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Chris Gossett: Then I sat on top of her, and then put my hand over her mouth and stuff. Stafford: And, what was Amy doing? Officer: What was she doing when you twisted her neck? Chris Gossett: Nothing. Chris Gossett: Then she was dead. Why would Chris, a boy with a reputation as a gentle giant, murder Amy, a girl he clearly liked? Stafford: And, what did you tell the police about the pants? Chris Gossett: I unbuttoned them. Stafford: And, pulled them down or left them where they were?

Chris Gossett: Left them where they were. Stafford: But unbuttoned? Chris Gossett: Unbuttoned. Yes sir. Chris also talked about the white folder Amy had been carrying when she disappeared. Remember police found it about 5 feet from her body. Chris Gossett: It released me from a whole bunch of stuff. Stafford: And what did that feel—Chris Gossett: Like all the stuff building up in my chest.

Because my chest started swelling like somebody squeezed me hard. And after I told everybody somebody let go. You were so believing that this boy did it. And then somebody else says they did it and the big question of… why? Rob Stafford, Dateline correspondent: Do police lend any credibility to the confession they got from Chris Gossett?

Chris, now 19, says police urged him not to tell anyone else he killed Amy Stafford: Did you try to hurt yourself? Chris Gossett: Yeah, I drunk bleach and took sleeping pills. Chris Gossett: Because it seemed like everybody was mad at me. So, I figured nobody wanted me no more. Chris survived the suicide attempt but one thing dramatically changed.

I just had a mental breakdown. And I kept on saying I killed her. Chief Deputy Brad Robinson never thought Chris killed the 8-year-old. Chief Deputy Brad Robinson: I would say that the information about her body being in the ditch where it was found would be something only the killer would know.

We had talked to him what we were talking about and he had described was the ditch area that she had fell down into. Stafford: Was that recorded? Do you have that? Robinson: No. Stafford: And did he talk about unbuttoning the pants? Stafford: Did he talk about sex being a possible motive? Stafford: I mean, you look at the two statements and Jonathon gives you a very vague statement and Chris has incredible details.

Stafford: So why do you believe Johnathon and discount Chris? Robinson: The information Johnathon was giving us was the day after the crime scene or the day after Amy was killed the information that Chris Gossett was giving us was almost two years later. The chief deputy hired a psychiatrist for an evaluation. His opinion was that Chris did not have the mental capacity to remember details over a two year period.

Robinson speculated that Chris must have heard the Yates family talking about those details long after Amy was killed.

Stafford: Why would Chris Gossett after all this time, and knowing that a boy is already in jail for this crime suddenly come forward and confess to a killing that could send him to prison? Tom Yates was desperate for answers. Yates had cursed the year —old Johnathon in court and derided the youngster in his campaign to change Georgia Law. Had he persecuted an innocent boy? Stafford: Were the details he gives on that tape was that common knowledge?

There were some things that were told to us that we were told to keep secret. Nobody knew that. Stafford: And Chris Gossett knew it. Yates says he never shared that information with Chris or anyone else. The answer was clear and it was a sickening realization—Johnathon had not killed Amy after all. Stafford: Do you owe Johnathon Adams an apology? An apology was only a beginning. Yates went to court with Johnathon to ask the judge to reverse the plea deal and set the boy free.

Stafford: What was it like getting out of jail? Johnathon Adams: I was real happy. I mean I was blessed to be coming home. I was thankful. Tom Yates: They wrongfully prosecuted a year-old boy back two years ago. And Now they look like fools. And they should because they are. They fumbled this case. The biggest revelation was a detail that went virtually unnoticed when Jonathanwas charged.

But there was never an explanation for the bruising on her upper chest. Stafford: What do your experts tell you about that? In his confession, lbs. Privacy Policy. Sign up. Password recovery.

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