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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brown University’s Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve argues that false confessions stem from something more pernicious than shoddy law enforcement. Cook County is known as the wrongful-conviction capital of ...