Craziest Interrogation Moments Of ALL TIME.. | Forensic Files

interrogation rooms hold some of the most horrifying saddening and life-changing moments in history so here
are some of the craziest interrogation moments of all time starting out with Thomas Robinson a 27
year old facing life in prison after shooting a 17 year old boy but Thomas wasn't going down easily in fact he was
determined to make the cops live as difficult as he could in the most dangerous ways imaginable as the
policeman moves to handcuff him Thomas leans over and glances at the holster on the cop's waist where he gets an idea
that could end in death for him and the officer yeah I'm good you couldn't get it Thomas
made a leap for the cops gun but due to safety features built into the holster he wasn't able to get it out after a
short struggle two more cops entered the room with tasers to subdue him and he was eventually restrained without
further issue this obviously just looks like a case where the suspect wanted to escape and was prepared to do so by any
means necessary but take another listen to what he's saying as he's fighting with the cops
if he was really trying to escape it's unlikely he'd be repeating the words kill me from the get-go instead it's
possible that Thomas was so terrified of his sentence in the position he was in that he made the radical move to scare
the officers in hopes that they'd shoot him and spare him from what's to come bringing a firearm into an interrogation
room is an incredibly foolish idea and the majority of police departments forbid it for the safety of the
detectives but it seems this Las Vegas Police Department also forgot about that rule and come Incredibly Close to seeing
the consequences This Man convicted of killing a two-year-old boy actually managed to
retrieve the gun from The detective's holster resulting in a mad scramble to get it back off him it took three
separate officers and multiple punches to the head to reclaim the firearm somehow nobody was hurt but Ryan Waller
wasn't so lucky as his story ends in a truly horrifying way after he was brought in for interrogation with a
bullet still stuck in his head you told me they shot you with a revolver in your
eye yes is it a BB gun no it was a real gun man you want to be talking to me right now
was most likely you be dead but little did police officers know he was actually telling the truth as while 18 year old
Ryan was being mocked by detectives he was suffering from a gunshot to the head and experiencing a brain bleed that
could end his life at any moment you're not going back to bed on the 23rd of December 2006 two men broke into Ryan
Waller's house looking for revenge for a past argument Ryan heard the noise at the door but when he went to investigate
a hand reached inside and shot him twice in the eye the two men Richie and Larry
Carver then entered his house and shot Ryan's girlfriend Heather killing her instantly by some miracle 18 year old
Ryan survived and was able to talk to police when they arrived hours later given he'd just been shot in the head he
told them he had no idea what happened but instead of being taken straight to the hospital he was taken to the police
station and interrogated for the longest hour of his life before the interview started Ryan was left in the room alone
he squirmed in pain for 20 minutes straight and worse yet he was handcuffed to the desk and unable to scream for
help um Ryan is obviously not okay but the detectives begin the interrogation anyway you know why you're down here
Ryan you have no idea why you're down here okay I don't know what happened okay so how do I read you something to make
sure you understand your rights okay okay you have the right to read silence anything you say can't be used against
you in a court law what's the highest grade you went through school um I just want to go home oh you're not
going to go home right now what's the highest grade that you completed B no not not grade as in letter grade I'm
asking did you graduate high school no do you know how to read and write right yeah the way the detective is talking to
Ryan implies that he knows something is wrong he's raising his voice slightly slowing down and talking in very
simplified language just as you would a child yet even with the massive red mark
around Ryan's face and the day's responses he's giving the detective still decides that nothing is wrong and
continues questioning him do you have a girlfriend um no you're not you know a girl named Heather
um the one that lives there right now I guess I don't know her name's Heather what's her last name
I don't know which name she's trying to use as her last one she's trying to have a real laugh
because her nicknames I don't know what nickname does she goodbye probably wants the last name Clement
kaiman how old is Heather 16-17 what happened to your face I don't know you told the officer just a few minutes
ago that someone hit you do you remember who hit you think it was Heather why would Heather hit you
there's an accident I forget why what was an accident others last name no what was an accident
how they're hitting me what happened for her to hit you in the eye like that she
just hit me in an accident she was giving Christina I had she was what she was having Christina with her hair
or something I don't know who's Christine she's on the couch Christina's on the couch Ryan and
