- The U.S. Justice Department has been conducting an investigation into the interrogation practices at the Chicago Police Department, and “60 Minutes” is about to break the story wide open.
CBS News chief national correspondent and “60 Minutes” contributor Byron Pitts reports one case involves a teenager, and dates back more than 25 years.
Terrill Swift, Michael Saunders, Harold Richardson, and Vincent Thames – known as the “Englewood Four” – had their convictions for a 1994 murder overturned last year, after DNA evidence cleared them of guilt.
No allegations of beatings or torture that we saw in the previews - just that everyone is intimidated into signing confessions for crimes they didn't commit, and years later after witnesses have died off, everyone remembers they didn't do it after all.