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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Description
Kimberly Crepeaux is a notorious heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine community where she lives. But when she confesses to the brutal murders of the daughter of a well-known local family and her sweetheart, the locals don't believe her story. Not Rob Barrett, the FBI investigator and interrogator specializing in telling a true confession from a falsehood. He knows, as strongly as he's known anything, that Kimberly's grisly,...
Author
Series
Amos Decker novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution -- for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier -- when he's granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man has confessed to the crime. Amos Decker, newly hired on an FBI special task force, takes an interest in Mars's case after discovering the striking similarities to his own life: Both men were talented football players with promising careers cut short...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xix, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Despite the rising number of confirmed false confession cases, most people have a hard time grasping why someone would confess to a crime they did not commit, or even why a guilty person would admit to something that could put them in jail for life. How the Police Generate False Confessions takes you inside the interrogation room, exposing the tactics that law enforcement uses to make confessions happen. James L. Trainum reveals how innocent people...
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Tenth anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Brother's Keeper tells the story of the "Ward Boys, " four eccentric brothers who shared the same dilapidated two-room shack for over 60 years. Living in isolation, without heat or running water, these elderly bachelors had virtually no contact with the outside world--until one was found dead in the bed he shared with his brother. By day's end, Delbert Ward "confessed" to suffocating his ailing brother as an act of mercy, but Munnsville believed...
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
In a city where murder has a statute of limitations, obsessed detective Choi learns the brutal killer who eluded him years ago has come forward taking credit for the crimes. Can justice be served?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 602 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A tough-as-nails detective was brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Murder Squad, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases.
9) Fracture
Publisher
New Line Productions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
D.A. Willy Beachum believes a conviction is a slam dunk. Ted Crawford brutally murdered his wife and calmly waited for the police to arrest him with the weapon and a signed confession. Beachum searches for the truth as the case completely unravels.
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