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Statement analysis involves examining several aspects of someone’s words, including verbs describing communication and uncompleted action; changes in verb tense; minimizing, intensifying, and editing adverbs; extraneous information; unique sensory details; and statement structure, which identifies the person’s focus—on the incident or somewhere else. Research has shown that distinct differences exist between a deceptive statement and a truthful one. By using the techniques of statement analysis, investigators can more readily detect truthfulness or deception in an individual’s words. With these insights, investigators become more efficient and effective in their abilities and gain better focus on the investigation……FBI

Peter Hyatt

The central theme of Peter Hyatt’s personal blog is “Statement Analysis“, a method of linguistic polygraphy which seeks to discern truth from deception found within speech. Many of these cases are discussed on “The Peter Hyatt Show” on Blog Talk Radio, or on the shows of others which invite Peter Hyatt to appear.

Peter Hyatt works with law enforcement, private citizens, attorneys, and other organizations, particularly on missing persons cases.  Peter frequently works consulting with law enforcement throughout the country.

“Although Statement Analysis is of great value to an investigator, it is also a great tool for counselors, therapists, human resources, educators, and all those interested in truth.  Equally valuable for private life, the ability to discern truth from deception is something that can be learned, practiced, and excelled at.  In fact, everyone from junior high principals to parents need to learn to discern truth from fiction.” …..Peter Hyatt

Peter and his wife Heather write timely articles analyzing high-profile crimes, often showing readers areas of deception within television and newspaper interviews.  Check out the blog:  Statement Analysis and get to know the Hyatts and the fascinating science of analyzing words and how they are used.

Peter Hyatt is a civil investigator who has conducted more than 2,500 interviews including children’s interviews.  He uses Statement Analysis is his work, and teaches Statement Analysis in Interviewing.  
He also works part-time as an analyst for law enforcement and private companies.  He is the host of “The Peter Hyatt Show” while appearing on various other programs as a guest analyst, including on the forum of “Crime Wire.”  He has authored many articles and does pro bono work for families in “cold cases”; doing analysis of prior interviews.

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• Ron Rugen, Baby Ayla, Daniel Porter and Lies on today’s “The Peter Hyatt Show” (seamusoriley.blogspot.com)
• Isabel Celis Was Not “Abducted” (seamusoriley.blogspot.com)

Susan Murphy Milano is a staff member of the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education as a educator and
 specialist with intimate partner violence prevention strategies directing prevention for high risk situations and cases.

A national trainer to law enforcement, training officers, prosecutors, judges, legislators, social service providers, healthcare professionals,

 victim advocates and the faith based community and author.. In partnership with Management Resources Ltd. of New York addressing 

prevention and solutions within the community to the workplace. Host of The Susan Murphy Milano Show,"Time'sUp!" . She is a regular 

contributor to the nationally syndicated "The Roth Show" with Dr Laurie Roth and a co-host onCrime Wire. Online contributions: Forbes : 

Crime, She Writes providing commentary about the hottest topics on crime, justice, and law from a woman’s perspective, as well as Time's Up! 

a blog which searches for solutions (SOS) for victims of crime Susan is also the daughter of a Chicago Violent Crimes detective who murdered her mother before turning the gun on himself and committing suicide. 

Behind Closed Doors: Verbal, Emotional, Physical Abuse

Suffering in silence behind closed doors with verbal, emotional and physical abuse is unhealthy and dangerous.  


I know you believe that special person in your life whom you love with all heart will "someday" return to the person they were when you began the relationship.  But it's not likely to happen.


Did you ever stop and ask yourself, how do you stay with a person who is harming you?  Calling you names or threatening you one minute only to change and say they've forgiven you, the next.  What exactly are you being forgiven for?  What did you do to deserve being screamed at or hit and thrashed about a room by you hair? Or told by the person professing their love, if you ever leave them, you'll be killed.  


