National experts on eyewitness testimony said it’s not surprising that there would be so many conflicting accounts — particularly of a chaotic crime scene. Memory, they say, isn’t like a ...

In the morning of June 30, 1908, the ground trembled in Central Siberia, and a series of flying fireballs, causing a "frightful sound" of explosions, were observed in the sky above the Stony ...

Eyewitness accounts can often be wrong. Numerous studies and data show that mistaken identifications happen in the majority of cases where people are wrongfully convicted.

Eyewitness misidentifications are known to have played a role in 70 percent of the 349 wrongful convictions which were overturned based on DNA evidence. There's another wild card: the malleability ...