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Former federal polygraph examiners clear up misconceptions in detecting deception
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Von Jennings works in his Gainesville office Monday, May 20, 2019. He and business partner Richard Rackleff are former federal polygraph examiners who now run Northeast Georgia Polygraph Services on McEver Road. For the past 21 years, they've performed polygraph exams for business and legal purposes. - photo by Scott Rogers
Richard Rackleff checked his messages in late 1996 and saw he had 138, with seemingly every media outlet in the country wanting an interview.He had just recently performed one of the most high-profile polygraph examinations: Richard Jewell, a former security guard who was falsely accused of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing.