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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis speaks during a news conference at City Hall on Monday about the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders.

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 ...

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 ...

OLYMPIA — Victims of false confessions that lead to wrongful convictions, like Ted Bradford, want to prohibit police from using deceptive tactics during interrogations, and they have the backing of ...

The California town of Fontana will pay $900,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit after police falsely accused a man of murdering his father, interrogated him for 17 hours, threatened to have ...

Criminal suspects may feel unable to leave an interrogation room after only three minutes of questioning, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...