Heather lived with another person whose name isn't public there's a possibility that it's the Christina he's referring
to here but either way nobody else was home at any point of the night of the attack Ryan is clearly suffering
traumatic brain injury and it's astonishing that the detective isn't connecting the dots even if it was just
blunt force like Ryan is telling him he still should be checked out by a doctor given how he's acting but of course
that's not how it happens instead it somehow gets even more messed up what happened last night I don't know
you don't know I really don't I just want to go to sleep and go to sleep who was in the house when you went
to sleep Christina and Heather Christine and Heather and Christina was on the couch
another was Heather was on the couch he told me Christina was on the couch just a minute ago
I don't know man I really don't I really don't I just want to go and go to sleep
man you're not gonna go anywhere you know what happened in your house last night all right what happened
I don't know what happened you're all beat up so tell me what happened I don't know I
just want to go to sleep man there's a dead girl in your living room he's dead yes Heather the girl on the
couch is dead I don't know if she's on the couch she's dead well these people came over Richie and
his dad was shooting arrow blowing darts you know what I'm talking about yeah that me and her with those that's it and
the Heather wasn't there and Eric wasn't there it was just me and Heather and then what happened
and I said regine's Dad tried to break in in the back Richie and Dad his dad who's Richie I don't know
well you obviously know him you know his name he used to live there was he a roommate of yours
he used to be they hit you yeah now it's Richie to hit you not Heather no Richie
and his dad why because they're trying to get their stuff I don't know why and they had some kind of bow and arrows
they each had two revolve version they didn't laugh any shelves okay you just said they had bow and
arrows now they have revolvers that's something that they have revolvers they have revolvers yes and then what
happened and then they shot us those they shot both of you yeah where'd they shoot you at
and outside and I you're getting shot in the eye I think so with the revolver I think I don't know man I don't know
then what happened I don't know you don't know a lot right I don't and I really don't I'd
like to see this detective try and articulate himself anywhere near as Ryan is in this situation he's managed to
recount the exact sequence of events as well as the perpetrators names with the revolver bullets still in his brain it
does sound like an unbelievable story and that's probably why the cop is essentially laughing at him by now but
that still doesn't excuse any part of what's going on he's obviously distressed in pain and needs to go to
the hospital but he's still more than a half an hour away from any form of Salvation Ryan why don't you tell me
what really happened there because I don't believe I really don't know man I really don't I don't know want to tell
you anything I swear I want you to tell me the truth that's all I want Richie and his dad came there and I don't know
why I don't know why I don't know why but they put me in sleeping old and like you put me in a sleeping hole with the
arrows and [ __ ] like I lived through this through that crap you're all over the board here number one you're seeing
bows and arrows you're seeing revolvers and you're saying that some other thing and they you're saying they shot you in
the eye okay they shot you with a revolver in your eye yes with a revolver you wouldn't be talking to me right now
it was most likely you be dead that's what I thought too man I really don't know
I really don't know and I just want to go back to sleep and try to go back to bed you're not going back to bed
okay that's not gonna happen what happened to Heather Heather got shot where did she get shot inside the face
once she got shot inside of the face how close were you to her when she got shot in the face it was after I got
shirts I didn't even hear anything so you got shot first and what happened did you call 9-1-1 did you see if she was
alive she was sleeping still and that's it I just let her sleep she got shot in the
side of the face and you let her sleep yes this does not make sense Ryan I know I didn't mean to man I'm sorry I didn't
know she was passed now that's because I got shot wrong once too and I was gonna
pass out okay this is now not before you're saying right now you've been shot yes in the eye yes with the revolver yes
all right Ryan you need to start telling me the truth because your story doesn't
make sense I'm trying man I don't know what happened with you and Heather last night
I don't think I'm sure at the house and shot her her dad shot her all right and then
leaves and what did you do I try to go back to sleep after you've been shot in the eye you
didn't know enough to call 9-1-1 um look at me Ryan yes I don't know man I really don't know why did you shoot
Heather Ryan I didn't shoot Heather she was already shot once by her brother I swear would she yes Richie shot his own
sister yes I swear that's it does it hurt me and you've been shot in the eye yes
yes two legs down put your legs down and bring your face closer oh my head hurts
