Old-school assumptions about guilt and innocence don’t cut it in modern detective workCould you relate truth from lies if someone’s freedom depended on it? You might hope so,but your odds aren’t much better than a coin flip. Humans simply aren’t mighty lie detectors, which makes the very premise of interrogating murder suspects complicated – even for the experts.
There’s no easy rule for telling a stressed-out harmless person from a criminal who’s nervously trying to trick you, or explains Detective Tim Marcia of the Los Angeles Police Department’s robbery-murder division. So he listens to suspects in the interrogation room,then goes out to originate the genuine work. “The [interrogation] is the icing on the cake,” says Marcia. “Don’t base your case solely on what the suspect says.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com