the crime is that of viola manville a seventy four year old woman found dead on the twenty ninth of november one thousand nine hundred eighty eight along the track. dozens of suspects will be questioned and 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 franks 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 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 stirling 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. for freedom. for frank sterling obtained his freedom largely due to the vigorous efforts of his lawyer donald thompson under the war where 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. yet in the case of frank stirling only his confession was filmed but the video speaks for itself the two policemen had applied the read method as well as some of their own making. they offering 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 and we're here for. a. lunch and all that. i did. you not listen to me.

over and over there 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 and 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. 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. does it you can. right. here and speak up.

sort of like you're floating he said on a chair but you're going on as if you feel like you're sitting at a chair no weight any shoulders. no stars no way. to like an out of body yeah why does someone consists of crying that she didn't do. you know lesbian so tired and really like four hours sleep. you know for three days and like. i try to go on or sleep. in the ball yes i was very. registers

your finals are difficult for your date. is something happen with them. yesterday. one of. the ratio yes even when you're learning. something. anything religion is difficult for. the regime leaders gives them. very. yes. this form of questioning shows how an innocent man can be made to confess with no recourse whatsoever to violence

psychology has 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. 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 fighting the rotten stuff and trying to drag it out for the people.

who will to 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. 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 tested again what he found one hundred ninety officers never got better in an improved after two courses as he looked at the contour the 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 do with the steps in causing arms what else could it what is

a hand up bone hazing the other causing legs sitting on hands wrapping feet around a chair holding on across the angles of the chair no correlation deception. and possibly stress but there is no difference whatsoever and when i contact lars make it a true killers and no connection. and now the myth of the myth of i move a little left right and i'm swimming against the tide and i've got academies that hate me for this and kids my. kids are doing a disservice teaching again and again and again trained officers who thought their greatest sporting lie before and worse in civilian population and had no training in deception which tells you what about training. to general. robin about his methods 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 it is a parent's faceless person is the hostility of anger then a split second when he turns to walk away watch with a smile not a single. these allegations are false and you go back to work.

switch remember to smile another is courtney love suspected of being a drug addict now ron nothing to that and that i'll know how or why god would ask you all the questions that people think now my parent that out and out with courtney love you see shock when she's asked about their own question was a good stress marker has see her own version of body away get multiple answers if she has a good strong cause to be a vors was consistent was only being deceptive if you and later we know that she has had a long history of drug abuse from. you on nothing now so the first question is very general you know nothing today no and barbara asked. a more pointed question now you see you react no more heroin and so you are about to jump wrong nothing today and that no. way to face expression

the large eyes from a shock response of the question this one stones or so it is if i were the interviewer that means i would follow up on her own questions that's a simple me of of incriminating potential my god i'm going to ask you all the questions that people think and i want her on that and watch her body back. and away from barbara and multiple no answers. or. a notice we haven't really answered their own question you're back to project and treasury pointedly 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 god let us out to make sure that i'm not looking for meth again by languages as got a large margin of error so i'm looking in 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 anaemic stress or cause to behavior that we think are it and put some point consistent deception. on stem alters 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 in arkansas in early august two thousand and six when the body of eleven year old caylee was found in the small hints. she had 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 been 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. i would rather i asked questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find wide go larry king now right here on our t.v. question more.

the fishing needs to review these economic ups and downs in the find out all of the months they belong to the new york sang i and the rest of the life it's going be taking will be every week on alternate means your job with. me is unique to you because. if. you come. to me. 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. 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. it cost. us our life. i mean kyra listen to some of some of the stories. and i'm going to like you he is your boy archie. well we're pretty intelligent. and the irony

is you know that i broke in. there's no indication a british. show your sister died and it was only two people in russia could you. hear. that you know my wife can be a book all right oh i 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 know what was going to happen. just i was lost it's no longer an interrogation but a never ending series of accusations. that leave a man all right. well. rick.

all off. i didn't want to know. if i wanted it if your mother didn't leave right. you know you did. well. i don't think. i did you. i did. feel well. thomas will deny killing his sister thirty six times.

already. they told me my mom and i complete trust my mother to protect me my sister had all to. so 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 died and i don't remember doing it. but. so confused and i can't take the pressure of. the police to use the smallest details of the boy's life to further incriminate him . you're probably right here. keisha but on medication. what do you tell if you know.

did you. look at my gate but i really think that you you're going to feel yourself. and yourself you're going to hear it is. part. of life. most kids would have confessed to this crime a lot saying it's a it's absolutely amazing that he was able to withstand their. badgering of ham as long as he didn't. cripple. 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 nervous sweating crying. this is a motion. confused by the accusations thomas begins to break down. while there i thought maybe i'm black though because the cops point to cost a lot of money. nobody can. 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 he went he got from left after her agent screamed and then he waited for as i was already telling me can i hear you know i had to write. i don't

remember but i don't think so. i didn't. ya know. i don't think. it was they didn't notice he was gone but we pursued was my mother. who's there to help me but she betrayed me very much for of. just spreads through me to the cops and said he did it. they're going their own. ways yet only a car can be american the only way to peer. pressure. as his mother condemns him thomas' 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 a girl and he's all talk 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. 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. 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. she. turned off the t.v. . and . climbed off. more.

shot 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 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 were later proved innocent about ninety had made full scan fissions during interrogations that had

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