actually there to help her out. Investigators feed
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Connie everything they know about Jane Hilton's murder and everything
they think happened to Here's the story that Connie ultimately
agreed to repeat. She said she was there while Ricky
and Jane were arguing about whether Jane's daughter Autumn could
go out that night. During the argument, Connie said, Ricky
punched Jane in the face. The altercation escalated. Eventually, Connie
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went downstairs and acted as a lookout while Ricky stabbed Jane. Then,
Connie said she came back to the room and helped
Ricky move Jane's body onto the bad So to me,
what makes this case different is that we have a
sort of recipe, if you will, for a persuaded false confession.
What's unique about a persuaded false confession is that the
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suspect comes to doubt their own memory. They get to
a place where they think the police officers are telling
me I committed this crime. They're telling me they have
evidence that proves that I committed this crime, but why
can't I remember it? And when a suspect gets to
that place of uncertainty, the police officers provide an answer,
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the events that you saw were so traumatic that they
caused you to repress these memories, and so the interrogation
becomes an exercise in pulling these memories out of the
suspect's mind. But they're not real memories. They don't exist.
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At times, Connie's language reveals her own uncertainty. Even while
she's confessing I think I did that, I probably did that.
I seem to remember that. There's a tentativeness that you
wouldn't have if they were real memories, and we see
that throughout Connie's interrogation telling Lee. When Connie's not fed information,
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she can't get anything about the story right. She's not
able to tell the police what the murder weapon looked like,
where Ricky got it, or how he disposed of it.
The detectives are shaping her memories, they are feeding her facts,
and the final story here is really their story. It's
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their preconceived theory of the crime come to life through
the words of Connie Doll. Strangely enough, the police don't
arrest anyone right away. Instead, they leave Connie alone for
a while and interview Ricky himself. He vehemently denies any
involvement whatsoever. So the police come back to Connie in
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January two thousand to see if she can give them
any more information, and they remind her that the more
details she can provide, the better off she'll be. During
this interrogation, officers play Connie the crime scene video that
was recorded the night Jane died to see if they
can quote refresh her memory. Now. I've seen this video myself,
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and it's horrifying. It's almost totally silent as the videographer
walks from room to room, ending up in the bedroom
where Jane died. The camera documents every wound, every injury,
from her missing fingernail to her eyes which were still open.
It's the kind of crime scene that makes even people
who see this all the time sick to their stomachs.
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Connie watches the video and agrees to add more detail
to her story. She says she heard Jane plead for
her life, but Ricky didn't listen. She says she heard
Jane make gurgling noises as Rickie stabbed her, and after
the attack, Connie says she saw Rickie covered in blood.
The police still don't arrest Connie, but they also don't
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leave her alone. Instead, they come back a third time
in two thousand one to try to get even more details.
This time, detectives tell her that she'll either be charged
with a misdemeanor accessory type of thing, or she'll go
down as a full blooded half partner in the murder.
It all depends on her credibility. Now, Connie's got two
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young children. The police tell her that if she continues
to cooperate, she'll be able to go home to her kids.
But they warn her saying I don't know isn't going
to help you at all. They bring up the subject
of her children repeatedly throughout the interrogation, and the message
to Connie is crystal clear. If I don't tell them
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what they want to hear, I'm gonna lose my children.
So they play on her emotions as a mother. These
kinds of tactics are very common when a woman is
a suspect to her witness, because police officers know that
most women would walk across a field of glass in
order to protect their children. To satisfy her interrogators, Connie
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adds another detail to her story, and it's a big one.
She wasn't just a lookout. She says she was in
the room during the murder and tried to intervene. And
remember that bite mark on the back of Jane's shoulder.
Connie ends up saying she was responsible for it, that
she accidentally bit Jane during the struggle. Finally, Connie's story
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was good enough one two thousand two, paced only on
Connie's confession, the El Dorado County District Attorney's office filed
murder charges against Ricky Davis. And here's the thing. When
the cops told Connie she wouldn't be charged, turns out
they were lying again. Connie was charged with murder two
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as an accomplice. A few months later, prosecutors told Connie
that if she agreed to testify against Rickie at trial,
she could plead guilty to manslaughter and get a huge
reduction in her sentence. They decide exactly how much of
a reduction. After she testified. With no good options left,
Connie pled guilty and agreed to take the stand. I
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didn't like her to start with. That's Maureen Kleine, Ricky
Davis's mother. Remember, she's always had an opinion about Ricky's
ex girlfriend, Connie. Ricky and I have always been very close.
