IowaWatch reporter Krista Johnson and IowaWatch executive director-editor Lyle Muller spoke on KXIC Radio's July 18, 2017, "Your Town" segment about Johnson's reporting project -- "Criminal Confessions: Coerced or Real?" Listen here to the podcast.
Many researchers describe the Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation as the gold standard for interrogating criminal suspects. But the fact that more than a fourth of wrongly convicted suspects gave false confessions has critics assailing the technique.
