Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Perez Jr., right, falsely confessed to killing his father, Thomas Perez Sr., after a 17-hour interrogation by Fontana ...

A small number of states have banned police from lying or being deceptive when interrogating minors. New York should follow suit. Rule 603 (Oath or Affirmation to Testify Truthfully) of the Federal ...

A body of research now suggests that the Reid Technique, first popularized when used in a 1955 Lincoln homicide investigation, can prompt false confessions from suspects.

How does a nation such as the U.S., which professes the Jeffersonian ideal of “equal and exact justice to all men,” balance the safety of society against the rights of the individual? In 1964, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Interrogation Tapes. True crime fans can get a rare look at the tricks of the trades law enforcement officers use to help ...

This is the first post in a series. A confession is often seen as the gold standard of evidence in a criminal case, leading to guilty verdicts even when there is no other evidence, when there’s a ...

Fox will host the new series, a co-production of Zig Zag Productions and streaming platform FilmRise, which follows real homicide detectives as they try to elicit confessions. By Scott Roxborough ...

A confession is often seen as the gold standard of evidence in a criminal case, leading to guilty verdicts even when there is no other evidence, when there’s a reason to think the confession was ...