Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Tamara Race reports for the Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Massachusetts. Excerpt: A clerk magistrate will rule early next week whether Plymouth Police Chief Robert Pomeroy and Town Manager Eleanor Beth should face criminal charges for forcing a police officer to take a lie-detector test or lose his job. If convicted, the two would face a …
Tamara Race reports for the Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Massachusetts. Excerpt: PLYMOUTH – A police officer is seeking criminal charges against Police Chief Robert Pomeroy and Town Manager Eleanor Beth, saying they illegally forced him to take a lie detector test or lose his job. Police officer Kevin Furtado was placed on paid leave in …
Brockton, Massachusetts Enterprise staff writer Maureen Boyle reports. Excerpt: For two hours, Barbara Ataman sat in her lawyer’s office last month and underwent a polygraph examination. “Did you steal money from the Southeastern Regional School District?” the former transportation supervisor for the school district was asked. “Did you plan with anyone to steal money from …
Brian Falk reports for the Old Colony Memorial of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Excerpt: PLYMOUTH (Aug. 1) – A Plymouth police officer is suing the town for making him take a lie detector test during an internal investigation of an allegation that he improperly touched two young boys. At the time, the district attorney had already conducted …
Cape Cod Times staff writers Karen Jeffrey and Emily C. Dooley report. Excerpt: Asking a murder victim’s father to take a polygraph test is not an unusual tact for police, according to experts on both sides of the polygraph issue. Family and close associates of a victim are the first people police should look at …
In an article titled “Two others in case arrested on drug charges,” Cape Cod Times staff writers Karen Jeffrey and Emily C. Dooley report on the investigation of the murder of fashion writer Christa Worthington, whose body was discovered on 6 January 2002. Excerpt: The father of Christa Worthington will be asked to take a …