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Criminal

Jun. 23, 2006

Panel Ponders Nightmare World of Coerced Confessions

LOS ANGELES - In Jeannette Popp's nightmare, her daughter sat bruised, naked, on her knees, begging for her life with a gun to the back of her head.

By Anat Rubin
Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - In Jeannette Popp's nightmare, her daughter sat bruised, naked, on her knees, begging for her life with a gun to the back of her head.
      These details did not come from a police report.
      Popp learned how her daughter, Nancy DePriest, 20, was repeatedly raped and fatally shot in the head from Christopher Ochoa,...

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