Saturday, February 27, 2016

Missing Persons and Past Tense Language: Jennifer Hicks, Suicide

Police report that Jennifer Hicks died as a result of a self inflicted gunshot.  She was likely involved in theft from her company.

Her ex husband indicated belief in her death, and did search in areas of which a body would be found.
His language did not reveal knowledge of theft (though he may have known this, or association with thieves) but belief that she would not be found alive.

There is something important to learn here.

Statement Analysis teaches that where one is expected, through situation and relational status, to speak of one missing in the present tense, with hope that the missing is alive.  When this is not heard, it is an indication that the subject (speaker) believes or even knows, the missing person is dead.

The teaching on this shows that there are factors in play, including how close one is to the missing, but also how long the person has been missing, and the natural conditions, including weather and location, will weigh upon language.

Yet there is something else here that is worth considering:

In this case it was an ex husband who not only referenced her as dead (and searched for her) but he did so in specifically referencing her in the positive, as a mother.

This is telling.

One may 'slip' into past tense for nefarious reasons (Casey Anthony did, caught herself, and corrected) but another may slip and even surprise himself with this.

This was in Clint Dunn's language when we spoke long ago.  He even commented on it, as upsetting as it was, as time and the circumstances of his beloved Hailey's status wore against his natural denial.

In the case of Jennifer Hicks, the ex husband, while thinking of her as a mother, still spoke of her in the past tense.

This is not a 'slip' as above, but to accept not only that the missing Jennifer was deceased, but to accept that their daughter would no longer have her mother.

Statement Analysis:  This is to say:  he had strong or certain belief that she would not be found alive.

This means that a new level of resistance is broken:   having to accept that the mother of my child is gone, or "my daughter will be motherless."

This is something that has natural resistance in life.

A certain level of denial is common for all of us and the denial is worn down by time, circumstances (freezing temperatures) and of any information disclosed or found.  This might have included the knowledge that Jennifer was involved in theft and may have felt that there was no way out and could not bear prison, or bear the thought that her daughter would see her own mother as a common thief.

The ex husband searched from the air.  We did not hear news reports of him trying to exploit the public, emotionally or financially, but we did hear the past tense references plainly, and in context:

not only as an ex wife, something one may accept, but as the mother of his child:  something far more difficult to accept.

In understanding the principle of past tense language in missing person cases, we must not only consider context, but proximity of the relationship:

Contextual Examples

Length of time missing
Weather conditions
Known associations
Known or suspected substance abuse issues
Mental health status
Family status (such as a teenaged runaway struggling at home0


Familiar Examples:  the strongest are at the top


Biological Mother has the greatest resistance to accept death
Biological Father is generally second, close behind
Estranged but biological parents, Spouses
Step parents that are close
Grand parents

Siblings and ex spouses
Friends
Teachers, Community, Co workers, etc

Even a very close step parent will accept death before a distant biological parent.  The tie is more powerful than what we might consider, especially when a parent is estranged.

Blood relations have stronger denial, overall, even with estrangement, than non-blood familiar relations.   In this classification, however, married spouses are considered as "one"; that is, very close, and quite resistance to accepting death.



Training in Statement Analysis

Peter Hyatt, trainer 
Learning the truth within a statement is an amazing thing.  

Getting to the truth, using it for the purpose of justice, and watching it work out before you in life is something special.  

Reading the feedback from those who, after completing their Statement Analysis training, were able to attend their first live "Go to Meeting" training, reveals the thrill and excitement they felt.  Challenged (and even a bit pushed) they dug and dug at a statement until they were in the victim's shoes, and they knew what happened, what caused her to use the words she used, and where the case would eventually go.  Receiving confirmation of their work from the investigating detective only heightened the satisfaction they felt.  

They were accurate in their analysis. 

They got to the truth.  They learned what happened, but also this:

It not only happened, coming from memory, but it happened when the subject said it happened, and not perseveration from her childhood, even though they were correct about her childhood, which, too, was confirmed in the investigation.  

It is not enough to say that something comes from memory.  Here they had a sexual assault victim who had made the same allegation years ago, while growing up.  

Was she perseverating on the past due to post trauma?  It happens and it happens more often than most of us realize.  

The challenge was answered and the words entered into, and grasped. 

The denials made by the alleged perpetrator were highly persuasive and his boldness in "I will polygraph!" further heightened the tension.  

At the conclusion of the day of training, the confirmation of their work was such:  the alleged perpetrator failed his polygraph.  

For the professional, this means deep satisfaction and traction for his or her career.  

Obtaining justice for society, or even for you company, is something that builds within us and is a great reward. 

Our training course, when successfully completed, allows you to enter into confidential monthly guided training covering an unpredictably wide spectrum of cases; from emergency analysis in a murder statement, to ongoing professional profiling for employment; the results come through work and dedication. 



Statement Analysis Course 


This course is taken at your home, and contains 100 page fact book, chapter tests, practice statements, submissions and a final examination.  The lectures are on MP3 (CD disc included) and the tuition covers the shipping, and 12 months of ongoing e support where your work can be continually checked, with assistance given.  Should you department or company require support in legal proceedings, court testimony will be made.  This support, for a full year, is invaluable.  

You learn the principles, how to apply them, and will not be granted certification until you understand them to the point of being able to easily explain them to the non trained ears. 

If you have a professional license, CEUs (Continuing Educational Units) are available accredited through the University of Maine.  

Many professionals have found that their department or company has reimbursed the tuition,  after paying, and  we allow for all professionals to make payments, via paypal, with no additional cost.    

The training is challenging and will prepare you for the ongoing training, profiling, anonymous author identification and the profiling, in particular, will not only have verification, but will be instrumental in interview strategy. 

We also hope to have some Video Lessons on Analytical Interviewing; the legally sound, non intrusive manner of which the most information is obtained, with the greatest possibilities of confessions and admissions, as Statement Analysis is applied to the interview, and the subject is brought to his or her own words.  Its impact is powerful enough to even be used by sales professionals, just as it is by psychology experts, doctors, therapists and counselors.  

