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.

In 2003, a little-known Illinois state senator named Barack Obama sponsored first-of-its-kind legislation aimed at addressing the problem of false confessions — one of the leading causes of wrongful ...

Margarida Bastos is a native Portuguese writer with an avid interest in gaming, anime, theatre, books, film and TV. Essentially, everything that has to do with the multifaceted nature and fascinating ...

A global groundswell of fascination has surged in recent years around the so-called “true crime” media genre. But this is a trend with a twist. Many of today’s most-watched true crime shows are not ...

William Kelly gave a written confession statement to police and pleaded guilty to murder of a woman whose body was found in 1990 in a landfill near Dauphin County. The case seemed straightforward, and ...

POLICE INTERROGATIONS are by their very nature dramatic. The stakes are high. There is an imbalance of power. Those involved are under pressure. Narrative is essential to the proceedings: both the ...

Illinois this week became the first state in the nation to ban law enforcement from using deceptive tactics when interrogating minors. Under the law, confessions made by juvenile suspects who were ...

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 ...

MORE than thirty years ago, when Earl Warren was a career district attorney in California, he came to Washington to address a national conference on crime. His approach to crime control was ...