Live polygraph test for accused Call of Duty cheater ends before the good part

pcgamer.com:

A livestreamed lie detector test designed to decide the fate of an accused Call of Duty: Warzone cheater abruptly ended this week after doubts of the polygraph's validity and the person conducting it surfaced.

As reported by Dexerto(opens in new tab), the April 5 event was the brainchild of esports commentator Jake Lucky and Grady Rains of Full Squad Gaming, who invited accused cheater ShiftyTV(opens in new tab) to their Los Angeles studio to prove his innocence (or guilt). The planned itinerary for the stream would begin with Shifty playing Warzone on a 'clean' PC setup to test his performance against his home PC. The stream would conclude with the results of a polygraph test conducted by John Grogan, a for-hire polygraph examiner who has conducted similar tests for Dr. Phil, Vanity Fair, and The Late Late Show with James Corden. 

Just moments before Grogan shared results of the test to viewers, Rains intervened to call for a break. «Hold on hold on hold on, let's take a break. Let's take a break really quick. Let's take a break,» he said. «Can we throw up a sign and take a break really quick?» The broadcast then transitioned to a waiting screen before eventually ending.

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It's hard to know for sure, because the archive of the event was quickly deleted by Full Squad Gaming, but Rains likely ended the stream to address the increasing number of viewers in chat pointing out Grogan's reputation in the polygraph community. In 2008, retired FBI special agent Jack Trimarco (another polygraph operator who regularly appeared on Dr. Phil before his death in 2018) publicly declared Grogan a "polygraph parasite(opens in new tab)" allegedly convicted of «26 counts of fraud.» Grogan refuted these