2017
TV-MA
45m

Summary A critical look into some true crime cases where American law enforcement made up for lack of actual physical evidence by using devious psychological tactics during interrogation in order to extract confessions from naive suspects. View more details

2017
TV-MA
45m

The Confession Tapes

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Sarah Isaacs David Burns James Konat Jason Saunders

All cast & crew

7.5

Details

Genres : Crime Documentary

Release date : Sep 7, 2017

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official Netflix

Language : English

Production companies : Netflix

Details

Genres : Crime Documentary

Release date : Sep 7, 2017

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official Netflix

Language : English

Production companies : Netflix

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Kelly Loudenberg in The Confession Tapes (2017)

Glen Sebastian Burns in The Confession Tapes (2017)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 07, 2017

True East Part 1

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

Episode 2 • Sep 07, 2017

True East Part 2

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

Episode 3 • Sep 07, 2017

A Public Apology

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.

Episode 4 • Sep 07, 2017

Trial by Fire

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

Episode 5 • Sep 07, 2017

8th and H

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?

Episode 6 • Sep 07, 2017

The Labor Day Murders

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.

Episode 7 • Sep 07, 2017

Down River

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.

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