False Confessions

Recent studies of over 125 DNA evidence cases leading to exoneration:

25% of overturned wrongful convictions involved false confessions.

33% of those false confessions were juveniles, a disproportionate percentage.

84% of false confessions occurred after 6 hours of interrogation.

Another Great Endorsement

“Joe Koenig’s meticulous assessment of the case against or for Walt Reca as D.B. Cooper is objective, deep and highly persuasive. It should be a model for writers of critical analyses of other cases yet to be offered of other mysteries. Precious few of the tens of thousands of police reports I have reviewed as federal and state prosecutor match this work.”

—John Smietanka, Former US Attorney and Principal Associate Deputy US Attorney General

Retired Beaverton OR Chief David Bishop on D/B Cooper Book

“Joe Koenig provides a compelling case that Walt Reca is D.B. Cooper. It’s as if the reader is sitting in a courtroom experiencing a prosecutor building a step by step case, presenting relevant facts.”

—David G. Bishop, Retired Chief of Police, Beaverton, Oregon

Anatomy of Denials

To all my Crisis Management associates, I offer my ACFE Fraud Magazine article entitled, "The Anatomy of Denials."           Joe Koenig's Anatomy of Denials