He had a horrible father, so I think the closeness
was because I was all Ricky really had. Even as
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a teenager, he would call me his best friend. So
this situation was extremely devastating. In two thousand two, Maureen
learned that Ricky was being charged with murdering Jane Hilton,
based on the testimony of a girl he dated fourteen
years ago. Marine couldn't believe it. She knew her son
was no killer, and the police had seemed to acknowledge
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his and Connie's innocence years ago. As she processed the news,
Maureen struggled to understand why Connie would falsely confess. Connie
had problems obviously, and she let the detectives talk her
into believing that she had something to do with the murder.
I was very angry at Connie, and I couldn't believe
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that she was lying this out and out lying. I
don't understand how somebody could convince you that you participated
in a murder that you didn't. The idea that Connie
would confess to a murder she didn't commit, it was
impossible for Maureen to believe. I understand and sympathize with
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Maureen about her anger towards Connie, But Connie's a tragic
victim in this too. She didn't start out by naming
Ricky Davis as a murderer, and it was only the
lies and the manipulation by the detectives in that cold
case squad that gave her really no choice but to
change her story in ways that pleased them, or else
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she was going to lose her kids. After Rickie was charged,
Maureen sat down and watched Connie's interrogation videos. As Maureen watched,
she began to see how police manipulated Connie. She started
realizing that the problem was much bigger than her son's
ex girlfriend. Connie did stay in the starting of one
of the interviews that she had been up on mess
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for twenty four hours prior, so that in itself, I
would think they wouldn't have interviewed her at that time,
but they did. Anyway, she would say exactly what the
scold it to. You could tell that they would turn
up the recording and get her back on track. They
kept did tell Connie that once Ricky was convicted that
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she would go free, And I guess they threatened her
with her children and stuff. I didn't believe anything would
come of it, because I knew Ricky had no part
of it. I knew he was innocent. Maureen was right
that Ricky was innocent, but she was wrong that nothing
would come of Connie's story. In June two thousand five,
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Ricky went on trial for Jane Hilton's murder. Prosecutors called
Connie doll as their star witness. From his seat at
the defense table, Ricky watched Connie testify. He hadn't seen
her in almost twenty years, and he couldn't believe what
he was hearing. Connie knew he was innocent. The two
of them had discovered Jane's body together somehow, though the
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system had put them on opposite sides. For her part,
Maureen sat in the front row of the courtroom, right
behind Ricky as prosecutors told the jury an unthinkable story
about her son. The way they portrayed him, like he
was some vicious animal, that was hard to take. I
was surprised that the jurors believed Connie. To me, she
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didn't sound very incredible. The way she answered was what
she was told to say, but they did believe her. Obviously,
I couldn't say anything. At times, I wanted to yell
out and react, but I knew that if I did,
I wouldn't be allowed in the courtroom, So it was
a helpless stealing. In exchange for Connie's testimony, prosecutors agreed
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that her sentence should be reduced to time served. The
next day, she walked free, but Ricky Ricky wasn't as lucky.
Based on Connie's false testimony, Ricky was convicted of murdering
Jane Hilton. He was given a sentence of sixteen years
to life. It was like a bad movie. I mean,
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I know, no systems perfect, but there was just no
way I thought it could be convicted under the circumstances.
But he was. Everything about my life changed in the
moment that he was convicted. It seemed to me my
whole personality changed. I became angry at everything I We
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should be kept each a horrible things in their life.
I mean, I'm sorry that that's the way I feel.
After his two thousand five conviction, Ricky Davis was sent
to a California prison hours away from El Dorado Hills.
His ex girlfriend Connie was free, but she never shook
her myth habit. In two thousand and fourteen, Connie died
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of an overdose. For her part, Maureen moved out of
the Stanford Lane house she couldn't be there alone and
started living with her mom. Every month, Maureen drove to
visit Rickey in prison year after year after year. Said
there's a lot of bad people whom they deserved to
be in there, but there's seems to be a lot
that they shouldn't be in there. With no money, you're
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going to do time period that was just cut and try,
and it pretty much is the way it is. This
is the same with different nationalities. They don't get the
same justice that a rich white person does, and that's wrong.
Shortly before Connie's death, the Northern California Innocence Project agreed
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to take on Ricky Davis's case, and in two thousand fourteen,
attorneys from the project sought DNA testing on a host
of items from Jane Hilton's murder scene. The crime lab
started with that bite mark on the back of Jane's shoulder,
the mark that Connie told police had been left by
her teeth. Whoever left that mark bit through Jane's nightgown.
