Polygraph Poll

[*Kat*]

Exactly, I agree. Let's find my kid. I didn't do it, do not focus on me. Is it worth taking the chance that you fail? It happens A LOT when people are not lying.

You fail....the whole focus comes off whomever really has your child and the focus goes onto you. Not good, IMO.

I'd take one if I had my own tester & witness there as well. ITA with Christine if you fail then focus is off search & onto your guilt. If I can't even show that I am being truthful by getting my name & SSN right, then they know I just can't take the test. If I take it & pass, I get cleared & everyone can move right along with the investigation. I do feel that not taking it = creating shadows of guilt. Kinda like refusing the breathlyzer.

 

[CaliKid]

I would consult an attorney first and maybe take one knowing that LE might try to frame me with it. It's common tactics for them to come back and say that the test shows deception. If you aren't prepared, you could be tricked into confessing to a crime you didn't commit.

 

[MarleneM]

You fail....the whole focus comes off whomever really has your child and the focus goes onto you. Not good, IMO.

Considering I would have contacted police the instant I felt my child was missing, I wouldn't be anywhere near the stage to consider what will happen to me in the future. My whole being would be tuned into my child and anything the police put before me as a required next step to finding her I would take.

Truly innocent, being framed wouldn't occur to me. Desperation and panic would consume my energy. I'm not saying a lawyer wouldn't advise me not to take one, and I'd definately consider not taking one if I was being accused of nearly any other crime, but knowing that I could never harm my child I would have no time to make the situation about me.

It's all about getting my baby back. I'll worry about my own @ss later.

 

[pizmex]

Yep. No guilt, no fear. Take the test, worry about the 'details' later. Let's find my kid.

Exactly, I agree. Let's find my kid. I didn't do it, do not focus on me. Is it worth taking the chance that you fail? It happens A LOT when people are not lying.

You fail....the whole focus comes off whomever really has your child and the focus goes onto you. Not good, IMO.

There's another issue brewing here, notwithstanding the whole junkiness factor of the polygraph itself.

An innocent parent in this situation doesn't really know where his or her kid is. So how is taking a polygraph going to help LE find the kid? I raise this issue because many posters on this thread wrote that they were willing to take the polygraph in order to help find their hypothetically missing child. I don't see the connection. And if LE suspects you, they'll continue to suspect you no matter how you fared on the cheesy lie detector. This whole polygraph business really is a pointless exercise.

 

[pizmex]

If I take it & pass, I get cleared & everyone can move right along with the investigation.

But that's part of the problem with the lie detector. It's a fallacy to think you'll get cleared simply by passing the test. Do you think Casey'd get cleared if she were to pass a lie detector tomorrow? Do you think Casey'd get released, and have all pending and potential charges forever dropped if she were to pass a lie detector? What if she passed a polygraph test 10 times? Do you think it'd matter?

If your answer is "No", then what's the point of taking a polygraph?

 

[pizmex]

It's all about getting my baby back. I'll worry about my own @ss later.

Once again, how would passing a polygraph help getting your missing child back?

 

[*Kat*]

But that's part of the problem with the lie detector. It's a fallacy to think you'll get cleared simply by passing the test. Do you think Casey'd get cleared if she were to pass a lie detector tomorrow? Do you think Casey'd get released, and have all pending and potential charges forever dropped if she were to pass a lie detector? What if she passed a polygraph test 10 times? Do you think it'd matter?

If your answer is "No", then what's the point of taking a polygraph?

No, I absolutely Casey would not get cleared - she's shown a definite pattern of lying (the likes of which I have never seen). I just feel that if the average, non-psychopathic person would take the lie detector in the preliminary stages of an investigation rather than refusing it, then the main focus would be on other leads in the case....

I feel that not only the results of the poly are telling but whether or not you are willing to take it, kwim?

 

[CaliKid]

Once again, how would passing a polygraph help getting your missing child back?

