While popular understanding may suggest that innocent people simply do not confess to crimes (“I would never confess to doing something that I did not actually do!”), the surprising fact is that false ...

Believe it or not, innocent people do confess to crimes they did not commit – as did yogurt shop murder defendant Michael Scott, says lawyer, sociologist, and University of San Francisco professor ...

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 ...

SAY THEY HAVE NO STATEMENT RIGHT NOW. ALSO AT SIX KMBC NINE NEWS, A WOMAN TELLING THE WORLD THAT SHE’S INNOCENT. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY. I’M KRIS KETZ AND I’M LARA MORITZ. IT STARTED WITH A GRAPHIC ...

Three men who were convicted of crimes in the New York City borough of Queens in the 1990s and served long prison sentences have been exonerated after reexaminations of their cases found evidence of ...

Sandra Hemme spent 43 years in a Missouri prison for a murder she did not commit. Some estimates suggest that a false confession played a role in almost a third of wrongful murder convictions. For ...

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 ...

Hector Polanco was a legend—in more ways than one. He joined the Austin Police Department in 1976 and spent years as a patrolman before becoming a homicide cop. Polanco was handsome and charismatic ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that a defense expert on “false confessions” may not testify in the murder case against Timothy Huante, reversing a Pennington County ...

Chicago aldermen are set to consider the city’s largest police misconduct settlement ever: a $50 million deal for four men imprisoned after detectives allegedly forced their false confessions as teens ...