Posted on 04/29/2005 10:09:47 AM PDT by LouAvul
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) - Investigators have taken several computers from the home of a missing bride-to-be to examine e-mails for clues to her disappearance, police said Friday.
Jennifer Wilbanks, 32, was reported missing Tuesday night by her fiance, John Mason, who said she did not come home after her nightly jog in this Atlanta suburb. He said she left with only her radio and the clothes she had on.
Police found Wilbanks' keys, cash, credit cards and identification in the home she shared with Mason.
Chief Randy Belcher said investigators took three computers from the home and were reviewing e-mails.
Officers who searched Wilbanks' neighborhood were also testing several sweat shirts for any connection to the case, though the police chief seemed doubtful. "We've picked up pieces of clothing all over," he said. Authorities said they considered the case a criminal investigation, but police gave mixed signals about whether they believe Wilbanks may have gotten cold feet.
Maj. Don Woodruff said authorities did not believe Wilbanks was a runaway bride. But under questioning from reporters, Belcher later said: "It's a very real possibility she did get cold feet. I mean, how many husbands have gone out for a pack of cigarettes and not come back?"
Belcher said Mason had told authorities he would decide Friday whether to take a polygraph test.
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"flat aspect," inappropriate emotion for the circumstances, or almost no emotion. Makes you wonder."
flat emotion generally equates with sociopath
That is different. I can't link to the full story.
so the lie detector test conditions were his LAWYER's, no t his. that clears a thing or three up. he DID pass the test he did take. amazing how we discard the "passed" tests and drill in on the failed ones...
The police aren't interested in determining your innocence or guilt..
They ask certain questions to elicit a reaction..
They ask others knowing they will Not Elicit a reaction..
They ask questions completely unrelated to the case..
It's like playing "20 questions"..
Except they ask a lot more than 20, and they are professional players of the game..
It's much like that guy that does the medium act.. gives you "messages" from your dead relatives..
It's called "cold reading"..
The message from grandma Nellie is fake, but the information the interrogator gets out of you is not fake..
It is highly informative, and can provide a great deal of information..
Much of that information you unwittingly provide yourself..
The medium (interrogator) is able to "infer" certain conclusions from your answers..
The Police, in this case, then take the information they get from the polygraph and investigate, search, interview, and build a case..
Enough circumstantial evidence can put you on death row..
IMO, that is absurd.. to be afraid to take a polygraph test when you know you didn't do it.
It takes alot more than a polygraph test to convict somebody of murder.
If I were in his shoes, and I was completely innocent as he claims he is, I wouldn't hesistate one second to take the polygraph test.
Clearing yourself of the polygraph allows the investigators to focus the investigations in another direction instead of wasting time investigating a dead-end and that's the first thing I'd want them to do.
Oh, I wasn't clear: I just heard that on MSNBC. Maybe it wasn't in this story.
"sheesh, good thing we don't let mob rule decide guilt or innocence"
Last I heard it was "okay" for people to have opinions and communicate those opinions in public wether it be in some persons home, pub, library, internet messages boards. Nobody is mob ruling anyone into a prison sentence.
Bob Crane? Hogan's Heroes Bob Crane? A killer? I missed that one. What happened?
Uh-huh. She ran away with just her jogging sweats.
The police questioned Page extensively, and asked him to fantasize how he might have killed Lee, if he had killed her. Page gave a videotaped statement that included details that were somewhat consistent with the condition of Lee's body, which was found shortly afterward.
The case generated a lot of publicity at the time. The jury had a hard time accepting the so-called "confession" video and wound up convicting Page of Aggravated Littering, or some such stupid verdict, and he was out of jail in under two years.
You can read all about the case at Sam Sloan web-page ishipress.com. Yeah, I know he's insane, but he does keep track of stuff.
Why would it be unacceptable to the GBI to videotape a polygraph? Hmmmm..........
EXACTLY.
Bob Crane? Hogan's Heroes Bob Crane? A killer? I missed that one. What happened?
No Crane wasn't a killer he was a kinko who eventually died at the hands of another kinko still unknown. Unsolved murder. Crane played with the devil and he lost. Poor slob.
I posted before I read yours.. My thoughts exactly.
People who dodge the polygraph test usually have something to hide.
I'm absolutely positively convinced, in the Court of Josh, that this guy is guilty as sin. I've got the instinct radar of the best of them.
But the inappropriate emotion, the conversational presentation, the playing to a camera, is to me, a sign of cover-up, not the stress of loss..
The boyfreind exhibited No Sense of Loss.. None..
I find that suspicious..
If you are suspected of a crime, and you talk to the Police, you are insane. The very first thing a lawyer will tell you is to shut the heck up, because nothing good can come from talking to the police.
Ridiculous, eh? Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Polygraphs should be illegal to use, given their subjective nature.
Ah, you notice them, too? There are some people who creep me out just by their eyes. I've met some IRL, too, and I would never be surprised to find out they had bodies in their trunk. They are closely related to the women with "crazy eyes." A friend of mine's mother had those- and my mother-in-law has them, too. Even when she was younger, thinner, and prettier, she still had them.
Not necessarily. A couple of years ago a woman vanished in my area when she went to the shopping mall. Her car was eventually found with her wallet inside, keys, ID, etc. Everyone thought the worse and I'm sure many assumed her husband wacked her because no one would just bolt and leave the personal stuff behind, right? Wrong. Several years later she was discovered living out of state with a new ID.
It's my understanding that a polygraph is never video taped. Perhaps Mason's attorney is savvy enough to add this as a condition, knowing full well it would be denied.
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