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The Relevant
Issue
http://www.polygraphplace.com
Issue #132 - April 14, 2006
Relevant Issue Archives:
http://www.polygraphplace.com/articles
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IN THIS ISSUE:
1. EDITORIAL: "In memory of Polygraph Examiner & Friend
Charles Lynch"
2. PUBLIC ANNOUCEMENT:
"The Safe NOW Project - Striving
to prevent Sexual Violence"
3. IN THE FORUMS:
PUBLIC FORUM: "What is the point to ask an employee
to take a polygraph test, if the results are not a
proof in court? What is the motivation to spend money
for that kind of test?"
EXAMINERS ONLY FORUM:
"I have been asked to conduct
an exam on a 37 year-old male who probably has
Aspergers Syndrome..."
There are now 190
examiners registered & approved to
use the private forum. How about you?
4. TRUE POLYGRAPH
STORY: "My very first polygraph test"
by Chuck Lynch
5. UPCOMING SEMINARS:
Is your state association having
a seminar any time in the year 2006?
Please send me the details so we can let everyone
know.
POLICE POLYGRAPHISTS
(AAPP) April 2006
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1. EDITORIAL: "In memory of Polygraph Examiner & Friend
Charles Lynch"
I received an email
from Alice Lynch on March 27th to let
me know that Chuck Lynch had died on the 23rd.
That email broke
my heart. Chuck was 58 years old when he
died. He had been a supporter of the Polygraph Place
for years and was responsible for many of the ideas that
I eventually implemented to help examiners receive more
leads for their advertising dollars. Chuck was a giver.
I will miss him.
I have included a
True Polygraph Story that Chuck
submitted and we ran in a Relevant Issue last September.
I thought it fitting to run that story again since it is
the story of Chuck's very first polygraph test and
displays the passion and dedication he gave to his work.
I received a follow
up email from Chuck's wife Alice.
I've included that email here as it includes a way to
show support if you so choose.
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Hi Ralph,
It was good to speak
with you this morning. Thank you for
your kind words regarding Chuck.
His health had begun to deteriate over the last few months
and death was not a complete surprise but it is always a
shock when it happens.
Please include in your newsletter that Chuck always
enjoyed the emails he received through the Polygraph
Place affiliation and he really believed in the help and
support that an accurately administered polygraph could
give. He considered himself a servant in that profession
and he was dedicated to it.
If anyone would like to remember Chuck through a memorial,
they can send those to The Organ Fund of Kernersville
Moravian Church for Organ Scholarships. The address is:
504 S. Main Street; Kernersville, NC 27284. Chuck loved
all kinds of religious music and especially loved our
pipe organ and he would want to encourage young people
to learn to play such a wonderful instrument.
Funeral services
were held at the church Sunday, March
26 with burial in our cemetary we call God's Acre. He was
58 years, 6 months and 26 days old at the time of his
death, March 23, 2006. He was so smart and loved to learn.
His energy and presence will be missed and cannot be
replaced.
Ralph, I look forward to receiving your newsletter. Chuck
would be proud that you are mentioning him - you know he
loved attention.
Thanks for all your help with his ads/website and please
keep me and his family in your prayers. Best wishes to
you and your family as well.
Alice Lynch.
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2. PUBLIC ANNOUCEMENT: "The Safe NOW Project - Striving
to prevent Sexual Violence"
The SafeNOW Project
is headed up by several folks who
have been directly involved with polygraph for years.
Please take a minute
to read their most recent press
release and visit their website to see how you can
support them.
PRESS RELEASE:
http://www.polygraphplace.com/safenow.pdf
WEBSITE:
http://www.safenowproject.org
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3. IN THE FORUMS:
*** PUBLIC FORUM ***
"What is the point to ask an employee to take a
polygraph test, if the results are not a proof in
court? What is the motivation to spend money for that
kind of test?"
http://www.polygraphplace.com/ubb/NonCGI/Forum1/HTML/000426.html
*** EXAMINERS ONLY FORUM ***
"Last week ABC Prime Time had a segment on CVSA - Voice
of a Liar. If you missed it you can go to
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/ and view it online."
AND
"I have been
asked to conduct an exam on a 37 year-old
male who probably has Aspergers Syndrome..."
Examiners Only Private Forum - 3 Step Registration Process:
1. If you haven't
done it in the past, register here:
http://www.polygraphplace.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi?action=agree
2. After registration,
the system automatically emails you
a password. (THIS PASSWORD WILL NOT WORK YET)
3. Forward the email
that contains your password to me at
support@polygraphplace.com.
In that email, you MUST
include a way that I can independently verify you are a
polygraph examiner. License #, Association Membership,
Polygraph School attended, etc. After I have verified
the information, I will activate your account, send
you an email telling you so and then you can access the
private forum.
** For those who
simply refuse to read directions, just
go ahead and send me your email saying "I registered
but my password doesn't work" and I'll hold your hand.
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4. TRUE POLYGRAPH STORY: "My very first polygraph test"
by Chuck Lynch
I graduated from
the Zonn Institute, Atlanta, Ga. on
Thursday night November 14, 1975. I caught a late flight
from Atlanta to my home in North Carolina. My wife
informed me at the luggage pickup that a message was left
for me to report for work at my sheriff's office the next
morning for a 9AM polygraph examination on a home burglary.
