tv Documentary RT July 21, 2013 4:29pm-5:01pm EDT
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two years later detectives trained by reid 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 franks is thought to have wanted revenge. the police are relentless and pressed until he cracks. eleventh of july one thousand nine hundred ninety one and exhausted frank admits to the mudda his confession is recorded. many years later the murder of a four year old girl is arrested he confesses to the murder of viola manning and traces of his d.n.a. confirm the fact. frank sterling is released on the twenty eighth of april two thousand and ten after serving nineteen years now age fifty four frank has become
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frail and anxious and finds it hard to talk about his feelings. april twenty eighth two thousand and ten the day i get released. the. freedom. for frank sterling obtained his freedom largely due to the vigorous efforts of his lawyer donald thompson under the war with the question remains why did he have a confessed to a crime he never committed. and 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 a 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 reid method as well as some of their own making. they often coffee and
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donuts to prepare frank sterling for his final declaration of guilt but what had gone on before. i remember the back row of fashion shoulders. trying to be all buddy buddy. or here for a. flick. and i was certain are the same myself well i try to let bragger out legend all that . i did. not listen to me. over and over and 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 rubbing his feed and rubbing his back and having him lie on the floor put his
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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. 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. as best as you can. does if you can't. speak up. like you're floating he said on the chair which are you know as if you feel like you're sitting in a chair. no way down the shoulders. so
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far as a. tool like an out of body yeah why does someone go through this crime that she didn't do. you know has been so tired and really like four hours sleep. you know for three days and. i just want to go more sleep. and yes. it is very. prejudices your finals are difficult for you ok. if something happened with them. yesterday. one of. the ratio yes even when you're learning. something.
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anything religion is difficult for. the regime to dig or fish from. eric. yet. 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
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popular series lie to me. 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 as being 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 i'm fighting a rotten stuff and trying to help were four of the people. who will to his crisscrosses the united states to spread the basics of good interrogation techniques to the police. his unique methods upset many of the theories online including those of his pia's.
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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 never got better in an improved after two courses 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. put a hand up building hazing the other causing legs sitting on hands wrapping feet around a chair holding on a cross in a hose on the chair no correlation deception. possibly stress but there is no difference whatsoever when i contact lars make
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a truth tellers and no connection. and now the myth of the myth of i move a little left leg and right and i'm swimming against the tide and i get academies that hate me for this then kids my. kids are doing a disservice teaching again and again and again trained officers who thought they were great at spotting a lie before him worse in civilian population and had no training in deception which tells you what about training. to general. robin about 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 has 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
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there were some symptoms that told us he would be totally open one he refers to monica lewinsky is that one and 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 not a single time. these allegations are false and you 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 or why god would ask you all the questions that people think now her and that out and out with courtney love you see shock when she's asked about their own question was
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a good stress marker has see her version of body away get multiple answers if she has a good strong cause to braver's was consistent was only being deceptive that you and later we know that she has had a long history of drug abuse for. you on nothing now so the first question is very general you know nothing today no and in barba ask. a more pointed question now you see you react no more heroin and you nobody jump wrong nothing today no. series agitated face expression the large eyes from a shock response of the question this one stones or so as if i were the interviewer that means i would follow up on here on questions that's a single 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
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away from barbara and multiple no answers. or. a notice we haven't really answered their own question you're back to prozac and should ask your very pointedly have you ever done drugs in front of your children and watch the huge reaction again of an apparent cluster b. was of deception evident that it's a fan of like caught out of class how to make sure that i'm not looking for meth 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 found there an issue comes up to keep getting these powerful responses and i keep getting similar cluster behaviors of that damage stress or cause to behavior that we think art and put some point consistent deception. on stem alters criticizes the most is the obsession the police have with obtaining
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a confession at the cost of the investigation this is what happened in the little town of camden in arkansas 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 only 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' moya believes the police became fixated with his behavior which they judged as to come and convince them that thomas had killed his sister. apple for example much of it fine to factoring in down on him being out in. they've
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oh. music is our job the army our destiny these soldiers don't know what real arms look life but it didn't take them a single shots to conquer the world. china and korea try to imitate them america and europe cry bravo absolutely amazing amazing. meanwhile back in russia military artists are losing their grip on the audiences. this year the young people especially soldiers they seem to me to differently from. the russian musical army has been fighting for eighty five years now will it stay in tune with the times and win over the younger audience is up to date or has the time come to give up the
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fight and defeat. find out on r.t. . 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 is 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.
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likes. and i mean listen to somebody some of the story. and i'm going to like it he is your boy archie. whale were pretty intelligent. and the viral irony is nobody broken and. there's no indication a break here. so your sister died and it was only two people in the us it could kill. he. that's the only way i can be a book there i go 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. not knowing what
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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 and tell them just like why. oh. rick. oh i don't know. i didn't want to know. why do. i want it if your mother didn't leave i. know. you know you did. well and had she was right. and. i didn't. feel like a lot. thomas
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will deny killing his sister thirty six times. they told me mom and i completely trust my mother to protect me my sister and all. so she done it and the only way it could happen is if i had done it so i thought the police and tell me the truth so i just. don't remember doing it. but. 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. here will
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probably. be years. keisha but my medication. do you think if you know. did you. control. my day but i really think that you are going to feel yourself. and to help yourself you're going to hear it is. hard. like. most kids would have confessed to this crime a lot saner it's a it's absolutely amazing that he was able to withstand their.
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badgering of him as long as he didn't. the constant harassment has a name the police call it quote cooking over a small fire the officers leave the room and leave thomas to stew on his own there's no need for physical precious 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. who was shaken nerves sweat and cry and. this is an emotional breakdown. confused by the accusations thomas begins to break down. while there i bought my black bell. because the cops find the cops could a lot of me. won't
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. nobody. oh. well. after more than one house cross-examination the police have still been on able 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.
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when we really know he hollered and he went he got on like a. bit strained and he waited. as i'm sorry he's coming home to have any kind out here you know i don't want to write. i don't remember well you know. i didn't. ya know. if it was they didn't notice it was gone but pursues my mother. who was there to help me but she betrayed me try to much for of . just spring was through me to the cops and said he did it. they're going their own. ways you know my car american the only way to peer. pressure.
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as his mother condemns him thomas is 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 tight 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. tell me if i just told them the truth
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or what they wanted to hear i could go home so i gave them a story. and they said that and 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 it back on camera. off an hour later he's like an automaton that repeats everything the police have told him to confess. so i. have. turned off the t.v. . and
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. i plan on. next morning. show off scale. or he sent lane 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
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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 were later proved innocent about ninety had made false confessions during interrogations that had been wrongly conducted. oh. music is our job the army our destiny
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these soldiers don't know what real arms look life but it didn't take them a single shots to conquer the world. china and korea try to imitate them america and europe cry bravo absolutely amazing amazing. meanwhile back in russia military artists are losing their grip on the audiences love. hit the ok. people especially soldiers they seem to me to differently. the russian musical army has been fighting for eighty five years now the flick stay with the times and win over the younger audience is up to date as the time comes to give up the fight and defeat lyn gallacher on our team list.
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