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Sure enough, the lab found saliva on the nightgown. And
developed a full DNA profile of an unknown male. Obviously,
the biter was not Connie Doll, and it wasn't Ricky
Davis either. Next, the lab tested DNA from skin cells
that were left underneath Jane's fingernails from when she'd scratched
her attacker whose DNA was it the same unknown man
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who had left his saliva on Jane's nightgown. The profile
was run through the local and national DNA databases with
no luck. The attacker couldn't be identified, but it was
crystal clear that whoever had killed Jane Hilton was not
Connie or Ricky. Ricky's attorneys filed a post conviction petition
based on this new evidence. In two thousand nineteen, the
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court throughout Ricky's conviction. That was great news, but Ricky's
fight wasn't over. Even though the DNA excluded Ricky, prosecutors
weren't ready to drop charges until they knew whose DNA
it was, so they began preparing to retry Ricky for
Jane's murder, and Ricky had to stay behind bars. But
in the meantime, prosecutors tried a brand new method to
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identify the DNA genetic genealogy, and it led investigators back
to someone whose name they hadn't heard in twenty five years.
Genetic genealogy searches public databases like ancestry, dot com and
twenty three and me to look for matches to evidence
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that's found at a crime scene. Police officers start examining
the family trees and look for people who have a
connection to the crime scene. In Ricky's case, the process
led the d a's office to fifty one year old
Michael Green, who is Michael Green. Turns out he was
one of the three teenagers that Jane's daughter Autumn had
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been with the night her mother was killed at Long Last.
Twenty five years after Jane's death, the authorities had found
her killer. In February, Michael Green was charged with Jane's
murder and was booked into the Eldorado County Jail. He
entered a plea of not guilty and is awaiting trial
today now. Because Green's case is still unfolding, we don't
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have clear answers yet about why he attacked Jane or
how he did it. We just know the d n
A was his. That's pretty close to case closed on
February a judge declared Ricky Davis factually innocent and dismissed
the case against him after serving twelve years for a
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murder he did not commit. Ricky walked out of prison
right into the arms of his mom. The judge exonerate him,
which he said, that was the first time he had
ever done it. That was such a great feeling. And
didn't see him walk out of the jail was It's
the craziest thing. Everybody was there to care him coming
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down and hugging him and stuff. To see him smiling
because he was happy instead of having to go back
into the sales as I was leading him. Yeah, it
was fantastic feeling. Unfortunately, the same couldn't happen for Connie.
She remains in death a convicted participant in Jane Hilton's murder.
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There were two wrongful convictions here, and this DNA evidence
proved that Connie's story was false. It also proved that
she didn't bite Jane Hilton, so she deserves to be
exonerated posthumously. This year, Ricky Davis will be spending its
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first Thanksgiving in nearly twelve years with his mom Maureen. Well,
I'll make dinner that Thanksgiving Turkey. That's the only time
of a year I can afford it. But his sister's
and nephew will be here, and that'll be nice. I'm
not the best cook today, but it's more having everybody
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together and happy. That's the best part of it. He's
a very affectionate person. When he comes in and helps me,
it's best stealing in the world. I feel lucky, blessed
every time I look at him. Hello, Hey, Ricky, how
are you. I'm doing good? How do you see goody? Laura,
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tell me about those first moments of freedom, what it
felt like to walk out those doors. Long time come. Yeah,
I've seen the video a lot of people there. I
saw you eating some pizza. You went right for the
comfort food. You know, what are your toppings of choice?
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All the good stuff. Do you see your mom much
these days? Yes? I do. Yeah, I love her very much.
And her since we're talking about food and pizza and
everything else, is there's something your mom makes for you.
It's something she used to cook that you missed and
that she can make for you again. Not that you're out.
I have a funny story for that, you know. A
few days after it was out. Tell her you know
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my vision waking up in the I you couldn't be
breakfast and she says, well, you were visioning vision a
different mom. Oh my god, that's amazing. Strong to the end.
I love it. And that's the story of Ricky Davis.
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Next week we'll tell you about Michael Hash and his
childhood friend Eric Weekly. When Eric was accused of killing
an elderly woman, the pressure of the interrogation room caused
him to falsely implicate Michael. Michael's parents never stopped fighting
for their son's innocence, and now that he's been exonerated,
they're fighting to clear Eric's name. Too. Wrongful Conviction, False
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Welcome to Wrongful Conviction, False Confessions. I'm Laura and I
writer and I'm Steve Drisan. Today we're going to tell
you about a California man named Ricky Davis. In Ricky
and his girlfriend Connie found their roommate brutally stabbed to death.
Without any leads, the case went cold for fourteen years.
