Polygraph in the News - 7/7/2009

The following are article(s) in which Polygraph is playing an important role in the World. (Article descriptions are mine)

** Please note that many news sources archive/move their articles after a certain period of time. If a story link no longer works, this may be what happened.

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• Amy Dierks, the South Dakota daycare worker accused of hurting baby Henry Johnson was acquitted. Although she confessed during her polygraph test, there was a successful motion to suppress the interview so the jury never heard the confession. Click the link to read the story or you can watch the video.
  http://www.ksfy.com/news/local/50089702.html

• There is a poll being taken on about.com regarding whether polygraph should be used in criminal investigations. The obvious answer is 'of course', but lets unite and vote that way as well. It will take all of 30 seconds to enter your vote at the following page. Thanks.
  http://crime.about.com/b/2009/07/05/polygraphs.htm

Polygraph in the News - 7/6/2009

The following are article(s) in which Polygraph is playing an important role in the World. (Article descriptions are mine)

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• Passed Polygraph Tests help focus investigative search for missing 10 year old Lindsey Baum of Washington State.
  http://www.examiner.com/x-1168-Crime-Examiner~y2009m7d3-Experts-say-Lindsey-Baum-likely-abducted-by-someone-she-knew

• A £40,000 bounty has been offered up by a British businessman if Graham Sankey will take a polygraph test regarding a fight in a restaurant in Turkey after the 2005 European Champions League Final
  http://www.clickliverpool.com/news/national-news/125066-shields-confession-man-offered-%C3%8240k-to-pass-lie-detector.html

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Polygraph in the News - 7/3/2009

The following are article(s) in which Polygraph is playing an important role in the World. (Article descriptions are mine)

** Please note that many news sources archive/move their articles after a certain period of time. If a story link no longer works, this may be what happened.

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• Survivor contestant Benjamin 'Coach' Wade tells his side of the story and part of that story involves his polygraph test that was announced live on the final Survivor Episode as being conducted by John Grogan. Below is a quote from Coach Wade as printed by Reality TV Magazine. Full article link is below this excerpt and it is worth reading the entire section in that article under the sub-heading 'The Lie Detector Test'.
  

“My manager and a couple of my advisers were like, ‘Take your own lie detector test.’ So I did. Passed it three times. Took it three times, passed it with video and without. Two different days with a .01 deception. I felt real solid about it. I even asked the guy that gave it to me, ‘I’m going to take the CBS test.’ And he said, ‘No.’ And I was like, ‘What do you mean no?’ And he was like, ‘If the studio tells me to give a failed result I have to do it.’”
http://realitytvmagazine.sheknows.com/blog/2009/06/23/exclusive-survivor-coach-argues-his-case/

• Polygraph helps clear South African hotel employees of theft accusations by Egyptian soccer team.
  http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20090630051938984C647430

• Ohio man confesses double homicide to Polygraph Examiner Bill Evans after failing exam. Video below is Mr. Mills' last statement before sentencing.
  http://www.wytv.com/content/news/local/story/Man-Admits-to-Double-Homicide/BEuC16dRn0mHUnVJeYo2Mg.cspx

• Arizona officer lies during application process at two departments about prior drug use. He was hired and only after submitting to a polygraph exam while employed does he confess his prior use. He has been placed on paid leave pending complete investigation.
  http://regulus2.azstarnet.com/blogs/policebeat/15403/pinal-county-sheriff-places-two-on-paid-leave

• Florida resident Jerry Cooper (pictured below with examiner Mike Alaiwat) passes polygraph test confirming beatings he received as a 'White House Boy' in 1960. (As a side note, there is an 8 minute video clip of the deposition of Troy Tidwell, one of the men accused of the beatings. It is an interesting study in body language. You'll find the video about halfway down the page in the article link) Photograph by Edmund D. Fountain - Times
  http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article1015532.ece