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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watch any cop show on television — we’re looking at you, all versions of “Law & Order” — and the use of deception during scenes of a suspect’s interrogation, in essence lying to a suspect to get a ...

Margarida Bastos is a native Portuguese writer with an avid interest in gaming, anime, theatre, books, film and TV. Essentially, everything that has to do with the multifaceted nature and fascinating ...

William Kelly gave a written confession statement to police and pleaded guilty to murder of a woman whose body was found in 1990 in a landfill near Dauphin County. The case seemed straightforward, and ...

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 ...

The 9/11 case is at a crossroads in the long running challenge over whether a key confession is tainted by C.I.A. torture By Carol Rosenberg Reporting from Guantánamo Bay in Cuba The C.I.A.

Illinois this week became the first state in the nation to ban law enforcement from using deceptive tactics when interrogating minors. Under the law, confessions made by juvenile suspects who were ...

Investigation Discovery is premiering a new series “Killer Confessions: Case Files of a Texas Ranger” Tuesday, January 13 at 10 p.m., featuring retired Texas Ranger James B. Holland, known for his ...