In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash ...
In 1990, Eileen Franklin testified that she had witnessed her mother kill her childhood friend, but had repressed the memory for decades. On this evidence, the jury convicted George Franklin of ...
Is there such a thing as a repressed memory? I've summarized research on that question in two previous posts: "False Memories in People with Superior Memory Abilities" and "Remembering Something That ...
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 ...
"I like to think about memory as akin to a Wikipedia page. You can go in there and edit it. But so can other people." – Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, Buried Scene from "Buried" Source: Courtesy of SHOWTIME In ...
Whether or not we can choose to lose memories has been a controversial question since Freud claimed that we can repress unwanted memories by pushing them into the unconscious. Repression is often ...
What if something terrible happened to you, and you weren’t able to remember it? That’s one of the questions at the center of Amy Griffin’s memoir, The Tell, which is quickly becoming one of the ...
(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 ...