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David Jacoby

posted 10 years ago by saneman1
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The producers should have given him a lie detector test. He looks like someone who is not cunning enough to beat a lie detector test.

How did his hair get into the lace? The documentary failed to explain that contradiction where he can be used to bust the alibi and at the same time, he is there at the murder scene with a trace of his DNA in the lace.

It's too bad the cops are unethical in that area, otherwise, they would pursue this area and see who is lying and who is not. If Hobbs possibly abused his daughter, why wouldn't he be capable of this murder?

[–] Monkey Bastard 10 years ago

Lie detectors are nonsense.

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[–] putter_b 10 years ago

One point that I have made over and over about the polygraph test, is who administered it. Bill Durham was trained less than a year before to use the machine and had little practice with it. Frankly, if ANYONE other then a WMPD officer gave the test, then I would be more inclined to believe the results.

Also, what you have to realize too is that the test is judged solely on the administer giving the test. So someone else could look at the same results (which has happened in this case) and said that there was no deception given.

There are too many variables, which is why most courts do not allow the results to be evidence in cases.

[–] rachelr27 8 years ago

David Jacoby's hair was not in the lace. It was found near a tree close to the scene. Terry Hobbs' hair was in the lace.

Jacoby's hair could have been from transferrence.