False confessions

Black American wrongfully convicted of murder (1929–1944)

American convicted murderer and claimed serial killer (1936–2001)

Amanda Marie Knox is an American author. She came to international prominence after being convicted for the November 2007 murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy, a trial that was highly publicized between Knox's conviction in 2009 and her acquittal two years later.

group of four mostly Irishmen wrongly accused of terrorism during the Troubles

German alleged serial killer (1908–1944)

three teenage boys convicted of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas

6 men (Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Joseph Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power, John Walker), who, in 1975, were each sentenced to life imprisonment following their false convictions for the Birmingham pub bombings

admission of guilt for a crime for which the confessor is not responsible

alleged Swedish serial killer

1989 crime involving a violent attack on a jogger in New York City

British legal and political scandal

mentally disabled American man wrongfully executed for rape/murder and posthumously granted a pardon

solved cold case

Australian serial killer (1951–2007)

Convicted killer (1953–2002)

French watchmaker and scapegoat for the Fire of London

quadruple murder case of four teenage girls that took place on Friday, December 6, 1991

homicide of American girl

murder case

disappearance of two men in Iceland

series of judicial miscarriages