I know you believe the person you love so much would never truly go so far as to kill you like those other women we read about in the news who go missing or are found dead, think again!   Kelly Rothwell, Jacque Waller, Gayle McCaffrey, Susan Powell, Renee Pagel, Stacy Peterson, Lisa Stebic, Amanda Graham, Hope Meek, Patty Vaughan, Nicole Fields, Kimberly Langwell, Sheena Morris, Valarie Calderon, Venus Stewart, Angel Downs, Lisa Shuttlesworth, Amanda Leher, Michelle Parker the list is endless of women and mother's just like you who refused to believe they'd be murdered by their boyfriend or husband's claiming to love them, literally to death.   Each of these women thought exactly as you do while they were alive. That it could never happen to them.


If you are in an abusive relationship, why don't you begin by being honest with yourself for once and admit your relationship is now dangerous.  That you may not have the opportunity to wake-up alive today or the following morning.  That you will enrage the person who is abusive so much you'll either be murdered in cold blood and if you have kids they will be motherless.  Is that what you really want, to die or to be a name and a number on a missing person's report listed on a national data base?


How about today, you look in the bathroom mirror and tell yourself, you're worth more than being a punching bag.  


How about today, you tell yourself, Enough!


It is time for you to remove the dangerous toxic abusive person from your life.


It is time for you and your precious children to leave the violence that is holding your live's hostage.


It is time for you to realize that there may not be a next time.


It is time for you to get the hell out of your own way, wake up, and understand the reason's you do not "feel safe," is because you are not!


You cannot plead with an abuser and walk away from potentially life threatening situations if you are unable to learn the steps necessary to protect yourself.  Time's Up: A Guide on How to Leave and Survive Abusive and Stalking Relationships will allow anyone to orchestrate what is needed to be safe.

"If you are a sophisticated, aware woman, you will find things you didn’t know to help yourself and others.  If you are a stay-at-home-mom who has been controlled since a teenager and doesn’t know the first thing about leading an independent life, you’ll find all the details you need to escort you through the risk-filled and often baffling transition ahead .  Time's Up by Susan Murphy Milano:  is the best companion an abused woman can have  Kathryn Casey, True-Crime Author

The Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit document preparation and video example in English

The Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit document preparation and video example in Spanish

The Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit document preparation and video example for Men who are being abused

Available on Amazon or Kindle

Susan Murphy Milano is a staff member of the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education as a educator and
 specialist with intimate partner violence prevention strategies directing prevention for high risk situations and cases.

 A national trainer to law enforcement, training officers, prosecutors, judges, legislators, social service providers, healthcare professionals,

 victim advocates and the faith based community and author.. In partnership with Management Resources Ltd. of New York addressing 

prevention and solutions within the community to the workplace. Host of The Susan Murphy Milano Show,"Time'sUp!" . She is a regular 

contributor to the nationally syndicated "The Roth Show" with Dr Laurie Roth and a co-host onCrime Wire. Online contributions: Forbes : 

Crime, She Writes providing commentary about the hottest topics on crime, justice, and law from a woman’s perspective, as well as Time's Up! 

a blog which searches for solutions (SOS) for victims of crime Susan is also the daughter of a Chicago Violent Crimes detective who murdered her mother

before committing suicide.

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Holding My Hand Through Hell the latest book by Violence Prevention Specialist, 

Susan Murphy Milano, is slated for release on October 3, 2012.

To place your *order CLICK HERE

Ice Cube Press

Based on a true story, told with the flow of a novel, spiced with frank wisdom and wit, Holding My Hand Through Hell
 encourages the reader to immerse themselves into this family’s life and is an inspiration to become an advocate for 
change in this world we all share. This book will incite discussion, debate, and heightened awareness about hope,
survival, abuse, murder, and its impact on our society. In the end, it will leave readers both applauding this 
woman as well as wondering how she escaped, sometimes at the eleventh hour. Twenty years later, she has 
realized that God must have been holding her hand through hell, delivering her from the evils of her life in order to 
save others.

Includes a foreword by Diane Fanning, Edgar nominated award-winning, true crime author.

This poignant well-written book tells the story of a police officer’s family and one daughter’s quest for justice 
long after'the heart-wrenching murder of her mother. Susan Murphy Milano embraces a legacy of unconditional
 love and faith to triumph over a life plagued with unspeakable abuse and pain.

