NEW: Man paid $900k for "psychological torture" after police forced him to give a false confession that he killed his father This makes me so mad. Investigators reportedly threatened to kill his dog, claimed his dad was dead & said they had evidence he killed him. One problem: His dad was alive. Thomas Perez Jr. called the police after his father went missing in Fontana, California. Police brought him into the station where he was interrogated for 17 hours. They told him that his father was dead and they had his body which was at the morgue with a toe tag. Police tried convincing Perez that his mind was playing tricks on him and it was suppressing troubling memories like killing his dad. They also brought his dog into the interrogation room so he could say bye to it as they threatened to euthanize it. "How can you sit there, how can you sit there and say you don’t know what happened, and your dog is sitting there looking at you, knowing that you killed your dad? Look at your dog. She knows, because she was walking through all the blood," they said. Perez eventually "confessed" and tried to kill himself by hanging in the interrogation room. Perez's father eventually turned up alive. He had walked to the train station in Fontana and traveled to Los Angeles County to visit a relative. He later went to the airport to fly to Oakland to visit his daughter before police found him.