S16 Ep23: Follow-Up S16: E23

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Bob, Zaq, and Janet discuss Bob's interview with false confession expert Alan Hirsh, the Reid Technique and ethics of police lying in interrogations, and answer listener questions.

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0:00.0	From NBII Studios, this is Truth and Justice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time.
0:19.4	I'm Bob Roth.
0:41.1	Ahoy, friends. Thank you for tuning in Truth and Justice. You are listening to the Friday Fallup for Season 16, Episode 23, The Science of a False Confession. This week, Bob was joined by
0:47.1	Alan Hirsch, a professor from Williams College, who's also an expert in interrogation
0:51.4	techniques and false confessions. This has been a fascinating conversation and I'm looking forward to jumping into it with
0:56.6	Bob and Janet this week.
0:57.8	But before we get into that, do we have any housekeeping?
0:59.9	The only housekeeping is another reminder.
1:02.2	You'll get one more of these that will be on vacation, not this coming week, but the
1:06.3	week after that.
1:07.3	So there will be no episode on the 8th or that following Friday.
1:10.6	The following episode after that will be the Amanda Knox interview there will be no episode on the 8th or that following Friday, the following episode
1:11.5	after that will be the Amanda Knox interview that will be coming on what I believe is the 15th
1:16.3	of June after this Sunday's episode. Other than that, that's all we got for housekeeping.
1:21.5	Well, can people listen to Underestimated for that, those couple of missing truth and justice
1:25.6	episodes? Because I forget how much further out that podcast extends because I know school's ending.
1:31.8	Yeah. And actually today is a is a big day for for underestimate. The day on Friday when everybody's listening to this in their podcast feed. For me, as you guys know, I've been talking about this since the beginning of the year.
1:42.5	The Jeanette Robertson case is like is like the case that is the most near and dear to me.
1:47.0	Like I'm, I'm obsessed with it.
1:48.5	I've talked about the fact that I'm working on getting my private investigators license right now.
1:52.1	And that's one of the thing that I may be, I may be trying to find a way to utilize that to be able to go in and do some more work on the case. But that episode, if you guys have been listening
2:00.8	to Underestimated, you know, that there was the, the five groups all did three episodes of their
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