In Human Resources, professionals can see the result of their work, often within a few months, which includes placing the right people for the right position (which affirmation is more long term) but also in screening out the deceptive, the exploitative, and the agenda driven; all of whom bring stress and trouble.  

Enroll today and begin to build your tomorrow, sharpening skills, strengthening your resume; all by getting to the truth.  

Friday, February 26, 2016

In The Trenches: Analysis When It Matters


Guided Monthly Training.

We may read with great interest the principles and applications of statement analysis, and even find cases of which we practice, but there is no substitute for spending some time "in the trenches" when it is on the line, and to your left, and to your right, are deeply intellectual and deeply invested analysts.

This is where the learning takes place, like no other, and is both exhausting and exhilarating.  It is many straight hours of concentration, that even the announcement of the coffee break is a relief.  Wanting to be complete, knowing that it is hour after hour, being stopped, having to focus again  and again on the same word, yet, when finally coming to completion, one may wish it would never end.

It is bittersweet.

There is much on the line, too, which changes the game.

It's to find out what "iron sharpening iron" is like; as those who sharpen you, from either side, are strong, powerful, and command the English language.

What is on the line is not just your full name and reputation, but truth.

Truth that may find itself, within hours, with scrutinizing eyes from defense attorneys to prosecutors, and eventually to someone who will have to defend the words.

It is thrilling and frightening, and it impacts and changes those who participate.  They are never the same and they never flippantly claim, "this means that!" or "he's lying!" again.  They've gone in too deeply for that, and they can only look away when someone else rushes.

They've seen some of the depths of human nature and it can really mess with you.  Just when you think you know something, human nature tells you, "you know nothing."

Yet, the analyst goes back to the drawing board and pushes with more force, still wishing it was over, while wanting it to never end.

This week, we began an entirely new group of budding analysts with two veterans in attendance who were both surprised and pleased to see the sharpness and eagerness in the meeting room.  The comments afterwards were telling:  there is some strong potential and if the strength can be harnessed, controlled and guided, there is going to be some powerful results.

I agree.

I agree.

I would not want to be a criminal and have them enter my words.

They're hooked.

You'd have to be crazy to let yourself get hooked.  

They'll need some time to process and recover.  The West Coast analysts are going to be something special.  

www.hyattanalysis.com  

Fake Hate: Analyzing Tweets

Alleged:   a dozen violent and racist white students harassed, threatened, used N-word and attacked three black coeds -- beating them badly, for no cause other than the color of their skin. 

CBS News, the politicians and the Daily News condemned the violence with the Albany college president decrying the 'constant' violence against blacks. 

Reality:

Wednesday  Albany police charged the three black women with assault, and charged two of them with filing a false police report about the racial violence.    

The 3 'victims' did not keep their stories straight, but if they had been successful, not only would they have made money through fame and law suits (theft) but they could have led to innocent white male college students being arrested and losing their educations.  

Liars destroy lives.   

Here is Asha Burwell's tweets.  She even had injuries.     

 “I can’t believe I just experienced what it’s like to be beaten because of the color of my skin.

What she 'can't believe' we should believe her, and not 'believe it' either. 
Note the passive language of "to be beaten" in spite of the intrusive nature of a physical assault.  

 “I begged for people to help us and instead of help they told us to "shut he f*ck up" and continuously hit us in the head.

Note the order of events above.  
Next note the "people" she "begged" for help.  This sounds as if it is a crowd watching (gender neutral) rather than the "12 white males" alleged by her in the police report.  The "people" refused to help "and continuously..." 

Another victim:  

"I got beat up by 20 people screaming racial slurs.  A whole bunch of guys started hitting me and my two friends."

Note that the first sentence, "I got beat up by 20 people" has the reliable pronoun and the perfect past tense verb, yet used the gender neutral term, "people" which later changed to "guys."  The structure of the first sentence, being strong, gives us insight into the subject's personality:  She is a habitual liar; one who fabricates reality, and one who will trouble society in ways far worse than this crime.  

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Jennifer Hicks' Body Found

Jennifer Hicks, 31, has been found dead.

No further information released.

We noted that her ex husband believed/knew she was deceased by his repeated past tense references.  The source of this knowledge and/or belief is not known.

Did he consider her suicidal?
Did he consider fatal associations?

He stated that she was not one to neglect their daughter.

He was consistent with this in his air searches.

Police stated that she was wanted for a crime of theft in excess of $10,000 value.

We await a statement.

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Screening for Violence in Job Applicants


In our Advanced Course, we get into some very specific strategies for hiring:  how to screen out those with an agenda other than employment and personal advancement.  Yet there is something else to carefully consider:

violence. 

About the last thing any company, business, or department needs is a violent person. 

What is the violent person like?

How can we discern violence in the language?

What if the person has changed his or her ways?  Can we know this?

When law enforcement hires one with poor impulse control, the consequences can be deadly; both literally and figuratively.  Often missed, however, is the personality traits beneath the surface; the need for relevance, respect and recognition; things all humans possess, yet when an imbalance exists, trouble is not far behind. 

It is a complex study but one in which Statement Analysis can successfully discern within the language.  

"My record is clear, though when I was young, I had some issues."

When an applicant wishes to conceal something in his background, the concealment is on his mind while speaking or writing. This is key and using analysis, we will pick up the sensitivities and either get answers from the statement itself, as we now are 'looking for something' specifically, or we will know where to focus questions.  

Violence:  Male or Female?

Males are more prone to violence, with their higher levels of testosterone.  Even in a self loathing society that chooses to believe that gender is a preference, science says otherwise. 

Crime victims, too, have an opinion.  

Females who are violent when young:

What is their attitude towards violence now?

Are they ashamed of their background, or do they embrace it?

The violent seek to impose their will upon others.  They enter the personal property space, or even the personal natural space, of another to impose their will upon the victim.  Many "violent" learn to adjust their means of coercion and will stop being physically violent and learn to use their forceful personality to get their way.  The element of violating one's property or personal space remains the same, but the means change.  The violation is verbal.  

