{"id":4325,"date":"2005-04-30T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4325"},"modified":"2021-03-25T16:32:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:32:58","slug":"duluth-georgia-police-chief-wrong-on-polygraph-videotaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/30\/duluth-georgia-police-chief-wrong-on-polygraph-videotaping\/","title":{"rendered":"Duluth, Georgia Police Chief Wrong on Polygraph Videotaping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Acting on his lawyer&#8217;s advice, John Mason, whose fiancee Jennifer Carol Wilbanks went missing on Tuesday, 26 April, agreed to submit to a police-administered polygraph examination on the condition that it 1) take place in a &#8220;neutral&#8221; location and 2) be videotaped. While Duluth police reportedly can agree to the first condition, Police Chief Randy Belcher would not consent to videotaping, claiming that no agency &#8220;that&#8217;s worth anything&#8221; would videotape a polygraph examination.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is no compelling reason why polygraph examinations should not be videorecorded. The U.S. Department of Energy routinely videotapes polygraph examinations, and major polygraph manufacturers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050211100220\/http:\/\/www.stoeltingco.com\/polygraph\/\">Stoelting<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050208024434\/http:\/\/www.licmef.com\/polygraphnewproducts.htm\">Lafayette<\/a> are producing computerized polygraph instruments that work with inexpensive, off-the-shelf webcams. Videorecording is an unobtrusive safeguard that ensures there will be an objective record of what was actually said and done during a polygraph interrogation. Why would a law enforcement agency acting in good faith refuse such a reasonable request?<\/p>\n<p>For recent news coverage of the Wilbanks investigation, see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050831203022\/http:\/\/www.cbs46.com:80\/Global\/story.asp?S=3278649\">Missing Woman&#8217;s Fianc\u00e9 Takes Polygraph Test<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050501033305\/http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory?id=716685\">Wedding Turns to Prayer Vigil for Bride<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050507022457\/http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/04\/29\/wilbanks\/index.html\">Vigil for Missing Woman to Replace Wedding<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For relevant discussion, see the AntiPolygraph.org message board threads, <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/cgi-bin\/forums\/YaBB.pl?num=1114789178\">Run away, run far far away<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/cgi-bin\/forums\/YaBB.pl?num=1052916343\">Audio\/Video Taping of Polygraph Examinations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 25 March 2021:<\/strong> No harm had befallen Jennifer Carol Wilbanks. She <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Runaway_bride_case\">ran away<\/a> to avoid her wedding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting on his lawyer&#8217;s advice, John Mason, whose fiancee Jennifer Carol Wilbanks went missing on Tuesday, 26 April, agreed to submit to a police-administered polygraph examination on the condition that it 1) take place in a &#8220;neutral&#8221; location and 2) be videotaped. While Duluth police reportedly can agree to the first condition, Police Chief Randy &#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":[547,189,548],"class_list":{"0":"post-4325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-duluth-police-department","8":"tag-georgia","9":"tag-videotaping","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325","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=4325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4328,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions\/4328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}