Ex-Chicago Det. Richard Zuley denies torturing out confession to 7-year-old Dantrell Davis’s murder

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Original Load Date Feb. 19, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
Last Updated Feb. 19, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
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A retired Chicago Police detective who is accused of orchestrating torture at the U.S. Naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, insisted on Wednesday afternoon he used no coercion to elicit a man’s confession to the 1992 murder of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis. Richard Zuley, 79, testified for about three h...