num_pages: 344
description: In 1996, the body of a beautiful young woman was found in an industrialized section of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Christine Burgerhoff had been beaten, strangled, and left nude on a dirt and gravel parking lot. The investigation into her death revealed that she worked at a place called The Reflex Center, a sex shop that was masquerading as a massage parlor right on the main street of one of the wealthier suburbs of the city.Five days later, the Pennsylvania State Police made an arrest. Christopher DiStefano, a former boyfriend of Christine’s, had allegedly confessed to the crime. The case was closed, the citizens breathed a sigh of relief, and DiStefano was quickly convicted in the media.The case of Commonwealth v. DiStefano turned out to be the most sensational criminal case in the recent history of Lackawanna County. Rumors of prominent individuals patronizing the Reflex Center circled around the courthouse. DiStefano’s sexual habits were exposed for public gawking. And the only evidence against him—the confession—raised more questions than it answered.Readers will see inside the sensational case from a point of view unlike any other. For the first time, DiStefano speaks about his confrontation with the death penalty on the basis of a false confession. He describes the horror of a perp walk before a throng of reporters, the ungodly hopelessness during a nervous breakdown—and the truth about what really took place behind the closed doors of his eleven-hour police interrogation.Even if you know the outcome, Anything You Say will grip you with DiStefano’s riveting recreation of the interrogation, and dumbfound you with the stark absence of logic on the part of the prosecution. It is an uncensored revelation of the injustices of coerced confessions and the perfidious methods that the police employ to keep them in the courtroom. Did DiStefano do it? Read the evidence and decide.
language: English
title: Anything You Say: The True Story Of One Man's Ordeal With A Derailed Murder Investigation
titlecomplete: Anything You Say: The True Story Of One Man's Ordeal With A Derailed Murder Investigation
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Humboldt Press