Copy of a message from the author to Partin in prison:
i need to explain myself more clearly: yes, you were convicted because you made a false confession; but NO, you did not make that false confession just to please the detectives because you are a people-pleaser! And yes, Melynda Cook-Howard did say that's why you said it - But NO, she wasn't truly on your side!!! SHE KNEW it was a fake lame excuse that the jury would not believe, because nobody in their right mind would confess to a crime they hadn't committed, just to please their interrogators! The REAL psychological reasons for ANYONE under intense interrogation making a false confession are much more complicated than that!! Yes, there is an element of your telling them what they wanted to hear just so they would stop torturing you, whether physically or mentally, but that's only a small part of it. The bigger part is that you were, in your own words, "trying to protect everyone". The vital word here is the word "everyone". That means more than one person. You were aware you were protecting TJ, who at that time you still loved, despite his neglect. But your subconscious mind could also imagine Vivian and Savannah being subjected to the same kind of horrible interrogation, and the (subconscious) maternal instinct thought of that was unbearable, even if, because it was subconscious, your conscious mind wasn't aware that your subconscious mind was thinking it! Does it make sense?
"Science" is the Greek word for knowledge. Without science as your guide, you are lost in the poisonous fog of bullshit.
Adorable little Hannah Banana didn't deserve to die, even if her tragic young death was her own fault for trying to surf pretend waves on a skittish toy not designed for being stood on. It wasn't Lindsay's fault either, even if she momentarily had her back turned, fetching a tray of snacks for the girls. It wasn't Adrian's fault either, even if she wasn't there to look after Hannah because she couldn't even look after herself, being a captive of her own vulnerable biochemistry.
If you have to blame someone, blame Mother Nature, because it is She who is ultimately responsible for everything that exists and everything that happens. But even that would be unfair, because although Mother Nature does indeed make us each the way we are, She has no will of her own; She has no say about how the mindless fluxes of gravity and radiation will push our atoms around. They just do what they do, with no intelligent guiding hand to lead them.
Lead detective Dan Turner had no intelligent guiding hand to lead him either, he was a blind man misled by the nose by the even more blind radiologist Marguerite Care, herself misled by the reprehensibly ignorant American Academy of Pediatricians. Yet even they are no more responsible for their own angst, stupidity and ambition than Donald Trump is for his - because none of them asked to be given the genes that made them the egotistical narcissists they are.
Only science can figure out and tell
the real truth, which is only a little more complicated than the doctors' shallow-minded thinking. Details in: "Errors of Judgment" by Kyszch Didales, available free to read online or download at:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4771192