That's when detectives convinced Connie that she had repressed memories
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of Ricky committing the crime. Based on Connie's false statement,
Ricky spent twelve years in prison until very recently when
he and his mother Maureen, finally had something to be
thankful for. I think it's important to realize that on
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the road to a wrongful conviction there's a lot of
road kill. There's the defendant who gets wrongfully convicted. There's
the defendant's family who has to live with the fact
that their loved one is going away for a long
period of time or sentenced to death. Yeah. In this case,
it was Ricky's mom, Maureen, who had to bear the
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brunt of that pain. And then there are witnesses sometimes
who are pressured to lie to save their own skin.
Witnesses like Connie Doll and they have to live with
the guilt that accompanies that lie. Yeah, it's interesting. I
mean when you think about Connie and Maureene in that courtroom,
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one woman is being forced to talk and one woman
is being prevented from talking, and of course the two
of them have two very different stories to tell about
who Ricky Davis is and what Ricky Davis did. And
so the notion of powerlessness that Maurene experienced in this
case is something that we see all the time. I mean,
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while the trial is happening, there's nothing more can do
to stop the training from running over her son, and
Connie's being forced to drive that train. She's a victim
here too. Today's story starts in El Dorado Hills, California,
an upper class suburb about twenty miles east of Sacramento.
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In so many ways, El Dorado Hills epitomizes the American dream.
It's filled with expensive homes that back up onto lush
golf courses. Its shopping centers are filled with luxury stores
and fancy restaurants. It's families, by and large live lives
of privilege and peace. Ricky Davis's story is still unfolding today,
but it began back in Ricky was twenty years old.
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He lived in El Dorado Hills in a large home
on Stanford Lane, along with his mom, Maureen. Now Ricky
and Maureen were pretty different from their wealthy neighbors. Maureen
had been a teenage mom. By the time she turned twenties.
She was raising Ricky and his three sisters in southern
California without much support from their dad. Maureen worked to
pay the bills by waitressing. She and Ricky had come
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to El Dorado Hills just a few years before our
story begins. Ricky's grandmother, a successful businesswoman, had recently moved
the area, and she bought the house on Stanford Lane
for them. This family might not have been classic El
Dorado Hills, but they were close knit and loving. No secrets,
no drama, no lies. Ricky had a nineteen year old girlfriend,
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Connie Doll, who spent plenty of nights at the Stanford
Lane house. Now Ricky's mom, Maureen wasn't thrilled with Ricky
and Connie's relationship because Connie had a pretty serious meth habit.
Ricky smoked pot, It's true, but he wasn't into harder stuff,
and Maureen worried that Connie would drag Ricky into trouble.
But unlike Ricky, Connie didn't have a stable home. Sometimes
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she had no home at all and slept in her car.
Once she and Ricky started dating, Connie often spent the
night at Ricky's house, climbing in his bedroom window after
Maureen was asleep. One Friday, July five, the Stanford Lane
house gained two more residents. Rickie's grandmother was in the
real estate business, and she had recently learned that one
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of her employees needed a temporary place to stay. Fifty
four year old Jane Hilton had been fighting with her
husband over money, and those fights had apparently turned violent.
When Ricky's grandmother found out about this, she offered Jane
and her thirteen year old daughter Autumn a spare bedroom
on Stanford Lane as a safe harbor. They moved in
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on Friday July five, but that harbor wasn't quite as
safe as it seemed. The next day, Saturday, July six,
the house emptied out, at least for the most part.
Ricky's mom, Maureen, took off in the middle of the
day to go camping with her boyfriend. In the evening,
Ricky and his girlfriend Connie headed out to a party.
Even thirteen year old Autumn left the house to meet
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up with some new friends, three teenage boys she had
met earlier that day. For her part, Autumn's mom, Jane,
stayed home. Ricky and Connie got back at around three
thirty Sunday morning. When they arrived at the house, they
found Autumn outside standing alone in the front yard. Autumn
told them she'd been home for an hour, but she
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hadn't gone inside yet. She was worried about getting in
trouble with her mom for being out too late, she said,
and she was hoping Ricky and Connie would go inside
with her. The three going together upstairs, there's no sign
of Autumn's mom, Jane, so Ricky and Connie leave Autumn
in her room and had for bed themselves. But as
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they walked down the hall, Ricky spots blood on the
carpet outside the master bedroom, whereas mom Maureen usually sleeps.
She's on a camping trip, he reminds himself. He pushes
the door open and finds a nightmare. It's not his mom,
but Autumn's mom, Jane Hilton. She's lying on the bed
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wearing only a nightgown, and she's clear really dead. Jane's
been stabbed thirty nine times and is covered in blood.
