Kevin Fox was railroaded into confessing to murder his daughter.

[raccoon]

Luckily, he has now been cleared. This was on DATELINE last Friday.

Dateline said when the cops were questioning him they wouldn't let him contact a lawyer, IIRC. How could a person avoid something like this? I'm not sure if he went to the police station to answer questions of his own volition or if they went out and got him.

I don't know about you, but this sort of thing makes me apprehensive. Especially the DNA testing that was discontinued, canceled, whatever, when that would have proved Fox innocent much sooner than he actually was.


Cops "Dropped the Ball" in Riley Fox Case, Sheriff Says
By Marion Brooks
NBCChicago.com
updated 56 minutes ago

…Riley Fox was kidnapped from her Wilmington, Illinois home in June, 2004. Hikers found her body hours later in a nearby creek. She had been sexually assaulted.

Will County investigators eventually charged her father, Kevin Fox, with her death, saying he confessed. But Fox almost immediately claimed his confession was coerced. DNA evidence eventually cleared him and charges were dropped. He and his family filed a civil lawsuit and won a multi-million dollar judgment against Will County.

Last month, prosecutors charged another man, Scott Eby, for the crime. Eby lived about a mile away from the Fox family at the time and is currently serving a 14-year sentence for an unrelated sexual assault.

Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow says the very DNA evidence that cleared Kevin Fox, now implicates Eby. Eby has entered a not guilty plea.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37629661/ns/local_news-chicago_il/

[sharp_stick]

1. Never talk to the cops

especially without a lawyer but better yet never talk to the cops.

[GoneOffShore]

2. I agree - but have you got any extra butter?

:popcorn:

:beer:

[madinmaryland]

3. Save some for me...

:popcorn:

[stray cat]

6. and never call them if you need help -911 is bad

if you or a loved one is a victim take care of it yourself or just let the perpetrator do whatever they want with your blessing.

[NNN0LHI]

4. Even after DNA cleared this poor man the prosecutor and cops were still insinuating he was guilty

Bastards.

Don

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. To a lot of prosecutors it's only a win or lose game.

Justice has absolutely nothing to do with it.

[NNN0LHI]

11. Naturally it was a Republican prosecutor playing politics with the case

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=384013

Riley Fox case timeline

June 6, 2004: Kevin Fox of Wilmington reports his 3-year-old daughter, Riley, missing about 8 a.m. Hikers find her body about 3:30 p.m. in nearby creek after massive search.

June 7, 2004: Will County coroner rules Riley died from "homicidal drowning."

June 11, 2004: Some 6,000 mourners pack Riley's funeral.

Oct. 27, 2004: Kevin Fox is arrested after Will County Sheriff's detectives said he failed a lie-detector test and made a videotaped statement in 14.5-hour interrogation in which he confessed to accidentally killing Riley.

Oct. 28, 2004: Then-State's Attorney Jeff Tomczak announces he'll seek death penalty for Kevin Fox.

Oct. 30, 2004: Fox releases his own statement, through his attorney, proclaims his innocence; accuses detectives of coercing the confession.

Nov. 2, 2004: Republican Tomczak loses re-election bid to James Glasgow, a Democrat.

Nov. 10, 2004: Fox and his wife, Melissa, file federal civil-rights lawsuit.

June 17, 2005: Glasgow frees Fox from Will County jail after DNA tests exclude him as the source of DNA obtained from saliva found on Riley's body.

Nov. 7, 2007: Federal civil-rights trial starts; Tomczak dropped from suit in confidential agreement. Other defendants later dropped during seven-week trial as plaintiff narrows in on main detectives.

Dec. 20, 2007: A federal jury awards $15.5 million to the Foxes against four sheriff's detectives, the estate of a fifth and Will County. Award was reduced to $8.6 million upon appeal.

May 27, 2010: Will County prosecutors charge imprisoned sex offender Scott Eby with Riley's murder. A no-bond warrant is issued.

Source: Daily Herald interviews; court records

[w4rma]

7. So these cops and the prosecutor tried to ruin his life, and ended up allowing another girl be raped

because they wanted a scapegoat to show around rather than the real perpetrator.

[NNN0LHI]

12. This hits home to me as this occurred about 20 miles from my house

My grand kids are here all the time and the actual person who committed this crime was running free around here.

I want the prosecutor prosecuted.

Don

[w4rma]

8. … nt

…

[UndertheOcean]

9. what I don't get is this : how do you confess to killing your kid ?

unless you were physically tortured , I can't imagine a parent doing this.

[NNN0LHI]

10. They told him they had him cold and if he admitted to it they wouldn't seek the death penalty

Finding innocent men on the Illinois death row is a very common thing here. After an investigation we discovered that 13 of 25 men on death row here were factually innocent. Not innocent because of some technicality. Factually innocent of the crimes they had confessed to committing.

See why I am so anti-death penalty?

Don