It was even more than that. Telling the same story in detail word for word would be even more suspicious and I think what SB was trying to get across without giving too much away was that there were things like who cooked breakfast that morning or who carried a fishing pole down to the creek that kept changing. SB's opinion is that these things shouldn't be changing.
I somewhat disagree with you. SB emphasized that primarily it was the questions relevant to DeOrr's whereabouts, and whether the parents knew what happened to him, that were problematic. On other questions, they were truthful.
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TG: Exactly!
One of our members said, “I noticed in your first comment this week, regarding the parents, you originally said they had been deceptive and then you changed that to less than truthful. Can you explain the reason for that change in wording?” Now, there could be absolutely no reason but that’s our Websleuths members, they get right down to the nitty gritty and really want the littlest details.
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SB: Absolutely. I didn’t want them to think their whole polygraph was deceptive. It wasn’t. They passed portions of it,
but the portions on whether they knew where Deorr was or knew what happened to him, they were not being…they were being less than truthful . So that’s why I changed it. I didn’t want them to think…normally you think when someone is deceptive everything they told you is a lie but that’s not the case.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...-**NO-DISCUSSION-quot&p=12319129#post12319129
ETA: I was referring to the interview with Tricia. I do see where he stated it differently in the interview with Nate Eaton. So you were right. My apologies. His answer to Tricia pertained specifically to the polygraph results. The comments to NE were in reference to statements provided by the parents in LE interviews.
Sheriff Lynn Bowerman, Lemhi County: They were the top persons of interest, but I believe they are suspects. (The decision was reached) after an extensive week of interviewing, re-interviewing and an announcement from the FBI that they were being less than truthful on their polygraphs.
Plus there are a lot of irregularities and discrepancies in their interviews (so) I felt it was necessary to come forward and say the parents are being less than truthful.
Eaton: Where have they been inconsistent? Can you go through a few examples?
Bowerman: Our timeline has constantly changed. A lot of small facts – things that should be important to them, important in their memory – have changed. From who made the decision to do what or who cooked that morning or who took a fishing pole down to the creek – just minor changes like that constantly changing.
http://www.eastidahonews.com/2016/01/sheriff-i-just-pray-little-deorr-will-be-found/