When I arrived for
work the next morning, a detective was
waiting for me at the room designated as the polygraph
suite in our brand new government center building. First
class I thought. When I opened the office door, there
sitting in the middle of the floor was a cardboard box
containing the newly delivered Stoelting polygraph
instrument still packed. I looked up at the detective who
smiled and said his 9AM appointment was sitting at his desk
already at 8:15 AM.
I hurriedly unpacked the polygraph instrument to discover,
the purchasing department had bought an all mechanical
Stoelting ultrascribe and I was expecting electronic
components. I hurried around and unpacked the instrument
and when I looked for the ink in the box there was not one
drop to be found. What was I going to do? I remembered that
during polygraph school, I had trained on an all mechanical
instrument with a community ink well and we used blue
fountain pen ink. Instantly, I remembered the county
manager used an old fountain pen his father had given him.
I remembered seeing him load it one day by sticking it into
a blue bottle of ink and sucking it into the pen's
reservoir.
I bolted out of the
polygraph suite past the detective
without comment and rushed to the 7th floor of our
government center. I walked right past the county manager's
secretary without comment while she ran behind me yelling,
"What do you want?". The county manager was sitting at his
desk drinking coffee and eating his usual sausage biscuit.
I grabbed his blue bottle of ink and said "I'll explain
later". I ran back to the elevator which was too slow, so
I opted to run down the stairs from the 7th floor to the
ground floor.
Out of breath, I
started pouring the ink directly from the
glass ink bottle into the plastic ink bottles provided with
the polygraph instrument. I had ink all over me, my white
shirt and the desk. The ink came out of everything...except
my white shirt.
I took the shirt
off, went to the rest room, filled the
sink with water and drowned it. I was left wearing only
a T-shirt and pants.
I quickly got my
facts from the detective who said "You
can't run a polygraph in your T-shirt...that is
unprofessional". I was angry and told him to shut up and
bring me the examinee. He was a 19 year old guy who had
been living with his older sister and brother-in-law for
six months. The older sister kept missing crystal, china
and silverware, bit by bit, item by item. She had
inherited these items from her Grandmother. These items
were very valuable and there were no signs of any forcible
entry. They began to suspect the 19 year old brother.
I hurriedly filled
out my pre-test paper work, totally
skipped the stim test and reviewed the three relevant
questions and three control questions in the Zone
Comparison I was using.
I did three charts
and the boy was so text book deceptive,
I did not take time to numerically score the charts and
began interrogation. In six minutes he had confessed to
stealing all the stuff for marijuana money and told me
the pawn shop where it was pawned.
I stepped out and
talked with the detective who was
watching and he was speechless because he had in days
prior to this day interrogated the boy four hours. He went
to the waiting area and got the boy's sister and brought
her into the polygraph suite where I informed her of the
examination results and his confession. She looked at him
and asked "Is this true?" and he replied "Yes". She
then
hauled off and socked my examinee in the nose with her
fist and the blood began to pour out of the boy's nose.
I pulled off my only
garment left other then my pants
and gave the boy my T-shirt to stop the bleeding. The
detective restrained that wild woman and got her out of
my office to the waiting room. The detective took the
boy to the emergency room for treatment and back to the
magistrate for charges and a bond hearing.
With my dress shirt
soaking in the rest room sink and my
T-shirt left at the hospital covered in blood, I sat down
in my bare skin and scored the polygrpraph examination on
a 7 point scale and got a -42. I wrote my report very
quickly and was putting it on the detective's desk when he
was walking in from the jail. He looked at me and said "Not
bad for a rookie, but next time keep some spare clothing in
your locker so you don't embarrass me". I Grabbed my report
and walked out. I wanted to kill him.
I got a call from
the Sheriff to come over to his office
ASAP, so I went in my pants, shoes, socks and uncovered
skin. When I walked into his office, he puffed on his pipe
and said "Why did you steal the county managers ink?" I
explained the whole story to him and he said "Well, be a
little more informative next time you barge into a man's
office and grab something off his desk." I said, "Okay
Sheriff" and walked out of his office. Not one time did he
even make a remark that I did not have a shirt on.
I got the county
manager's ink bottle and carried it back
to him with an explanation. He informed me that the ink
bottle was his great great Grandfather's ink bottle and
if I had broken it I would be assigned as a jailer. I
apologized and walked out. Again, not one word was said
about me not having a stitch on above my belt line.
I went back by the rest room and found my shirt had been
stolen. I calmly walked back to my desk, filled out a
request for a half day's vacation and threw it on the
Captain's desk. Driving my personal car, I stopped at an
Army Surplus store and bought me a camouflaged T-shirt and
an outer shirt. I stopped at the 19th green and without
saying any more, I'll just say my wife had to come drive
me home.
I knew I was going to love Polygraph for sure after this
first examination. I no longer drink but I think I am
going to ask God's permission to get snookered on November
15, 2005 to celebrate my anniversary of my first polygraph
examination.
by Chuck Lynch
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5. UPCOMING SEMINARS: Is your state association having
a seminar anytime in the year 2006?
Please send me the details so we can let everyone
know. mailto:support@polygraphplace.com
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- POLICE POLYGRAPHISTS (AAPP) 2006 SEMINAR -
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When? April 24th
- 28th 2006
Where? Sheraton South Portland Hotel
South Portland, Maine
How Much? $250 member, $300 non-member
For information contact Jeff Johnson at 410-854-6949
or email g.jeff.johnson@verizon.net
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