Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1990, Eileen Franklin testified that she had witnessed her mother kill her childhood friend, but had repressed the memory for ...

The filmmakers behind “Buried” say that the controversial repressed memories of Eileen Franklin, a California woman who claimed she suddenly remembered that her dad murdered her childhood playmate ...

George Franklin in court in Redwood City in 1990, accused of the 1969 slaying of Susan Nason, 8. The accuser: his daughter, who said she'd suddenly recalled the murder. (Russell D. Curtis / Pool Photo ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday tossed out a clergy abuse lawsuit by a man whose case rested on a repressed memory claim, siding with a lower court's ruling that repressed ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston (THE CONVERSATION) In 1990, George Franklin ...

Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, one of the central figures in the clergy sex abuse scandal, was convicted after a 27-year-old man tearfully described how the popular priest used to pull him out of ...

Memories are more malleable than people would like to believe, according to research by Elizabeth Loftus, a memory scientist and professor, considered an expert witness in debunking cases of RMT. “You ...

Disgraced former Penn State football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky has lost another bid for a new trial. A state Superior Court three-judge panel Thursday affirmed the June 2023 Centre County ...

There has been, and continues to be, disagreement among psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals regarding the reliability of repressed or recovered memories. Many ...