In 1995, Daniel Taylor was convicted of a double murder in Chicago in what seemed to be a clear-cut case: he gave police a signed confession. But now his supporters — including Northwestern University ...

An expert on false confessions will be allowed to testify during a new trial for a man convicted of two murders but whose conviction was vacated last year amid the fallout from judicial misconduct ...

While popular understanding may suggest that innocent people simply do not confess to crimes (“I would never confess to doing something that I did not actually do!”), the surprising fact is that false ...

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.

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 ...

Would you confess to a crime you did not commit? Many people would respond instantaneously with a firm, "No." But they do and often, says Saul Kassin, one of the country’s leading experts on false ...

The right to remain silent is worth talking about. It’s easy to take for granted. But what you’ve heard is right — anything you say can and will be used against you. Even if you were tricked into a ...

A global groundswell of fascination has surged in recent years around the so-called “true crime” media genre. It took off in 2014, when the “Serial” podcast’s coverage of Baltimore teen Adnan Syed’s ...

Three men who were convicted of crimes in the New York City borough of Queens in the 1990s and served long prison sentences have been exonerated after reexaminations of their cases found evidence of ...

There are a number of factors that can lead a suspect to confess to crimes they did not commit. WGBH's Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH News ...

Attorneys for a teen charged in the October shooting death of a Middletown man say he gave false confessions to police and those statements should he tossed out at trial. Cameron Kyles, now 19, is ...