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 ...

A body of research now suggests that the Reid Technique, first popularized when used in a 1955 Lincoln homicide investigation, can prompt false confessions from suspects.

To the editor: Fontana police officers contend their methods of interrogation are perfectly acceptable since they have been used across the country for the last 80 years. It is sad and scary that ...

Waterboarding? Hasn’t been used in years. Walling, stress positions, abdominal slaps? They’re no longer allowed. But if the CIA can no longer use the interrogation techniques described in chilling ...

In a pilot program at two precinct houses, the NYPD will start filming police interrogations. On the pro side, the American Bar Association and Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, who say it’ll ...

In a forceful defense of its police officers, Fontana city officials say detectives did nothing illegal in the 2018 interrogation of a man who was “psychologically tortured” into falsely confessing to ...

Watch any cop show on television — we’re looking at you, all versions of “Law & Order” — and the use of deception during scenes of a suspect’s interrogation, in essence lying to a suspect to get a ...

In a forceful defense of its police officers, Fontana city officials say detectives did nothing illegal in the 2018 interrogation of a man who was “psychologically tortured” into falsely confessing to ...

NASHUA — New evidence claims that a former Nashua police captain may have threatened a murder suspect during a 1988 interrogation, allegedly telling the suspect that he would face the death penalty ...

Thomas Perez Jr., right, falsely confessed to killing his father, Thomas Perez Sr., after a 17-hour interrogation by Fontana police. He was released after his father showed up alive and well. (Allen J ...