Mark Redwine : "We're Going To Take Polygraph"

Follow the pronouns.

He went to the pronoun "we" instead of "I"...

Did Mark Redwine drink a half bottle of Jim Beam believing he would be disqualified from the polygraph?

in the end, he knew he could not pass the test and could not dare go through with it.  Reason overruled his need to control.  He knew law enforcement was watching the show, and he appears to understand that the walls are closing on him. 

What did he do to Dylan?

Did it start with "you're not going with your friends; you're here with me!" and escalate to Dylan defending his mother's name and honor?

After the first session, in which Mark Redwine failed to deny killing his son, the drama continued as Dr. Phil had challenged Mark Redwine to take a polygraph. 

Readership weighed in on whether or not Mark Redwine would, in deed, take the polygraph. 

Not a chance. 

Mark Redwine attempted to divert attention away from himself, even blaming his ex wife, before Dr. Phil went directly after him. 

Dr Phil:  “If you have your son stashed somewhere, or if God forbid you flew into a rage and you hurt him accidentally and he’s dead, if something has happened, I will help you deal with it now, and we will go recover that young man right now … but my offer has a shelf life.”

“Just know that I offered,” said Dr. Phil.

Mark Redwine did not issue a reliable denial, nor has he since he first started speaking to the press. 

He has been unable to say he didn't do it, and in Statement Analysis we have a rule:

If someone is unable or unwilling to say he did not do it, we are not permitted to say it for him. 

A reliable denial is made up of three components; not two, and not four.  Add to a denial, and it is no longer reliable.  The innocent say so early and often, and without additional language or sensitivity. 

1.  First Person Singular, "I"

2.  Past Tense Verb  "did not" or "didn't"

3.  Allegation specific

"I’m not involved in this no matter how I come across, I’m not involved,” said Mark Redwine,

Note that this is present tense.  

Dr. Phil:  “If you’re not involved in this then there is something seriously wrong with you, because your reaction to this, something’s seriously wrong with you.”

Redwine reneged on his agreement to polygraph.  This was not a surprise to many.  The test administered by law enforcement led Redwine to disparage the polygrapher, taking a page out of Billie Jean Dunn and Justin DiPietro's playbooks. 

Dr. Phil said he had never encountered a parent of a missing child who refused a polygraph.  

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