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, ...

Witness statements often play a major role in injury claims, but they are not always clear or consistent. When multiple people describe the same event differently, it can create confusion and delay ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The witness, a career criminal who claims he shot Chartres-­Abbott in 2003, denied that he lied about the involvement of “Bluey’’ Bob Mather, insisting it was a “false recollection’’. He said he had ...

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 ...