Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Perez Jr., right, falsely confessed to killing his father, Thomas Perez Sr., after a 17-hour interrogation by Fontana ...

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 ...

This is the first post in a series. 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, when there’s a ...

In 1969, Martin Frazier and an accomplice were convicted in Oregon of second-degree murder. During an interview with police, "the officer questioning (Frazier) told him, falsely, that (his accomplice) ...

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 ...

Boes was initially denied a new trial in 2023, after Judge Karen Miedema (who is overseeing the hearings) determined new ...

Allison Redlich, Distinguished University Professor, Criminology, Law and Society, College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), received funding for the project: “Schoolhouse interrogations and ...

DELPHI, Ind. — A marathon Day 10 in the Delphi murders trial Tuesday gave a split screen look at Richard Allen – first as a Delphi CVS clerk who repeatedly asserted his innocence in a pair of police ...

Richard Zuley, who spent 30 years as a CPD detective, testified that he never verbally or physically assaulted Anthony ...

Thomas Perez Jr. was hours into an interrogation by police about his missing father when they dropped some devastating news: A body had been found. Thomas Perez Sr., they told his son, was dead. The ...