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is it possible to navigate you carney with all the details such as text and misinformation and media hype will keep you up to date by decoding the mainstream. status if in your right. leg. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations are on the day. you. the crime is that a viola manville
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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 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 press sterling until he cracks. the eleventh of july 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 confesses to the murder of viola manning and
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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 frail and anxious and finds it hard to talk about his feelings. april twenty eighth two thousand and ten the day i get released. and remember 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. the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really in the course of interrogation why because there's been this said lightman no because the psychological techniques are more effective in
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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. here they offering coffee and donuts to prepare frank sterling for his final declaration of guilt. but what had gone on before. i remember the back. shoulders. trying to be all buddy buddy and we're here for. a. lecture and all that. i did. you not listen to me.
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over an hour it's like ok i'll give you what you are 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 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. if you. does it you can. right. here and speak up.
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sort of like you're floating he said on the chair but you're going on as if you feel like you're sitting at a chair no weight any shoulders. no sars no way. to look at a body. why does someone consists of crying that she didn't do. you know has been so tired and really like four hours sleep you know for three days and like. i just want to go on or sleep you know. yes i was very. prejudiced in your mind all
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citizens go for it if they. do something happen with them. yes you're. one of. the ratio yes even when you're learning. something. anything religion is difficult for. the regime leaders emerge from. eric. yet. this form of questioning shows how an innocent man can be made to confess with no recourse whatsoever to violence
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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 lawyer 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 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 drag it out for four of the people.
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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 he brought him back and tested again what he found one hundred ninety officers now 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 crossing arms what else. could get one of them has
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a hand up in hazing the other causing legs sitting on hands wrapping feet around a chair holding on crossing the ankles of the chair no correlation deception not. possibly stress but there is no difference whatsoever and when i contact lawyers make a bit of truth tellers and no connection. and now the myth the myth of i'm moving little left logan 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 they were great at spotting lie before and worse in civilian 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
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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 and that's 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 in 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.
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switch from anger to smile another is courtney love suspected of being a drug addict now wrong nothing to do and that no. by god i'm going to ask you all the questions the 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 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 from. 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 so you know body jump wrong nothing today no no hair on zagat a face expression the large eyes from
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a shock response of the question miss when stones are so much as 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 now who are on the 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 prozac and should ask you 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 up with us now to make sure that i'm not looking for meth again body language is 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 that any stress or cause
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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 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 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 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 in thomas' moya believes the police became fixated with his
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behavior which they judged as to come and convince them that thomas had killed his sister. technology innovation. developments around russia. wealthy british style. markets. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy
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with mike's culture for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds a report. put it on your culture wal-mart at wachovia bank face like you know. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. 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
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everything they did after that just compounded the error. thomas was twelve years old at the time today is nineteen. 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. place. and i mean listen to some of some of the stories. and i'm going to like it is your boy archie. whale were pretty intelligent. and the viral irony is
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no die broken. there's no indication a break here. so your sister died and it was only two people in the us it could've killed. here. that's the only way i can be book right no i don't like you understand it ok the tone is set right from the start the police never questioned 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 the know what was going on. didn't know what to do just there things moved so fast and we just sat there for hours. not knowing 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 almost intelligent. well. rick.
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oh i don't know i really 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 why do you. think. you can do i didn't. i did it. i feel like a lot of. thomas will deny killing his sister thirty six times.
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they told me mom and i complete trust my mother to protect me my sister had all gone so she couldn't have 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. don't remember doing it. but. so confused i can't take the pressure of. the police to use the smallest details of the boy's life to further incriminate him has your problem. here. your station but my medication. why do you care if you know.
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did you hear from the barriers are. all over my gate but i really think that. you're going to feel yourself. and yourself you're going to hear it is. our party. 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. badgering of him as long as he then. could hold. 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
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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. might be a black bell. because the cops find to cost a lot of money. nobody . oh oh.
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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 he got. hit screamed and then he waited. and i don't have another comic con out here you know i had to write. never
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think. i did it it was. ya know. you don't think. it was they didn't notice he was gone but as soon as my mother. who was 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 going their own. ways you know my car. went nowhere near. him. as his mother condemns him thomas his 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
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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 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 for what they wanted to hear i could go home so i gave them a story. and they said that enough 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 them back on camera. off an hour later he's like an automaton that
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repeats everything the police have told him to confess. so i. have. turned off the t.v. . plan off. next morning. he.
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shot scaled. down. 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. 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 at made full scum fissions during interrogations that had
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been wrongly conducted.
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syrian kurds surge across the iraqi border fleeing at times by al qaeda linked rebels we see the war in syria becoming more than just about regime change. you've had your fun says the british government as it forces the newspaper at the center of the snowden surveillance leaks to destroy its trove of data the report on how far authorities are going to muzzle the media. and with political and sectarian chaos rocking egypt its economy seems to be forgotten with the latest wave of violence threatening to cut off one of the country's main sources of income tourism.

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