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Dave Thompson, CFI

David Thompson, CFI, is the president and partner at Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates, providing investigative interview and interrogation training to a global audience. He has served as a subject matter expert in developing curriculum and providing consultation to investigators, attorneys, and the academic community. He can be reached at dthompson@w-z.com.

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Investigations

Random Lessons from the Room: Part Three

This is the third in a series of articles where we will discuss lessons that we have learned over the years while interviewing tens...

Investigations

Random Lessons from the Room: Part Three

This is the third in a series of articles where we will discuss lessons that we have learned over the years while interviewing tens...

Investigations

Random Lessons from the Room: Part Two

This is the second in a series of articles where we will discuss lessons that we have learned over the years while interviewing tens...

Investigations

Random Lessons from the Room: Part One

Conversations often take strange turns, leading where we never expect them to go. Such a conversation inspired this column discussing the lessons we’ve learned...

Investigations

Implicit or Explicit—Why Do It at All?

We have all dealt with and perhaps made threats and promises in our everyday lives. “You kids cut it out. Don’t make me stop...

Magazine Reviews

WZ Stands Behind Proper Justice

Fact: false criminal confessions exist. In the Interviewing column from the March–April 2017 issue of LP Magazine, David E. Zulawski, CFI, CFE, and Shane...

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Interview and Interrogation Techniques in ‘Making a Murderer’

There are several theories and strategies when it comes to the practice of investigative interview and interrogation techniques. In the past several decades, this...

Investigations

Is It Worth the Risk?

Approximately 29 percent of DNA exonerations across the United States since 1989 involved false confessions to the crime. The actual rate of false confessions...

Investigations

The Case against Confrontation

Almost nothing ever turns out well when you call someone a name. Maybe if they accept the term, it works out. But usually it...

Investigations

Uniformity?

Ever wonder what it would be like if every time we opened a bottle of our favorite cola it tasted different? Would we be...

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