More than a decade later, Dahl would crumble under the relentless questioning of detectives who made false statements about the evidence, and the tricks of her own mind that left her believing that she was involved in the killing - that she was, in fact, the biter whose teeth had sunk into the woman's back.
After a series of manipulative interrogations over a period of years, Dahl falsely confessed that she had participated in the murder. She told that same false story in court, identifying her ex-boyfriend, Davis, as the killer and sending him away for 16 years to life.
But she could not escape that terrible image of herself, the consequence of a method of policing that allows detectives to deceive and threaten in pursuit of a confession. And she passed that scar onto her sons, who lived with her addictions and chaos, but still could never quite believe their mother was a killer.
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