LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) -Darrel Parker clocked out of his job as the City of Lincoln’s first forester and walked through the door of his Antelope Park home for lunch on Dec. 14, 1955. He ...

In March of 1995, Chicago police arrested four Black teenagers from the neighborhood of Englewood and accused them of the rape and murder of a local sex worker. After hours of interrogation, police ...

Defense attorney Cicchini (Convicting Avery: The Bizarre Laws and Broken System Behind “Making a Murderer”) uses the notorious murder case at the center of a Netflix true crime documentary as a ...

After a three-and-a-half-hour interrogation, police officers wore down a 12-year-old girl and got her to “confess” to sexual-related allegations that proved false.

Believe it or not, innocent people do confess to crimes they did not commit – as did yogurt shop murder defendant Michael Scott, says lawyer, sociologist, and University of San Francisco professor ...

In criminal cases, a confession, like DNA, is considered one of the most damaging forms of evidence. Jurors generally do not believe individuals confess to a crime they did not commit. Yet false ...

Confessions are a crucial form of evidence in our legal system. In my former career as a police officer, and in my current one as an attorney, I’ve seen confessions seal convictions, sway juries, and ...

Karen Boes has returned to court for new evidentiary hearings regarding her 2003 murder conviction. Boes was found guilty of setting the house fire that killed her daughter but has long maintained her ...