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Decades-Old Cold Cases Solved in Record Numbers with Advanced DNA,
Computer Voice Stress Analysis Technology
LEWES, Del., April 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the National
Association of Computer Voice Stress Analysts, two things happen when
a loved one is murdered and the killer is not caught - one, there is
deep sorrow, pain and suffering and 2, it never goes away. Just ask
the family of Krystal Beslanowitch.
DNA - Krystal was only 17 and living in Utah when she was murdered in
1995, the case went cold until, in 2013, a newly developed form of DNA
technology was able to extract 'touch' DNA from the rock that was used
to kill her. The DNA matched Michael Simpson. Mr. Simpson was
arrested in Florida this year and charged with Krystal's murder.
DNA, CVSA Work Together - In April, 2001, 36 year-old Angela Coleman
was found strangled to death in an abandoned house in Columbia, SC.
Her body had been set on fire in an apparent attempt to hide evidence
of the crime. Her killer was never caught. Seven years later as DNA
advanced, a DNA profile was developed and pointed to Clarence Terrelle
Myers. Police began looking for him and discovered that he was being
held in a Volusia County (FL) jail. When detectives interviewed him,
he admitted that he had found the victim already dead and had sex with
the body. However, he denied killing her or setting her body on
fire. At an impasse, Daytona Beach Detectives offered Myers a
Computer Voice Stress Analysis (CVSA) examination to help verify his
story. Myers showed deception on all of the relevant questions and
after being shown the voice graphs that clearly indicated deception,
Myers confessed that he was mad at Coleman for ripping him off and
that he strangled her in an abandoned house. He said that he left and
came back after an hour and a half and had sex with her to prove
something to her. "The use of the CVSA in this case and others like
it provide a unique investigative tool for law enforcement officers
and our use of this technology in Daytona Beach will only insure that
our city is a safer place to live, work and visit," stated the Daytona
Police Chief.
CVSA Succeeds Where Polygraph Fails - Vestavia Hills, AL, police were
asked by the local sheriff's department to conduct a CVSA exam on a
subject that they believed may have murdered his sister-in-law
fourteen years ago. Over the years, the subject had taken 4 polygraphs
from 3 different examiners, all of which had been inconclusive. The
subject agreed to the CVSA exam and failed. After being shown the
charts and informed of the results, the subject confessed to the
murder. Following his confession, the subject took the detectives to
the site where he buried his sister-in-law's body, providing the only
direct evidence of his crime.
15-Year-Old Murder Solved - In New York, Professor James Chapman,
noted criminologist and CVSA examiner was summoned to the Sheriff's
Department to assist with the interview of an individual that had been
the main suspect in a 1981 murder. He had taken a polygraph which was
inconclusive and, without other leads, the case grew cold. The same
suspect was again requested to take a polygraph in the same case ten
years later in 1991. This time the suspect passed the polygraph and
was dropped as a suspect. Many years later the investigator in the
case requested that the same suspect take a CVSA exam from Professor
Chapman. After reviewing his own CVSA charts, which clearly showed
that he was the killer, the suspect made admissions and provided
written statements regarding his participation in the murder.
Technology Analyzes Recordings To Detect Deception - Cocoa (FL) Police
formed a new Cold Case Unit to review the 'cold' homicide cases at
their department. While reviewing the first case which involved the
brutal murder of a young woman and after six years, the case had gone
cold, Detectives noticed that both suspects had voluntarily taken and
passed polygraph examinations and because of that, were no longer
considered suspects. They also discovered that both had given sworn,
tape recorded statements in which they had denied any involvement in
the murder. Detectives analyzed the taped statements utilizing the
Computer Voice Stress Analyzer (CVSA) and while they were able to
clear one suspect, the other suspect displayed deception when she
denied committing the murder. Detectives located the second suspect
and requested that she come in for questioning. When she appeared for
questioning, the suspect agreed to take a CVSA exam. The CVSA exam
clearly indicated that she was the one that had killed the young woman
six years earlier. After forty minutes of interrogation, the suspect
admitted to the murder and also how she had disposed of the murder
weapon.
These scenarios are quietly being repeated day-after-day throughout
the US in law enforcement agencies as small as the Bay Harbor Island
P.D. (FL) and as large as the Atlanta P.D., Nashville P.D., Miami
P.D., Salt Lake City P.D., California Highway Patrol and the US
Federal Courts in cases involving murder, rape, child molestation,
thefts and employment screening. The Computer Voice Stress AnalyzerT
(CVSA@) is a voice-based investigative truth verification tool that is
now used by nearly 2,000 US law enforcement agencies.
For further information on the NACVSA, contact Diana Montoya at
888-358-5025 or email. For further information on the CVSA visit
CVSA1.com or call 561-798-6280.
Read more news from National Association of Computer Voice Stress
Analysts.
SOURCE National Association of Computer Voice Stress Analysts
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