What causes an innocent person to confess to a crime they didn't commit? Learn how prosecutors use false confessions to inflate their victories.
Covered topics: confessions, Stephanie Crowe, the Reid technique, Great Fire of London, John Mark Karr, Brendan Dassey, Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, Kevin Young
Further Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stephanie_Crowe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_confession
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_technique
https://www.injusticeanywhere.net/exonerated-michael-crowe/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiwi6PBUPO8
https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/03/26/nietzsche-on-truth-and-lies-in-a-nonmoral-sense/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ZeaaWX79c
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