Answering an often-asked question: “how could you confess to a crime you didn’t commit?”

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]At the end of the polygraph when Steven [music] said, "What do you mean you didn't do it? You just told me through the polygraph test results that you did.

[00:00:07]We just want you to verbally confirm it." That's when Detective MacIntyre came in the room and he told me the other officers were going to harm me.

[00:00:14]He'd been holding them off that he couldn't do so any longer. Just tell them what they want to hear. Go home afterwards. You're not going to be arrested. I'm in there shooting blanks.

[00:00:21]Give me some ammunition. Him giving me all these cups of coffee and scaring me, that certainly skewed the results. Even though there's a scientific consensus that the polygraph is not scientific, that frightened innocent people fail it.

[00:00:32]This was not even an objective polygraph because Stevens carried out what he referred to as a the GTC, get the confession. The polygraph was outrageously long. That was combined with food deprivation. It all had the impact of wearing me down. I wasn't used to talking to adult male, particularly one that was acting in as ferocious a manner as he was. Stevens was asked to produce his polygraph charts. That's when he claimed that the charts had come up missing.