False confessions: When the innocent admits guilt
How could someone confess to a crime they didn't commit? Turns out it's easier-and more common- than you think. Natalie explains how manipulative interrogation techniques, stress, suggestible personalities, sleep deprivation and false memories can coerce admissions of guilt from almost anyone. Then Erin describes the devastating consequences a false confession had in the infamous case of the West Memphis Three, and Kathleen tells the tale of a woman so desperate to escape an abusive relationship she turned herself in for a heinous murder.