CSAM & Predators - ICAC Interviews & Interrogations

InterviewS & InterrogationS - for

Investigators of ICAC and other Sex Offenses

Dr. Frank Kardasz,  MPA, Ed.D. revised September 16, 2022

Editor: Ava Gozo.

Disclaimer: This page not sponsored nor endorsed by anyone other than the author.   

Some of the following questions and information may be useful to those who investigate Internet crimes against children and sex offenses.

Background Information About the Person Being Interviewed

·    Obtain identification documents and passport.  Ask about current and former address, phone number(s), birthplace etc. (Examine passport for travel to sex-tourism destinations.)

• What other names have you used?
• Any scars, marks, tattoos?
• Education - particularly computer education?
• What mobile phones do you have and what are the phone numbers and passcodes?
  
• Any prior arrests? If yes, for what offenses?
• Registered sex offender? If yes, when, where and under what circumstances?
• What vehicle(s) do you own and/or operate?
• What weapons and firearms do you own?
• What religion do you follow and where do you worship?
  
• How would you describe your level of computer expertise: Beginner? Intermediate? Advanced?

Password Cracking

Note: Digital forensic investigators may be able to use password cracking dictionary attack software to access the offender’s device.   Offenders sometimes use common words or phrases from their personal experiences as passwords.  Some dictionary attack programs can be supplemented with additional words that can also be used to attempt to crack the password. Considering the possibility of a future forensic dictionary attack, the interviewer may want to ask the offender:

• Names of schools attended?
• Favorite saying or quotation? Favorite sports team?
• Names and nicknames of wife, children, best friend, dogs, cats and other pets?
• Mother’s maiden name? Names of streets where suspect has lived?

Family Situation

• Married? (get full information about spouse)
• Divorced? (get full information on all prior marriages)
• Girlfriends/boyfriends (get full info)
• Children (get full information on all children including those from prior marriages and girl friends’ children) 

Employment and Travel

• Where are you employed?
• Address, phone number of business
• What is your position and job description?
• How long have you been employed there? 
• Do you have Internet access there?
• Where did you work previously?
• What was your position and job description at the prior job?
• How long did you work there?
• Why did you leave that job?
• Did you have Internet access at your former employment?
• What foreign countries have you visited?
• Did you engage in any sex acts with minors there?

Hobbies, Volunteer Work

• Coach? Photographer? Babysitter?
• Youth group leader? Teacher?
• Religious activities? Counselor?

Sexual Preferences

• What are your sexual preferences?
• How would you describe your sexual preferences?
  
• Heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, other?
  
• Are you sexually attracted to minors?
• Where else do you find access to children?
• What sexual fetishes and paraphilias do you have?
• Do you use sexual aides?
• Do you use Viagra or an equivalent?
• What sexually transmitted diseases do you have or have had in the past?
  
• When and from whom did you contract the disease?
• What medication(s) do you take for the disease?

Usernames & Identifications

• What Internet Service Provider (ISP) do you use?
• What is your online profile?
• How do you pay for the account?
• What time of day or night are you usually online?
• Will you permit us to take over your screen name and assume your on-line identity?
• What user names and screen names do you use?
  

Passwords, Pass codes & Encryption

• What are all the passwords you use?
• Who else has knowledge of the passwords? 
•  Does you utilize encryption (Veracrypt, Truecrypt)?
• What type of encryption?
• What is the password for the encryption, and is there more than one password?
• Do you use Steganography?

Control, Knowledge & Device Ownership 

• Who uses the computer(s)?
• Does anyone else use your cell phone?
• During what hours of the day is the computer normally used? 
• From what locations do you use a computer? Home, business, public library, café, friend’s house? (Obtain addresses of all other locations from which the suspect computes)

Equipment & Devices

• How many and what brand of computers do you have?
• Cell phones? 
• Hard drives?
• Scanners? 
• Digital Cameras? 
• Zip Drives?
• Thumb Drives? 
• Tape Drives? 
• Recordable CD’s? DVD's? 
• Do you own or utilize a laptop computer? 
• Do you store any of your equipment or storage media in other locations? If yes, where?
• Where in your home do you use the computer? 
• Has the computer been serviced or repaired recently?
• If yes, who serviced the computer, when, where and why?
• Do you use a web camera? 
• Do you expose your genitals to minors while using your web cam?

Software

• What operating systems do you use? (Windows, Linux, UNIX, Apple & MAC) 
• What programs do you have for chatting?
• What programs do you have for images or movies?
• What programs do you have for encryption (Veracrypt, Truecrypt)? 
• What programs do you use for wiping or shredding data (CCleaner, Bleachbit)?

