Would you admit to a crime you didn't do? - Dr Karl C Scherr P1

Would you admit to a crime you didn't do? - Dr Karl C Scherr P1

This is part one of my chat with Dr. Kyle Scherr, an expert in false confessions and wrongful convictions.


The fact that innocent suspects falsely confess to crimes they did not commit (or in some cases did not even happen) is incredibly counterintuitive and a decision that most people find unbelievable. Yet research makes clear and hundreds of exonerations clearly prove that innocent people admit to murders, sexual assaults, and other crimes that they did not commit.


Around 12% of all exonerations and almost 30% of DNA exonerations involve an innocent person falsely confessing. How do such unbelievable occurrences happen?


In this episode we discuss the cases of...

Adrian Thomas and the documentary 'Scenes of a crime' https://scenesofacrime.com/

Kevin Fox - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6363588/

Jeff Deskovic - https://www.deskovicfoundation.org/

Marty Tankleff - https://www.martytankleff.org/the-story/


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