Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Sullivan was falsely convicted in 1987 of the murder of Diane Sindall near Merseyside (Merseyside Police/Reuters) A man who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis speaks during a news conference at City Hall on Monday about the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.— A defense attorney for a 20-year-old man charged recently in a shooting on Staten Island is claiming police “made up” his client’s confession. Elias Reyes — who is listed as ...

A Benton woman’s confession that she shot a man she was in a relationship with may be tossed out of court because the sheriff’s deputy did not properly notify her of her rights when she was arrested.

A man who was wrongly jailed for almost 40 years for a murder he didn’t commit has described being beaten by police officers and “bullied” into a false confession. Peter Sullivan was handed a life ...