Internet

• What Internet Service Provider (ISP) is used to access Internet? 
• How long have you used this ISP?
• What is your ISP logon name and password?
• Why did you choose that name, what significance does it have?
• What type of communication system do you use to access the Internet? Analog phone line?
• Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Cable?
• What web browsers do you use? Firefox, TOR, Chrome, Brave, Safari, Edge
  
• Who is the registered subscriber and how is payment made?
• Do you have your own web site or home page? 
• What is the web page address?
• What Internet Service Provider (ISP) do you use for this service?
• What time of day do you normally log on to the Internet?
• What nicknames and screen names to you use and why did you choose these? 
• What e-mail services do you use? Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL? 
• Do you maintain an online profiles with images stored on-line? 
• Do you use Internet Relay Chat (IRC) or mIRC? 
• What is your ICQ number and password and who are your buddies?
• What newsgroups do you subscribe to? 
• What listservs do you subscribe to?

Gaming

• What online games do you play?
• What screen names do you use?
• Names of associates and friends in the networks?
• Names of the people you have met in person after gaming contact?
• Where and when did you meet and what did you do?

Peer-to-Peer

• Do you use any on-line services to share files?
• Do you use peer-to-peer services such as Ares, Phex, Kazaa, Bearshare, Limewire, Gigatribe, Morpheus, BitTorrent, QTorrent?
• Did you disable the file sharing feature or did you leave the program set to the default sharing option?
  
• What search terms do you use? (e.g: Pre-teen hard core (PTHC), r@ygold, Lolita)
• At what times of the day do you usually search?
• How many peer-to-peer files do you share?
• Do you have direct contact with people you share files with (Internet chat, e-mail, regular mail, face to face)?
• What collections to you have and what are the names of the minors depicted in those series?
• Who do you share files with most frequently?
• Do you trade stories of erotica in addition to images?
• What stories do you have?

File & Image Storage

• What images and information are stored on your computer?
• Where else do you store pornographic images and where are these devices? (floppy disk, CD, tape, cell phone, off-site storage at a web site or on someone else’s server).
• What cloud storage services do you use (Dropbox, ICloud, OneDrive)?
• Do you categorize your computer image files by the age of the person in the image?
• Do you categorize your computer image files according to the sex acts being performed?
• How are your images and movie files stored? JPEG, GIF, TIFF, Bitmap, PNG, Video formats?
• How do you trade images and movies with others? 
• Do you have back-up files?
• Where are the backup's kept?
• What cloud services do you use?
• Did you know that even after users believe that they have deleted images from a computer the images will often remain on the computer?
• Do you know what a cache file is?
• How would you describe a cache file? 
• Do you know what unallocated space is?
• How would you describe unallocated space?

Placing the Suspect Behind the Device

• You are the only user of the computer or device, is that correct?
• If No - Who are the other users? (name, address, phone...) and where are they now?
• You are the only one who knows your passwords, is that correct?
• If No - Who are the other users? (name, address, phone...) Where are they now?
• You are the only person who uses the screen name _, correct?
• If No - Who are the other users? (name, address, phone...) Where are they now? 

Taking over the Suspects Online Identity 

• Will you allow us to take over your screen names, e-mail names and other web identities?
• Will you sign a consent form to permit us to take over your screen names and other identities?
• What are the screen names of your associates on-line?
• Among your on-line friends, who are the most prolific high-volume traders of unlawful images that you communicate with?
• What are the passwords?

Adult (lawful) Pornography

Note: Asking questions about legal adult pornography sometimes allows the interviewer to later make a logical transition to asking about the unlawful images.

Interviewers’ Introduction to the Topic of Lawful Adult Pornography

There are millions of adult pornography sites on the Internet.  Under various US case laws, much adult pornography is not criminal.  Millions of people view adult pornography and the right to do that is protected under the First Amendment to the US Constitution.

• Are we going to find any adult pornography on your computer?
• How often do you view adult pornography on the Internet?
• How many pornographic pay sites do you belong to?
• What are the names of the sites?
• Do you have any adult pornography stored on your computer, floppy diskettes or other media?
• What percentage of your pornographic image collections depict adults only?
• Estimate how many images of adult pornography you think there are on the Internet.
• Do you masturbate to the images?
• How often do you masturbate?
• Do you think that someone who enjoys adult pornography will automatically begin to start also enjoying illegal child pornography?

