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mentality to adore yourself for contributing nothing to anyone else nothing to society and nothing to the future but wait let me put it this way if your life is shopping wearing ironic t. shirts starbucks and texting on your i phone about your stupid feelings that maybe is for the greater good the church childfree but that's just my opinion. the crime is not a viola man 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.
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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. and franks is thought to have wanted revenge. the police are relentless and pressed until he cranks. eleventh of july one thousand nine hundred ninety one and exhausted frank stirling admits to the mud 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 aged 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. oh yeah and whether you remember freedom. for frank sterling obtained his freedom largely due to the vigorous efforts of his lawyer. under the war with the question remains why did he ever come face to a crime committed. and beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really in the course of interrogation because there's been a satellite meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse. yet in the case of frank sterling only his confession was filmed but the video speaks for itself the
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two policemen had applied to read method as well as some of their own making. here they often 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. lunch and all that. i didn't do it you're 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 there robin is feeding rubbing his back and having him lie on the floor and put his feet
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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 of 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 is that if you. were does you then. there are. going to speak out. sort of like you're floating he said on the chair which are you know as if you feel like you're sitting in
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a chair in the way of any shoulders. a . like an out of body. why does someone go through this crime that he didn't do. you know because we had so tired. for our sleep. you know for three days and like. i just want to go. you know. yes. that's very. creditors' you're right also there's a group where they. do something happen with them. yesterday. one of. the ratio yes even when you're learning. something.
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anything rewritten is difficult for. the regime leaders emerge from. this. very. 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 lying expert. it's even inspired hollywood and its
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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 i'm fighting the rotten stuff and trying to drag it out for 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 and use it to training courses and they brought him back and tested again what they found one hundred ninety officers none of them got better in an improved after two courses they 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 question arms what else. could get one of them has a hand or lot up bone hazing the other causing legs sitting on hands wrapping feet around a chair holding on a cross in the ngos on the chair no correlation deception no one can possibly stress but there is no difference whatsoever and when i
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contact liars make it a true colors and no connection. and now the myth of the myth of i move a little left looking 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. when a bag of 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
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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 basement persian 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 remember to smile another is courtney love suspected of being a drug addict now ron nothing to that and that i'll know how my god i'm going to ask a lot of questions that people think now my parent that out and out with courtney
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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 cause to be avers 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 barbara they ask. a more pointed question now you see you react no more heroin and you are about to jump wrong nothing today no. series educated facial expression the large eyes from a shock response of the question this when stones or so it is if i were the interviewer that means i would follow up on here on questions as 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 and watch your body back. in away
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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 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 each athlete caught out of class how to make sure that i'm not looking for meth i mean by languages 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 an issue comes up to keep getting these powerful responses and i keep getting similar cluster behaviors of that image stress or cause to behavior that we think art and put some point consistent deception.
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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 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 a melody was hysterical while thomas seemed quite calm. cool and 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.
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i would rather asked why shouldn't the people in positions of power instead of speak on their behalf and that's why you can find large show larry king now right here on our t.v. question more. basic needs to review these economic ups and downs in the final call months days belong to the deal sang i and the rest the life it's going be taking will be every week on all things. with.
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more news today ballance is once again flared up. saying these are the images for world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are ruled the day. 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
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pressure he confessed to ever. thing 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. i'm sorry to say that i think. december some of the story. and i'm going to like it is your boy archie. well 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 dad and it was only two people in russia could kill. here. that you know my wife can be
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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 leave a man all right. well. rick. oh i don't know i don't want to know why. i want it. if your mother didn't leave right.
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you know you did. well in life. and. you i didn't you. i did it. feel well. thomas will deny killing his sister thirty six times. do you. and i told me my mom and i completely trust my mother to protect me my sister had all.
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so she done it and the only way it could happen is if i had done it so i thought the police would tell me the truth so i just thought i did it and i don't remember doing it. but scott so confused. can't talk to. the police use the smallest details of the boy's life to further incriminate him. you're probably right here. keisha. my medication. what do you tell if you know. did you hear from the barriers are. overly gay but i really think that. you're going to feel yourself. and
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yourself you're going to hear it is. part. of life. 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. 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 nerves sweat and cry
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and. this is an emotional. confused by the accusations thomas begins to break down. while there i bought my black bell. because the cops i knew point to cost a lot of money. nobody . oh oh. well.
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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 really know he hollered and he went he got on life after. a bit strained and then he went to get home and i don't have. any kind out here you know i hardly ever write. i don't remember but i don't think. i did it it was. you know. it was they didn't notice it was gone but as soon as my mother. who was there to
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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 going their own. ways you know my car. went nowhere near. as his mother condemns him 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
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there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. turning into a girl 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. they said that and so they added beats bits and pieces for me to add in my story to look fit what they wanted to do. and that's when i took them back on camera. off an hour later he's like an automaton that repeats everything the police have told him to confess. me.
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turn off the t.v. . line off. next morning. she realized. he. shot scaled. down.
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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.
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yes. then he consults her. to this day the 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 false confessions during interrogations that had been wrongly conducted.
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