okay yeah be right back finally the detective at least considers the fact that Ryan might be in some form
of physical distress he leaves the room to ask for an ambulance and returns momentarily to try and get a few more
details about the shooting Ryan clarifies that Heather isn't related to Richie or his dad and that he's got no
idea why they attacked him that evening 10 minutes later the fire department arrives to take a look at Ryan's injury
is acting uh injury which would make sense yeah we'll take them or so we'll just saw it happen what the other
night I don't know you don't know what happened were there guns around could Eric do they I don't know how he
did it exactly I might have been shot I don't know Ryan gets his blood pressure taken and
finally after 56 minutes of unnecessary and ultimately deadly interrogation he's
taken to the hospital upon inspection at the hospital doctors immediately realized his status was critical and
that he also had indeed been shot in the eye they also told his father that he'd
contracted an infection that could have been prevented had he received proper care Ryan stayed at the hospital for 35
days and lost part of his brain and his left eye worst of all though he experienced regular seizures from the
day he left the hospital until 2016 when one finally took his life Richie and Larry were both given life in prison
without the possibility of parole Ryan's father also sued the police department but as is so often the case he only
received a fraction of the punishment less than three years in prison many people believe this officer should be
charged with results and possibly even murder and that three years is absolutely not enough especially
compared to cases like redurant who's facing up to 30 years in prison after attacking a cop Reed was arrested at an
elementary school after he was seen pretending to be the father of a kindergartner Reed was seen to be acting
strangely around the kids and failed to correctly name any of the children there
so he was arrested and taken to the police station in the interrogation Reed freely told officers that he intended to
lure one of the children out feed them candy laced with tranquilizers then abduct them while they were unconscious
but after what seemed like an easy interrogation Reed suddenly decided that the detective had heard enough and made
a bid for his Escape up here put your hands behind your back now kidding me right now Reed had picked up
a pen and attempted to stab the officer with it but the officer's reflexes and composure helps him to instantly take
him down and restrain him that and the fact that the pen isn't the most effective weapon either way Reed was
arrested and charged with attempted kidnapping and now a felony count of assaults he's currently awaiting trial
and facing up to 30 years in prison Reed's Escape obviously didn't end very well for him but the story is different
for Quantrell schwartzlow who managed to escape the cops faster than anyone in history
[Music] was brought in for strangling a girl and assaulting her a crime he clearly didn't
want to be convicted of [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh no wait unfortunately for Quantrell his
handcuffs were a dead giveaway and he was captured four hours later while it's unknown exactly what happens to
Cointreau after this clip will forever put him in the interrogation Hall of Fame however Ricky Hawthorne took a much
more straightforward approach to ending his interrogation managing to confess in
record time Ricky was found covered in blood near the bodies of Lara Kuchar and Tommy schemes Lara had clearly been
assaulted Ricky's DNA was also found at the scene so police had no worries when bringing him in surprisingly though
Ricky would make it even easier for them [Music] hey hey come on hey yes sir yeah I did obviously I did
you know what let's do this I did it but I think somebody came behind me and finished it okay yeah I did it so much
for staying silent however Ricky is alleging that he wasn't actually the murderer he just attacks the couple and
assaulted Laura it was someone else that finished the job even though the evidence was stacked against him he
still would have had a better chance of getting away with it if he just stayed silent there's three more people I don't
know and you know what it was living when I left but I think somebody came in behind
me and finished them off I did beat the [ __ ] out of them but it was somebody else I left despite his claims it was
determined that the couple died of the injuries inflicted by Ricky and he was later found guilty of the first and
second degree murder as well as the attack on Lara

These are some of the craziest interrogation room moments of ALL TIME

Brief Summary

This episode discusses shocking interrogation moments, including failed escapes and critical health neglect during questioning.

Key points

Thomas Robinson's Desperate Move. Facing life in prison, Thomas attempts to grab a cop's gun during interrogation.
Ryan Waller's Tragic Interrogation. After being shot, Ryan is interrogated for an hour before receiving medical help.
Detective's Disturbing Dismissal. Despite Ryan's critical condition, the detective continues to question him.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I just want to go to sleep.

Ryan's plea during the interrogation.

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