BONUS Patreonsode : Let The Mandela Effect Out Of The Box — Peter Reilly

The Mandela effect is an innocent topic if we’re discussing false memories of your childhood references. But this isn’t true when you think about the implications of false memory leading to false confessions.

This happened to the eighteen-year-old Peter Reilly, who sat in the interrogation room having signed the confession that he’d brutally murdered his own mother, 51-year-old Barbara Gibbons, after 25 hours of intense questioning. The only problem - he was innocent. In 1975, two years after his conviction, Peter walked free, exonerated by evidence that proved he couldn’t have been at the scene of the crime.

What were the motives behind his confession?

The Innocence Project movement in the US, which seeks to exonerate innocent convicts through modern DNA testing, says false memory plays a role in more than 70 per cent of the wrongful convictions they overturn. In ten per cent of those cases, their clients originally pleaded guilty, serving an average of 14 years for crimes that they didn’t commit.

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Sources:
https://www.readersdigest.co.uk/inspire/life/murder-and-mind-hackers-beyond-the-memory-illusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Roraback

https://www.encyclopedia.com/law/law-magazines/peter-reilly-trial-1974-1976