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I couldn’t get a feel for what he was hiding or whether he even seemed
capable of rape. Then a technique called “elicitation,” which we
were taught at Quantico, popped into my mind. So I just sprung it
on him, as if it were a foregone conclusion: “Well, then, after you
raped her what did you do?”
He came back, without missing a beat, “I went into the bathroom and took a piss.”
“So that’s where we’ll find your fingerprints? On the bathroom wall—right?” I asked.
Realizing that he had just confessed, all he could say was, “Damn.”
The detectives looked at me as if I had pulled a
rabbit out of a hat. I shrugged—“elicitation” was nothing but the
psych-major name for one of the oldest tricks in the book, and we all
knew it. I had almost been embarrassed to give it a try.
But it worked—to my surprise, the guy walked right into it.
—Candice DeLong, Special Agent (2001)
“What did you say your name was?”
Tim sneered. Did this bloke think he was as
dumb as all that? He wasn’t going to fall for the oldest trick in
the book.
—Carla Jablonski, The Books of Magic 2 (2003)
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