Robin Dahlberg's new photography book, "Breaking Point," explores how interrogation methods can lead to false confessions and ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) -Darrel Parker clocked out of his job as the City of Lincoln’s first forester and walked through the door of his Antelope Park home for lunch on Dec. 14, 1955. He ...

A confession is often seen as the gold standard of evidence in a criminal case, leading to guilty verdicts even when there is no other evidence, even when there’s a reason to think the confession was ...

Police often deceive people they question — for example, lying about having DNA evidence that incriminates them. Officers’ goals are to persuade guilty people to confess, but such tactics can pressure ...

When a suspect confesses to a crime he did not commit, he usually leaves his fingerprints all over it. Someone who is truly innocent, for example, cannot possibly reveal to police secret details of ...

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.

In 1982, after a deadly fire in Lowell, police told Victor Rosario that a witness placed him at the scene just before the blaze ignited, and he was later convicted of arson and murder. In 2002, State ...

Criminal suspects may feel unable to leave an interrogation room after only three minutes of questioning, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research. Hayley Cleary, Ph.D., a professor ...

KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) -- Ken McCabe remembers the horror he felt when a suspect confessed to killing someone simply because he was having a bad day. The detective knew there was no way he could ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Most people do not feel free to leave a police interrogation room after only three minutes of questioning, a recently published study from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) ...