• ThrowawayPermanente
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    1 year ago

    I saw a movie once where they made the guy think he had died and gone to hell so he would confess to the devil. Similar logic here, maybe?

    • SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yes.

      Before fingerprinting the police had tried ways to extract confessions out of people, including a documented practice of standing outside a perp’s window in the dark and calling out that they were the ghost of the victim and why did you kill me?