Child Erotica & Collectors

• Do you keep children's toys?
• Do you keep children's clothing?
• Do you keep children's undergarments?
• Do you have images of children nude?
• Do you have paintings of children?
• Do you keep non-sexual photographs of children?
• Do you keep pictures from printed advertisements of children wearing underwear?
• What television programs do you enjoy most?
• What computer games do you play?
• What kinds of collections do you keep?
• What erotic books have you read?
• Have you ever written stories about your sexual activities?
• Where are those stories now? (Note: collect the stories to help prove intent)
• Have you written stories about your sexual fantasies?
• Do you trade stories and information about your sex life and fantasies with others?
• Who are the other people?
• What child modeling sites do you visit on the Internet.

Unlawful Images - Child Pornography & Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)

Note: If your initial investigation involves only a CSAM offense, remain open to the possibility that the person is also a hands-on, contact offender.  During your interview the person may reveal additional information leading to a new investigation for previously unreported contact offenses. Assume that the person whom you are investigating for CSAM is also a contact, "hands-on" offender until you prove otherwise.

In your discussion with the subject, avoid a comparative minimization of the CSAM offense by saying something like, "We are only investigating you for the images, it's not like you are being accused of molesting anyone." If you make such a statement, the suspect may then be reluctant to confess to additional offenses and such a statement may close the door to a future admission for contact offenses.

Awareness About What is Lawful and What is Unlawful

Note: The average person does not know the strict legal definitions and differences between lawful and unlawful images.  When asked, "How would you define child pornography?" some people will incorrectly state that unlawful images include simple child nudity or "baby in the bathtub" images. 

• It may be helpful for the interviewer to have the definitions from the applicable state or federal law handy to help the interviewee understand the definition.  Although ignorance of a law is no excuse, you may not want someone to confess to possessing images that are later determined to be lawful.

Find the US Code definition “child pornography” here. 18-2256: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2256

Some state’s laws do not use the words “child pornography.”  Arizona for example uses “…a minor is engaged in “exploitive exhibition” or other “sexual conduct.” 

Find the Arizona definition here: ARS 13-3553. https://www.azleg.gov/viewdocument/?docName=https://www.azleg.gov/ars/13/03551.htm

• Do you have illegal images of child pornography or child sexual abuse material in the computer now?   Describe the images. 
• Do you have illegal images of child pornography or child sexual abuse material on any storage media?   Describe the images.
• Do you have printed images of illegal child pornography or child sexual abuse material?  Describe the images.
• Have you had images of illegal child pornography or child sexual abuse material in the computer previously? Describe the images.
• Estimate how many of your collected images contain children? 
• How do you get the images?
• Where do you store these images (home, office, rented storage locker, off-site computer storage)?
• How many of these images do you currently have saved to your computer hard drive, floppy diskettes, off-site storage or other media?
• What search engines do you use? Google? Bing? Duck Duck Go?
• What search terms do you use to find images?
• What web sites do you visit? 
• Have you searched Pre-teen or Lolita sites for sexual images? 
• Did you show any of the child pornography images to anyone else?
• How do you hide the images from others? 
• Is your wife/girlfriend aware that you have child pornography?
• Did you delete any of these images from your computer, floppy diskettes or other media?
• How old do you think the children are in these images?
• Do you masturbate to the images?
• How often do you masturbate to the images?
• What kinds of images make you the most sexually aroused?
• Do you have printed out images of minors involved in sex acts anywhere?
• Where are the images now?
• Who else to you trade images with? 
• Do you sell or trade images and movie files? (trafficking)
• What form(s) of payment to you use to collect from those you sell images or movies to?
• What do you do with the money you collect from those you sell images or movies to?
• Who do you sell images to?
• What do you think should happen to someone who possesses illegal child pornography?
• What do you think should happen to someone who creates child pornography while sexually victimizing a minor?
• What message would you like us to give to the actual victims of child pornography?

Combating the Publisher Defense

• Are you a published author or writer?
• What have you published?
• What subjects do you write about?
• How do you research the subjects you write about?
• Where were your works published?
• Were you paid for the publication?
• How much were you paid?
• Did your report your earnings to the Internal Revenue Service?
• Who is the editor and publisher for your publication(s)?
• Were you a free-lance submitter or are you under contract with the publisher?
• Who are you under contract with and what are the terms of the contract?

Combating the Researcher Defense

• Are you a researcher?
• Where do you or did you go to school and what research courses did you take?
• What degree are you seeking?
• Who is your instructor?
• Who can verify that you are a researcher?
  
