Investigating the case of Victoria Martens, where a false confession complicated the murder investigation, highlighting ...

A former Detroit homicide detective whose interrogation tactics have led to exonerations and multimillion-dollar settlements is now connected to another vacated conviction.Wayne County Prosecutor Kym ...

Leonard [email protected] YORK-When a beleaguered 13-year-old confessed to murder after hours of interrogation in a Mississippi sheriff's station in 2003, he had been isolated from his mother and had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis speaks during a news conference at City Hall on Monday about the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders.

In criminal trials, a defendant's admission of guilt can trump even the proverbial smoking gun. A confession is the ideal civic solution: The perpetrator takes responsibility, and the public sleeps ...

Twenty-seven years after being convicted of a murder he said he didn't commit, a Detroit man walked out of a Michigan prison on Tuesday as a free man, following a Wayne County judge's decision to ...

Here's one from the annals of outrageous but true crime cases: On April 17, 1989, a woman was practicing tai chi in New York's Central Park, when a man sexually assaulted her. The rape was interrupted ...

WAUPACA, Wis. (WBAY) - Testimony continued on Monday, in a Waupaca County double homicide cold case with the defense raising questions about how police conducted an interrogation. The trial, which has ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has cleared the way for a retrial to go forward after all in an infamous 1984 murder case ...

It is time for New York state to make a confession of its own: innocent people don't confess to crimes they didn't commit unless they are coerced, and a confession to a crime one didn't commit ought ...