Why People Confess to Crimes They Didn’t Commit
It sounds impossible, right? Why would anyone ever confess to a crime they didn’t commit? Why sit in an interrogation room, look a detective in the eye, and say “Yeah, I did it” - when you didn’t? But it happens. A lot. According to The Innocence Project , roughly one in four wrongful convictions in the U.S. involves a false confession . That means hundreds of people have gone to prison - or even death row - for something they didn’t do, just because they said they did The Pressure Cooker Imagine this: you’ve been sitting in a small gray room for 12 hours. No phone. No lawyer. No sleep. The detective keeps saying he already knows you did it - he just wants your “side of the story.” You start to believe that maybe confessing will make it stop. You tell yourself, “I’ll explain later, they’ll figure it out.” Except they don’t. Because once those words - “I did it” - leave your mouth, the system doesn’t care why . The Psychology Behind It False confession...