Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Framed for Life: How Corrupt Cops Sent an Innocent Man to Prison
04 Mar 2025
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And she had the misfortune of coming across a 29-year-old drug addict who was high. He attacked, murdered, and raped her. I got on the police radar because some of the police interviewed a lot of students from the high school, and some of them told the police they might want to speak with me. And then he wired me up to the polygraph. And then he launched the newest third debate tactics.
He raised his voice at me. He gave me my personal space. He kept repeating the same questions over and over. And as each hour passed by, my fear increased in proportion to the time. And he kept that up for six and a half to seven hours. And so towards the end, he said, you know, what do you mean you didn't do it? You just told me through the test that you did.
We just want you to verbally confirm it. Then he added, look, just tell them what they want to hear and you can go home afterwards that you're not going to be arrested. So being young, naive, frightened, 16 years old, I wasn't thinking about the long term.
I was just concerned about my safety in the moment. Well, wait a second. This is starting to feel unfair. And I know specifically that I've been told over and over again that the U.S. justice system is extremely fair. They couldn't possibly have made a mistake. Hey, this is Matt Cox. I'm going to be doing an interview with Jeffrey Deskivitz.
And he is currently an attorney and was also wrongfully convicted and spent a significant time in prison. We're going to be going over his story. It's super interesting. So check out the interview.
I was born in actually a town that doesn't actually exist anymore, at least not by that name. I was born in North Cherry Town, which of course later became known as Sleepy Hollow. I grew up in Peekskill, New York, which is in Westchester County, New York. So it was a suburbs population of approximately 25,000 people. I would say in...
kind of lived a double life, both in grade school and high school. I didn't quite think of it that way as a double life, but I realized now it kind of was. It was my life in school, my life outside of school. So in school, I was kind of quiet, kind of to myself. I was kind of on the fringes of the society in the school, whereas there was my life after school. So I grew up in an apartment complex.
There were a lot of kids that lived there and in surrounding areas. And They used to come over to the complex where I lived at, and I was one of the main two kids in the sense that what we suggested would generally be what we would do. We're going to go to the movies, we're going to play Monopoly, ride bikes, swimming, basketball, stickball, kickball. We even made up a few games.
Yeah, so I was kind of like an all-American kid after school, but in school I had the quiet, I'm a friend of society, and I fucking thought about why that really is. And then, firstly, I mean, the kids were a little bit older than I was. I skipped a grade. I skipped first grade, and I think that that kind of caught up with me.
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