Seminar Title
Online-Introduction to Interview and Interrogation for Investigators - First Responders
Dates of Events
12/10/2026 through 12/10/2026
Last Updated: 10/01/2026
Instructor(s): Stan Walters
Course Registration Fee: $250
Instructor Bio
Stan Walters
“The Lie Guy®”
Authority on Investigative Interviewing & Reliability Analysis
Stan B. Walters is an internationally recognized authority on investigative interviewing and interrogation. For more than four decades, he has studied the science of interviews and helped investigators replace outdated assumptions with methods grounded in psychology, memory science, and behavioral research.
Walters is the developer of the Cognitive Reliability Framework™, a modern approach to diagnosing reliability in high-stakes interviews and evaluating statements under investigative and courtroom scrutiny.
Every course Walters presents is audited against current peer-reviewed published scientific research before it is delivered. His work emphasizes evidence-based interviewing, statement reliability, contamination control, false-confession prevention, and courtroom-defensible investigative practices.
With more than four decades of real-world experience, Walters is trusted by practitioners operating in law enforcement, military, and intelligence environments. He has presented investigative interviewing and interrogation programs on 23 U.S. military installations worldwide, where his methods have been applied in operational and battlefield interview environments.
Walters is the author of From First Contact to Final Question: An Introduction to EvidenceBased Interview and Interrogation Techniques, an interactive digital guide that integrates written instruction with embedded video, as well as numerous professional articles on investigative interviewing, statement reliability, false confessions, contamination, and courtroom-defensible practices. He is also the co-author of three peer-reviewed scientific
papers on credibility and investigative interviewing.
His earlier books include Principles of Kinesic Interview and Interrogation and The Truth About Lying, which was published in seven languages.
Through The Lie Guy® YouTube channel, Walters regularly examines current research, challenges outdated interviewing practices, and translates complex findings into practical guidance for investigators.
Walters has conducted extensive research on credibility assessment and maintains a unique archive of more than 1,500 videotaped interviews with incarcerated offenders, recorded in 40 correctional institutions across the United States.
His work focuses on improving the reliability and defensibility of investigative interviews.
Choices made in the interview room eventually play out in a courtroom
“The Lie Guy®”
Authority on Investigative Interviewing & Reliability Analysis
Stan B. Walters is an internationally recognized authority on investigative interviewing and interrogation. For more than four decades, he has studied the science of interviews and helped investigators replace outdated assumptions with methods grounded in psychology, memory science, and behavioral research.
Walters is the developer of the Cognitive Reliability Framework™, a modern approach to diagnosing reliability in high-stakes interviews and evaluating statements under investigative and courtroom scrutiny.
Every course Walters presents is audited against current peer-reviewed published scientific research before it is delivered. His work emphasizes evidence-based interviewing, statement reliability, contamination control, false-confession prevention, and courtroom-defensible investigative practices.
With more than four decades of real-world experience, Walters is trusted by practitioners operating in law enforcement, military, and intelligence environments. He has presented investigative interviewing and interrogation programs on 23 U.S. military installations worldwide, where his methods have been applied in operational and battlefield interview environments.
Walters is the author of From First Contact to Final Question: An Introduction to EvidenceBased Interview and Interrogation Techniques, an interactive digital guide that integrates written instruction with embedded video, as well as numerous professional articles on investigative interviewing, statement reliability, false confessions, contamination, and courtroom-defensible practices. He is also the co-author of three peer-reviewed scientific
papers on credibility and investigative interviewing.
His earlier books include Principles of Kinesic Interview and Interrogation and The Truth About Lying, which was published in seven languages.
Through The Lie Guy® YouTube channel, Walters regularly examines current research, challenges outdated interviewing practices, and translates complex findings into practical guidance for investigators.
Walters has conducted extensive research on credibility assessment and maintains a unique archive of more than 1,500 videotaped interviews with incarcerated offenders, recorded in 40 correctional institutions across the United States.
His work focuses on improving the reliability and defensibility of investigative interviews.
Choices made in the interview room eventually play out in a courtroom
Course Objectives
Course Overview:
Date: December 10, 2026
Time: 9am-4pm Eastern (with breaks and 1 hour lunch)
A critical pillar of the investigative process is the interviewing of victims, witnesses, sources and potential suspects. Imagine the direct impact, both positive and negative that the quality of the information gained and the interview and interrogation tactics used can have on the prosecution of a case. The simple truth is that the courts have already started focusing on the faulty and in some cases extremely dated methods and techniques currently in use.
The plan of action for this course is provide an updated foundation of productive as well as ethical interview and interrogation techniques. Allowing new detectives, criminal investigators and first responders to develop their skills by “trial and error” is unacceptable. The ultimate cost of legal liability and subsequent litigation is quickly reaching an unsustainable level. Especially since the problem could avoided by early training in the current science of interview and interrogation.
Participants will get to work on:
• Understanding the “Interviewer’s Impact Principle”
• Using the “4 Elements of a Successful Interview” to gain 60%+ information.
• How to avoid the 3 fatal pitfalls that devastate an interview.
• The “Strategic Use of Evidence” Tactic.
• Decoding a subject’s “Purpose of Action”
• Recordation of Interviews and Interrogations: The Growing Trend
Group Viewing Encouraged: Pay 1 Registration Fee
·Multiple attendees can group view the training from one device only and each attendee will receive a certificate.
·ONLY the registered attendee will receive a link to join the training (Link will be sent 1-2 Days Prior to the Event)
Quiz & Certificates: Within 24 hours after the live broadcast the registered attendee will receive an email with:
·Quiz link that will need to be forwarded to each person in your group so they may print a certificate after completing the quiz. ·30 Days Access of the Recording (this link may be shared with with others in your department)
*** No Refunds After Class Link Has Been Sent***
Time: 9am-4pm Eastern (with breaks and 1 hour lunch)
A critical pillar of the investigative process is the interviewing of victims, witnesses, sources and potential suspects. Imagine the direct impact, both positive and negative that the quality of the information gained and the interview and interrogation tactics used can have on the prosecution of a case. The simple truth is that the courts have already started focusing on the faulty and in some cases extremely dated methods and techniques currently in use.
The plan of action for this course is provide an updated foundation of productive as well as ethical interview and interrogation techniques. Allowing new detectives, criminal investigators and first responders to develop their skills by “trial and error” is unacceptable. The ultimate cost of legal liability and subsequent litigation is quickly reaching an unsustainable level. Especially since the problem could avoided by early training in the current science of interview and interrogation.
Participants will get to work on:
• Understanding the “Interviewer’s Impact Principle”
• Using the “4 Elements of a Successful Interview” to gain 60%+ information.
• How to avoid the 3 fatal pitfalls that devastate an interview.
• The “Strategic Use of Evidence” Tactic.
• Decoding a subject’s “Purpose of Action”
• Recordation of Interviews and Interrogations: The Growing Trend
Group Viewing Encouraged: Pay 1 Registration Fee
·Multiple attendees can group view the training from one device only and each attendee will receive a certificate.
·ONLY the registered attendee will receive a link to join the training (Link will be sent 1-2 Days Prior to the Event)
Quiz & Certificates: Within 24 hours after the live broadcast the registered attendee will receive an email with:
·Quiz link that will need to be forwarded to each person in your group so they may print a certificate after completing the quiz. ·30 Days Access of the Recording (this link may be shared with with others in your department)
*** No Refunds After Class Link Has Been Sent***