She's got defensive wounds up and down her arms. One
of her fingernails is missing, and her hand is clutching
a tuft of someone's hair. There's even a bite mark
on the back of her left shoulder. Ricky and Connie
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were horrified. They called the police, who arrived and interviewed
both of them on the spot. Ricky and Connie told
the police they'd been at a party all night and
it was pretty easy to corroborate their story. The hood
of Ricky's car was still warm, suggesting he and Connie
were being honest about only recently getting back to the house,
and thirteen year old Autumn told police she'd seen Ricky
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and Connie arrive home and gone in with them. To
these officers at the scene, it seemed pretty clear that
Ricky and Connie were innocent, so clear that the police
didn't bother to interview the other people who had been
with them at the party. Of course, those people would
have been alibi witnesses. Instead, police moved on to check
out the obvious suspect, Jane's husband the guy with whom
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she had been fighting, but he seemed to have an
alibi too. He'd apparently spent the evening at a local restaurant.
So next the police tried to find the three teenage
boys Autumn had been hanging out with earlier that night.
The problem was Autumn only knew first names for two
of them, Michael and Calvin. After scanning through a few
yearbooks from local high schools, the detectives came up with nothing. Unfortunately,
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that was it for the investigation. Without any suspects or
solid leads, the case went cold for fourteen years. Fast
forward from July to November. Ricky and Connie had broken
up long ago. Their relationship ended up lasting less than
a year. Since then, Connie had continued using meth off
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and on. For his part, Rickie had spent those years
in and out of prison for a series of relatively
minor offenses, mostly drug related crimes and robbery, but neither
of them had ever been involved in anything close to murder.
In nine nine, the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office decided
to reinvestigate Jane Hilton's killing. Two detectives were assigned to
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this cold case, and they started by reviewing old news coverage.
Their attention was caught by a story that had run
in a local newspaper just a few days after the murder.
A reporter from the paper had shown up at the
Stanford Lane house. Connie had let her in and shown
her the room where Jane had been killed. The reporter
asked a bunch of questions about finding the body, and
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that's when Connie had said something that struck these new
detectives as suspicious. Connie had told the reporter that Jane's
body had been positioned on the bed as though she
were sleeping. Whoever had killed Jane, Connie speculated, must have
moved her body onto the bed afterwards. Connie's comment was
pretty obviously a guess, but the police began wondering if
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she actually might know something about the body being moved.
So over the next fifteen months, between November and February
two one, the police decided to interrogate Connie on three
separate occasions. It was all caught on videotape, every last word,
and that videotape makes it clear the police weren't aiming
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only for Connie. They wanted her to confess to being
present when Jane died, and they wanted her to name
her ex boyfriend, Ricky Davis as the killer. The theory
was that Jane was brutally beaten and stabbed to death
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by a man, and demand that the police officers had
in mind was Ricky Davis. Police officers often go after
ex girlfriends or ex wives on the assumption that there
was a bad breakup, that there's some animous there that
may motivate the aggrieved party into revealing information that they
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had been unwilling to reveal at the time of the investigation.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned is the
thinking here. Connie is first brought in for questioning only
days after the new cops take over the case. At first,
she insists repeatedly that she had nothing to do with
Jane's murder, that all she remembers is coming home and
finding the body. But right away Connie is hit with
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a barrage of lies. Police tell her that a witness
had placed her in Ricky at the homicide scene, although
no one had. Police tell Connie the d n A
established her presence in Jane's bedroom even though it didn't,
and they tell Connie that the hairs found clenched in
Jane's hand belonged to Ricky. Another lie. Police had actually
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lost those hairs. They were never tested at all. Were
present in the house when this happened. I was not.
What do you mean? Like I said, you know, we've
got all kinds of physical evidence there happened. Oh my god,
there's no way. Over time, though, the police's cascading lies
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begin to break Connie down. Like most of us, Connie
has no idea that police are allowed to lie during interrogations,
So after hearing all this apparent evidence of her own involvement,
Connie starts questioning her memory of what happened all those
years ago. Okay, if I was there, I had no
memory of that. She's desperately trying to make sense of
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what they're saying, and eventually tells the investigators that maybe
she was there and just couldn't remember it. The investigators
suggest that Ricky had programmed her memory so that Connie
would blank out her recollections of the crime. She agrees,
maybe I have amnesia. I couldn't watch that happen. That
would have been if I've written happening. At least she
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wouldn't hive pointed at they are absolutely confusing the hell
out of her. They are causing a crisis of confidence
where she begins not only to doubt her memory, but
she can't really distinguish between what she actually remembers and
what she thinks she might remember. Investigators Warren Connie that
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if she doesn't somehow recover her memories, they might have
to interrogate her again, and they say that could lead
to her arrest. On the other hand, they imply that
Connie will receive leniency, even immunity from prosecution, if she
provides them with a statement, right now, we're first one
to jump on the brandwagon. I always get the easiest ride.
