http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/681221,CST-NWS-Fox05.articleDecember 5, 2007
BY LEONARD N. FLEMING Staff Reporter/
[email protected] Kevin Fox was ready to crack.
He was hungry. He had failed a polygraph. He was led to believe his wife had abandoned him, his son had implicated him and his father told Will County investigators to "do what you want with him."
In lurid and dramatic testimony in federal court Tuesday, Fox said one detective showed him a picture of his dead 3-year-old daughter Riley with duct tape over her mouth and panties missing. After nearly 14 hours of interrogation in October 2004, they offered Fox a deal to admit to involuntary manslaughter.
"I was thinking my wife left, my father left and my son said I did it," Fox said from the stand in his civil rights lawsuit against Will County authorities. "I had no one. I went along with an accident story just to get out. I knew the story was bull---- and that it would be checked out and I would be cleared."