• Who is on your research committee?
• Describe the research methods that you are using.
• Did you conduct a literature review? If yes, may I see the literature review?
• What is the hypothesis of your research?
• When did you begin this research?
• Where did you record the results of your other research on this subject?
• Did your school provide you with permission to conduct research on human subjects? 
• If yes, was the permission written?
• If yes, may I see the written permission?
• When will you finish the research? 
• Did you attend any research methods courses?
• Where will your research be published?
• Who is your publisher? 
• Have you conducted research in the past? 
• If yes, where is it published?

Chat

• What chat rooms do you visit?
• What screen names do you use in chat rooms?
• Who do you chat with and what do you chat about?
• What days of the week and what times of the day do you chat?
• Do you visit chat rooms where you know that minors might be discussing sex?
• Do you play games on-line so that you can meet minors there?
• What online games do you play?
• Have you met any of the players in-person?
• What sex acts did you participate in after you met?

Note: In undercover luring cases, the interrogator may choose not initially tell the suspect that an undercover officer was playing the role of a minor.  One tactic is to let the suspect believe that he was chatting with an actual child.

Social Network Sites/Games

• What social networking or dating sites do you use?  
• Partial list: Facebook, Whisper, KIK, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Tik Tok, Badoo, Craigslist, Snapchat, Chat-Avenue, Dittytalk,  Yo Live, Friendsfusion, Friendster, Hi5, Intellectconnect, IRC, Interracialsingles, Livejournal, Myspace, Myyearbook, Ning, Prisonpenpals, Studybreakers, Tagged, Xanga, Zogo, Twitter, Linkedin, Clubhouse, Pokeman Go, Wizard 101, Frog. 
• What screen names do you use at the sites?
• Who are your closest friends on the sites?
• Have you met any of them in person?
• When we contact the friends listed on your social networking site(s), what will they tell us about you?
• What email addresses do you use to register at the sites?
• Do you use credit card services to purchase membership?
• What credit card do you use?
• Have you met in person with people you first encountered at a social networking site?
• Would you like to write an apology letter to any of the minors?

Defusing an Entrapment Defense

• Can you remember back to the first time you imagined having sex with a minor? Tell me about that.
• As an adult, you continued to have thoughts about sex with minors?
• As an adult, how many minors have you contacted on the Internet and chatted with?
• Did you chat about sex with them?
• In this case, when you first introduced the idea of sexual contact with the child you contacted on the Internet, what was his/her reaction?
• How old did he/she say he/she was?
• In this case, approximately how long ago was it that you first introduced the idea of sex to the child? 
• Did the child resist your offer of sex?
• Did anyone force you to meet with the minor?
• As an adult, how many other times have you met with a minor and engaged in sex?
• What are the details of those meetings?

Defusing the "Guidance Counselor" Luring/Enticement Defense

Note: Persons accused of luring/enticement offenses will sometimes claim that they wanted to meet with the victim for the purpose of counseling.  Some of the accused are in fact credentialed counselors who are also sex offenders.  Others are only pretending to be counselors.  Consider the following questions to establish or discredit their counseling credentials.

• How long have you been counseling youth?
• Where did you train to become a counselor?
• What specific books have you studied about counseling techniques?
  
• Who were your instructors in counseling training and what are their names and contact information?
  
• What counseling degrees or certifications do you hold? From what institutions? Will you sign a release so that we can obtain proof of your trainings and certifications?
• What counseling organizations are you affiliated with? Where can I confirm your affiliations?
  
• How many youth have you counseled? What are their names and how can we contact them?
• When you were online with the victim, what counseling advice did you give the victim?

Luring/Enticement

• What screen name(s) do you use?
• When did you first have Internet contact with (victim or UC)?
• How long did you chat with (victim or UC)?
• How many Internet conversations would you estimate that you had with (victim or UC)?
• What chat room were you in?
• Is there a lot of discussion about sex in that chat room? 
• How old is (victim or UC)?
• What gender is (victim or UC)?
• Where does (victim or UC) live? 
• If you had not been stopped, you would have had sex with the minor is that correct?
• What sex acts did you plan to have?
• Where did you plan to have sex?
• Were you going to use birth control?
• What form of birth control?
• Were you using any protection from sexually transmitted diseases?
• What form of protection? 
• How far did you travel to meet with the minor?
• Did you have any other business in the vicinity of the meeting place? 
• Did you bring gifts, money, toys to the meeting?
• What gifts, how much money, what toys?
• Did you ever send gifts, money or toys to a minor whom you met on the Internet? 
• (If the suspect is remorseful) Would you like to write an apology to the minors involved to give everyone closure?
• What message would you like us to give to the victim?
• What do you think should happen to someone who lures or entices a minor for sex?

