Boney took and failed a polygraph?
Absolutely. It was bad enough that the prosecutor and police took almost four and a half years in finally matching the unknown DNA at the scene with the CODIS database but it also took them over two weeks to match the palm print at the scene with Boney’s print. How long does it take for a fingerprint examiner to match fingerprints? The obvious answer is minutes if the examiner has the prints and not weeks. The ISP fingerprint examiner wasn’t provided Boney’s palm prints until March 4, 2005 or over two weeks after they were first taken. Regarding Boney’s polygraph, it was a stipulated polygraph. What is that? Simply put, a stipulated polygraph is one where both the state and the suspect agree that “the results of said examination may be introduced into evidence, without objection by either the State of Indiana or Charles D. Boney at the time of the examiner’s testimony at any trial or hearing.” Officer Doug Inghram of the Louisville Metro Police was the original polygrapher who examined
