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Omaha Steve

(99,073 posts)
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 09:03 PM Jul 2012

Missing girl's mom takes second polygraph test

Source: Omaha World Herald-AP

IOWA CITY (AP) After submitting to a second polygraph test, the mother of one of two missing Iowa cousins said Monday that the results should prove that she had nothing to do with their disappearance and allow investigators to focus their attention elsewhere.

Misty Cook-Morrissey said a state agent asked during Monday's polygraph whether she had anything to do with the abduction of her daughter, 10-year-old Lyric Cook-Morrissey, and niece, 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins. She said she was asked whether she knows where they are and if she could take investigators to them, adding she answered "no" to all those questions.

"It went well," she said in a phone interview. "They can rule me out of their book and move on to something else."

The girls have been missing since they went for a bike ride July 13 in Evansdale, a town of 4,700 people in northeast Iowa, where their bikes and a purse were found near a lake. An extensive investigation involving local, state and federal agents has failed to find them. Investigators reclassified the case as an abduction after an FBI team used sonar equipment to search the bottom of the lake and ruled out the possibility that they drowned.

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20120723/NEWS/707239928/1707#missing-girl-s-mom-takes-second-polygraph-test



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The Associated Press Posters such as this one in Waterloo, Iowa, of missing cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, and Elizabeth Collins, 8, are a common sight in the area.
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Missing girl's mom takes second polygraph test (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jul 2012 OP
There's something really weird about this case. n/t Inspired Jul 2012 #1
Here is one of the flyers circulating online OmahaBlueDog Jul 2012 #2
Haven't we seen this before? A child goes missing (or in this case two), the police want to look AnotherMcIntosh Jul 2012 #3
This "test" was useless. Archae Jul 2012 #4
"Lie Detectors" are a joke, and the results are meaningless. Ikonoklast Jul 2012 #5
Why hasn't the person in the paddle boat come forward? justice1 Jul 2012 #6
Polygraph tests are BS. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #7
Quick, Nancy Grace, kill again! AngryAmish Jul 2012 #8
Why? Lie detectors are hokum. MrSlayer Jul 2012 #9
 

AnotherMcIntosh

(11,064 posts)
3. Haven't we seen this before? A child goes missing (or in this case two), the police want to look
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 09:35 PM
Jul 2012

like heroes but don't have any evidence, the police conduct accusatory interviews with the parents, the police cause one or both of the parents to be further upset, and the police then let one or more reporters know that one or both of the parents are "acting very suspicious" because they won't allow themselves to be subject to further abuse?

So they've convinced one of the mothers who went through two "lie detector" tests to respond by saying,

"It went well," she said in a phone interview. "They can rule me out of their book and move on to something else."

Just once I'ld like to hear a chief of police say that he had an investigator who was unable to find that a parent had done anything wrong and, since the investigator had given the false suggestion to reporters that the parent or parents was hiding something, the chief of police decided to fire the investigator. Just once.

If a chief of police would do that, it might set a good example for others.

Archae

(46,262 posts)
4. This "test" was useless.
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 09:46 PM
Jul 2012

Polygraphs are *NOT* "lie detectors."

They test for being nervous. That's all.

If on the horrible chance that the Mother is responsible, that polygraph tester is going to have egg all over his/her face, and rightfully so.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
5. "Lie Detectors" are a joke, and the results are meaningless.
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 09:48 PM
Jul 2012

A person with only rudimentary coaching on how to defeat them can easily do so.

 

MrSlayer

(22,143 posts)
9. Why? Lie detectors are hokum.
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 04:48 PM
Jul 2012

They mean absolutely nothing. There's a reason they are not admissible in court.

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