Identifying the Exploited Minors in the Images

• Who are the minors in the images?
• Where are they now?
• Who took the pictures?
• When and where were the pictures taken? 
• Have you taken pictures or movies of minors engaged in sex acts?
• (If the suspect is remorseful) Would you like to write an apology to the minors in the pictures to give everyone closure?

Offender Sub-Culture

• What are some of the search terms and phrases you use to find illegal child pornography?
• What does the term “Lolita” mean to you?
• What does PTHC mean? (Pre-teen hard core)
• What does the term “pre-teen” mean?
• What do the terms “young” and “younger” mean?
• What does it mean to “cyber”?
• What is NAMBLA? (North American Man-Boy Love Association)

Personality Disorder 

• Have you ever been diagnosed with a personality disorder or mental illness?
•     If yes, what disorder, when, where, and who diagnosed?
•     What medications have you taken or are you taking now for the illness?

Pedophile

DSM Definition of Pedophilic Disorder

The title, “pedophile” is sometimes incorrectly used when referring to possessors of unlawful images and luring/enticement suspects.  Pedophile is a psychological disorder.  It is not unlawful to be a pedophile.  A pedophile becomes unlawful only when the person acts contrary to the law.  

The American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic andStatistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (2013) (DSM-IV-TR) Diagnostic Criteria for Pedophilia 302.2 (F65.4) page 697 are:

A. Over a period of at least six months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children (generally age 13 years or younger);

B. The individual has acted on these sexual urges, or the sexual urges or fantasies cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty;

C. The individual is at least age 16 years and at least 5 years older than the child or children in Criterion A.

Note: Does not include an individual in late adolescence involved in an ongoing sexual relationship with a 12 or 13-year-old.

Consider asking following questions related to Pedophilic Disorder:

• Over a period of at least six months, have you had recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children (generally age 13 years or younger)?
• Have you acted on these sexual urges? What have you done?
• Have the fantasies caused marked distress or interpersonal difficulty?  Describe the distress or difficulties?
• Are you at least five years older than the child or children who are the subjects of your fantasies, urges or behaviors?

Prior Hands-On, Contact Offenses 

• Tell me about the children you have touched.
• While you were an adult, how many minors have you had sexual contact with?
• What are their names? 
• How old were you when it happened?
• How old were they when it happened?
• How old are they now? 
• Where did these incidents happen?
• Where are they now?
• When did these incidents happen?
• How old were the minors when the offenses occurred? 
•  (If the suspect is remorseful) Would you like to write an apology to the minors in the pictures to give everyone closure? 
•  Have you ever formed a relationship with an adult who had children so that you could have sex with that persons children? 
• Who was that adult and who were the children?
• Do you fantasize sexually about pre-pubescent children? 
•  (If yes) For how long have you had such fantasies?
• Are you a pedophile?
• Have you ever undergone treatment or counseling for your sexual preferences?

Overseas Travel 

• Have you been to other countries?
  
• Which countries have you been to?
• What cities did you visit?
• What hotels did you stay in?
• What bars did you visit? 
• What other locations did you visit?
• When did you go to those countries?
• Did you have contact with minors while you were there?
• Who were the children that you met?
• What are their full names and addresses? 
• What travel service(s) did you use? 
• How did you learn about these travel services?
• Were you part of a travel/tour group?
• Who did you travel with?
• Were these trips made for the purpose of meeting children?
• Did you participate in sex acts with minors? 
• Were your sex acts recorded, photographed or videotaped? 
• Where are those images now? 
• May I see your passport? (Record the information about travel dates and locations)

Polygraph

• Is everything you told me truthful?
• Would you take a polygraph to verify your truthfulness?
• How do you think the polygraph test would turn out?

Possible Indicator of Deception

• What do you think should happen to a person who commits this offense? 
• If the suspect believes an offender should receive counseling or lenient sentencing it may be an indicator of deception because many people believe criminals should be punished.

