Today's police interrogation may look deceivingly tame, with interrogators offering sympathy and excuses to the suspect for ...

The Wisconsin Union hosted a public conversation with Brendan Dassey’s lawyers Laura Nirider and Steven Drizin, whose case and post-conviction process made waves globally in the Netflix documentary ...

Robert Davis' false confession is examined in the new podcast Wrongful Conviction False Confessions On the night of Feb. 19, 2003, a fire broke out in a home near where Virginia high school senior ...

After being interrogated relentlessly for many hours, four U.S. Navy sailors separately confessed to committing a violent rape and murder despite the lack of any evidence linking them to the crime.

A new California law prohibits law enforcement from using threats or lies to get a minor to confess to a crime. The law faced opposition, but now a conservative district attorney is urging law ...

A global groundswell of fascination has surged in recent years around the so-called “true crime” media genre. But this is a trend with a twist. Many of today’s most-watched true crime shows are not ...

In a windowless interrogation room, Syracuse police kept telling Robert Adams that he beat to death a friend in May 2019. Detectives told Adams that a 911 caller and multiple witnesses had identified ...

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In 2003, a little-known Illinois state senator named Barack Obama sponsored first-of-its-kind legislation aimed at addressing the problem of false confessions — one of the leading causes of wrongful ...

The judge overseeing the case of a Hialeah teen accused of brutally stabbing his mother to death more than two years ago is allowing his confession to be used at the upcoming trial. Derek Rosa faces a ...