As Bethlehem detectives recently investigated an alleged sexual assault on a child, one of the suspects to emerge insisted he was innocent. Police asked him to prove it by taking a polygraph test, ...

A snippet of a videoed police interview brought trouble into the 78th District Courtroom and spurred Adam Matthew Hammond's attorney to ask for a mistrial Wednesday. The Wichita Falls man is accused ...

Polygraph test results are also generally inadmissible in federal courts and in most state courts because of doubts about their reliability. Statements or admissions made by test subjects during a ...

Attorney David P. Mastagni called a technical glitch of a leading polygraph used by many government agencies a "real significant legal issue" because of the weight some agencies give polygraph in ...

Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who’s accused Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, released the results of a polygraph test focused on the decades-old ...

Can a lie detector be made more honest? Yes, according to tech company Converus, if the human element is removed from the test administration process. It’s been 100 years since the invention of the ...

One of the nation’s most secretive intelligence agencies is pressuring its polygraphers to obtain intimate details of the private lives of thousands of job applicants and employees, pushing the ...

After Chicago police repeatedly questioned Donny McGee about the murder of his elderly neighbor, a detective on the case asked him to “face the truth” and take a polygraph. McGee was taken to the ...

EAGLE PASS, Texas – Border Patrol is failing to hire agents fast enough to replace thousands of soon-to-be retirees, and current and former employees say overly aggressive and unaccountable polygraph ...

You’ve no doubt heard about the polygraph and its use as a lie detector. The homely box records physiological changes — such as heart rate and electrical skin conductance — that are indirect ...

"One of the immediate impacts could be on the morale of other FBI employees...it presents a double standard that hasn't been explained," William Turton said.