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And so what happens here is that the police provide
incentives to adopt their preconcy theory, promises of leniency or
threats of harm, suggestions that the first person to jump
on the bandwagon is going to get the best deal,
and that if she doesn't jump on first, someone else
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is going to take your spot and she's going to
get punished more severely. These tactics work. Connie breaks and
agrees to confess, to say that she helped Ricky killed Jane,
but she has no idea what to say about the crime. Remember,
Connie wasn't actually there to help her out. Investigators feed
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Connie everything they know about Jane Hilton's murder and everything
they think happened to Here's the story that Connie ultimately
agreed to repeat. She said she was there while Ricky
and Jane were arguing about whether Jane's daughter Autumn could
go out that night. During the argument, Connie said, Ricky
punched Jane in the face. The altercation escalated. Eventually, Connie
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went downstairs and acted as a lookout while Ricky stabbed Jane. Then,
Connie said she came back to the room and helped
Ricky move Jane's body onto the bad So to me,
what makes this case different is that we have a
sort of recipe, if you will, for a persuaded false confession.
What's unique about a persuaded false confession is that the
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suspect comes to doubt their own memory. They get to
a place where they think the police officers are telling
me I committed this crime. They're telling me they have
evidence that proves that I committed this crime, but why
can't I remember it? And when a suspect gets to
that place of uncertainty, the police officers provide an answer,
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the events that you saw were so traumatic that they
caused you to repress these memories, and so the interrogation
becomes an exercise in pulling these memories out of the
suspect's mind. But they're not real memories. They don't exist.
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At times, Connie's language reveals her own uncertainty. Even while
she's confessing I think I did that, I probably did that.
I seem to remember that. There's a tentativeness that you
wouldn't have if they were real memories, and we see
that throughout Connie's interrogation telling Lee. When Connie's not fed information,
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she can't get anything about the story right. She's not
able to tell the police what the murder weapon looked like,
where Ricky got it, or how he disposed of it.
The detectives are shaping her memories, they are feeding her facts,
and the final story here is really their story. It's
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their preconceived theory of the crime come to life through
the words of Connie Doll. Strangely enough, the police don't
arrest anyone right away. Instead, they leave Connie alone for
a while and interview Ricky himself. He vehemently denies any
involvement whatsoever. So the police come back to Connie in
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January two thousand to see if she can give them
any more information, and they remind her that the more
details she can provide, the better off she'll be. During
this interrogation, officers play Connie the crime scene video that
was recorded the night Jane died to see if they
can quote refresh her memory. Now. I've seen this video myself,
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and it's horrifying. It's almost totally silent as the videographer
walks from room to room, ending up in the bedroom
where Jane died. The camera documents every wound, every injury,
from her missing fingernail to her eyes which were still open.
It's the kind of crime scene that makes even people
who see this all the time sick to their stomachs.
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Connie watches the video and agrees to add more detail
to her story. She says she heard Jane plead for
her life, but Ricky didn't listen. She says she heard
Jane make gurgling noises as Rickie stabbed her, and after
the attack, Connie says she saw Rickie covered in blood.
The police still don't arrest Connie, but they also don't
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leave her alone. Instead, they come back a third time
in two thousand one to try to get even more details.
This time, detectives tell her that she'll either be charged
with a misdemeanor accessory type of thing, or she'll go
down as a full blooded half partner in the murder.
It all depends on her credibility. Now, Connie's got two
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young children. The police tell her that if she continues
to cooperate, she'll be able to go home to her kids.
But they warn her saying I don't know isn't going
to help you at all. They bring up the subject
of her children repeatedly throughout the interrogation, and the message
to Connie is crystal clear. If I don't tell them
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what they want to hear, I'm gonna lose my children.
So they play on her emotions as a mother. These
kinds of tactics are very common when a woman is
a suspect to her witness, because police officers know that
most women would walk across a field of glass in
order to protect their children. To satisfy her interrogators, Connie
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adds another detail to her story, and it's a big one.
She wasn't just a lookout. She says she was in
the room during the murder and tried to intervene. And
remember that bite mark on the back of Jane's shoulder.
Connie ends up saying she was responsible for it, that
she accidentally bit Jane during the struggle. Finally, Connie's story
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was good enough one two thousand two, paced only on
Connie's confession, the El Dorado County District Attorney's office filed
murder charges against Ricky Davis. And here's the thing. When
the cops told Connie she wouldn't be charged, turns out
they were lying again. Connie was charged with murder two
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as an accomplice. A few months later, prosecutors told Connie
that if she agreed to testify against Rickie at trial,
she could plead guilty to manslaughter and get a huge
reduction in her sentence. They decide exactly how much of
a reduction. After she testified. With no good options left,
Connie pled guilty and agreed to take the stand. I
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didn't like her to start with. That's Maureen Kleine, Ricky
Davis's mother. Remember, she's always had an opinion about Ricky's
ex girlfriend, Connie. Ricky and I have always been very close.
