In our last Forensic View, we saw that perceptual differences between young and older adults can be important in eyewitness memory. In my experience as an investigative psychologist, these perceptual ...

"If you see something, say something." That's a powerful message, one that encourages all of us upstanding citizens to come forward and help police prevent or solve crimes. Things that, in years past, ...

It isn't news that eyewitness testimony is sometimes inaccurate. What might be news, however, is that significant research makes plain that it is often wrong, even when the eyewitness believes they ...

A reluctant witness testified Tuesday she had no memory of seeing Keith Daniel shot outside her then-Gary apartment near 6th Avenue and Maryland Street. Joseph T. Durden, 36, of Indianapolis is on ...

Eyewitness identification remains a pivotal yet complex facet of criminal investigations and legal proceedings. Research in this area spans from the cognitive processes underlying face recognition to ...

The key witness in the case of the Miami Hurricanes football star who was murdered in 2006 exhibited signs of mental decline when police attempted to track him down recently, prosecutors and ...

There's one known eyewitness to the University of Idaho student murders – a housemate who overheard sounds of a struggle and came face to face with a masked intruder on the night four undergrads were ...

DEDHAM — Two weeks into the dramatic trial of Karen Read, the Mansfield woman accused of killing her boyfriend, the case has focused on witnesses’ connections and competing memories two years after ...

A Texas Ranger attempts to put a crime witness under hypnosis in 2014. On September 1, statements crime witnesses and victims make during a hypnosis session performed by a police office will no longer ...