When you mentioned that Jerry was subjected to an all-night interrogation, I knew it had to be a false coerced confession. I don’t understand why there aren’t laws prohibiting police from doing that. Given enough time and high pressure (constant badgering, threats, lies about evidence or witnesses corroboration, sleep deprivation, etc.), you can get ANYONE to confess to anything! Countless cases have shown this, and yet we still allow police to do this. Keep in mind that despite Jerry’s history and fierce looking face, he was uneducated, poor, and unsophisticated-particularly vulnerable to police coercion. I wouldn’t be surprised if he also had below-average intelligence, who again would make him more vulnerable to nasty police tactics.