Website: Holding My Hand Through Hell

Website: Susan Murphy-Milano www.susanmurphy-milano.com

Introducing Simply the Best : "Document the Abuse"

Today, we announce our new site www.documenttheabuse.com.  A place for prosecutors, law enforcement, social service agencies, human resource managers, workplace violence security experts, insurance carrier's, health care providers, faith based organizations and those directly in the process of divorce, affected by domestic violence and stalking by someone with whom they are in a relationship.

If you are in law enforcement the information and training provided on the Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit is a supportive component in addition to what you already are doing on the job as it is valuable tool that is saving lives.  For the first time when a potential victim prepares the "EAA" you will know and have at your fingertips information that includes the offender.  As are aware this is very important when a person in your district is reported missing or becomes a fatality.  You will have the victims words in a notarized, witnessed and taped statement already in your hand ready to meet with the prosecutor or district attorney for a solid case.

For those who enter the courthouses assigned to work the domestic violence and trial calenders the "EAA" has a number of benefits for a successful prosecution.  This includes cases where you have no body, but you do have enough evidence. Or in cases where the alleged defendant at pretrial claims crime of passion, unhinged, accident or self-defense, if the victim prepared the Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit prior to their death, its game on as a prosecutor for a winning victory and game over for the defense in court.

Case concerning the right to confront and prove intent to prevent the witness from testifying

Giles v. California, 554 U.S. 353 (2008)

Facts of the Case

When Dwayne Giles was tried in state court for the murder of his ex- girlfriend, he claimed self-defense. Giles stated that he had heard her vow to hurt him and a friend, and that she had previously shot a man and threatened people with knives. The prosecution then introduced evidence of a conversation between Giles' ex-girlfriend and police in which she claimed that he had assaulted her and threatened to kill her. The district court eventually convicted Giles of murder.

On appeal, Giles argued that use of the police conversation violated his Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him, namely, his deceased ex- girlfriend.

The California Supreme Court held that Giles had waived this right because he was the cause of his ex-girlfriend's absence. Although this exclusion was justified under common law rules of "forfeiture by wrongdoing", the Supreme Court had greatly constrained the admissibility of such evidence in its 2004 holding in Crawford v. Washington. Crawford essentially wiped out the admissibility of such out-of-court statements unless the testimony could be subject to cross-examination at trial, an option that would be impossible under these circumstances. This case gives the Court an opportunity to expand on its decision in Crawford and to apply it to a situation where the wrongdoing that kept the witness from appearing in court was not motivated by a desire to prevent the witness' testimony.

Question
Are a criminal defendant's rights under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment violated when the common law "forfeiture by wrongdoing" doctrine is applied to allow out-of-court statements made by a witness, absent due to the defendant's own conduct, into evidence without giving defendant an opportunity to cross-examine the absent witness?

Conclusion
Yes. In a 6-3 decision, the Court held that the forfeiture by wrongdoing exception only applies to situations where the defendant causes the witness' absence with the intention of preventing that witness from testifying at trial. Without this intention, any act by the defendant making the witness unavailable does not waive that defendant's Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine the witness, and therefore any out-of-court statements made by the witness are inadmissible as evidence. Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion stressing his belief that statements such as those made by the witness in this case should not implicate the Confrontation Clause at all because the police questioning was not a "formalized dialogue." Justice Samuel Alito also wrote a concurring opinion suggesting that the witness' statements, in his view, did not fall within the Confrontation Clause but noting that neither party had made this argument before the Court. Justice David Souter, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, concurred in all parts of the majority opinion except one section denouncing the dissenting argument. Justice Souter stated that he did not find the dissent as wrongheaded as the majority suggested.

The dissent, written by Justice Stephen Breyer and joined by Justices John Paul Stevens and Anthony Kennedy, argued that a defendant loses his right to confrontation when he makes a witness unavailable due to his own wrongdoing, even if he did not act with the specific intention of preventing her from testifying at trial.

We hope you take the time and visit our new site.  If you have questions or would like to set up a training, have us attend your conference - email us at documenttheabuse@gmail.com

Calling all Prosecutors, District Attorney's and Law Enforcement : Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit for Domestic Violence and Stalking Cases

Crime Victims' Rights Week features Cumberland County pioneers, heroes

Published: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 8:36 PM     Updated: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 8:51 PM

 By Jason Laday/The News of Cumberland County 
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BRIDGETON — In honor OF National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, officials from the Cumberland and Cape May county prosecutors’ offices, law enforcement, victim advocates and individuals who have themselves been victims gathered at Cumberland County College for an all-day conference.