He had a horrible father, so I think the closeness
was because I was all Ricky really had. Even as
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a teenager, he would call me his best friend. So
this situation was extremely devastating. In two thousand two, Maureen
learned that Ricky was being charged with murdering Jane Hilton,
based on the testimony of a girl he dated fourteen
years ago. Marine couldn't believe it. She knew her son
was no killer, and the police had seemed to acknowledge
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his and Connie's innocence years ago. As she processed the news,
Maureen struggled to understand why Connie would falsely confess. Connie
had problems obviously, and she let the detectives talk her
into believing that she had something to do with the murder.
I was very angry at Connie, and I couldn't believe
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that she was lying this out and out lying. I
don't understand how somebody could convince you that you participated
in a murder that you didn't. The idea that Connie
would confess to a murder she didn't commit, it was
impossible for Maureen to believe. I understand and sympathize with
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Maureen about her anger towards Connie, But Connie's a tragic
victim in this too. She didn't start out by naming
Ricky Davis as a murderer, and it was only the
lies and the manipulation by the detectives in that cold
case squad that gave her really no choice but to
change her story in ways that pleased them, or else
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she was going to lose her kids. After Rickie was charged,
Maureen sat down and watched Connie's interrogation videos. As Maureen watched,
she began to see how police manipulated Connie. She started
realizing that the problem was much bigger than her son's
ex girlfriend. Connie did stay in the starting of one
of the interviews that she had been up on mess
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for twenty four hours prior, so that in itself, I
would think they wouldn't have interviewed her at that time,
but they did. Anyway, she would say exactly what the
scold it to. You could tell that they would turn
up the recording and get her back on track. They
kept did tell Connie that once Ricky was convicted that
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she would go free, And I guess they threatened her
with her children and stuff. I didn't believe anything would
come of it, because I knew Ricky had no part
of it. I knew he was innocent. Maureen was right
that Ricky was innocent, but she was wrong that nothing
would come of Connie's story. In June two thousand five,
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Ricky went on trial for Jane Hilton's murder. Prosecutors called
Connie doll as their star witness. From his seat at
the defense table, Ricky watched Connie testify. He hadn't seen
her in almost twenty years, and he couldn't believe what
he was hearing. Connie knew he was innocent. The two
of them had discovered Jane's body together somehow, though the
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system had put them on opposite sides. For her part,
Maureen sat in the front row of the courtroom, right
behind Ricky as prosecutors told the jury an unthinkable story
about her son. The way they portrayed him, like he
was some vicious animal, that was hard to take. I
was surprised that the jurors believed Connie. To me, she
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didn't sound very incredible. The way she answered was what
she was told to say, but they did believe her. Obviously,
I couldn't say anything. At times, I wanted to yell
out and react, but I knew that if I did,
I wouldn't be allowed in the courtroom, So it was
a helpless stealing. In exchange for Connie's testimony, prosecutors agreed
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that her sentence should be reduced to time served. The
next day, she walked free, but Ricky Ricky wasn't as lucky.
Based on Connie's false testimony, Ricky was convicted of murdering
Jane Hilton. He was given a sentence of sixteen years
to life. It was like a bad movie. I mean,
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I know, no systems perfect, but there was just no
way I thought it could be convicted under the circumstances.
But he was. Everything about my life changed in the
moment that he was convicted. It seemed to me my
whole personality changed. I became angry at everything I We
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should be kept each a horrible things in their life.
I mean, I'm sorry that that's the way I feel.
After his two thousand five conviction, Ricky Davis was sent
to a California prison hours away from El Dorado Hills.
His ex girlfriend Connie was free, but she never shook
her myth habit. In two thousand and fourteen, Connie died
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of an overdose. For her part, Maureen moved out of
the Stanford Lane house she couldn't be there alone and
started living with her mom. Every month, Maureen drove to
visit Rickey in prison year after year after year. Said
there's a lot of bad people whom they deserved to
be in there, but there's seems to be a lot
that they shouldn't be in there. With no money, you're
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going to do time period that was just cut and try,
and it pretty much is the way it is. This
is the same with different nationalities. They don't get the
same justice that a rich white person does, and that's wrong.
