Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Donna J. Robb reports for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Excerpt: Akron – A Summit County inmate admitted yesterday that his headline-grabbing claim of being a serial killer was an elaborate lie. Jason Roland West apologized to the public and to sheriff’s detectives for sending authorities on a sweeping but fruitless investigation that has dragged on …
Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Susan Ruiz Patton writes in an article entitled, “Sheriff releases trailer owner, awaits lab test results in slaying”: RAY, Ohio – An owner of the trailer where police found the body of a former Shaker Heights woman was released from jail yesterday after passing a lie-detector test. Vinton County Prosecutor Timothy …
Cincinnati Post staff writer Kimball Perry writes in part: A polygraph test that failed to detect the lies of convicted murderer Denise Lipscomb may kill attempts to routinely use the tests in Hamilton County courts. In documents unsealed Friday at the request of The Post, Ms. Lipscomb’s attorneys, in preparing her defense, noted she passed …
Kimball Perry of the Cincinnati Post reports that Presiding Judge Robert S. Kraft of the General Division of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas will ask judges to support expanded use of tax-payer funded polygraph “tests.” Judge Kraft has previously urged that polygraph “tests” be used in all felonies. Judge Kraft needs to know …