alternative angles caden stories. are you here. to enjoy the spanish find out more visit. the crime is that a viola manville a seventy four year old woman found dead on the twenty ninth of november one thousand nine hundred eighty eight along this dirt track. dozens of suspects will be questioned and all will be released including frank stirling seen in this photograph. two years later detectives trained by reed reopen the case and are convinced frank is guilty. a few years earlier his brother had been sentenced to prison for raping viola manning and frank stirling is thought to have wanted revenge. the police are relentless and pressed sterling until he cracks

on the eleventh of july one thousand nine hundred ninety one and exhausted frank sterling admits to the mudda his confession is recorded. many years later the murder of a four year old girl is arrested he also confesses to the murder of viola manning and traces of his d.n.a. confirm the fact i crank sterling is released on the twenty eighth of april two thousand and ten after serving nineteen years now age fifty four frank has become frail and anxious and finds it hard to talk about his feelings. april twenty eighth two thousand and ten the day i get released. oh yeah. freedom. from frank sterling obtained his freedom largely due to the vigorous efforts of his lawyer donald

thompson during the war with the question remains why did he ever confess to a crime he never committed. and police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really in the course of interrogation because there's been a sad light moment no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse. in the case of frank sterling only his confession was filmed but the video speaks for itself. the two policemen had applied the reed method as well as some of their own making. here they offer in coffee and donuts to prepare frank sterling for his final declaration of guilt. but what had gone on before. i remember the. shoulders.

trying to be all buddy buddy. or here for a. while . and all that. i did. you not listen to me. over an hour it's like ok i'll give you what you want well they had this weird interrogation technique in your case that i've never seen before since where they are robin is feeding rubbing his back and having him lie on the floor put his feet up on the chair and whispering in his ear you know picture yourself out of the crime scene now picture the victim here she comes what do you do you know all this kind of really hypnotic kind of suggestion in the video the confession is just the acceptable face of what happened during the interrogation. to help frank admit to the crime he didn't commit one of the offices is rubbing his shoulder as

the other is holding his hand. if you. were does you can. hear it speak up. sort of like you're floating he said on the chair but you're you know as if you feel like you're sitting at a chair no weight any shoulders the. no stars no way. to look at a body. why does someone consists of crying that she didn't do. you know has been so tired really like four hours sleep you know for three days and

like. i try to go on or sleep. in the ball yes. that's very. prejudiced you're right also didn't go for it ok. if something happened with them. yesterday. one of. the ratio yes even when you're learning. something. anything religion is different from. being racially degger version.

of. yes. this form of questioning shows how an innocent man can be made to confess with no recourse whatsoever to violence psychology has thus become a powerful weapon in the hands of the police and frank was one of its deliberate victims. to prevent any possible excesses has given rise to a new kind of specialist the law expert. it's even inspired hollywood and its popular series lie to me because. certainly the small psychologist helps result crimes by observing body language and facial expressions it may be human nature for the truth is written for all of us.

stand walters has been a lie expert for the past twenty five years. like to say i'm taking a little trip inside the swamp of their brain. in a morning around a swamp and fighting the rotten stuff and trying to drag. deceptive people. will to crisscrosses the united states to spread the basics of good interrogation techniques to the police. is unique methods upset many of the theories online including those of his pee is. here in texas they did a study on interrogation training and they tested years officers ability to spot deception he says to training courses and they brought him back and test him again what he found one hundred ninety officers now got better in an improved after two courses as he looked at the content of courses and found those courses were

perpetuating the myths stem malta's campaigns against preconceptions and received ideas. very little body language has anything to with the steps in crossing arms what else. could it what is because a hand up bone hazing the other causing legs sitting on hands wrapping feet around a chair holding on cos of the angles of the chair no correlation deception none. possibly stress but there is no difference whatsoever when i contact lars make it a true colors and no connection. and now the myth the myth of i move a little left looking right and i'm swimming against the tide and i get academies and hate me for this thing kids my. kids are doing a disservice teaching again and again and again trained officers who thought their

greatest sporting lie before him worse is supreme population and had no training in deception which tells you what about training. to general. his method is together a bundle of clues based on behavior and language which could indicate a suspect may be lying beyond any stress he may be feeling. as well known people such as bill clinton he is seen lying to the entire nation when he claims he never had sexual relations with white house intern monica lewinsky. i never told anybody to live there wasn't so much is deception here with president clinton other then there were some symptoms that told us he would be totally open one he refers to monica lewinsky is that one that is a very typical depersonalization its way of separating oneself and being above or outside the realm or better than that the other one is his emotion and using his

appearance payslips person is the hostility of anger then a split second when he turns to walk away watch with a smile and not a single time. these allegations are false and i need to go back to work. switch from anger to smile another is courtney love suspected of being a drug addict now ron nothing to do and that will know how my god i'm going to ask a lot of questions that people think now my parents that are out and out with courtney love you see shock when she's asked about their own question was a good stress marker to see her version of body away get multiple answers if she has a good strong close to behaviors was consistent was only being deceptive that you and later we know that she has had a long history of drug abuse. you on nothing now so the first question is very general you know nothing today no

and in barbara they ask. a more pointed question now you see react no more heroin and see you about to jump run nothing today no. sears educated face expression the large eyes from a shock response of the question this when stones or so it's as if i were the interviewer that means i would follow up on here on questions that's a simple me of of incriminating potential my god i'm going to ask you all the questions that people think now my hair and that out now watch your body back. in away from barbara and multiple no answers. a notice we haven't really answered their own question you're back to project international very pointedly have you ever done drugs in front of your children and watch the huge reaction again an apparent cluster behaviors of deception evident

