Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
On Thursday, 1 September 2022, the Polk County, Florida Sheriff’s Office arrested Jason Matthew DiPrima, 49, of Kingston, Georgia in a sting operation for soliciting a prostitute. DiPrima is a deputy chief of the Cartersville, Georgia Police Department and had been in Florida to attend the 56th annual seminar of the American Polygraph Association, which …
Missy Stoddard reports for the Tampa Tribune in an article titled, “Judge Keeps Woman’s Probation.” This short article is cited here in full: DADE CITY – A judge Monday denied a request to terminate the probation of a former Zephyrhills woman who had sex with two neighborhood teens. Zephyrhills police arrested Lynne Cunneen, 37, in …
Associated Press writer Catherine Wilson reports. Excerpt: MIAMI (AP) — A polygraph examiner has admitted he broke the rules of his profession during a February undercover investigation into the 1990 murder of a policeman. Broward County sheriff’s polygrapher Richard Hoffman testified he was ordered to perform the lie detector test as a ruse, didn’t ask …
Palm Beach Post staff writer Eliot Kleinberg reports. Excerpt: Priests in the Diocese of Palm Beach should have to swear in writing that they never engaged in sexual misconduct, and be offered lie detector tests should there be any doubt, a top church critic says. In fact, Ed Ricci says, he’ll pay for the polygraphs. …
Larry Lebowitz and Wanda J. DeMarzo of the Miami Herald report. Excerpt: Former Broward Sheriff’s detention deputy Andrew Johnson repeatedly gave deceptive answers to lie-detector questions posed by detectives investigating the murder of Deputy Patrick Behan, according to a memo summarizing the tests. Johnson, who was fired from his job as a jail guard four …
South Florida Sun-Sentinel staff writers Paula McMahon and Ardy Friedberg report. Excerpt: The man at the center of the reinvestigation of the 1990 murder of a Broward sheriff’s deputy showed deception on a lie detector test when he said he had not killed a deputy, according to the polygrapher’s report released Wednesday. Sheriff’s detectives began …
Palm Beach Post staff writer Bill Douthat reports on alleged impropriety in the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. The allegations involve polygrapher Harold Thomas Sorensen, a member of the Florida Polygraph Association. Excerpt: A sheriff’s polygrapher who gave a lie detector test to the daughter of his boss failed to properly report her deceptive answers …