Tony Sokol Jun 18, 2019
A Fatal Confession: Keith Morrison Investigates asks whether teen killer Daniel Villegas' confession was coerced.
One of El Paso, Texas’ highest profile capital murder cases produced one of the city's most controversial trials. Daniel Villegas confessed to the deaths of Armando "Mando" Lazo and Bobby England in 1993. He was 16 years old. Hours later, Villegas claimed the confession was coerced by an El Paso Police Department detective. When the case came to court in 1994, an 11-1 hung jury in favor of conviction ended in a mistrial. He was convicted in 1995 and sentenced to life in prison. Investigation Discovery's upcoming two-hour special, A Fatal Confession: Keith Morrison Investigates, will check the facts behind the confession on Sunday, July 7.
Journalist and Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison discovered the case in 2011 and followed the story for years. An appeals court in 2013 overturned the conviction and a new trial was ordered. “The...
A Fatal Confession: Keith Morrison Investigates asks whether teen killer Daniel Villegas' confession was coerced.
One of El Paso, Texas’ highest profile capital murder cases produced one of the city's most controversial trials. Daniel Villegas confessed to the deaths of Armando "Mando" Lazo and Bobby England in 1993. He was 16 years old. Hours later, Villegas claimed the confession was coerced by an El Paso Police Department detective. When the case came to court in 1994, an 11-1 hung jury in favor of conviction ended in a mistrial. He was convicted in 1995 and sentenced to life in prison. Investigation Discovery's upcoming two-hour special, A Fatal Confession: Keith Morrison Investigates, will check the facts behind the confession on Sunday, July 7.
Journalist and Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison discovered the case in 2011 and followed the story for years. An appeals court in 2013 overturned the conviction and a new trial was ordered. “The...
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