Other Personal Information

• Are you in generally good health? 
• Do you have a heart condition? 
• Do you take testosterone? 
• Do you have erectile dysfunction?
• Are you presently under the care of a psychiatrist or psychologist?
• What is the name of your psychiatrist or psychologist?
• When did you last visit a psychiatrist or psychologist?
• Are you taking any medications prescribed by the psychiatrist or psychologist?
• What medication(s) are you taking?
• Who is the doctor that prescribed the medication(s)? 
• Do you ever take your medications and also simultaneously drink alcohol, smoke marijuana or take other drugs?
• What effect do the drugs have on your thoughts about sex? 
• What is a pedophile?
• Would you call yourself a pedophile?
• Are you a sex addict?
• When you are released, do you think that you will continue to fantasize about sex with minors?
• When you are released, will you try to contact minors so that you can have sex with them? 
• Is your penis circumcised or uncircumcised? (This may be important information if the suspect is an actor in unlawful images)
• What tattoos do you have and where are they located? (Photograph suspects tattoos)
  

Follow-Up Information Sometimes Useful for Later Locating an Absconder 

• Parents names, locations and phone numbers
• Brothers, sisters, cousins names locations and phone numbers 
• Former spouses/girlfriends names, locations and phone numbers
• Best friends names, locations and phone numbers?
• Prominent facial, physical or voice characteristics. 
• Tattoo’s scars & birthmarks. (photograph them) 
• Does the suspect wear glasses? (Take a photo of suspect with and without glasses)
• Medical conditions requiring ongoing treatment?
• What medications do you take?
• Are you a veteran of the Armed Forces? 
• Place of birth; city and, state 
• Former places of residence. 
• What foreign countries have you visited? 
• What job skills to you have? 
• What hobbies do you have? 
• Do you own any firearms or other weapons? 
• What cars to you own or have access to?

Closing

• What other questions do you think I should have asked you?  
• Have you been truthful throughout this entire interview?
• Are there any of your answers that you now want to change?
  
• Were any threats made to you regarding this interview?
• What do you think about the size of this interview room? Is it too small?
• What about the temperature in this interview room? Is it too hot? Too cold?
• What else would you like to tell us?
• This is the time to get this all over with by telling me about everything that has been bothering you.

One Possible Approach…

Interviewer: I speak to people like you every day.  Your situation is not unusual nor strange to me. Many of the people I talk to are troubled because they have to live with secrets that they are embarrassed to tell.  For some people, it is a relief to get the information off of their minds and to tell me their stories.

We have some information about you and we will continue our investigation.  Computers and the Internet hold a lot of interesting information about people.  Our computer forensics examiners are still busy conducting research on your case. Other investigators may contact friends, relatives, children, neighbors and employers to gather information about your activities.  It will just be a matter of time until we have all of the information that we need to find the truth.

This might be a good time to move forward and to get this off of your mind - are you ready to tell me more?

(If not) Here is my name and work phone number. When you are ready to tell me the whole story – call.

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• Were you threatened or intimidated during this interview?
• Were any promises made to you before this interview?
• Thank you for your cooperation.
  

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LINKS TO VIDEOS & INFORMATION RE: INTERVIEWS/INTERROGATIONS

Sex Offender Interviews

Salter, A.C. (1996). Sex, Lies, and Sex Offenders - Part 1 - Protect your children from dangerous people! Listening to Sex Offenders  Part One. Eastern Kentucky University Television. [Video]. 32 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sEqWlJbEX4

• Civilian Interviews with convicted sex offenders. Offenders discuss their tactics and motives.

Sex Offender Interviews

Salter, A.C. (1996). Sex, Lies, and Sex Offenders - Part 2 -  Listening to Sex Offenders  Part Two: Sadistic vs. Non-Sadistic Sex Offenders. [Video]. 42 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwGVuZ54Eyg

• Civilian Interviews with convicted sex offenders. Offenders discuss their tactics and motives.

Sex Offender Interviews

Pujarze. (n.d.). A Psychopathic Sex Offender - An interview with a real psychopath - Disturbing!. [Video]. 11 min. From a video series entitled: Truth, Lies and Sex Offenders & Sadistic vs. non-Sadistic Sex Offenders, created by Dr. Anna Salter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7SYdi36D3g

• Civilian psych. interviews: Convicted offender discusses his manipulation tactics and mental state.

Other Offenders

Travis Guiney. (n.d.). Effective Interrogation Technique 1 3. [Video]. 14 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDt2Kez7WZc

• Interrogation and commentary including homicide confessions.

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Chris Watts

Crime Vault. (February 15, 2019). Chris Watts FULL 2nd police interview (with timeline) lie detector test and confession 8-15-18. [Video] 6 hours 57 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCHVIvXNOck

• USA - Police interrogation and polygraph test. Suspect confesses to his father and then to the police. Killed his wife and two children.
• 4 hours 49 minutes: Watts confesses, first to his Father and then to detectives.

Chris Watts

JCS - Criminal Psychology. (January 29, 2019). The Case of Chris Watts - Part 3 - The Confession. [Video]. 30 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS3k_Inm45Q

• USA - Police interrogation using a variation of interview techniques: social exchange, futility, dossier, ego-up, cut-off, how and why solution, alternative question.

