Post by albion on May 13, 2018 4:31:24 GMT
Did JJD go to Goleta, Ventura, Oxnard maybe to start up the lie detector business with Atwood whom was also a ex cop?
Colleen Cason mentioned in her series 'The Silent Witness' that Atwood resigned his Sheriff's deputy job in 1979 and he and a partner started the lie detector business. Cason never mentions who Atwood's partner was.
Pellicano's lie detectors were not accepted by his peers.
I always remember his threat to remind some of his clients why they were "afraid of the night."
One interesting point about Pellicano was that prior to coming to California, he had been on the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission.
"His reputation enabled him to charge a $25,000 retainer, to live in a million-dollar canyon-view home in suburban Ventura County an hour and a half drive from his work,"
"He was also a pallbearer at the eider DeLucia’s 1972 funeral and named DeLucia Jr. the godfather of one of his daughters. He claimed that the younger DeLucia “was just like any guy in the neighborhood.” From then on he both denied and promoted his mob connections as it served his purposes. The governor of Illinois took the loan seriously enough, however, to force Pellicano to resign from a state law enforcement advisory board."
"The defendant uses a device known as a psychological stress evaluator (PSE) in conducting detection-of-deception examinations. A PSE is an instrument which detects, measures and graphically displays certain stress-related components of the human voice. (A. Moenssens & F. Inbau, Scientific Evidence in Criminal Cases 638 (2d ed. 1978).) A PSE records microtremors or what the manufacturer *134 of one brand calls "guilt-revealing sound variations" in a person's voice which, according to its proponents, enable an examiner to discern the stress a person is under. From that data, an examiner is purportedly able to tell whether a person is telling the truth."
"Mr. Cestero also admitted to putting together computer boxes for Telesleuth, selling fifty of those boxes and assisting Mr. Pelllicano in Telesleuth presentations to law enforcement--including the Ventura County Sheriff's department as well the Orange County District Attorney's office. But when Mr. Braun asked if Mr. Cestero ever became aware of any wiretapping by Mr. Pellicano, the answer was an unequivocal "no.""
"In 1993, a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times exposed Pellicano’s alleged Mob links in Illinois and the way he sometimes physically intimidated those he investigated; he promised clients that he would “make their tormentors ‘remember why they’re afraid of the dark.’"