dozens of suspects will be questioned and will be released including frank sterling seen in this photograph. two years later detectives trained by reed reopen the case not 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. 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 sterling is released on the twenty eighth of april two

thousand and ten off to 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. 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 ever confess to a crime he never committed. and 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 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 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 back. shoulders. trying to be all buddy buddy. or here for. an hour or so. and all that. i did. you're not listening 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. 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 going on as if you feel like you're sitting at a chair no weight any shoulders. no stars no a. like an out of body. why does someone consists of crime that she didn't do. you know lesbian so tired you know 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. 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. anything religion is different from. regime leaders vision. of. america. 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 lawyer 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 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 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. here in texas they did a study on interrogation training and they tested years officers ability to spot deception he says to training courses they brought him back and test them again what he found one hundred ninety officers now got better and improved after two courses he looked at the content the courses and found those courses were perpetuating the myths stem malta's campaigns against preconceptions and received ideas. very little body language as anything to do with the steps in crossing arms what else. could get what is a hand up building 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. possibly

stress but there is no difference whatsoever and 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've got academies that hate me for this thing 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 and worse a 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 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 place which 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 i need to go back to work or. switch remember to smile another is courtney love suspected of being a drug addict now ron nothing to that and that i'll know her by god i'm going to

ask a lot of 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 to see her version of body away he had multiple answers if she is really good strong close to be a vors he 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 and a no and then barb they ask. a more pointed question now you see you react no more heroin and so you are about to jump wrong nothing today no. series educated face expression the large eyes from a shock response of the question this when stones are 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 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 out of class how to make sure that i'm not looking for meth i mean body language is got a large margin of error so i'm looking in 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 that damage 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 katie was found in the small dose. 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 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.

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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 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. tommy cost. i'm sorry state police. and i mean listen to some of some of the stories. and i'm going to like it is your boy archie. well we're very intelligent. and the viral irony is you know that broken. there's no indication a break here. show your sister dad and it was only two people in the us it could kill. you or your. best you know my wife can be a book all right oh i don't like you understand it 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 to 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 would leave a man. well. for it. all i don't know i didn't want to know. why do. i want it if your mother did. i.

you know you did. well and had. kill a. few. i do. feel like a lot of. us will deny killing his sister thirty six times. already. riteish. told me mom and i completely trust my mother to protect me my sister had all to. so she's done it and the only way we 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. scott was 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 probably be years. keisha but my medication. you know. did you hear from. 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 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 even nerves sweat and crying. this is an emotional. confused by the accusations

thomas begins to break down. while there i thought maybe i blacked out. because the cops and if i'm to cop to the law and me. 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. when we really know he hollered and then he went he got on my behalf. and i just screamed and then he went to get home and i was having fun he's coming home to have any kind out here you know i had to write. i don't remember but i think well you know. i guess it was. you know. i don't think. it was they didn't notice he was gone but pursues my mother was he was 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 playing their own. ways you know my car. went nowhere near. 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 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

a girl and he saw talk to me tell me that it was only me who could know 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 or what they wanted to hear i could go home so i gave them a store i made and they said that and so they added beets 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 repeats everything the police have told him to confess. he.

turned off the t.v. . playing off. next morning. he. 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 that he didn't kill his sister before declaring his guilt out loud. it. was.

then he consoled her. to this day the investigation into the murder of young katie remains unresolved. the reason the questioning of thomas when so badly is of 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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