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🗓️ 19 March 2025
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Retired FBI agent and senior polygraph examiner George Olivo joins The Consult to separate fact from fiction when it comes to the polygraph. With years of experience administering polygraphs, he explains how they really work, their strengths and limitations, and the myths that have surrounded them.
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0:52.8 | In the consult, we discuss cases involving violence sexual violence abduction and murder sometimes the cases we discuss involve children listener discretion is advised Welcome to the consult. |
1:25.0 | I'm Julia Cowley, retired FBI profiler, and today I'm joined by |
1:29.1 | retired FBI agent and senior polygraph examiner George Olivo. Welcome, George. Thank you for being here. |
1:36.6 | Thanks for having me. So I wanted to have George on the show because in so many cases, not just the |
1:44.0 | ones that we've covered here on our show, |
1:46.9 | but also other high profile cases, we often hear about a suspect who either passed or failed |
1:54.7 | a polygraph. And we have talked about cases like that on our show where we say this main |
1:59.5 | suspect, he passed a polygraph or they failed the polygraph. |
2:03.6 | And on our show, that does not factor into our analysis. |
2:07.6 | We certainly keep that as something to remember. |
2:10.6 | But what I do think is interesting is how we hear that someone either passed or didn't pass a polygraph, and we quickly form |
2:19.1 | opinions about that. And for instance, if we believe someone is guilty, but we hear they |
2:26.5 | passed a polygraph, my immediate reaction in maybe many others is, well, they must be a psychopath |
2:32.4 | because psychopaths can pass lie detector tests. |
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