{"id":3396,"date":"2002-02-10T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2002-02-10T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2021-02-22T05:05:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T10:05:27","slug":"german-passes-polygraph-test-on-pinatubo-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/10\/german-passes-polygraph-test-on-pinatubo-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;German Passes Polygraph Test on Pinatubo Killing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Ric Sapnu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/philstar\/News200202109902.htm\">reports<\/a> for the <em>Philippine Star<\/em> on the use of polygraphy in a high-profile murder case in the Philippines. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Sr. Supt. Ismael Rafanan, Pampanga police director said that Siegfried Wittman, 68, a German national, earlier a suspect in the killing of American tourist Brian Thomas Smith, passed the lie detector test conducted by the PNP Crime Laboratory in Camp Olivas.<\/p><p>But, according to PNP Crime Lab regional officer, Chief Inspector Alma Villasenor, the result of polygraph tests on Wittman is not conclusive, although she believes that Wittman is telling the truth.<\/p><p>Rafanan said Wittman underwent a polygraph test last Thursday to prove his claim that an armed small black man indeed perpetrated the said ambush.<\/p><p>Wittman earlier told police probers that a lone guman, whom he described as a small, black man, shot him and Smith last Jan. 31, from a distance of 200 meters.<\/p><p>But the autopsy conducted by the PNP Crime Lab on the body of Smith showed the presence of &#8220;tattooing,&#8221; meaning he was shot at close range in the nape, directed upwards.<\/p><p>The findings run counter to Wittman&#8217;s statement that they were shot by the gunman from an elevated portion of the hill 200 meters away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ric Sapnu reports for the Philippine Star on the use of polygraphy in a high-profile murder case in the Philippines. Excerpt: Sr. Supt. Ismael Rafanan, Pampanga police director said that Siegfried Wittman, 68, a German national, earlier a suspect in the killing of American tourist Brian Thomas Smith, passed the lie detector test conducted by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[338],"class_list":{"0":"post-3396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-philippines","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3397,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions\/3397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}