tv Documentary RT November 16, 2013 8:29am-9:01am EST
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detectives trained by read 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 cracks in the eleventh of july one thousand nine hundred ninety one and exhausted frank sterling admits to the mud 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 after serving nineteen years now age fifty four frank has become frail and anxious and finds it hard to talk about his feelings.
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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. in the war with the question remains why did he have a confessed 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 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 reed method as well as some of their own making sure. they offering
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coffee and donuts to prepare frank sterling for his final declaration of guilt but what had gone on before. i remember the back rubs fashion the shoulders. trying to be all buddy buddy and we're here for. like. an hour senator and myself well i try to lead bragger out lunch and all that. i did. you not listen to me. over and over and it's like ok i'll give you what you want well they had this weird technique in your case that i've never seen before since where they are rubbing his feed and rubbing his back and having him lie on the floor and put his feet up on
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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 shoulders the other is holding his hand. is that if you. were does you can't. bar. speak up. like you're floating he said on a chair which are you know as if you feel like you're sitting in a chair. no wait any shoulders.
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no sars no way. to like an out of body. why does someone. cry that she didn't do. you know lesbian so tired and really like four hours sleep. you know for three days and. i just want to go on more sleep you know and yes. i was 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 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 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
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popular series lie to me. in a friendly smile the 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 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 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 up bone hazing the other causing legs sitting on hands wrapping feet around the chair holding on causing the angles of the chair no correlation deception not. possibly stress but there is no difference whatsoever and when i contact lars make it
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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 a can of me that hate me for this and kiss my. because you're doing a disservice teaching again and again and again trained officers who thought their greatest spotting 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 as deception here with president clinton other then
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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 a single. these allegations are false and i need to 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 you all the questions that people think now my parents that out and out with courtney love you see shock when she's asked about their own question was
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a good stress marker to see her version of body away get multiple answers if she has a good strong cause to be a vors was consistent was only being deceptive that she would 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. sears agitated 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 out and watch her body back. in
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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 guidance in front of a chap like god let us out 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 anaemic stress or cause to behavior that we think are it and put some point consistent deception. on stem molds as criticizes the most is the obsession the police have with obtaining
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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 behavior which they judged as to come and convince them that thomas had killed his sister. if you are targeting on need. one scapegoat that would be responsible five with the
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say that you think the banks the commercial banks then what about the non-banks what about the highly leveraged institutions nor a responsible old school what about the phones fights so what about all the special vehicles so you see it's more generalized and you don't even seem banks are the main reason the bad banking system is the main reason that triggered the banks part of the whole and. as responsibility including the us computing the account to the accounting rules. of course also all the rating agencies of course you know the anti bank and non-banks and the naive belief that we were you know were real there was other maddie self correction of the market themselves the theory of efficiency
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of markets was also part of the schools. we. put up on june sixteenth one thousand forty one we had a graduation party at school and the war broke out. oh. the shops were always full of goods. in september leningrad was blocked. one day mom went to sort out all the shelves were empty. in november they bombed the dynasty warehouses it was the main storage place for all the food in the city people eating the earth because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried. he did as well but i couldn't. look at the lists
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incredibly heavy bombing. it was a direct hit on that very shelter and everyone was buried underneath. all of them. 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 pressure he confessed to everything and was sent to prison. the supreme court would
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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 place. december some of the story. like it is. well we're pretty intelligent. and of irony you know that i broke it and. there's no indication right here. so your sister died. and there was only two people in russia could kill. he. that's the only way i can be a book there i go i live you're shit ok the tone is set right from the start
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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 was 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 old and. well. rick. oh i don't know i didn't want to know. why did. i want it and she had to. leave i don't. know.
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she done it and the only way we could happen is if i had done it so i thought the police and tell me the truth so i just bought it and i don't remember doing it. so confusing can't take the person anymore. the police use the smallest details of the boy's life to further incriminate him. probably right yes. education. my medication. what do you tell if you know. did you. control. my gait but i really think that you are going to feel yourself. and to help yourself you're going to hear it is.
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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. but 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 twelve year old kid. was shaken nerves sweat and cry and. this is an emotional breakdown. confused by the accusations
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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 left after her and it strained her and he waited. as i was already telling me can i hear you know i don't want to write. i don't remember well you know. i didn't. ya know. yes it was they didn't notice he was gone but as soon as my mother was he was there to help me but she betrayed me very much for
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of. just spreads through me to the cops and said he did it. they're going 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 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
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a girl and he saw 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 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 you know so they added beats bits and pieces for me to add in my story to look fit what they wanted it to. and that's when i took them back on camera. he's like an automaton that repeats everything the police have told him to confess. so i.
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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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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 had made false confessions during interrogations that had been wrongly conducted. the.
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pick your country iraq afghanistan libya saudi arabia israel egypt syria turkey and even iran and each washington finds itself either the odd man out leaving alone or leading from behind in a muddled path is the u.s. simply out of touch or is history in the region merely being on. americans also came up with another reason the rich will see democracy people wanting to be liberated put people want to be free reaches also. you know part of the nasa show they have absolutely no use in you more than. we need to use.
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that's 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. deliberate torch is on it's a big journey to structure. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred ton two cities of russia. relayed by georgians those people for sixty five thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air and sea and others face.
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