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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 27: Raymond Santana (C), one of the five men wrongfully convicted of raping a woman in Central Park in 1989, speaks at a press conference on city halls' steps after it was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Three men who were convicted ...

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.

AMES, Iowa – An Iowa State University psychology professor is leading an international research team developing new interrogation methods designed to reduce false confessions and more effectively ...

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