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How Do Lie Detectors Work?

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According to the American Psychological Association, “There is no evidence that any pattern of physiological reactions is unique to deception. An honest person may be nervous when answering truthfully and a dishonest person may be non-anxious.”

Polygraphs don’t actually detect anything meaningful except that the person is under stress – and simply being given a polygraph is sufficient to trigger the stress.

Even the creator of the machines stated that they were bunk. They’re purely a prop for interrogators.

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Claire Miller

This 14-Year-Old TikTok Star Became An Overnight Sensation After She Stabbed Her Disabled Sister To Death

Claire Miller was a seemingly average 14-year-old in Lancaster, Pennsylvania who lived a second life online posting lip-synching videos on TikTok. She soon found success there, gaining some 22,000 followers with her lighthearted posts.⁠

But in February 2021, she suddenly gained more than 10,000 additional followers almost overnight — just after news broke that she had gruesomely murdered her disabled sister. On February 22, Miller repeatedly stabbed her wheelchair-bound sister in the neck while their parents slept just down the hall. Click the link in our profile to go inside this disturbing murder — and the disturbing TikToks Miller is believed to have posted just before the crime.⁠

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Noela Rukundo

Wife crashes her own funeral, horrifying her husband, who had paid to have her killed

Noela Rukundo is a Burundian-Australian woman who became notable for crashing her own funeral. In January 2015, she was presumed dead after her husband, Balenga Kalala, secretly paid several gunmen to kill her while she was in Burundi for her stepmother’s funeral.

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cheryl crane

Cheryl Crane, the daughter of actress Lana Turner, stabbed one of her mother’s boyfriends to death during a domestic struggle at the age of 14 in 1958. It was considered a justifiable homicide and she was deemed to have been protecting her mother.

At approximately 8:00 p.m. on April 4, eight days after the Academy Awards ceremony, Johnny Stompanato arrived at Lana Turner’s rented home at 730 North Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills, California, which she had just begun leasing a week prior.

The two began arguing heatedly in the bedroom, during which Stompanato threatened to kill Turner, her daughter, and her mother, as well as making "gangster threats" that involved breaking Turner’s bones and slashing her face with a straight razor.

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joe metheny

Joe Metheny, a serial killer who made his victims into burgers – he chopped them up, mixed them with pork, and served them as burgers to unwitting customers from his roadside barbecue stand in Maryland.

Joe Metheny started out looking for his runaway wife and son, but ended up on a revenge-driven killing spree and turning his victims into cheeseburgers.

When the police arrested Joe Metheny in December of 1996, they expected him to put up a fight. The man was a 500-pound lumber factory worker with a tendency to fly off the handle. At the very least, they expected resistance. What they didn’t expect was a detailed and upfront confession, the brutality of which was preceded by Metheny’s own warning: “I’m a very sick person.”

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Carl-Panzram

Charles "Carl" Panzram was an American serial killer, rapist, arsonist, robber and burglar. In prison confessions and in his autobiography, Panzram claimed to have committed 21 murders and more than 1,000 acts of sodomy of boys and men.

One of Panzram’s most brutal murders involved hiring six men to work on a boat with him, shooting them, and then feeding them to crocodiles. In his autobiography, he wrote, “For all of these things, I am not the least bit sorry.”

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Alexandria Vera, a 24-year-old schoolteacher from Houston, Texas, has admitted to having an eight-month affair culminating in an aborted pregnancy with her 13-year-old student.

Investigators said that the illicit relationship began after the boy contacted Vera on Instagram, and they began having sex over the course of nine months.

One fellow student told KTRK that the pair’s flirtation spilled over into the classroom, where the boy once was seen grabbing his teacher’s behind.

Vera claimed to investigators that the boy’s parents knew what was happening, approved of it and let their son stay over at her house and were supportive of her keeping the baby.

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Couple whose gender-reveal ceremony sparked El Dorado fire charged with involuntary manslaughter

The couple who used a smoke bomb at a gender reveal ceremony and sparked Southern California’s El Dorado wildfire that killed a firefighter last year has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and 29 other crimes, authorities announced Tuesday.

The charges included one felony count of involuntary manslaughter, three felony counts of recklessly causing a fire with great bodily injury, four felony counts of recklessly causing a fire to inhabited structures and 22 misdemeanor counts of recklessly causing fire to property.

San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson said Tuesday that the couple could face sentences extending from the “lower teens to low twenties” of years if found guilty on all charges.

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Dorothea Puente ran a halfway house in Sacramento for the down and out. She murdered 7 of the residents and buried them in the front yard.

When Dorothea Puente was finally put on trial in 1992, the prosecutor called her one of the most “cold and calculating female killers the country had ever seen.” And though Puente didn’t look the part, the prosecutor was absolutely right.⁠

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