Violence Decreases With Age

This is a true statistic and valuable for probation and prison, but not for companies.  Those who are no longer violent due to "aging out" retain the same personality traits in later years as they did in younger years. 

They do not do well with authority. 

They do not do well in Customer Service. 

They often have difficulty getting along with others and although may not resort to physical violence, the same forcefulness shows itself in other ways. 

Violence is Eradicated Through Education? 

By now you likely recognize that the concern for Human Resources is not that the 45 year old male manager is going to punch someone in the conference room. 

We are looking at an intelligent, educated and sophisticated use of violence that is no longer physically expressing itself, but verbally. 

We listen to the common expressions of life, and are able to identify those who are likely concealing a background that contains violence, as well as those who still pose the risk of violence. 

Due to natural restraints in life, including education, consequence, position, manners, society, (and so on), some will never resort to violence in a business setting:  but they will bully, and bully they do, in ways and means that are nothing like the school yard bully of yesteryear of whom cartoons showed only needed a quick rap to the chin to deflate him.  

These are well educated and successful violent people who never raise a fist.  Yet: 

They destroy careers.

They destroy lives. 

They destroy health. 

They destroy bottom lines. 

They can psychologically crumble someone with just words.  

They do not, so much, disagree with the victim's view point, they disagree with the victim's entire life and existence.  The violent's intent is to get his or her victim to question the victim's own right to life.  It is to utterly defeat, exhaustively eradicating any possible threat of advancement.  

How can this be so?

The difference may be difficult to describe, unless, that is, you have experienced corporate bullying.  The bully is a non violent violent person, and will destroy a bottom line if it means keeping his or her victim from getting credit.

Bullies, therefore, flourish in bureaucratic standings where no profit bottom line exists.  They thrive in settings where they can shout down, ridicule, embarrass, backstab and harm the victim, without the accountability of profit. 

In police departments, should a bully be promoted, a good idea, that is, one that may even facilitate justice, can be buried simply due to jealous ambition.  

Strong leaders 'hire up', that is, they seek to hire those who will eventually threaten to by-pass the position due to talent.  

State governments, like all bureaucracies,  are notorious for "hiring down", that is, upper management and middle management promoting those who will not threaten their own jobs.  These are the same people working on new policies to govern, and influence the interpretation and application of laws, standards, rules, and simply accepted practices that will impact your life, your children, and your pocketbook.  This is where tyranny may begin in small ways, but serve one purpose:  increase the authority of 

More and more polls show how Americans do not trust government any longer, reflecting just how exploitive, by nature, a bureaucratic structure can be and what happens when the ambitious rule, including those who are consistently deceptive about their agenda.  

 Those who prosper in State government would likely drown in the private sector as personal grudges, sabotage promotions and other such tactics eventually harm the for-profit company and the bully is removed, yet, the damage remains. 

The same bureaucratic system that is ripe for bullying and corruption, is the same system which tells the successful business owner not only that "you didn't build that!" but something far more ironic:

"You can't ask personal questions of your job applicants!"

The very same questions that the government can ask, you are not allowed to, lest you face "discrimination" allegations.  

This is similar to the irony of someone who demands no border protection and no guns, while living safely behind armed walls, for his or her children, but not ours. 

This is a form of contempt.  

If you say, "this person is much more important and has more threats", it matters little to the victim of violence, who believes his children are just as valuable as another's.  

They, the government at the top, have the luxury of hiring the best and brightest.  Even Hillary Clinton had (until the press noted it) her top 6 advisors:  White Males, while posing a very different agenda.  "They" can hire the best and brightest in order to get the best results, while imposing upon you, a far lesser standard.  

Phrases and Figures of Speech

In the profiling of a job applicant, we often flag the "figures of speech" that are commonly used by others, yet, when other traits arise, particularly the "non violent violent" (the sophisticated violent), they take on a new importance.  This is not for the Statement Analysis 101 crowd that says, "just tell me, are they lying or not!"

It takes time, effort, and patience, and eventually, confirmation will come.  

"I love you to pieces!" may have a very different meaning coming from you than to one who knows how to tear another to pieces, verbally, and perhaps, without common restraint, physically. 

To commit violence, one must enter the personal property and eventually, the personal space of another.  

Is it any surprise that the sophisticated violent (bully) knows how to cut right into the personal space of another, linguistically?

Sometimes, these are those with passive-aggressive personality types and the greater the intellect, the more they will use criticism, not to blunt an idea, but to get the victim to consider their own life as of lesser value.  

Hire this one and watch morale tank.  

Promote this one and prepare for the damage. 

Give authority to this one, and spend your energy defusing escalated situations that should never have escalated in the first place. 

Perhaps the single best place to identify a violent employee who has already been hired is in the area of jesting.  When he is joking around, he is choosing language that reveals him.  Note how often his phrases correlate to the invasion of another's human space.  These words may be related to sports, true enough, but if you have already identified him as one who is violent, but due to professional setting and age, his violence is linguistic and emotional, you may realize that the same phrases you use, not only have different meaning for him, but greater frequency.  

In women, it is not only rarer, but easier to spot linguistically, including she targets one gender more than the other.  Here, there is less comical or humorous or more passive aggressive, especially an insult that begins as a compliment; a signal of higher intelligence, deep personality resentment, and satisfaction at seeing pain inflicted upon another.  

Promote her and, depending upon the scope of authority, watch an increase in employees calling out sick, potential increases for medical insurance issues, and eventually, increased turnover.  Men, in particular, will be hesitant to report bullying by a female superior, but will, if opened up, use language of humiliation (rage, for example) and justification.  

Learn what Employee Questionnaires can do for your business, company or department.  

Hyatt Analysis Services.  


The Advanced Course is especially of value to those who are in the monthly guided training.  This is the confidential and practical analysis that is monthly, with sufficient processing time between intensities, that follows a sound foundation.  The course is not open to those without approved formal training.  The untrained, no matter how well read, who have not been formally trained and who have not had the opportunity to grow from working with other analysts in live trainings, will often bring discredit to the science from the temptation to rush to "black or white" hard conclusions.  The monthly training is needed to scrub this off, as they quickly learn, in just a few sessions, how complex human nature is, and how, although the principles are correct, the rush to draw a solid line failed them.  

