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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...