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Originally Posted by Mutt
Great quote if it's yours 'The innocent deny. Liars explain'. I think this is pretty true and you see it with criminals and even little kids. Over answering when accused is a pretty good tell that somebody is guilty of something. But if I was accused of some serious crime that I knew I was innocent of of course my first reaction would be 'Oh my god, this is crazy, I did not do this!' Then I would feel the need to explain how it was that I couldn't have done the crime.
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I read a book a while back where a journalist spend a full year in a Baltimore homicide division and followed the detectives on their cases. One of them explained to him that for the most part someone who is innocent and is arrested freaks out when they get in the interrogation room because they are innocent and are shitting themselves about being accused of something they didn't do. Meanwhile, a guilty person is usually calm and has an explanation for everything.