It is possible that eyewitnesses who identified Thomas Sophonow as the man who murdered Barbara Stoppel were familiar with his face because it happened to resemble the police sketch or because they had seen him in earlier trials.Because they were familiar with his face,eyewitnesses might have come to believe that he was the man who was seen near the scene of the crime.This is an example of

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This scenario describes a situation where eyewitnesses may have incorrectly identified Thomas Sophonow as the perpetrator because they were familiar with his face either from a police sketch or from seeing him in earlier trials, not because they actually remembered him from the scene of the crime. This confusion about the origin of their memory (believing their recognition comes from witnessing the crime scene when it actually comes from other sources) is an example of erroneous source monitoring, which involves misidentifying the source of a memory.

It Is Possible That Eyewitnesses Who Identified Thomas Sophonow as the Man