Most people believe they would never confess to a crime they didn’t commit. The idea feels totally counterintuitive to most of us: why would anyone willingly admit to something that could lead to ...

An hour into the police interrogation that would dramatically alter the course of his life, Robert Springsteen repeatedly insisted he had nothing to do with the 1991 murders of four teenage girls in a ...

Expert Witnesses Can't Testify When the Armstrong County District Attorney's Office filed arson charges against a man for setting fire to a home and killing four people, part of the defense strategy ...

Leonard [email protected] YORK-When a beleaguered 13-year-old confessed to murder after hours of interrogation in a Mississippi sheriff's station in 2003, he had been isolated from his mother and had ...

In criminal trials, a defendant's admission of guilt can trump even the proverbial smoking gun. A confession is the ideal civic solution: The perpetrator takes responsibility, and the public sleeps ...

During the press conference, Mulroy stated that Andrew Hayes probably made a false confession due to a 27-hour interrogation ...

WAUPACA, Wis. (WBAY) - Testimony continued on Monday, in a Waupaca County double homicide cold case with the defense raising questions about how police conducted an interrogation. The trial, which has ...

AMES, Iowa – Imagine if you were wrongly accused of a crime. Would you be stressed? Anyone would be, but Iowa State University researchers found the innocent are often less stressed than the guilty.