Dunn says Maddox could not resist the temptation to brag. Her adolescent boasts would be the beginning of the end. An informant called the police, who followed up on the tip by going to Kingwood High School. When an assistant principal viewed a surveillance tape from one of the stores the girls robbed, he recognized Dunn's voice in the background. Dunn claims detectives told her that if she confessed to the robberies, she could go home for dinner.
Detectives deny that.
But she did sit down in front of a police videocamera and, for about a half-hour, named names and provided details about every robbery the girls had committed. After deliberating for 24 hours, the jury sided with the prosecution. Both girls were sentenced to seven years in jail. Morneau is expected to plead guilty and be sentenced sometime next week. Prosecutor Terrance Wyndham asserts that, even though justice was served, this is a case in which nobody won.