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 ...

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 ...

At least 30 incarcerated people say Barbara Simon used coercion, threats, fabricated statements, or other abusive tactics to ...

Thomas Perez Jr. was brutally interrogated by police officers for 17 hours before he falsely confessed to murdering his father, Thomas Perez Sr. Their story was told on the Dec. 5 episode of Dateline.

The victim's family alleged that DOC staff was aware of his mental illness and physical condition. Credit: Illustration/ rawpixel public domain In 1989, at age 43, Richard LaPointe was wrongfully ...

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 ...

It may be hard to imagine why an innocent person would confess to a crime they didn't commit, but a number of notorious court cases have shown that it can and does happen. Now new research suggests ...

In recent years, DNA tests have proved something surprising: people sometimes confess to terrible crimes that they definitely did not commit. One reason seems to be traditional American methods of ...

That's the question Mohammad Jawad's defense attorneys are trying to answer with a motion filed Wednesday afternoon in the Guantanamo detainee's habeas petition, charting a course into some new legal ...

Dr. Kassin is a professor of psychology. Mr. Thompson is a partner at a firm that specializes in nonconfrontational interview techniques. See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más ...

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 ...