Thomas Perez Jr. was hours into an interrogation by police about his missing father when they dropped some devastating news: A body had been found. Thomas Perez Sr., they told his son, was dead. The ...

In 1969, Martin Frazier and an accomplice were convicted in Oregon of second-degree murder. During an interview with police, "the officer questioning (Frazier) told him, falsely, that (his accomplice) ...

Police often deceive people they question — for example, lying about having DNA evidence that incriminates them. Officers’ goals are to persuade guilty people to confess, but such tactics can pressure ...

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 ...

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 ...

Teresa Hsin was a prominent Mississauga owner of several spas in the GTA — but someone wanted her dead. In November 2014, an unknown assailant stabbed her in the underground of her Mississauga ...

DELPHI, Ind. — Newly obtained videos show the police interrogation of Richard Allen before his arrest for the murder of two girls in Delphi eight years ago. Allen was sentenced in December 2024 to 130 ...

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 ...

Tom Perez called the local police non-emergency line to report his elderly father missing. Thirty-six hours later, Perez was on a psychiatric hold in a hospital, having been pressured into confessing ...