If you are looking at a very unsophisticated person and you give them enough in the way of inducements, particularly if you couple it with implied threats, you can get people to confess to virtually anything. |
They were all pretending that they were carrying guns. They all were pretending that they had killed in the past. It was a very ugly little situation to be in. If he said he didn't do it, he clearly was in big trouble. |
When the meeting with the real Mr. Big started, Mr. Big just approached it as if George had in fact been confessing the whole time, and wanted to know the details. |