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Lies were an element of every investigation. Everyone lied. It was seldom a matter of downright untruths, but most people avoided the unvarnished truth in some way or another. They equivocated, kept quiet about particulars, exaggerated and embellished things to make them more interesting or held back circumstances that cast them in a bad light. In addition, things slipped people’s minds, they remembered their experiences differently from how they had actually taken place. And instead of admitting they could not remember, they filled in the blanks with what they believed and thought must have occurred, usually based on what other people had heard or seen. In order to expose these lies, you depended on being in possession of supplementary information, making it possible to verify what had been stated.