Not only is there the risk for discrediting the science, the talented, but untrained often experience discouragement and the potential they posses goes unrealized.  It is "lose-lose."

There is no substitution for formal training, but it must include exposure to other analysts and exposure to the wide variants that human nature exhibits.  They must learn that with each principle, exceptions exist, and how, over time, they guide us to proper conclusions, and learn to not confuse the subjective with the objective.  

After all these years, I continue to learn new lessons.  Each month, I learn.  In the East Coast Training, I most always do not look at the statement until the training begins.  I go into it "cold" so as to challenge myself, and learn from others.  

Analysts bring in life experiences and knowledge I do not possess.  I am privileged to learn from them.  "Island" learning is a dead end.  Those with natural talent and lots of self taught reading, often do well in training; first they must overcome the overly conclusive practice, as well as accustom themselves to 'being wrong' more than a few times, but eventually, the talent meets with disciplines and...the results are something special.  

The guided monthly training is now offered in two distinct time zones, East Coast and West Coast.

With more UK attendees, we hope to schedule one for Europe in English.

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Jennifer Hicks Update

An arrest warrant for theft has been issued for missing 31 year old Jennifer Hicks.  The sheriff said there is no evidence of an abduction.  

Her ex husband described her very positively regarding one who would not leave her child; but also:

a.  referenced her in the past tense indicating belief or knowledge of death;
b.  searched for her aerial which would not be consistent with fugitive. 

This conflicting view is incomplete; only incomplete for us, until we understand what happened. 

He referenced her in the past tense several times and searched in a manner that would be consistent with death; not someone running from justice.  He reported that she was not the type of mother who might abandon her child.  

Question:  did he have knowledge of a nefarious association of hers in which he believed she put herself in danger, possibly with a criminal element?  Is this what caused him to consider that she could be involved with those who's end could be death?

We do not know but await answers.   Note the language of her own mother, regarding the fear the child has, below.  

Jennifer Hicks' mom speaks out about her disappearance

CALLOWAY COUNTY, Ky. -
A message to Jennifer Hicks: "I love her," says Shawn Love, Jennifer's mother. "She's not alone, and we are all here for her. Please come back to us."

It's been nine days since Hicks went missing, and her mother is desperate for answers.

"Right now, we are at a standstill," says Love. "It's very hard to get up and get dressed. And when you do it's like, I know I should be doing something, but I don't know what."

It's hard on the family, especially for Hicks' 8-year-old daughter. To protect her identity, we are not sharing her name.

"She's very scared," says Love. "She's very worried that something has happened to her mom and that her mommy might not come back."

The family says social media has been a huge help in getting the word out about her disappearance, but it's also been a curse because of all the rumors.

"Negative comments, that type of thing is not helpful at all," says Love.
It's like pouring salt on an open wound.

When asked if she had scary thoughts running through her mind about what could have happened to her daughter, Love says, "How could there not be? There's a few different scenarios, and I'm realistic enough to play each one of those out completely in my mind."

Investigators say the evidence shows Hicks was not kidnapped.

"The sheriff said there was not an abductor in all likelihood," says Ned Cooney, Hicks' uncle. "Just the timing of it and everything else, that it was her leaving."
"I would just like her to come home, and let's take care of this together," says Love.
Right now, there is a warrant out for Hicks on a theft charge involving more than $10,000. Her family says it's kind of a blessing in disguise, because if she is found, they will have to bring her back home to Calloway County.

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Sexual Statement: Reliable Denial or Not?


Allegation:  Adult had sexual contact with underaged girl.

Denial:   "I certainly didn't have sex with that girl at my home."  

Analysis?

How many points of analysis are in this short sentence?

A.  List as many as you can and include 
B.  what questions you would like to ask the subject.  


Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Statement Analysis Advanced Course Update


The Statement Analysis Advanced Course is closer to completion.  

The delay?

We continue to add chapters!

This is a in-depth challenging course for those who are already proficient in Statement Analysis and will cover some of the more advanced techniques in analysis, but will also focus upon:

Psychological Profiling from the language;

Anonymous Author Identification

Tuition:  $495 Statement Analysis Course
               $895 Advanced Analysis 

This includes more than 15 hours of lectures and 12 months of e-support, with the first course completion allowing for monthly guided training.  Tuition payment plans available, and discount for signing up for both.  

Two years of concerted dedicated work will bring excellence.  

The Anonymous Author Identification holds deep value for business and law enforcement.  The ability to identify the author of an anonymous threatening letter is valuable to law enforcement yet these threats are not common.

It is in the process, itself, of psychological profiling via the language that the value is found:

Interviewing Strategy: 

When a subject has revealed his background, priorities, and personality, the strategy of the interview will suggest itself.  By using, and even 'entering into' the language of the subject, there is no reason for inconclusive polygraph results.

Many in law enforcement have an intuitive sense of how to conduct an interview once they have a 'feel' for the suspect.  The psychological profiling takes the guess work out.

Employment

Learn how to screen out those who will bring problems to your business.  If your business is law enforcement, you need to screen out those with poor impulse control who cannot be trusted with lethal force.  You need to weed out those of base character who crave respect from the public and who will trouble not only your department, but all law enforcement, in a time when law enforcement is increasingly under attack from political leaders.


In business, you need to know.

You need to know those who bring unresolved personal issues to the job.
You need to know those who's belief system allows them to file fraudulent claims against you, in order to gain that which they have not earned.
You need to know those who's intentions towards you are not appropriate.
You need to be able to place the right person for the right position.
You need to not promote one who will trouble subordinates.

You will predict accurately, by allowing the applicants to guide you, those who will prove worthy of your company, and those who will solve problems, just as you will spot "problem bringers" and those who will need more supervision than others.

