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confessions  

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  • Confession is the highest drama. In every Hollywood crime story, fabled cops ply their trade and bad guys seal their fate in the interrogation room, where ruthless, third-degree tactics unlock the guilty suspect's compulsion to confess. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement; Confessions]

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