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the report of quantitative easing. the crime is that a viola manville 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 all 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 frank stirling is thought to have wanted revenge. the police are relentless and pressed sterling until he cracks. the eleventh of july one thousand nine hundred ninety one and exhausted frank sterling admits to the mudda his confession is recorded.
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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 frail and anxious and finds it hard to talk about his feelings. april twenty eighth two thousand and ten the day i get released. that you're above it oh yeah well you know 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. and police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it
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just doesn't happen really in the course of interrogation why 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. 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. shoulders. trying to be all buddy buddy. or here for.
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a. legend all that. i did. you not listen 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 rubbing his feed and rubbing his back and having to 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 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. if you. were does you can.
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right. here and speak out. 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 wait any shoulders. no scars no a. like an out of body. why you die someone will say this crime that she didn't do. you know has been so tired you know really like four hours sleep you know for three days and like. i just try to go on or sleep
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you know. yes i was very. prejudiced your mind also didn't go for it ok. if something happened with them. yes you're. one of. the ratio yes even when you're learning. something. anything religion is difficult for. regime leaders emerge from. very. yes. this form of questioning shows how an
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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 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
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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 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 test him again what he found one hundred ninety officers never got better in an 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 has anything to with the steps in crossing arms
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what else. could it what is up because a hand up bone 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. and possibly stress but there is no difference whatsoever when i contact liars make it a true killers 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 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 as if a population and had no training in deception which tells you what about training.
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to general. 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 his appearance payslips person is the hostility of anger then a split second when he turns to walk away watch with a smile not
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a single. these allegations are false and i need to 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 my god i'm going to ask 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 to see her version of body away get multiple answers if she has a good strong coaster braver's 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 to ask. a more pointed question now you see you react no more heroin
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and so you nobody jump wrong nothing today no. series educated facial expression the large eyes from a shock response of the question this when stones are so much 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 and that i watch your body back. in away from barbara and multiple no answers. or. a notice we haven't really answered their own question you're back to project international 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 to make sure that i'm not looking for meth i mean body language is got
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a large margin of error so i'm looking at 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 any 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 a confession at the cost of the investigation this is what happened in the little town of camden a narcan saw 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
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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. on june sixteenth one thousand forty one we had a graduation party at school and the war broke out. the shops were always full of goods. what in september leningrad was blocked. one day mom went and saw that all the shelves were
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empty. in november the. warehouses it was the main storage place for all the food in the city people would be eating the earth because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't. move it was incredibly heavy bombing. it was a direct hit on that very shelter and everyone was buried underneath. all of them dead.
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margy dot com is launching a special project to mark the appalling scale of violence in iraq. we want you to know. pick your country iraq afghanistan libya saudi arabia israel egypt syria turkey and even in. each washington finds itself either the odd man out leaving alone or leading from behind in a muddled path is the us simply out of touch or is history in the region merely being on. 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 dead after that just compounded
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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. there are plenty. december some of the story. like it is your boy archie. where you were very intelligent. and the viral irony is you know that broken. there is no indication of a break here. so your sister. and there was only two people in
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russia could kill. he. that's the only way i can be a book there i go i live 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 didn't know what was going on. didn't know what to do just there things were so fast that 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. well. rick. oh i don't know i didn't want to know. why did.
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i want it if your mother didn't leave i didn't kill. you know you did. well. kill. you. i didn't you know. i did it i feel well. thomas will deny killing his sister thirty six times. do you. they told me
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mom and i had 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. got so confused. can't take the pressure and want. the police to use the smallest details of the boy's life to further incriminate him hereof probably right yes q keisha but my medication. do you think if you know. did you. can tell. my gait but i really think that you are going to
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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 it's absolutely amazing that he was able to withstand their. 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 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
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twelve year old kid. was shaken nerves sweat and cry and. this is an emotional breakdown. confused by the accusations thomas begins to break down. while there i thought maybe i'm a black girl. because the cops find a cop to the law and me. nobody . oh oh. well.
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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. know he hollered and he went he got on like a. bit strained and then he went to get home at a time so he's coming home to have any kind out here you know i live right here. i don't remember but i don't think so. either it was me.
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ya know. yes it was they didn't notice it was gone but as soon as my mother does who is there to help me but she betrayed me very much or of. sprint's threw me to the cops and said he did it. they're going their own. ways you know my car they are currently waiting for you. back here. i says mother come to 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
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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 or 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 it back on camera. off an hour later he's like an automaton that repeats everything the police have told him to confess.
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she. turned off the t.v. . cline off. next morning. she. shot she'll.
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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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i think. 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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is obviously more for the latest because it's pink when they wanted to avoid rate they really needed to buy guns environ how to use them. this is the one that i want to go at once again it's the fear factor when the definitely
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a target of the gun lobby and you don't tell them when the killing money but if somebody with you would this work for. i've noticed that more and more is this really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have a pink or. more kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth were clearly not the safest. if you. know opportunity. to construct. a little bit. don't want to be gangstas in
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a lot of. it only then will we know the time that the kid came to be we can see. you just means a zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero problems in the hood. with the wrong clue. about i said. i don't want to die i just really do not want to die young young a. drama has the chance to be ignored. stories of others who refused to notice. food since changing the world. cup full picture of today's you know. from roads to love.
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