The Suspicious Case of the Reykjavik Confessions
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Published 2019-04-05
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VIDEO
Young Handsome Suspect During Interrogation Undergoes Lie Detector / Polygraph Test, Connected to the Machine He Answers Yer or No Questions Which Computer Records and Shows if He's Lying.
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All Comments (21)
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suspect: h— icelandic police: solitary confinement
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When I heard the opening, I was expecting, "this group of people apparently had a mass hallucination and thought they killed someone," not, "these people were tortured by law officials until they confessed to something they didn't do."
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Torture doesn't work. They'll tell you anything to make the pain stop.
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This one irritates me so much. They just assume they're all guilty. And if they won't admit even if they literally didn't do it they're just tortured. They'd rather get a conviction than actually have the truth be told.
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imagine you killed a guy in Iceland and you find out via the news that 6 other people admitted to killing him even though you know damn well who did it
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This case is so upsetting. Up to two years in solitary?? Forcing people to confess and saying "well we must have got em!" What
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7:59 Ryan saying "you put me in a room for three straight days, I'm starting to already question my sense of reality" hits different now lmao
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why is nobody talking about “i’m gonna turn iceland into greenland, baby”
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Ryan: pronounces several hard to pronounce Icelandic names effortlessly Also Ryan: FEBHIAIRY
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As an Icelander, I'm pretty impressed by Ryan's pronunciations on some of the names. how he sad "Geirfinnur" was pretty good, his "Sævar" was good, but his "Keflavík" was spot on, good for him. But the way he pronounced "Hafnafjörður" just killed me
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her being separated from her NEWBORN for two years is so heartbreaking that i can’t bear to think about it. i can handle gruesome murders and torture and all that just fine, but for some reason, this one is just too upsetting.
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Majority of the video I was like "Okay, but... What about the child?"
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This is the most psychologically horrific episode of this show
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Really tragic thing is, Erla is STILL fighting it, in 2021, and with the extreme evidence of mistreatment, I just can't understand why it's still going on. She's also a pariah in iceland now, considered a horrible woman who caused innocent men to go to jail.
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Now: Right you can only hold people 96 hours for interrogation Iceland Police in 1970s: Solitary confinement for you! Solitary confinement for you! You all get solitary confinement!
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Batman: "TO THE BATMOBILE!" Dr . Phil: "TO THE RANCH!" Iceland police: "TO THE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT!"
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Shane's dressed like an offbrand 1920's history professor and honestly??? I'm living for it
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Ryan: talking about murders in Iceland Shane: Iceland was heaven
