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True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufantke.

Good evening.

Late one evening in the summer of 1922, Henry Wilkins burst through the doors of the emergency

room covered in his wife's blood.

But was he a grieving husband or a ruthless killer who conspired with bandits to have her

murdered?

To find out, the San Francisco police turned to technology and a new machine that had

just been invented in Berkeley by a rookie detective, a visionary police chief, and a

teenage magician with a shulman's touch.

John Larson, Gus Volmer, and Leonard Keeler, hoped the lie detector would make the justice

system fairer, but the flawed device soon grew too powerful for them to control.

It poisoned their lives, turned fast friends into bitter enemies, and as it conquered America

and the world, it transformed our relationship with the truth in ways that are still being

felt.

As new forms of lie detection gain momentum in the present day, Dremers in the Blood reveals

the incredible truth behind the creation of the polygraph, through gripping True Crime

cases featuring explosive gunfights, shocking twists and high stakes courtroom drama, touching

on psychology, technology, and the science of the truth.

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