Fred E. Inbau

Fred E. Inbau (1909 – 1998) was an American lawyer and criminologist who helped develop the Reid technique of interrogation. He was director of the Scientific Crime Detection Lab.^[1] He coauthored the influential textbook Criminal Interrogations and Confessions.^[2]

Inbau was from New Orleans. After a law degree from Tulane University, he moved to Chicago. He studied at the Northwestern University School of Law and, after a few years as a trial lawyer, become a teacher there for 32 years.^[3] He was president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. He founded Americans for Effective Law Enforcement.^[4]