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I just finished watching American Murder: The Family Next Door on Netflix. It was nice.

In the second half of the movie, the police and investigators basically catch Chris Watts as the murderer of his wife and two daughters by making him do a polygraph test. However, there isn’t really any proof that polygraphs are effective at telling lies from truth, right?

So my question is this: Why were the police so adamant Watts was the killer based on the results of the polygraph test which Watts failed spectacularly?

If this is the wrong subreddit, I absolutely apologize. This documentary is new and I wasn’t sure where else to ask.

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I just finished watching American Murder: The Family Next Door on Netflix. It was nice.

In the second half of the movie, the police and investigators basically catch Chris Watts as the murderer of his wife and two daughters by making him do a polygraph test. However, there isn’t really any proof that polygraphs are effective at telling lies from truth, right?

So my question is this: Why were the police so adamant Watts was the killer based on the results of the polygraph test which Watts failed spectacularly?

If this is the wrong subreddit, I absolutely apologize. This documentary is new and I wasn’t sure where else to ask.

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