OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – An expert in police practices said interviews with Karen Boes following her daughter Robin’s 2002 killing ...

Boes has ferociously maintained her innocence since her confession, which followed a ten-hour interrogation in 2002.

Boes was initially denied a new trial in 2023, after Judge Karen Miedema (who is overseeing the hearings) determined new ...

Most people believe they would never confess to a crime they didn’t commit. The idea feels totally counterintuitive to most of us: why would anyone willingly admit to something that could lead to ...

In 1995, Daniel Taylor was convicted of a double murder in Chicago in what seemed to be a clear-cut case: he gave police a signed confession. But now his supporters — including Northwestern University ...

Lawyers for the Libyan man want an alleged confession to the attack on Pan Am flight 103 ruled inadmissable as evidence in a later trial.

JonBenét Ramsey’s father, John Ramsey, has reportedly received a new tip from a woman claiming her ex-husband killed his six-year-old daughter in 1996. A recent Netflix docuseries reignited the case.

AMES, Iowa – Imagine if you were wrongly accused of a crime. Would you be stressed? Anyone would be, but Iowa State University researchers found the innocent are often less stressed than the guilty.

In criminal cases, a confession, like DNA, is considered one of the most damaging forms of evidence. Jurors generally do not believe individuals confess to a crime they did not commit. Yet false ...

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 ...