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In an earlier blog article, I highlighted the fact that none of the many initial witnesses interviewed recalled a bonfire that night,
but the statements evolved in subsequent interviews. This is one of the clearest examples of an organized effort to coerce the witnesses to offer statements consistent with the official story — that bones were found in the burn pit. Investigators needed the bonfire for their story to work. In later interviews, witnesses changed their statements to reflect observation of a fire in the burn pit, and the fire grew in size on third and fourth interviews. Ultimately everyone accepted that there was a bonfire that night. In fact, in Brendan Dassey’s first interrogation interview,
the police told him there was a bonfire that night. It had become a “fact” by then. Please read more about the evolution of statements in this detailed summary
here.
Inconsistencies with “discovery” of bones in burn pit – Steven Avery case