A body of research now suggests that the Reid Technique, first popularized when used in a 1955 Lincoln homicide investigation, can prompt false confessions from suspects.

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 ...

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.

The Supreme Court denied Pedro Hernandez’s last appeal, ruling that procedural issues—specifically, how police conducted his ...

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 ...

False confessions and mistaken witness identification often play a decisive role in defendants being wrongly convicted. In this edition of his Civil Rights Litigation column, Ilann M. Maazel writes ...

MORE than thirty years ago, when Earl Warren was a career district attorney in California, he came to Washington to address a national conference on crime. His approach to crime control was ...

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 ...