Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Lie-Detection In The News

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Knoble charged with rape of a child
Lansdale Reporter
It was during a July 2007 sexual history polygraph examination that Knoble allegedly admitted to withholding information concerning his sexual offense ...

Dart: Up to 500 Cook County correctional officers will be hired
Chicago Sun-Times
Applicants will have to take a physical fitness test, undergo a thorough background check and must be willing to submit to a polygraph examination that will ...

Local police resign after allegedly making and using steroids
Cedartown Standard
Bates was found deceptive in a polygraph test, which is what led investigations to Couch. According to the report, Bates' deception was that he withheld ...

Can mandatory polygraph testing beat Russian corruption?
RT
In the latest effort to crackdown on high-level corruption, Russia has finalized draft legislation that will make polygraph testing a mandatory requirement ...

Mom's boyfriend declines request to take polygraph
Mid-Hudson News
NEWBURGH – Cory Byrd, the boyfriend of Marc Bookal's mother, has declined the Newburgh City Police Department's request for him to take a polygraph test. ...

Questioning family never easy, but necessary, say police in Susan Powell case
Deseret News
Shortly after Margo Bond's disappearance, her husband took a polygraph test. "The polygraph wasn't given because we doubted him. It's a routine feature; ...

Man arrested, never charged in triple kiling
WDAM-TV
Young tells The Times-Picayune that he has taken a polygraph test and provided DNA samples to authorities; he didn't know the results and the Sheriff's ...

Suspect in Terrytown triple homicide is freed eight months later
NOLA.com
Young said he voluntarily took a polygraph exam. He also provided a DNA sample, as requested by investigators. But no matter how many tests he took, ...

US needs to help Mexico stop the drug cartels
San Francisco Chronicle
Federal officials claim that they don't have the money to issue polygraph screenings for more than a small fraction of their border police recruits. ...

Ore. teen tried to save stillborn girl, dumped it
KTVZ
They say an autopsy and polygraph test supported her story that she used mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the infant, but it was born with the umbilical cord ...

Commission Upholds Termination Of Police Officer
NWAOnline
Commissioners heard testimony from Hamilton, airport security personnel and polygraph experts before going into an executive session to decide the . ...

Hired by Customs, but Working for the Cartels
New York Times
Right now, only a fraction — 10 percent or so — of Customs and Border Protection recruits are given a polygraph screening that federal investigators say has ...