SERIAL KILLER'S APPRENTICE, THE by RENNER JAMES

Author:RENNER, JAMES [RENNER, JAMES]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781598510768
Publisher: Gray and Company, Publishers
Published: 2012-02-21T00:00:00+00:00

In Kohanski’s professional opinion, the results of questions 1 and 4 were inconclusive. On all the other questions, he found “minor deception.” He told Sergeant Gray that Kevin seemed fatigued and should rest before being questioned again. So Gray let Kevin sleep. But the interrogation wasn’t over.

In the early afternoon, Gray treated Kevin to lunch at a nearby Pizza Hut. They split a pepperoni pie and talked about college life. When they got back, Kevin returned to the polygraph room with Kohanski and took two more tests. Kohanski left the room this time to talk to Sergeant Gray.

He told Gray that Kevin showed deception on most of the questions dealing with Lisa’s murder. Kohanski had even confronted Kevin about this, and Kevin had started crying. “I didn’t do it,” Kevin had said. Gray returned to the room to talk to his suspect.

“I told Kevin that I had enjoyed the time with him but that it had been a long day and that I had to get back to the real world,” writes Gray in his notes. “I told Kevin he had to get back to the real world, too. I told him that until this was resolved he couldn’t go back to Shaker because everybody in Shaker would think of him as being a suspect. I told him he couldn’t go back until he told the truth. Kevin reacted. He looked me right in the eyes, and with tears welling up in his eyes and deep emotion in his voice, he said he could have told me he did it, spent a couple years in a hospital, then got on with his life. But, he said, ‘I’ve got to tell you the truth.’ ”

Then, according to Gray, Kevin said, “I am scared. I feel suicidal. I have nothing to live for.” He said he wanted to be hospitalized. Gray told Kevin he should call his parents, but Kevin called his doctor, instead. The doctor agreed to commit Kevin, but only if he talked to his parents, first, for insurance purposes. And so Kevin called home to discover that police had executed another search warrant there during his interrogation. His mother put Kevin in touch with their attorney, and the interview was over.

“Kevin, with tears in his eyes, asked if this meant I couldn’t visit him in the hospital,” Gray wrote in his report. “I simply told him that he needed to make those arrangements with his parents and attorney. He gave me a hug as we waited for the elevator.”

That night, Kevin was admitted into Laurelwood hospital, where he remained for two months.

At the urging of his lawyer, Kevin took another lie detector test, administered by renowned expert Bill Evans (who has been used by both prosecutors and defense lawyers). This time, Kevin passed. The method used by Shaker Heights had been “debunked” in 1982, according to Kevin’s attorney.

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Even with a “failed” polygraph test, the Shaker Heights police department could not get the prosecutor’s office to take their circumstantial case to a grand jury.

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