Counter-Intuitive Techniques. How to Get Suspects to Break, Backtrack, and Confess.

Send us Fan Mail Why did they finally come clean? It isn’t usually because a suspect has had a change of heart or a sudden burst of honesty; it’s because they’ve been led across a psychological bridge called "Minimization." In this episode of Hill of Justice, former officer and state investigator Jerome Hill breaks down the high-stakes interrogation tactics that shattered the lies of Susan Smith and Chris Watts. We dive deep into the three core tactics of minimization: (1) the moral of...