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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It was one of the biggest blunders in Chicago law enforcement history: two boys, ages 7 and 8, were charged ...

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.

The state's attorney general's office said officers would present to suspects documents with forged letterhead and contact information and, in two... The Virginia Beach Police Department used forged ...

DNA forensics, at their best, are intended to bring an air of scientific confidence to the criminal justice system to hopefully prevent the worst kinds of wrongful convictions. Those good intentions ...

COURT WATCH: New Jersey Supreme Court held that defendant's Miranda waiver, based upon a police lie about alleged incriminating evidence, could not be voluntary, and therefore her confession must be ...

Christopher Popps allegedly sent multiple anonymous tips confessing to the 1993 killing of Patrick Orville Dearth before ...

A confession made to police by the defendant in the fatal shooting of Kathryn Steinle will be admitted into evidence, but jurors will not be allowed to hear another statement he made to a TV news ...

The Virginia Beach Police Department used forged documents with fake DNA evidence in interrogations in order to get confessions on at least five occasions, the state Attorney General Mark Herring said ...