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During Misskelley's trial, Dr. Richard Ofshe, an expert on false confessions and police coercion and Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, testified that the brief recording of Misskelley's interrogation was a " classic example " of police coercion.

Critics have also stated that Misskelley's " confessions " were in many respects inconsistent with themselves and the particulars of the crime scene and murder victims, including ( for example ) an " admission " that Misskelley " watched Damien rape one of the boys.

" Police had initially suspected that the victims had been raped because their anuses were dilated.

However there was no forensic evidence indicating that the murdered boys had been raped and dilated anuses are a normal post-mortem condition.