Addressing a full George P. Luciano Center, Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae brought attention to those who she called pioneers and heroes in victims rights.

“We have trail blazers right here in our own area — from officials in Cape May County and their work in supporting the No Early Release Act, to here in Cumberland County and Nielsa’s Law, which allows families of murder victims to display pictures of the victim at sentencing, to Assemblyman Nelson Albano and ‘Josh’s Law’ (which instituted harsher penalties for vehicular homicide cases in which alcohol was involved).”

Special to The NewsNielsa Mason, whose name is remembered in Nielsa's Law.

The prosecutor also praised the memory of Carmen DiGregorio, the retired Millville police officer who was fatally injured trying to save a stranger from being kidnapped in 2007.

The fallen officer was this month awarded the Carnegie Medal for heroism.

“In our own community, people have made a difference for the victims that come after them,” added McRae.

The event’s keynote speaker was Susan Murphy-Milano, an author and nationally renown advocate for victims of violent crimes who has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Radio and ABC’s 20/20.

Murphy-Milano witnessed her father, a decorated Chicago violent crimes detective, beat and attack her mother repeatedly throughout her life.

Eventually, she would walk into her childhood home to find her mother murdered and her father in the next room, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

During her address, she beseeched the many prosecutors and law enforcement officers in the room to do more to assist victims of violent crimes throughout the criminal justice process — especially when the accused is a law enforcement officer.

“These people are desperate and they are pleading for the life to be heard,” said Murphy-Milano of the victims she assists. “In so many cases, abusers and attackers got away with what they did, and these victims are only now being helped.”

She also stated victims should be better-educated and more involved in cases.

“Victims cannot be as silent as the crimes,” she said. “I tell them to make evidentiary wills and abuse affidavits. I tell them to collect and tag their own evidence, if they have to.

“We need to start teaching this at a different level.”

Related topics: bridgeton, millville, vineland

Below is how you can create the "EAA" or Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit.  For Prosecutors, District Attorney's and State's Attorney's office's this is a prescription before a victim is murdered and you are left with a cold case because the only information you have is hearsay.  This removes hearsay and kicks out Crawford vs. Washington. 

Time's Up!

You cannot plead with an abuser and walk away from potentially life threatening situations if you are unable to learn the steps necessary to protect yourself. Time's Up: A Guide on How to Leave and Survive Abusive and Stalking Relationships will allow anyone to orchestrate what is needed to be safe.

"If you are a sophisticated, aware woman, you will find things you didn’t know to help yourself and others. If you are a stay-at-home-mom who has been controlled since a teenager and doesn’t know the first thing about leading an independent life, you’ll find all the details you need to escort you through the risk-filled and often baffling transition ahead . Time's Up by Susan Murphy Milano: is the best companion an abused woman can have."  Kathryn Casey, True-Crime Author

The Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit document preparation and video example in English

The Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit document preparation and video example in Spanish

The Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit document preparation and video example for Men who are being abused

Available on Amazon or Kindle

Susan Murphy Milano is a staff member of the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education as a educator and
 specialist with intimate partner violence prevention strategies directing prevention for high risk situations and cases.

A national trainer to law enforcement, training officers, prosecutors, judges, legislators, social service providers, healthcare professionals,

 victim advocates and the faith based community and author.. In partnership with Management Resources Ltd. of New York addressing 

prevention and solutions within the community to the workplace. Host of The Susan Murphy Milano Show,"Time'sUp!" . She is a regular 

contributor to the nationally syndicated "The Roth Show" with Dr Laurie Roth and a co-host onCrime Wire. Online contributions: Forbes : 

Crime, She Writes providing commentary about the hottest topics on crime, justice, and law from a woman’s perspective, as well as Time's Up! 

a blog which searches for solutions (SOS) for victims of crime Susan is also the daughter of a Chicago Violent Crimes detective who murdered her mother before turning the gun on himself and committing suicide.