Word: lie-detector
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...Indeed, the suspect did know he was being tailed. "They apparently weren't very good drivers," he observed. "I caused them to have a minor accident." Williams characterized his twelve hours of questioning at Atlanta FBI headquarters as "accusations and threats the whole time." He submitted to three lie-detector tests and said he was told that "all my answers were deceptive." This, he explained, might be attributed to his nervousness. Other evidence was sought after authorities obtained a search warrant for Williams' home. They confiscated a yellow blanket, purple robe, dog hairs and fibers from a carpet...
...story building after the fire was put out, he found trays and dishes still in the halls. A small point, perhaps, but, concluded Hilliard, "Cline wasn't doing his job, or he wasn't telling the truth." Cline was questioned again and given a lie-detector test. Said Police Lieut. John Connor: "He failed miserably." Finally, Cline signed a statement admitting to a far more sordid story: he had been engaged in a homosexual act on a sofa in the eighth-floor elevator lobby when his marijuana cigarette accidentally ignited window draperies. He knew his partner only...
...successfully undergone two lie-detector tests and ten days of twelve-hour interrogations by Government agents, and his story remains unshaken. The Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department and the IRS are pur suing investigations. An Amoco spokesman acknowledges that the SEC has subpoenaed four high-ranking current and former executives along with corporate records from the Atlanta office...
...truth of the matter may never emerge. Under questioning by committee members, Byers has stuck by the informant's account of the $50,000 bounty on King. It is not clear whether he also confirmed that the money was paid to Ray. The committee plans to administer a lie-detector test to Ray about the tale; he will be removed from jail to testify at the hearings. But Kauffmann and Sutherland have both died, and their widows insist that their husbands had nothing to do with the murder of the civil rights leader...
State investigators questioned Rowe again about the bombing and had him take two lie-detector tests last fall. He flunked both of them. Just why he failed is in dispute. Some Birmingham detectives now suspect that he was with the Klansmen who planted the bomb. State investigators think Rowe may only have been withholding key information about the crime from interrogators...