"Confessions" podcast

The interviewer that was interviewing Father Santa in the podcast titled Confessions, had some very good and professional sounding questions. He would always have a question that was opened to a short answer, then, he would ask a follow up question that would make the interviewee extrapolate on the topic that they are discussing. This could be useful in the interviews that the class is conducting for the exact same reason. The interviewer wouldn't ask things per say but he would say things that would start another topic or expand on the recent one. The interviewer would ask questions like, for example, "Somebody wrote your newsletter, I sometimes get frustrated with my dog. Is this a serious sin?" The last sentence " is this a sin?" Would ( to me) strike a conversation when you recite exact quotes from people in relation to the topic. This is possibly because when you say quotes such as this, it would give the person a visual and they might slowly start to remember more and more about the topic. All of this just in one interview and someone could unlock more and more information about these topics.

During the second part of the podcast, the questions were asked by a detective that was interrogating a suspect accused of murder. He would ask the accused about how the murder happened and he would ask questions that would lead to the answer that he wanted her to say. The tone of the interrogator's voice sounded harsh at times and impatient. The video stated that the interrogation lasted a few days which would be just enough time for people to get bored, tired, and annoyed. At this point, the accused just gave in and said what the detectives wanted to hear. This caused the accused to go to prison and be separated from their children. As the result of bad interrogation and questioning, they found out much later that the accused was not even at the scene of the crime when it was committed. This would give a decent example on what not to do in a interview.

From the third and final passage in the podcast, a man accused of the murder and rape of a little girl was false and all because of bad questioning. The man accused said near the beginning of the podcast that the police were rather aggressive and despite the macho attitude of the accused man, I think that that might have made him shy off because he was falsely convicted and thrown in jail for this horrible crime. I think that this would give a good lesson to anyone who is interviewing someone or even interrogating someone for a serious crime, the meaner you sound, the person you are questioning might get reclusive and give off the wrong information.