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. oh yeah. freedom. for frank sterling obtained his freedom largely due to the vigorous efforts of his lawyer donald thompson in the war with the question remains why did he ever confess to a crime he never committed. and 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 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

two policemen had applied the reid 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. shoulders. trying to be all buddy buddy and we're here for. lunch and 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 him 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. does it you can. right. here to 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

sars no a. like an out of body yeah why does someone consists of crying 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 you know. yes i was very. prejudices your finals are difficult for you i think. there's something happening with them. yesterday. one of. the ratio yes even when you're learning.

something. anything religion 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 law expert. it's even inspired hollywood and its

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 four of 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 tested again what he found one hundred ninety officers never got better in an improved after two courses as 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 do with the steps in question arms what else. could get one of the hand up building hazing the other causing legs sitting on hands wrapping feet around a chair holding on to the ankles of the chair no correlation deception no one can possibly stress but there is no difference

whatsoever and when i contact liars make it a true colors and no connection. not a myth the myth of i move a little left looking right and i'm swimming against the tide and i get academies that hate me for this and kiss my ass. because you're doing a disservice teaching again and again and again trained officers who thought they were great a spot in line before and worse in civilian population and had no training in deception which tells you what about training. to general. but what about in the 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 lie there wasn't so much as 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 woman 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 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 and not a single time. these allegations are false. you go back to work. switch remember 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 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 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 barbuda ask. a more pointed question now you see you react no more heroin and you know body jump wrong nothing today and that no. series educated face expression the large eyes from 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 and i want her on that and watch her 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 to ask your 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 the attack like god let us out 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 found 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 be a view that we think art and put some point consistent deception. on stem molds 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 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 a military. seemed quite calm. cool been told this is more oil believes the police became fixated with his behavior which they judged as to convince them that thomas had killed his sister.

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gives don't want to be gangstas you don't want to be. they don't want to blow with the time a kid came be we can see. you just meet over there i was right i was in the hood. clue. but i said. i don't want to die i just really do not want to die young young . picked right close to. the first strike. and i think the trick. on our reporters twitter. and instagram i am.

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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 was 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. i just. started playing. december some of the story. and i'm going to like it is your boy archie. where we're very intelligent.

and the viral irony is you know that i broke and. there's no indication of a break here. so your sister died and it was only two people in the us it could kill. that you know my wife and a book there i go i live. 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 would leave

a man old intelligence to fight. well. rick. all. i really want to know. i'll read it if she had to. leave she. you know you did. well. i don't think. you can do i didn't. i did it i feel like a lot of. us will deny killing his sister thirty six times.

they told me my mom and i complete trust my mother to protect me my sister had all to. so 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 bought did it and i 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. you're probably right here. keisha but my medication. what you got if you know.

did you hear from. a lot of control over it like a but i really think that. you're going to feel yourself. and yourself you're going to hear it is. hard. like. most kids would have confessed to this crime a lot saying 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 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 i thought maybe i blacked out. because the cops find to cost a lot of money. nobody

. oh oh. 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 rotten son. when we. you know he hollered and he went he got on like a. bit strained and he wanted to get home and i was having fun he's telling me kind out here you know i don't want to write.

i don't remember but i think well you know. i did it it was. you know. you don't think. it was they didn't notice it was gone but pursues my mother. who is there to help me but she betrayed me try to much for of. just spring was through me to the cops and said he did it. they're putting their own families out of my car. that 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 tape 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 his going to give me the death. 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 him a story made and i said that and 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 repeats everything the police have told him to confess. so i. turn off the t.v. . and . climb off.

next morning. hugh. shot scale. 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.

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 been wrongly conducted. if you. know opportunity. to start to construct. don't want to be in bed give don't want to be gangsters don't want to. deal they don't want that blow with

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