Son Covered In Blood Tells Cops Nothing Happened So What Is This Interrogation All About

In a police interrogation room, a 26-year-old man named Jared Norman sits across from two detectives. He has a cut on his hand, his knuckles are scraped, and hours earlier, officers pulled him over in Delray Beach, Florida, and found him covered in blood. When the first officers asked what happened, he told them nothing happened. Now, in the interrogation, he is sticking to that story — or rather, he is offering a version of events that keeps shifting, and the detectives have evidence they are slowly revealing to show they know more than he is telling them.

The slow build of a friendly interrogation

The interrogation begins casually. The detectives ask Jared routine questions — his name, his birthday, where he lives. He says he lives in his car, a white Chevy Malibu. He works at a restaurant called Bogadel Mar, has been there about a month, and doesn't particularly like it but needs the money. He says he moved from Ohio to Florida when he was 18, has a younger brother and sister, and talks to his mom regularly. He says he has had minor legal trouble before — small altercations, nothing major. The tone is conversational, almost sympathetic.