Chris Watts

JCS - Criminal Psychology. (January 17, 2019). The Case of Chris Watts - pt. 1. [Video]. 21 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfg861hO-Ag

• Denver Channel 7 news report about the situation including television interviews with Watts.

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R. Kelly

CBS. (March 6, 2019). R. Kelly was "unhinged" in interview with Gayle King. [Video, 12 min. 35 seconds]. https://youtu.be/pafJHx-o21k

• R. Kelly Interview with Gayle King regarding alleged sex offenses.

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Philip Markoff

Boston Phoenix.(n.d.). Craigslist Killer: Philip Markoff interviewed by Boston Police. [Video]. 48 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUrYtvqZcjs

• USA. Police interview of Philip Markoff, accused of two armed robberies and a murder of women he met through Craigslist erotic services sections. Markoff subsequently committed suicide while awaiting trial.
• 42 minutes: Detective builds possible themes - possible accident.
• 44 minutes: Detective: "The girl in the hotel room that was tied up and robbed...in the Westin, that's her story, were you in the room that night?" Markoff (curious non-denial of being in the room): "I didn't tie her up."
• Confession not obtained.
  

Philip Markoff

Wikipedia page about Markoff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Markoff

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Michael D. Bailey

Friends of Humanity. (February 11, 2019). Interrogation of 66-year-old that stalked a 3-year-old around store pleasing himself. [Video]. 53 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW4kVKSg_TU

• USA. Police interrogation of Michael D. Bailey accused of masturbating.

Michael D. Bailey

Rob Hanson. (May 12, 2013). Michael D Bailey Police Interrogation Part 2. [Video]. 19 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2aX1Pow4po

• USA. Police interrogation continuation of offender Michael D. Bailey.

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Nickolas Cruz

Sun Sentinel. (August 9, 2018). FULL VIDEO: Nikolas Cruz interrogation after Parkland school shooting. [Video]. 10 hrs. 22 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob77T58HeIo
USA. Police interrogation. 2018 Interrogation of 19 year old Nikolas Cruz - killer of 17 people at Parkland School in Florida.

• Portions of the video are missing.
• Miranda warnings at 36 minutes.
• 51 minutes: Cruz discusses demons and hearing voices "Burn, kill, destroy"  "kill animals".

Nickolas Cruz

Wikipedia page regarding Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting#Suspect

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Lee Rodarte

JCS - Criminal Psychology. (February 11, 2020). The Case of Lee Rodarte. [Video]. 39 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0H6xYwMQnk

• USA. Police interrogation and narration by an unidentified pseudo-psychologist commentary about accused murderer Lee Rodarte - Florida, USA.

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Stephen McDaniel

JCS - Criminal Psychology. (June 6, 2020). [Video]. 42 min. The Bizarre Case of Stephen McDaniel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkRjIq8Cp2A

• USA. Police interrogation and commentary by an unidentified narrator about the Lauren Gidding homicide with suspect Stephen McDaniel in Georgia.

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Jodi Arias

JCS - Criminal Psychology. (December 24, 2020). [Video]. 2 hours 11 min. Wrath of Jodi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N274EurzpAA

• USA. Police interrogation and commentary by an unidentified narrator about Jodi Arias who was subsequently convicted of stabbing and shooting her boyfriend in Arizona.
  

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Michael Bever

World War 2 Brief History's. (October 19, 2018). CRAZY interrogation most evil child in history, gripping FBI interrogation. [Video]. 1 hr. 41 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i6zNgBxHbQ

• USA. Police interrogation of homicide suspect Michael Bever, who along with his brother Robert stabbed family members.

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Jeffrey Dahmer

Inside Edition. (November 27, 2018).  Inside the Mind of Jeffrey Dahmer: Serial Killer’s Chilling Jailhouse Interview. [Video]. 17 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWjYsxaBjBI

• USA. Television reporter interview of prisoner and convict Jeffrey Dahmer who murdered 17 men and boys.

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Richard Ramirez

Inside Edition. (February 22, 2020). How This Serial Killer Felt About His Crimes on Death Row. [Video]. 5 min.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xqZ9T7o-Hg

• USA. Television reporter interview and recap of serial killer Richard Ramirez.
  

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Elizabeth Wettlaufer

CBC News. (June 2, 2017). Elizabeth Wettlaufer's 2016 full confession to police. [Video]. 2 hours 34 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3QxsNCg6uQ

• Canada - Police interrogation. Former Canadian registered nurse describes serial killing patients who were in her care.

