(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 ...

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 ...

Repressed-memory therapy supposedly unearths buried memories of sexual abuse that occurred 20 or 30 years before. The therapy, which emerged in California in the late '80s, has spread across the ...

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 ...