Ryan Harris

Why Young People Falsely Confess to Police

Steve Drizin | Posted 10.02.2009 | Chicago


Steve Drizin

I've seen police lie to children in all manner of ways, telling one child that his dead sister's blood was found in his bedroom and a different boy that his father had awakened from a coma and told police the boy was his assailant.

Historically, Eight-Year-Old Killers Have Been Mythical

Rob Warden | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics


Rob Warden

The confession of an eight-year-old boy to the murder of his father and another man last week in St. Johns, Arizona, is shocking. It also may be false.