*A young woman was advised to seek employment from a company in order to game the system.  
This is more common than most know. 
She had failed out of government paid rehabilitation services for substance abuse and those who were guiding her felt that, like so many others, she would find success in a privately funded rehabilitation service, yet the cost is prohibitive.  
She was counseled to obtain employment and in a few months, claim "relapse" due to "unfair pressure put on me by the manager..." of which the company is pressured to pay 
for the expensive rehab.  

Statement Analysis profiling shows how those with agenda, during the interview process, reveal themselves and allow the company to know:  this applicant is seeking to exploit us, and with a company not permitted to ask certain questions, the analysis reveals the deceptive motive and the company is spared undue costs.  

Confirmation

What do supervisors and managers say about working with an employee, for example, for a year, about the original analysis conclusions and recommendations?  

What is it like to get affirmation of original analysis?  How does this help build a data base of information?  

Therapy

You need to get to the root cause of the issue.  You will increase the accuracy of your diagnosis and should you struggle with the DSM, you will find clarity as the subject, or client, guides you by his or her own words.  Effective processing and treatment is only found in truth, and getting past peripheral issues.  The emerging revelation from the words chosen will guide you.


Sexual Abuse Victims have a language all their own.  We dedicate a full chapter to this, including discerning between an allegation of sexual abuse and perseveration and PTSD like language.  We cover the language of Adults with developmental disability, who are, statistically, the single greatest group prone to sexual abuse in the nation. 

Crime Solving 

Want to know the belief system?

Want to predict recidivism accurately?

The analysis will guide the legally sound, open ended interview process.  You will learn, for example, how to spot Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in the background from a 2 minute 911 call, and accurately know where to go with collateral interviews to confirm your work.

You will:

1.  Analyze a 911 call and conclude deception or veracity
2.  Profile the caller
3.  Test your results with known outside information and testimony about the subject.

A to Z Confirmation

You will analyze a statement to the point where it is as if you were present.  The psychological profiling will allow you to understand the subject in a deeper manner and know why he chose the words he did.

Then, you will learn from his confession.

Then, you will be given his thoughts about your analysis and learn why he confessed.


Confessions and Admissions

You will ultimately learn how to obtain confessions (admissions) in a greater rate than before.  By learning to trust the analysis and apply it, you will bring subjects, in criminal and civil investigations, to the point of admitting what was done.


*We gain admissions more than confessions.  The difference?  An admission is to admit that which was done; a confession is to admit that which was done and acknowledge the moral failure.  Because of the intensity of crime and exploitation, the admission is our goal, as it is legally sound and conclusive.  With the advent of more deadened consciences, we avoid morally charged language such as "Did you steal the missing money?" knowing that the question should be, "Did you take the missing money?"

We enter into a statement in a manner so deep, it is as if we were present during the crime.  It is far more than just "is he lying or not?" and requires dedication, commitment, and hard work. You will not only know what happened, you will understand what happened.

You will be able to explain not only principle in analysis, but explain it to the untrained, and learn how to write in a powerfully persuasive manner in which your reports will suggest their own conclusion, and put appropriate pressure upon prosecutors to move forward.  Legally sound, concise, and powerful writing comes from self-analysis of our written reports.  This is for law enforcement and for every company; as every company should do its own internal investigations and its own written final report.

Polygraph Examiners, Therapists, Attorneys, Human Resource professionals, civil investigators, child abuse investigators and advocates, journalists, Domestic Violence advocates, Ombudsman, and others in need of analysis and communication will benefit from the course. 

DSM

What happens when transcripts of interviews is compared to the diagnosis?

We look at the emergence of traits from various personality disorders, and how best to interview.  

Promote a 'passive aggressive' and watch morale suffer and turnover increase. 

Course Prerequisite

Due to the complex nature of the course, as well as the propensity for error, the Advanced Course will only be made available to those who have had Statement Analysis training from an approved source.


It is too easy to jump to conclusions, make errors, pervert justice, and discredit our science. There are a number of good introductory courses which, if effective, will inspire the student to learning Statement Analysis.  

A solid foundation is needed before moving to this new realm.  If you wish to know if your training is approved for the Advanced course, as well as tuition information, please go to Hyatt Analysis Services and contact us. 

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Jennifer Hicks Missing: Past Tense Reference Meaning



A week ago, Jennifer Hicks, 31, divorced mother, went missing.  It is important to understand why someone refers to a missing loved one in the past tense:  it is an indication that the subject knows or believes the missing loved one is dead. 

An English speaking person of average intelligence has a personal internal dictionary of about 25,000 words. When the person is speaking freely, he must:

*Go into this vast dictionary and choose which information to include; which not do.
*Choose the order of information, reflecting priority and emphasis.
*Choose not only specific words, but specific verb tenses and pronouns. 
*Place each word next to one another perfectly in order to make sense.  
*It is something that the person has done millions of times and is very good at it. 

*It is a transaction in the brain processing system that takes place in less than a millisecond of time.  

When Eric Hicks said "She loved her daughter", instead of "She loves her daughter", he did not likely stop and say to himself, "hmmm, which should I choose?  If I say "she loves", I believe she is still loving her daughter, but if I say she loved...well, then I acknowledge that she is dead..."

In less than a millisecond in time, he chose to reference her in the past tense because he knows or believes that she is dead.  

Casey Anthony did it. 
Billie Jean Dunn did it.  
Baby Lisa's mother did it. 
Baby Ayla's father, Justin DiPietro did it. 

Even a husband who knew, but withheld from the media, that his wife was suicidal, did it while she was technically missing, later fuming that people saw this, yet after the fact, he admitted belief that she had committed suicide.  

Media reported that her ex husband was leading the search including in this assertion, some specific search details, including air-to-ground low level searching.

Eric Hicks said the following, though media has not given us a particular order for these statements, which reduces us from priority: 
"There are just no leads, no clues, nothing. Tips they get turn into dead ends."

