American Murder Raises Questions About the Use of Polygraph Tests

Everything began to unravel for Christopher Watts after he failed a polygraph (“lie detector”) test during police questioning in August 2018. Watts would soon after confess to the murder of his wife, Shanann Watts, and their two daughters, Bella and Celeste. In November of that year, Watts was given three consecutive life sentences. He is currently serving out those sentences at a maximum-security prison in Wisconsin. Viewers of the Netflix documentary about the case, American Murder, which uses only police body camera footage, interrogation footage, and social media accounts to tell the story, will probably wonder why Watts agreed to the polygraph examination in the first place. Did he think he could beat it? 2018 saw another famou… Click below to read the full story from Men’s Health
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