Interviews and interrogations are not the same, and the difference matters. In this session, a veteran police officer explains how investigators approach questioning, what verbal and nonverbal cues they watch for, and when an interview becomes an interrogation. A live mock interview demonstrates how these techniques play out in real time, giving writers practical tools for creating tense and believable questioning scenes.
How Cold Cases Come Back to Life
Why do some homicide cases go cold, and what brings them back to life years later? Bruce Robert Coffin takes writers inside the world of cold case investigations, explaining the kinds of evidence detectives rely on and how stalled cases are reopened. This session...