"It's like she just vanished.  It's one of the strangest and oddest things."
"Me and her just didn’t see eye to eye so we divorced, but we took care of our daughter," he said. "She was a great mother. She loved her daughter and loved her family and friends."
"We need help.  When you look and see how many open cases there are of missing persons, it breaks your heart and it really hits you when it happens to someone you know."
 Jennifer Hicks left her job at the Lake Chem Community Federal Credit Union in Murray around noon Tuesday, to check on her daughter.  What we do not know is "why" he referenced her in the past tense. 

Q.  What has caused him to state this?
A.  His belief that she is dead.  

Q.  What is his belief based upon?
A.  This is something police need to learn. 

When a person goes missing, the investigation parallels the search and the circle begins tight and small and as each person is cleared, the circle widens.  


A.  The past tense reference in analysis is based upon closeness and instinct.  For example, a biological parent of a missing child has greater resistance (denial) than a step parent who is a fairly new step parent.  The deeper the relationship, the greater the resistance to acceptance that one missing  is deceased.  

B.  Next, the time elapsed is critical.  For a biological mother of a missing young child, months, and perhaps, even years can go by without the mother intellectually accepting the child's death and will reference him or her in the present tense.  Maternal instincts are the most powerful, with paternal coming next.  

C.  Context includes any details that further weigh upon the language (particularly, emotion has the most potent impact upon change of language from present tense to past tense) in choosing present tense or past tense.  Is the child a baby?  Did the child go missing near water or wildlife?  Or, like in the case of Baby Ayla, did she go missing in a safe suburban area?  In Ayla's case, the father, Justin DiPietro, said that someone kidnapped her getting in and out of the house, to the perfect room, without waking anyone nor leaving trace DNA, which would strongly suggest, if true, that Ayla was alive. 
Yet, immediately, he both refused to speak to the "kidnapper" on behalf of Ayla, but also referenced her in the past tense.  
He failed his polygraph and leaked that Ayla was likely dumped in water when he said, "Contrary to rumors floating around out there, I have been cooperating with Waterville Police."  
His immediate response to the case told us that Ayla would not be found alive and the word "with" between people, in this case, between DiPietro and police, indicated distance.   

Context may also include anything police have shared, such as criminal evidence that would lead the subject to belief the missing person is deceased.  We do not see that in the limited statements from Eric Hicks, but we should note his statement about leads would suggest no such information has coe from police that hints towards death.  

Eric Hicks believes that Jennifer will not be found alive, but this does not make him guilty of causing her death.  It may be that, as he stated, this is out of character for her to not make contact with family, as well as leaving her daughter.  It may be guilty knowledge.  

He should immediately take a polygraph, clear himself, and mobilize the public to search for Jennifer.  It is possible that he has done this already.  

Statement Analysis shows that he believes Jennifer is dead, but it does not show why this is.  Sometimes, context alone can indicate guilty knowledge, such as the case on more than a few of the missing children cases where a biological parent's natural denial was not in the language, in the immediate aftermath, with no indication of violence or foul play.  

Behavioral Analysis in missing person cases, particularly, children, is simple. 

When a child wanders off from the mother at a supermarket, the mother stops shopping for food, and calls out for her child.  
When the mother, instead of looking for her child, calls her attorney, or is "emotionally incapable of speaking" for his daughter (DiPietro) or has moved on (Deborah Bradley) or shows more concern for protecting self than finding the child (DeOrr) and alibi building (Billie Jean Dunn).  

Going before television is something both guilty and innocent people do, though they may do it for different reasons. 

A good study is Scott Peterson for those who wish to learn more, though no one used media to reveal the actual details of the crime like Billie Jean Dunn, mother of murdered 13 year old Hailey Dunn.  

If an investigator had nothing to go on but the mother's words on The Nancy Grace Show, he or she could solve the case.  This is the premise of the soon to be released book on Hailey's death and how the study of this case alone, is akin to a college degree in Statement Analysis.  

Guilty knowledge is indicated when it is a very close familiar relation (such as a mother) of whom there is no information to cause the subject to quickly process and accept the death.  


Sunday, February 14, 2016

Missing Jennifer Hicks, 31



The ex husband is searching for her.  Eric Hicks said:
"There are just no leads, no clues, nothing. Tips they get turn into dead ends."


"It's like she just vanished.  It's one of the strangest and oddest things."
According to the Calloway County Sheriff's Office, Jennifer Hicks left her job at the Lake Chem Community Federal Credit Union in Murray around noon Tuesday, to check on her daughter.
Hicks described his ex-wife as a "a loving and caring mother" to their 8-year-old daughter and said it is completely out of character for her to be out of touch with friends and family.
"Me and her just didn’t see eye to eye so we divorced, but we took care of our daughter," he said. "She was a great mother. She loved her daughter and loved her family and friends."
Please note the past tense references.  While caring for their daughter, the unity is seen in the word "we"; it is only in context, however, that this should be understood.  Regarding the past tense reference, please also note the context of which this language is produced.  
Note them in context:  They are divorced.  
Have police given him any reason to believe she will no longer be a great mother?  Or, that she will not longer love her daughter, family and friends?
Has time brought the ex husband to process that she is not coming back?  She has been missing about a week.  How close (or distant) were the ex husband and wife that this information should be processed in a week? 
"We need help," said Eric Hicks. "When you look and see how many open cases there are of missing persons, it breaks your heart and it really hits you when it happens to someone you know."
The past tense reference in analysis is based upon closeness and instinct.  For example, a biological parent of a missing child has greater resistance than a step parent who is a fairly new step parent.  The deeper the relationship, the greater the resistance to acceptance that one missing  is deceased. 
Past tense reference indicates a belief that one is dead.  We seek to learn what caused this belief?
a.  police information
b.  passage of time
c.  circumstances?

Guilty knowledge is indicated when it is a very close familiar relation (such as a mother) of whom there is no information to cause the subject to quickly process and accept the death.  

Peyton Manning Transcripts

The following is a transcript from the video interview with Manning.  

We note not only the lack of a denial (RD) but we note just how far he is going to avoid or deflect in his responses. 

