Behind prison walls, they called him "Baby Killer."
It was a torturous nickname for Michael Griffin, who was serving a life sentence for the death of his infant daughter — a crime he adamantly denies. He said she fell from a baby swing inside their home in Flint, Michigan, and died the next day from a failed surgery. But the police, he said, were hell-bent on blaming him for her death, accusing him of abusing her, and trying to bully a confession out of him.
"'Tell us what you did or the doctors won't help your daughter,'" Griffin recalled the police telling him during a three-hour-long interrogation as his daughter clung to life. He described it as a futile back-and-forth:
"I'm telling you the truth."
"No, you're not."
