What Kathleen Zellner has said about False confession

1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 22, 2026

Kathleen Zellner, American criminal defense and wrongful-conviction attorney, has been quoted on False confession once in 1 episode of 20/20, most recently on September 22, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Zellner argued prosecutors should have tested the confession because confessions must be corroborated.

    “The state's attorney should have checked all of that out, because a confession has to be corroborated”

    20/20: True Crime Vault: The Accused (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 43:12

Episodes

  • True Crime Vault: The Accused

    20/20 · Sep 22, 2026 · 1 h 24 min

    David Muir revisits the 2004 murder of three-year-old Riley Fox, her father's coerced false confession, his DNA exoneration, and the FBI's identification of killer Scott Eby.

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