People who developed the modern polygraph and the science and training of police interrogation, including the inventor of the instrument, the detective who refined it and the law professor who built an early crime detection laboratory and taught interrogation. A person belongs here when the cited source describes the polygraph or interrogation methods. It excludes profilers and psychologists, who have their own group. Entries placed here are John Larson, Leonarde Keeler and Fred E. Inbau.
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Wikipedia: John Augustus Larson
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John Augustus Larson (11 December 1892-1 October 1965) was a police officer and forensic psychiatrist and became famous for his invention of the modern polygraph device used in forensic investigations.
Wikipedia: Leonarde Keeler
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Leonarde Keeler (October 30, 1903, September 20, 1949) was an American inventor best known for co-inventing the polygraph.
Fred E. Inbau (Wikipedia)
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Fred E. Inbau (1909-1998) was an American lawyer and criminologist who helped develop the Reid technique of interrogation.
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