{"id":4338,"date":"2005-05-24T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T20:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2021-03-25T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:32:57","slug":"father-of-idaho-kids-fails-lie-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/24\/father-of-idaho-kids-fails-lie-detector\/","title":{"rendered":"“Father of Idaho Kids Fails Lie Detector”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Associated Press correspondent Nicholas K. Geranios reports<\/a>. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — The father of two children missing from a home where three people were killed failed parts of a lie detector test, but is not a suspect in the case, authorities said.<\/p>

Steve Groene said in a television interview that he lacked an alibi and failed portions of a voluntary polygraph test administered by the FBI, but Kootenai County sheriff’s Capt. Ben Wolfinger said that was not enough to make Groene a suspect.<\/p>

“There is no evidence linking Steve Groene to this crime, to make him a suspect or a person of interest,” Wolfinger said Monday.<\/p>

He attributed the polygraph results to Groene’s emotional distress after his ex-wife and a son were slain and another son, Dylan, 9, and his 8-year-old daughter, Shasta, disappeared more than a week ago.<\/p>

The polygraph measures a person’s “physiological response to their emotional state,” Wolfinger said. “Steve Groene is very distraught and upset.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office is right not to allow the results of Mr. Groene’s polygraph “test” to guide the investigation. Polygraphic lie detection has no scientific basis<\/a>, regardless of whether or not the person being “tested” is distraught. For discussion, see the message board thread, Idaho Dad Cleared After Told He Failed Poly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update 25 March 2021:<\/strong> Steve Groene’s two missing children were kidnapped and abused by serial killer Joseph E. Duncan III<\/a>. Groene died of cancer<\/a> in 2019 at the age of 62.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Associated Press correspondent Nicholas K. Geranios reports. Excerpt: COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — The father of two children missing from a home where three people were killed failed parts of a lie detector test, but is not a suspect in the case, authorities said. Steve Groene said in a television interview that he lacked an alibi …<\/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":[30,486],"class_list":{"0":"post-4338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-fbi","8":"tag-idaho","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","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=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}