Dave Winfrey

I’m going to let my four stars mostly speak for themselves and just comment in this way: if you ever find yourself being questioned by authorities, feds, state, local, you are putting your freedom in peril if you don’t not politely inform them that you do not want to speak without counsel present. They will scoff, laugh, get angry, and tell you that there’s no reason for you to have concerns ... and in most cases they will be right. But friends, there are people that have spent decades in prison because they had nothing to hide. These are people from all different demographics, black, white, rich and poor, it can happen to you. Trust me, if an investigating detective gets it in his/her head that you’re guilty ..... you could take the fall. A couple decades ago while I was living on Florida’s SW coast, a neighbor and his wife woke to find their 2 year old daughter gone. The area went into full fledged search mode. Three days into the horrible drama I could see and hear the signs, police had no leads, no signs of a stranger abduction. The missing girl’s dad was my friend and I knew he was innocent, so I went down one evening and asked to talk. I asked him what was happening with the police. He said they’d both, he and his wife, taken polygraphs, his wife 3 and he had taken 2. He went on to tell me that on this very day a detective had told him that they were confident that his wife had murdered their child. He said that wasn’t possible though, but that he believes the cops know best and that he will keep cooperating. It took me several minutes but I got him to hire a lawyer. Everybody thought they were guilty. Even the chief of police said we believe we know who did this and the neighborhood is safe. One year later a local homeless man was arrested, confessed, and was convicted for crawling through a back window and kidnaping the child. He led police to the remains. By then my friends had divorced and each moved away .... A few weeks after the conviction, my friend and ex neighbor shot himself to death. I’ve always blamed the authorities for what happened to those people. I told the cops days after the kidnapping that these people were rock solid and that this was a stranger abduction. They took my DNA and left. This film brought it all back home to me. It’s a perfect film to remind us that the good guys don’t always act in a way that we would hope or expect they would