Elizabeth Wettlaufer

Wikipedia web page regarding Elizabeth Wettlaufer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Wettlaufer

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Russell Williams

ABC News. (October 21, 2010). Serial Killer Convicted. [Video]. 7 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Muuc60bAY0

• Canada - Interrogation of Russell Williams with background information on the case.

Russell Williams

The Mob Reporter. (n.d.). Col. Russell Williams - Brilliant police interrogation and confession. [Video]. 2 hr. 39 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsLbDzkIy3A

• Canada - Police interrogation of homicide suspect and sex offender Russell Williams.
  

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Adele Sorella

JCS - Criminal Psychology. (March 5, 2020). The Case of Ms. Sorella. [Video]. 17 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPJrTDcUfxM

• Canada - Police interrogation and commentary by an unidentified narrator about accused Canadian murderer Adele Sorella.
• Discussion of spousal revenge filicide. Includes interrogation technique that likely would not be acceptable under current US case law - In Canada, interrogation questions may continue even after suspect requests attorney.

Adele Sorella

Abboud, E. (November 12, 2018). Witness describes crime scene at Laval home as Adele Sorella's 1st-degree murder trial gets underway. CBC.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/witness-describes-crime-scene-at-laval-home-as-adele-sorella-s-1st-degree-murder-trial-gets-underway-1.4902028

• Canada - Further details about Adele Sorella.

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Andrew Watson

MyKawartha. (n.d.). Andrew Watson Interrogation. [Video]. 3 hr. 34 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWTXLWVFc-U

• Canada - Police interrogation of 76-year-old Andrew Watson who was subsequently convicted of killing 74-year-old Lise Fredette. No confession. 

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Michael Burnside Suicide

• Girlfriend Hephzibah Olivia Lord was wrongly accused of murdering Michael Burnside by Dallas PD Detective Dwayne Thompson.
  

Social Crime - Social & Criminal Psychology. (n.d.). When an Interrogation goes WRONG...[Video]. 26 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmW1mDlS2zI 

• Lord subsequently sued investigator Thompson for mental/psychological-depression and emotional distress. She was awarded $798,701. 

Verdict Search. (January 17, 2014). Hephzibah Olivia Lord v. Dwayne Thompson, No. 3:11-cv-3241-M. https://verdictsearch.com/verdict/detective-lied-to-portray-death-as-homicide-plaintiff-alleged/ 

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Other Offenders

Top 5 Unknowns. (December 31, 2018). 5 Most SCARY Police Interrogation of 2018 you NEED To Watch. [Video]. 11 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svFFGKGax8w

• Excerpts from various interrogations, prisoners trying to escape interrogation room.

Other Offenders

Top 5 Unknowns. (June 10, 2017). 5 HEART RACING Situations That Occurred In POLICE INTERROGATION Rooms! [Video]. 4 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vmw5X2bOi0&list=WL&index=20

• Excerpts from interview rooms. Strange offender behavior and escape attempts and and a suicide. Detective's comment after offender suicide: "Nobody shook (searched) him."  

 Other Offenders

Dark Matter. (March 20, 2019). 4 Extremely Disturbing Interviews with Evil People. [Video]. 20 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0cGxikOHPM

• Interviews and interrogations with inmates. Angela Simpson, Manuel Vela, Ed Kemper, "Gerald".

 Other Offenders

Dark Matter. (June 11, 2019). 4 Extremely Disturbing Interviews with Evil People #2. [Video]. 16 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3M4ASRZiVs

• Interviews and interrogations. Kevin Davis, Mitchell Blair, Liam McAstney Kevin Ray Underwood.

Collections of Various Interviews

Assorted videos featuring interrogations of suspects in a variety of crimes. Mind of a Criminal. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2oyGvGVpag7aRvEbvFGw3g

Assorted videos featuring interrogations of suspects in a variety of crimes. Red Tree Crime.
https://www.youtube.com/c/RedTreeCrime/videos

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Postscript - Detectives,  Investigators,  Special Agents,  Attorneys and Staff - for your emotional well-being...

SHIFT Wellness 

Supporting Heroes in Mental Health Foundational Training (SHIFT) is a non-profit organization with funding from the U.S. Department of Justice.  With a team made up of mental health professionals and Internet Crimes Against Children Commanders, SHIFT aims to help exposed individuals and supporting mental health professionals work together to mitigate the negative effects of viewing child abuse images.

• Learn more and avail yourself of their services at the following web site: SHIFT Wellness
  

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