We also see that he justifies in his responses, as well. 

What does this suggest?

Not only may we conclude that Manning did use PEDs via the lack of denial and detection of deception, but the degree of which he goes suggests:

a.  habitual or patterned deceiver
b.  Greater issues beneath the surface, beyond this one allegation. 

Note his hostility and anger is not commensurate with the accusation of using HGH to facilitate healing.  Note that he justifies his healing through hard work and dedication; unnecessarily, making the healing from the specific neck injuries very sensitive to him. 

It is likely that Peyton Manning has some other issues of which he is concerned.  


Lisa: Tell me Peyton, what was your reaction to the Al Jazeera report that you had human growth  hormone
Peyton: Yeah
Lisa: mailed to your home when you were recovering from neck surgery
Peyton: Well, I think I rotate, Lisa, between being, uh, angry, uh, furious on and on, but disgusted is really how I feel. Sickened by it, that uh, I’m not sure I understand how someone can make something up about somebody, um, admit that he made it up and yet it somehow it gets published in a, in a story. Uh, I don’t understand that, maybe you can explain it to me, somebody else can, so um it’s completely fabricated, complete trash, garbage, uh there’s some more adjectives I’d like to be able to use, um, but it really makes me sick, makes me sick, makes me sick that it brings Ashley, uh into it, her medical history, her medical privacy being violated, that makes me sick. I don’t understand that and um, you know, I’m in the middle of my throwing workout, which I enjoy doing that and I gotta interrupt, interrupt this workout to come, and you know, talk about this, uh it’s not right. I don’t understand it.
Take note of order giving priority: his wife does not come first, and the introduction is incomplete, which is appropriate if the reporter knows his wife. If not, it is distancing language. See the number of words in the answer before his wife's privacy is an issue.
Lisa: Have you ever used HGH or any performance enhancing drug?
Peyton: Absolutely not, absolutely not and what and what hurts me the most about this is whoever this guy is, this slapstick trying to insinuate that in 2011, when I, you know, more or less had a broken neck, I don’t know four neck surgeries, you know broken neck, I’m not sure, I’m sure there’s a difference in there, but I had a bad neck and uh, I busted my butt, you know to get healthy, uh put in a lot of hard work. I saw a lot of doctors. I went to the Guyer clinic, he had a hyperbaric chamber that our coach, trainers and doctors thought might be good for me. They went with me and uh, um, thought it might help. Don’t know if it helped, uh, didn’t hurt. Time ended up being, probably my best medicine, along with a lot of hard work and that uh, it, it really uh it stings me whoever this guy is insinuated that I cut corners; I broke NFL rules in order to get healthy. It’s a joke. It’s a freaking joke.
Here is where readers may see the initial deception in his response. He does not say "no" to the "yes or no" question, but uses the emphatic "absolutely" added in unnecessarily. Next, note the need to assert, without denial, breaking rules and taking short cuts. This may be leakage of an embedded confession, since he does not attribute it linguistically to anyone else: "I broke NFL rules" will now need proof: instead of denying that he broke NFL rules, he needs to assert that he could not have because they were present. This is to not only admit he would have had they not been present, hypothetically, but it is a subtle shifting of blame to them, and it is insight into his personality. It is likely that he has been "gotten out" of trouble before and learned early in life how to shift blame to others.
Lisa: You mentioned your wife, uh their source for this report, uh, he’s a guy, Charlie Sly, who used to work for Guyer institute. He says they actually mailed medications to your home in your wife’s name.
Peyton: I don’t, I don’t, I don’t, I don’t know this guy, I’ve never heard of this guy, up until this report, never met this guy. 
The halting of broken sentences all begin with the pronoun "I" which show a marked increase in anxiety for Manning at the mention of "this guy." He uses the word "this" instead of "that", which brings the man 'closer' psychologically to him. This guy is very important to Manning; it not only caused him to repeat on the word "I", but to repeatedly use the word "this" regarding him. Not knowing or having met "this guy" is to move the target of his language from HGH to the guy. This is to not only avoid saying "I didn't use HGH" but to show a need to move the conversation to a different argument; or tangent.

