Reilly's Case
After allegedly failing a polygraph test and being subsequently interrogated, Reilly was persuaded that he had murdered his mother, of which he was innocent, using words like: ‘Maybe I did do it’, ‘I believe I did it’, ‘It really looks like I did it’, and then saying ‘Yes’ when asked directly, ‘You did it?’. Reilly then signed his written confession statement (Connery, 1977, pp. 65–67; Gudjonsson, 2003a).
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