On June 14, 2024, Sandra Hemme's 1980 murder conviction was finally overturned. The only evidence that ever connected Sandra to the crime was her own unreliable and false confessions made while she ...

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 ...

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 ...

AMES, Iowa – Imagine if you were wrongly accused of a crime. Would you be stressed? Anyone would be, but Iowa State University researchers found the innocent are often less stressed than the guilty.

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 ...

Most Americans understand that the police are allowed to lie to suspects. Whether learned from watching procedurals, news reports or personal experience, it is generally recognized that deceit during ...

Thomas Perez Jr., right, falsely confessed to killing his father, Thomas Perez Sr., after a 17-hour interrogation by Fontana police. He was released after his father showed up alive and well. (Allen J ...

Pierson personally went to Davis' cell to tell him he was being freed, and promised Davis he would work to make sure others ...