Uh, any medical treatments that my wife received, that’s her business, it has nothing to do with me. 
As to being one who blames others; he now brings suspicion of possible HGH use to his wife. Note that his wife's medical treatments have "nothing to do with me", which is not something most husbands and wives say of each other: it is to distance one from the other.
Nothing that’s ever been sent to her, or my wife has used, have I ever taken, absolutely not. 
Liars go to far, and here he not only says that nothing that's ever been sent to her has he taken (with "absolutely not" showing the weakness of persuasion) but he adds "or my wife has used" offered unnecessarily. It is likely that she, too, used the anti-aging HGH besides him. He is not only deceptive in his denial, but implicates her in usage as well. This is not someone used to taking ownership and responsibility of failure.
HGH is used in low dosages to speed healing, and to reverse aging. It is considered the most popular drug of Hollywood stars who are desperate to look young for roles.
He continues to move the topic away from breaking NFL rules to his wife:
I have my treatments that I do, she may have hers, that’s her business, there’s no connection between the two and whoever this, uh, I’d love to, you know, I, I loved to understand, you know, why this guy is saying this, why he’s making it up and then he admits he makes it up, yet it still becomes a story. I’d like to be told and explained that.
"You know" is a habit of speech that shows a new acute awareness of the interviewer's presence. Here, he asserts that the "guy" reported it and recanted it, but he wants to know why it "still becomes a story", yet, this is betrayed just as quickly in his language with the distancing, "I'd like to be told that." He is not waiting for any answer.
Had he not used he would have said that, alone, and there would be no story, no follow up, and no new questions. Even without training, people recognize the increase in both words and emotions couples with a lack of denial, keeping the story alive. It is also to reveal that Manning has a desperation to run from this topic, which suggests more deception. What other rules did he break?
Lisa: You went to the Guyer Institute?
Peyton: Yes
This is the first reliable response he has given.
Lisa: And you’ve had treatments and you’ve had medications from there before?
Peyton: Yes
Lisa: What kind of stuff did they do for you?
After two short yes or no questions she must dig further. Now we follow the pronouns...particularly, when they go missing:
Peyton: Yeah, Yeah, Hyperbaric chamber, went with the Colts trainers, Colts doctors, hyperbaric chamber, um something called ECCP, which, uh, is supposed to create blood flow in your muscles. It is interesting to see how long he talked without using the pronoun "I" while at the clinic. This is distancing language.  First, the psychological removal of self, with the missing pronoun "I", but then, he continues 'not wanting to put himself there' with the second person pronoun, "you" as follows:
You’ve got to do 35 consecutive days of treatment. 
Finally, the subject 'arrives' at the location, but only when he is completely done with them:
I did all 35 days for an hour treatment, watched Hoda and Kelly Lee during my treatment, cause I was there during normal business hours at 9:00 AM eastern standard time and uh, I did that.  
Liars most always tell you something they did truthfully, because it marks a complete uptick in confidence for them to go into experiential memory. He really did watch "Hoda and Kelly Lee" and confidently says this, yet, even here, he feels the need to explain "why" he did something, though he was not asked, with "cause I was there during "normal business hours" which tells us:
**When the word "normal" is used, something not so normal took place: this is that he had interaction of some form with the clinic outside the 9-5 hours. This moves him closer to an admission.
It shows both the confidence of truthful memory (TV show) and the weakness of having to give such a minor, unimportant detail. This means he knows he is lying, and fears that his audience knows he is lying, so he must buttress his statement with something that establishes his presence there.
It is to offer an "alibi" or proof that he was there.
This means he knows he needs an alibi.
This is utterly unnecessary if the subject is truthful. Note next, a subtle blaming of others, including medical professionals:
I was a good patient, uh, had some nutrient IV therapies that I did that uh, um, that I thought may have helped me as well. 
He was a "good patient"; what do "good patients" do? they follow directions. He was following directions and if proof comes out, expect Manning to blame the staff.
Note regarding "some nutrient IV therapies" he drops his pronoun. "IV" is via needle.
HGH is via small needle, such as diabetics use. This may be the subtle distancing of the dropped pronoun: a needle. He continues to signal that he will blame others:
So, everything was under Colts, uh, authorization,
He was a "good" patient and "everything" that he did, was authorized by the Colts. You now know who, specifically, will be blamed if he is caught: the medical staff, and the Colts, his former team. This is a subject who is preparing his defense while avoiding making a denial. Watch how emphatic he is with this:
they knew about it, they went with me and um, uh, you know, anything else this guy is insinuating, complete garbage.
"This guy" did not "insinuate" (minimization of allegation) anything: he plainly stated that he was sent HGH from the clinic and then he recanted it.
Lisa: So in the age of PED use that we live in, we, we’ve seen all the athletes accused, we’ve seen many of the athletes deny
Peyton: Yeah
Lisa: we’ve seen many of them eventually admit
Peyton: Right
Lisa: So right or wrong, the cynicism is there for us  
Peyton: Sure
Lisa: so what do you want to say to a little kid waking up hearing this about Peyton Manning?
This is a good question to ask the image conscious athlete who has made a great deal of money on selling the image of squeaky clean. It is to formulate a question based upon the psychology of the subject:
Peyton: I can’t, I can’t speak for another athlete, I know what I’ve done, 
He was not asked to speak for another athlete.
Note "I know what I have done" is to avoid the denial, while, perhaps, considering exactly what he has done.
Next, we have justification:
I know how hard I’ve worked during my 18 years of playing in the NFL.
This is to both justify and to dilute. He justifies the use of HGH because using it, without hard work, will not bring success. He also moves from this specific period of time to 18 years; a lengthy dilution.
There are no short cuts in the NFL. 
No pronoun "I" here, yet, and no denial. This is a generalization for all NFL athletes; the ones he said he would not speak for.
I’ve done it the long way, I’ve done it the hard way and to insinuate anything otherwise is a complete and total joke, it’s defamation and it really ticks me off.
A. The allegation is minimized to insinuation
B. Complete
C. Total
D. Joke
E. Defamation
F. Ticks him off (emotion)
This is to suggest that he may use his money, like Lance Armstrong, to sue those who do not believe him.
Lisa: Your initial reaction when you heard about this? Your initial reaction?
She is looking for a denial; something he has not done.
"I did not use HGH" is the simplest way to end the interview. Nothing else matters, including his 18 years, his hard work, his doctors, the presence of the NFL, the "guy", and his wife. "I did not use HGH" was all that was needed; there were no other questions to be asked after that. It closes things out and it is what truthful people do. No need to minimize the allegation. He accused and I deny; end of story.
Peyton: Like I said, sick, disgusted, makes me want to, you know, just can’t say it on TV, nut you know, makes me sick, makes me nauseous.
Self reference indicates he is recalling what he said earlier.
Note the emotions: this is to show "moral high ground" and the need to have moral high ground. The need to show moral high ground is often an indicator of guilt. This is to 'sermonize' and project. I do believe he is sick to his stomach, but not over the accusation, and not over the use, since he justified it by the severity of the injury and the hard work and length of his career.
He is sick to his stomach because he is caught and is forced into not only damaging his image, but the expense of possible law suits. The more he speaks the more we know, the deeper he is in trouble.
Lisa: How do you plan to fight it?

How narcissistic will he go? He does not make us wait long. Here, he does not give further indication of any "fight" to come, instead focuses on his own emotions. No concern for the kids referenced earlier, nor his wife, nor the others he has cast suspicion and responsibility towards:
Peyton: I plan to go throw today, you know, a little harder, my ball has a little extra heat on it today. I  got some built up anger, as you might understand and uh, try to do what I can to help the Broncos get a win tomorrow night and I’m moving on, this is, I’m not losing any sleep with this, uh report. This slapstick’s lies and uh, you know, I’ll keep my head above it and keep pressing on to get healthy, try to uh, get back on the field next week and uh practice with the team and go from there.

Note the plural as quite telling.



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