Are Polygraph Tests Really Useful In True Crime?!

Are Polygraph Tests Really Useful In True Crime?!

Polygraph tests or “lie detectors” sound like the perfect true crime shortcut: strap someone in, ask the right questions, watch the needles jump, and let the machine tell you who’s lying. In reality, they sit in a murky space between science and theatre. They don’t measure lies, they measure stress, heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, sweat, and then a human interpreter decides what those spikes mean, which makes them dangerously persuasive in interrogation rooms and almost useless in courtrooms.

In case after case, people have “passed” while hiding horrific secrets, and others have “failed” simply because they were terrified, traumatized, or anxious, not because they were guilty. That’s why most judges won’t allow polygraph results as hard evidence, and why investigators who lean on them too heavily can end up chasing the wrong suspect or pressuring someone into a confession just to make a bad result go away.

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(296)

The THRILLING Mystery of the $500 Million Art Heist

The THRILLING Mystery of the $500 Million Art Heist

Just after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men dressed as Boston police knocked on the door of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, claimed they were responding to a disturbance, and were calmly let i...

6 Jul 37min

Girl Found Encased in Concrete IDENTIFIED After 21 years... but Who Killed Her?

Girl Found Encased in Concrete IDENTIFIED After 21 years... but Who Killed Her?

In 2003, construction workers smashing up the basement of a former Manhattan nightclub broke through a slab of concrete and uncovered a rolled rug, a skull, and the bound, strangled remains of a teena...

2 Jul 18min

The Case SOLVED by a TV Show

The Case SOLVED by a TV Show

The Patty Stallings case is a nightmare of bad science turned into a murder charge and a rare example of TV saving the day. In 1989, when Patty’s newborn fell violently ill, lab results were misread a...

30 Jun 26min

A Love Written in Blood : The Elizabeth Haysom & Jens Söring Case

A Love Written in Blood : The Elizabeth Haysom & Jens Söring Case

The Jens Söring and Elizabeth Haysom case starts like a doomed campus romance and ends in a blood‑soaked farmhouse and a lifetime of questions. In 1985, the wealthy, respectable Haysom parents were bu...

24 Jun 50min

The Real History of Feminism

The Real History of Feminism

Feminism isn’t just “girl power” slogans and pink protest signs, it’s a century‑spanning fight that’s come in waves, each one crashing against a different kind of control over women’s lives. The first...

22 Jun 52min

The Forest That Makes People VANISH

The Forest That Makes People VANISH

In the shadowy woods around Vermont’s Glastenbury Mountain, Paula Jean Welden is only one of several people who walked into the trees and never properly came back. In just five years, an experienced h...

19 Jun 28min

A Whole Family Murdered and STILL No Answers : The Keddie Cabin Case

A Whole Family Murdered and STILL No Answers : The Keddie Cabin Case

In April 1981, inside a shabby rental at Cabin 28 in the tiny mountain town of Keddie, California, someone turned a cramped living room into a slaughterhouse. Sue Sharp, her teenage son John, and his ...

17 Jun 47min

Populært innen True crime

avhort
krimpodden-vg
krimarkivet-2
podme-krim
rss-avhort-aktuelt
rss-svarttrost
verdens-verste
rss-henlagt-andy-larsgaard
rss-pa-innsiden-av-psychohoder
avhort-forfulgt
truecrimepodden-2
insiders
rss-domt-2
forsvinningsfredag-podkast
rss-domt-3
kriminalkrniken
rss-espen-lee-usensurert
truecrimepodden-dokumentar
rss-siktet
dodens-gard