ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the case of Kim, whose two children had apparently been stabbed to death multiple times in their own beds. This case of filicide or false confession, having access to the social network analysis report provided the author with the necessary information from collateral sources. There are three types of false confession. The first type is the voluntary false confession, in which a person claims responsibility for a crime without pressure from the police. The second is that people make choices that maximize comfort, given a specific situation, which means they prefer delayed punishment to immediate aversive stimulation. The third type is the coerced-internalized false confession, in which an individual not only confesses but also comes to believe that he/she committed the crime, sometimes even offering pseudo-memories. The author's diagnostic conclusion was that Kim showed symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression at the time of his assessment of her.
