The Confession Tapes

- Season 1

(2017)

Following a gruesome triple murder, two teens are targeted by undercover police, who use a controversial technique to try to extract a confession.

As the trial for Burns and Rafay unfolds, the suspects begin to understand the massive implications of their confessions.

After his girlfriend is found murdered, a man is convicted of the crime on the basis of his confession, which he insists he was coerced into by the interrogators. Many years later, DNA evidence reveals the truth.

After a fire a mother is accused of murder and confesses to it, but the defense presents a different theory at trial.

An horrific murder seemingly committed by a street gang. The police investigation resulted in confessions from several of them. But was there more to it?

On Labor Day in the year 2000, John Lavelle Lynn and Robert Arthur VanAllen, an owner and an employee of an auto salvage yard respectively, are murdered. Out of hundreds of potential witnesses, police eventually question Buddy Woodall, the nephew of one of the slain men. Woodall confesses, not to the murder, but to helping another man, David Wimberly, carry out the murder. The men are tried separately, and Woodall is convicted; but, due to lack of evidence, the case against Wimberly is dropped by the prosecutor. In 2014, the Supreme Court of Georgia upholds Woodall's ...

While on a family outing, Lawrence DeLisle's Ford LTD station wagon is driven off the edge of a pier in Downriver, Michigan with himself, his wife, and all four of his children inside. When the car hits the water, the windshield shatters, allowing DeLisle and his wife to get free. Rescue workers attempt to save the four children, but all four never regain consciousness. DeLisle originally claims that his leg cramped, causing him to lose control of the vehicle, but later confesses during an interrogation his attorney would later liken to hypnosis. While the court rules...