It's unfortunate the New Yorker put its piece behind a paywall...it is an excellent read and makes important contributions to the topic.
As someone already commented, This American Life did an episode on confessions: one involves a woman who was coerced using the techniques described in the OP (the New Yorker piece goes into detail about her case)...and the other focuses on a teenage boy who refused to say anything, even decades later...both stories are incredible to listen to, the latter, especially, as the formerly accused man may have been the most Zen-accused-child-murdering-rapist in history:
As someone already commented, This American Life did an episode on confessions: one involves a woman who was coerced using the techniques described in the OP (the New Yorker piece goes into detail about her case)...and the other focuses on a teenage boy who refused to say anything, even decades later...both stories are incredible to listen to, the latter, especially, as the formerly accused man may have been the most Zen-accused-child-murdering-rapist in history:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/507/c...
And another commenter has already pointed out the Don't Talk to Police video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc&feature=youtu.be
(I can't believe it only has 3 million page views given how often it's brought up in most techie/political threads)
Both the TAL and the Youtube are worth listening/watching...the latter provides the theory, the former provides the practice.