{"id":3545,"date":"2002-06-11T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2002-06-11T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2021-02-23T16:13:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T21:13:01","slug":"father-of-missing-girl-calls-polygraph-interrogation-four-hours-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/11\/father-of-missing-girl-calls-polygraph-interrogation-four-hours-of-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of Missing Girl Calls Polygraph Interrogation “Four Hours of Hell”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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n an article on the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case titled, “‘We are going to get you,'” <\/a>Derek Jensen of the Deseret News<\/em> briefly discusses the polygraph interrogation of her father, Ed Smart Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Smart’s father also submitted to a polygraph test Sunday, but authorities won’t say what questions were asked, whether he had an attorney present or what the results showed.<\/p>

“When asked by law enforcement I fully cooperated because I have nothing to hide. We are doing everything in our power to bring back Elizabeth,” Edward Smart said in a statement released Monday evening.<\/p>

Edward Smart’s brother, Deseret News photographer Tom Smart, said his brother described the polygraph test as “four hours of hell.”<\/p>

Police said the lie detector test is a common tool used by investigators.<\/p>

As of Tuesday morning, Elizabeth’s father was the only family member who’d taken a polygraph test, police said.<\/p>

“I think that’s a normal thing,” Elizabeth’s grandmother Dorotha Smart told NBC’s “Today Show” Tuesday morning. “It’s all right. Any one of us would be happy to go through with that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

n an article on the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case titled, “‘We are going to get you,’” Derek Jensen of the Deseret News briefly discusses the polygraph interrogation of her father, Ed Smart Excerpt: Elizabeth Smart’s father also submitted to a polygraph test Sunday, but authorities won’t say what questions were asked, whether he had an …<\/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":[401,400],"class_list":{"0":"post-3545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-elizabeth-smart","8":"tag-utah","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","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=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3546,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions\/3546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}