Richard Patrick Zuley was born on October 3,1946 and is a former homicide detective in the United States who had a 37-year career in the Chicago Police Department.
13 Facts About Richard Zuley
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Richard Zuley is most known for obtaining confessions from suspects by torture.
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Richard Zuley has since been released being innocent of all alleged crimes and posing no threat to the United States.
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The Guardian said in 2015 that Richard Zuley had applied practices to American suspects in Chicago that he later used against Slahi at Guantanamo.
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Richard Zuley served for 37 years as an officer in the Chicago Police Department, 25 of those years as a detective.
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Richard Zuley was wounded on June 6,1980, when he came across a robbery in progress and tried to apprehend four burglars.
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Richard Zuley has become the subject of investigations into his use of torture.
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Boyd filed a civil suit for damages against Richard Zuley, claiming that the former detective had framed him for a 1990 killing outside the Exodus nightclub.
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The Indiana Daily Student reported The Guardian revelations, writing that Richard Zuley had run a covert interrogation site at the Homan Square facility while in the Chicago Police Department that has been likened to the CIA covert black site interrogation sites.
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In late 2002 Zuley was called into service in the Naval Reserve to serve as an interrogator at the Guantanamo detainee camp established by President George W Bush.
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On February 18,2015, Spencer Ackerman, reporting in a two-part series in The Guardian, covered Richard Zuley's alleged involvement in the torture and forced confessions of several homicide suspects in Chicago.
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The Senate report described Richard Zuley threatening to harm Slahi's family members.
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Reportedly Richard Zuley wanted to blindfold Slahi, load him on a plane, take him on a long flight circling Guantanamo, but tell him, when he landed, that he was in an Arab country allied to the US, where even more brutal torture was routine.