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 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.

Criminal suspects may feel unable to leave an interrogation room after only three minutes of questioning, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research. Hayley Cleary, Ph.D., a professor ...

Fresh eyes on a 1993 Missouri cold case caught a suspect making incriminating comments when police left a room during a 2015 interrogation. When detectives walked away and closed the door, Loril Harp ...

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 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Offering suspects a cigarette during police questioning may become a thing of the past if a Tokyo police experiment with a ban on smoking in interrogation rooms works out. The Tokyo ...

A pervy school secretary's admission to having sex with a student during a taped police interrogation could result in the case being tossed, the lead prosecutor warned. Alicia Hughes, 31, was ...

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 ...