David Muir

Yet at the same time, two separate grand juries failed to bring an indictment against Forrest Wellborn.

Second Travis County grand jury refused to indict Forrest Wellborn, forcing the state to drop charges against him.

A ballistics report provided by the ATF also said the gun that Maurice Pierce had on him that night at North Cross Mall was not the firearm that was used in the commission of the murders.

There are now all of these cracks and misgivings in the case.

Additionally, the defense claims the interrogations were coerced using a controversial, high-pressure interrogation method called the Reed Technique, developed in the 50s and still used today, but criticized by many in the legal community for possibly leading to false confessions.

The Reed Technique, I view as sort of a form of psychological warfare.

When Michael Scott was interrogated, it was over a series of days, they had his brain so messed up that he didn't know which way was up or down.

He believes them when they say he's involved.

He believes it.

That's why he's so scared.

But the whole point is, he begins to doubt his memory.

I kind of beat myself over the head trying to remember who you're talking about.

You're not doing any of that.

Robert Springsteen comes in.

He had just gone off work.

He worked the night shift.

And he is just done with this.

When the confessions don't match, then they keep at them.

So it's making him change to match what they believed happened.

So, in this portion of the interview, investigators present false information to Robert Springsteen, a common and legal method of the Reed technique.