It's late at night inside a cramped interrogation room. The suspect being questioned may have come straight from working a double shift or maybe they've been sitting at the police station for hours.

Richard Reyes spent five hours on the witness stand being questioned by an opposing lawyer trying to prove he fabricated a murder confession in 1993.

William Kelly gave a written confession statement to police and pleaded guilty to murder of a woman whose body was found in 1990 in a landfill near Dauphin County. The case seemed straightforward, and ...

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 ...

MORE than thirty years ago, when Earl Warren was a career district attorney in California, he came to Washington to address a national conference on crime. His approach to crime control was ...

In 1982, after a deadly fire in Lowell, police told Victor Rosario that a witness placed him at the scene just before the blaze ignited, and he was later convicted of arson and murder. In 2002, State ...

This is the first post in a series. A confession is often seen as the gold standard of evidence in a criminal case, leading to guilty verdicts even when there is no other evidence, when there’s a ...

Richard Lapointe, center, outside Hartford Superior Court with Kate Germond, left, and Paul Casteleiro, right, of Centurion Ministries in April of 2015. Credit: Tucker Ives | Connecticut Public In ...

Fox will host the new series, a co-production of Zig Zag Productions and streaming platform FilmRise, which follows real homicide detectives as they try to elicit confessions. By Scott Roxborough ...