Lie Detector | The Heart of a Liar | 1

American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Humans are shockingly bad at telling whether or not someone is lying. That’s why, a century ago, psychologists and criminologists developed machines to detect lies for us, by measuring blood pressure, pulse, and breathing rate. Their lie detectors promised to revolutionize the criminal justice system. But is it really possible for science to separate truth from lies?

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0:28.0	It's May 7, 1984, Seattle, Washington.
0:32.5	In the King County Sheriff's Headquarters,
0:34.9	Deputy Dave Reichert stares through a one-way mirror into an interrogation room.
0:40.5	He sips lukewarm coffee from a Styrofoam cup.
0:43.9	Watching as a colleague inside the room,
0:46.3	tightens a blood pressure cuff around the right bicep of a person of interest named Gary Ridgeway.
0:52.7	Another deputy sidles up next to Reichert and nods at Ridgeway.
0:57.0	I mean, he does kind of look like someone who kills prostitutes, right?
1:01.3	Reichert takes in Ridgeway.
1:03.3	He's scrawny with light brown hair flopping over his forehead, narrow eyes,
1:08.3	and a whisp of a mustache lining his upper lip.
1:11.2	He does have a certain rat-like quality to him.
1:14.0	I'll give you that.
1:14.7	But I don't know, I still think the cab drivers are man, not this guy.
1:19.4	Over the past two years,
1:21.0	police have discovered more than two dozen bodies in the wooded areas outside Seattle,
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