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 ...

Ted Bradford says the worst day of his life was when detectives took him into a tiny room to question him about a rape. “The whole day it was like accusation after accusation,” he says. “I kept ...

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 ...

Most Americans understand that the police are allowed to lie to suspects. Whether learned from watching procedurals, news reports or personal experience, it is generally recognized that deceit during ...

They call it “the box” — the cramped, anxiety-inducing room where police conduct interrogations, pushing and probing for a confession or at least case-solving information. It was in the box that ...

The Montgomery County legislator who proposed requiring police statewide to videotape interrogations has withdrawn his bill while Maryland's Police Training Commission develops guidelines for ...

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 ...