that it's a fan of like caught out of class to make sure that i'm not looking for meth but again body language is got a large margin of error so i'm looking at groupings and looking for it to be consistent so if i'm there when issue comes up to keep getting these powerful responses and i keep getting similar cluster behaviors of an image stress or cause to behavior that we think are it and put some point consists of deception. as criticizes the most is the obsession the police have with obtaining a confession at the cost of the investigation this is what happened in the little town of camden a narcan saw in early august two thousand and six when the body of eleven year old katie was found in the small hills. she'd been suffocated using a plastic bag. after a botched investigation detectives determined the murder had to have been inside

the house. in fact any katie's mother melody and twelve year old brother thomas were inside. when the police arrived the military was hysterical while thomas seemed quite calm. cool when thomas's moya believes the police became fixated with his behavior which they judged as to come and convince them that thomas had killed his sister. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so horrible and. please you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

i would rather abstractions to people in positions of power instead of speak on their behalf and that's why i confine my show larry king now right here on r.g.p. question more. me if he just. took me. to. see.

wealthy british style. that's not on the typewriter. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on our. the first thing that went wrong is that as soon as the police got to the house they decided thomas had committed this crime that was their first error and then everything they did after that just compounded the error. thomas was twelve years old at the time today he was nineteen. and the police

pressure he confessed to everything and was sent to prison. the supreme court would overturn the sentence two years later after the details of his interrogation were revealed. the video recording of the interview was appalling. the pictures caused the worst police scandal in the history of the state of arkansas. tommy i just. started playing. december some of the story. and i'm going to tell it like it is your boy archie. where we're very intelligent. and the viral irony is you know that i broke it and. there's no indication a break here. show your sister died and it was only two people in

russia could kill. that's the only way i can be a book all right oh i don't like your shit ok the tone is set right from the start the police never question thomas about his movements all the facts but are relentless convinced of his guilt the basic era which should never happen during questioning so i was scared didn't know what was going on. didn't know what to do just there things were so fast and we just sat there for hours and not know what was going to happen. just i was lost. it's no longer an interrogation but a never ending series of accusations. that would leave a man old intelligence to fight. well. rick. oh i don't know. i didn't want to know. if i wanted it if she had to. leave she.

you know you did. well. kill. you i didn't kill. i did. feel a whole lot. thomas will deny killing his sister thirty six times. do you. i told me my mom and i completely trust my mother to protect me my sister had all to.

so she couldn't have done it and the only way we could happen is if i had done it so i thought the police and tell me the truth so i just bought it and i don't remember doing it. but. scott so confused and i can't take the pressure and. the police use the smallest details of the boy's life to further incriminate him. you're probably right yes. keisha but my medication. what do you got if you know. did you hear from the start. until. monday but i really think that. you're going to feel yourself. and

yourself you're going to go to this. party. like. most kids what have confessed to this crime a lot saner it's a it's absolutely amazing that he was able to withstand their. badgering of him as long as he didn't. could all. the constant harassment has a name the police call it quote cooking over a small fire the offices leave the room and leave thomas to stew on his own there's no need for physical pressure as the suspects imagination runs wild as to what would happen if he doesn't confess the tactic works inside the mind of the twelve year old kid. oh sure you can nerves sweat and cry

and. this is an emotional. confused by the accusations thomas begins to break down. while there i thought maybe i'm a black girl. because the cops find the cops could a lot of me. won't . nobody came. oh oh. well.

after more than one house cross-examination the police have still been unable to make thomas confess so they turn on his mother melody. she's bipolar and hasn't taken her medicines for six months but the police focus their questions on getting her to point the finger of blame at her own son. when we. know he hollered and then he went on my behalf. and it strained her and he went. and i don't have another son he's coming home to me can i hear you know i don't want to write you. i don't remember but i don't think so. i didn't. ya know. what if they didn't notice is gone but

for sue's my mother. who's there to help me but she betrayed me very much for of. sprint's threw me into the co-op's and said he did it. they're putting their own families you know my car. currently waiting for you. and his mother come to thomas's interrogation continues this time off camera half for a while thomas finally says i'm hungry i haven't had anything to eat all day and then they turn off the tape and they take him in the other room for the next three and a half hours they interrogated thomas just like they had been doing on tape but now they were off they could do what they wanted they could say what they wanted

and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. turning into the room and he saw talking to me tell me that it was only me who could have that if i do not confess before he left he was going to give me the death penalty. so he left and i got scared i called him back in there and by then i realized no way i was going to leave without telling them i did it. to tell me if i just told them the truth or what they wanted to hear i could go home so i gave them a story made and they said that you know so they added beats bits and pieces for me to add in my story to look fit what they wanted it to. and when i took her back on camera. off an hour later he's like an automaton that repeats everything the police have told him to confess.

so i. turn off the t.v. . flying off. next morning. she. can. show off scale.

or essentially the national chief of police contacted me and asked me to contact thomas regarding his interview and they want to use it as an example of how not to interview a child and i think that's very telling. now after his admission the police leave thomas on his own to confront his mother. he whispers in her ear that he didn't kill his sister before declaring his guilt out loud.

yes. then he consults up. to the state investigation into the murder of young katie remains unresolved. the reason the questioning of thomas went so badly is that the police are still focusing on confessions rather than evidence. of the three hundred one prisoners on death row or serving life sentences in the united states that will later proved innocent about ninety had made full scum fissions during interrogations that had been wrongly conducted.

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bit further i will give nationwide outrage in the us with mass protests in dozens of cities against the acquittal of george zimmerman a florida neighborhood watch volunteer who was charged with murdering an unarmed black teenager. russian opposition activists failed a day after being handed a five year jail. term for investment and a trial that's captivated the world's media. also this week turkey is accused of wanting israel use a military base to launch a recent air strike in syria that information coming from our sources but ankara denies the allegation. and backers of egypt's ousted president mohamed morsy clash with opponent.