Thomas Perez Jr., right, falsely confessed to killing his father, Thomas Perez Sr., after a 17-hour interrogation by Fontana police. He was released after his father showed up alive and well. (Allen J ...

Ted Bradford says the worst day of his life was when detectives took him into a tiny room to question him about a rape. “The whole day it was like accusation after accusation,” he says. “I kept ...

Advocates for the wrongfully accused asked state lawmakers Wednesday to support new measures to regulate crime labs and require electronic taping of police interrogations of suspects. “There are ...

They call it “the box” — the cramped, anxiety-inducing room where police conduct interrogations, pushing and probing for a confession or at least case-solving information. It was in the box that ...