Shortly before Connie's death, the Northern California Innocence Project agreed
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to take on Ricky Davis's case, and in two thousand fourteen,
attorneys from the project sought DNA testing on a host
of items from Jane Hilton's murder scene. The crime lab
started with that bite mark on the back of Jane's shoulder,
the mark that Connie told police had been left by
her teeth. Whoever left that mark bit through Jane's nightgown.
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Sure enough, the lab found saliva on the nightgown. And
developed a full DNA profile of an unknown male. Obviously,
the biter was not Connie Doll, and it wasn't Ricky
Davis either. Next, the lab tested DNA from skin cells
that were left underneath Jane's fingernails from when she'd scratched
her attacker whose DNA was it the same unknown man
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who had left his saliva on Jane's nightgown. The profile
was run through the local and national DNA databases with
no luck. The attacker couldn't be identified, but it was
crystal clear that whoever had killed Jane Hilton was not
Connie or Ricky. Ricky's attorneys filed a post conviction petition
based on this new evidence. In two thousand nineteen, the
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court throughout Ricky's conviction. That was great news, but Ricky's
fight wasn't over. Even though the DNA excluded Ricky, prosecutors
weren't ready to drop charges until they knew whose DNA
it was, so they began preparing to retry Ricky for
Jane's murder, and Ricky had to stay behind bars. But
in the meantime, prosecutors tried a brand new method to
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identify the DNA genetic genealogy, and it led investigators back
to someone whose name they hadn't heard in twenty five years.
Genetic genealogy searches public databases like ancestry, dot com and
twenty three and me to look for matches to evidence
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that's found at a crime scene. Police officers start examining
the family trees and look for people who have a
connection to the crime scene. In Ricky's case, the process
led the d a's office to fifty one year old
Michael Green, who is Michael Green. Turns out he was
one of the three teenagers that Jane's daughter Autumn had
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been with the night her mother was killed at Long Last.
Twenty five years after Jane's death, the authorities had found
her killer. In February, Michael Green was charged with Jane's
murder and was booked into the Eldorado County Jail. He
entered a plea of not guilty and is awaiting trial
today now. Because Green's case is still unfolding, we don't
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have clear answers yet about why he attacked Jane or
how he did it. We just know the d n
A was his. That's pretty close to case closed on
February a judge declared Ricky Davis factually innocent and dismissed
the case against him after serving twelve years for a
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murder he did not commit. Ricky walked out of prison
right into the arms of his mom. The judge exonerate him,
which he said, that was the first time he had
ever done it. That was such a great feeling. And
didn't see him walk out of the jail was It's
the craziest thing. Everybody was there to care him coming
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down and hugging him and stuff. To see him smiling
because he was happy instead of having to go back
into the sales as I was leading him. Yeah, it
was fantastic feeling. Unfortunately, the same couldn't happen for Connie.
She remains in death a convicted participant in Jane Hilton's murder.
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There were two wrongful convictions here, and this DNA evidence
proved that Connie's story was false. It also proved that
she didn't bite Jane Hilton, so she deserves to be
exonerated posthumously. This year, Ricky Davis will be spending its
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first Thanksgiving in nearly twelve years with his mom Maureen. Well,
I'll make dinner that Thanksgiving Turkey. That's the only time
of a year I can afford it. But his sister's
and nephew will be here, and that'll be nice. I'm
not the best cook today, but it's more having everybody
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together and happy. That's the best part of it. He's
a very affectionate person. When he comes in and helps me,
it's best stealing in the world. I feel lucky, blessed
every time I look at him. Hello, Hey, Ricky, how
are you. I'm doing good? How do you see goody? Laura,
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tell me about those first moments of freedom, what it
felt like to walk out those doors. Long time come. Yeah,
I've seen the video a lot of people there. I
saw you eating some pizza. You went right for the
comfort food. You know, what are your toppings of choice?
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All the good stuff. Do you see your mom much
these days? Yes? I do. Yeah, I love her very much.
And her since we're talking about food and pizza and
everything else, is there's something your mom makes for you.
It's something she used to cook that you missed and
that she can make for you again. Not that you're out.
I have a funny story for that, you know. A
few days after it was out. Tell her you know
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my vision waking up in the I you couldn't be
breakfast and she says, well, you were visioning vision a
different mom. Oh my god, that's amazing. Strong to the end.
I love it. And that's the story of Ricky Davis.
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Next week we'll tell you about Michael Hash and his
childhood friend Eric Weekly. When Eric was accused of killing
an elderly woman, the pressure of the interrogation room caused
him to falsely implicate Michael. Michael's parents never stopped fighting
for their son's innocence, and now that he's been exonerated,
they're fighting to clear Eric's name. Too. Wrongful Conviction, False
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