Dr. Phil will feature the Tankleff case on his show next Tuesday, January 9th.
Last fall Dr. Phil's producers taped an interview with Marty, then taped a show in L.A. before a studio audience. It was a show about false confessions but ended up being in large part about the Marty Tankleff case. Participating in the show in person were private investigator Jay Salpeter; Joseph Guarascio, son of Joey "Guns" Creedon; Marty's aunt Marianne McClure and her daughter, Jennifer; and Steve Drizin of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University. During the taping, the producers got Detective James McCready, who took Marty's "confession," on the phone, and there was some heated back-and-forth between McCready and Salpeter.
Like the recent article in People magazine about Marty, and the one in 'O' magazine about false confessions that featured Marty, this coverage by the "Dr. Phil" show is a milestone in mainstream recognition of the existence of false confessions. DNA has proven that wrongful convictions happen. Now the public is learning how they often happen. That law enforcement is fallible is a fact of life that is finally becoming widely recognized. And that's good news for people caught up in cases in which our criminal justice system has obviously failed. You want to believe enough people now understand that faith in the system can't be sustained if its most egregious failures go uncorrected.
The "Dr. Phil" show is syndicated, which means it's on different channels at different times in different cities. In New York City it will be on at 3:00 p.m. on WCBS, Channel 2. In Riverhead, it will be on at 5:00 p.m. on WLNY, Channel 55. To find the show in your area, click here.
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