www.independent.co.uk/news/world/america...quashed-9708759.html

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However, Mr McCollum was considered suspicious by some in the town after recently moving there from New Jersey, and after five hours of questioning without a lawyer present he gave a story of how he and three others had killed the girl.

“I had never been under this much pressure, with a person hollering at me and threatening me,” Mr McCollum told The News & Observer in an interview.

“I just made up a story and gave it to them so they would let me go home.”

He wasn’t allowed home, however, and was allegedly coerced into signing a confession - there is no recording of the interrogation.'