If LE was focusing on you as the perp and positive that you were behind your child's disappearance, passing the polygraph (assuming they don't think you're sociopathic) would "prove" you were innocent. This would allow them to move on to other possible suspects.

 

[Lady Loves Lurking]

I would take one but, honestly, I think they're spooky.
I think lots of things are spooky-
airplanes, GPS, Google Earth.

I know they exist. I know they are accurate. If my kid was gone I'd take any test.

 

[monoxide]

Any innocent parent would take a lie detector test if given the opportunity to do so. Mark Klass jumped all over the opportunity. and I believe Josh Duckett did as well. Pass a lie detector test tells the cops you are willing to cooperate and you are telling the truth. Once you pass the test they can begin looking at other suspects without looking at you as a suspect but the family refused. This tells me they all have something to hide

 

[seekingjustice**]

I would ask for one immediately, so they could rule me out and start looking seriously for my child.

 

[monoxide]

I would ask for one immediately, so they could rule me out and start looking seriously for my child.

:applause: I agree. It would've been a good way to get rid of a lot of protesters. People might have actually had some compassion for the family. Very interesting how they agree then turn around and say no sir later. Wonder who convinced them to avoid it?

 

[doogiesgirl]

And what innocent parent is going to stop to think about what this could do to them in the future if they fail it. NO WAY would you be thinking that. And it is only ONE tool the police use, I think it is more about the willingness to take one as much as it is about results. And LE has to pay attention to statistics or they would waste time. It is common knowledge they have to clear the parents and family first so why all the resistance to this???

 

[DazzlinDebSD]

I'm not sure if this was posted yet but it's reasonable to suggest they called Jose and that Jose Biaz told them NOT to give a poly.

 

[pizmex]

... passing the polygraph (assuming they don't think you're sociopathic) would "prove" you were innocent.

But passing a polygraph proves only that you've passed a polygraph. I didn't know that there are now extra rules and qualifications, such as that a polygraph doesn't work on sociopaths -- which, by the way, I happen to totally agree with. I just don't think you've gone far enough. I would say that polygraphs don't work on anybody ... sociopath or no sociopath.

 

[pizmex]

I would ask for one immediately, so they could rule me out and start looking seriously for my child.

But this is one of the great misconceptions about LE. If LE suspected you, they would continue to investigate you, no matter how you fared on a polygraph.

If you passed a polygrpaph in the hypothetical case of your missing child, do you suppose LE would ignore evidence that they discovered two months after your successful polygraph test that absolutely and undoubtedly implicated you? Do you suppose that you would be able to counter this damning evidence on grounds that you passed a lie detector test earlier?

 

[yosande]

I don't know what I would do. It would depend on whether I trusted LE which Cindy clearly does not. George seems to and has respect for them, and Lee would probably do whatever his mom asks him to do. jmo
It's a matter of trust. Personally, I probably would not under any circumstances, but no one I know has ever disappeared, so I really don't know. I know I don't trust LE.

 

[Linda7NJ]

if it was my child i would take one.

mark lunsford took one as did his mother....it was deemed "inconclusive" then i think back to jonbenet ramsey case....i would never want to take a page from that book and it seems as if that's just what the anthony's are doing

 

[EtherealGirl]

I voted that I would take it, but with my own tester, actually it's a combination of choices 1 and 3.

I would take it in a heartbeat, without ANY hesitation but would want a reputable tester.

LP mentioned on NG the other night that he used a veteran polygraph expert that understood a person's nervousness and knew how to adjust for that (or words to that effect). So that would be the tester I would pick.

 

[Elley Mae]

I have been polygraphed,and video taped at the same time. If you have nothing to hide then it's not a problem. But I will say that when they set you up for the line of questions they will give a hypothetical situation, and sometimes that will lead your mind to think of the one think that you know is wrong. Like "if you took a pair of scissors from work you know that is stealing" and then the questions begin. LOL