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The Truth Is In The Writing

September 29, 2026 · 60 min

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Absolutely — I’d front-load the searchable terms while keeping the description compelling and credible. I’d also include statement analysis, deception detection, forensic linguistics, criminal investigations, law enforcement interviews, true crime, and Peter Hyatt naturally throughout.

Can you detect deception through the words someone chooses?

What if the truth is hiding in plain sight—in the language, phrasing, and details people use when they tell their stories?

On this episode of Liars & Lovers, host Lisa Ribacoff sits down with Paul Maillardet, a practitioner of statement analysis and an expert in analyzing language for potential indicators of deception, truthfulness, and credibility.

Paul explores the fascinating world of statement analysis, deception detection, investigative interviewing, and the psychology of language. Trained by the late Peter Hyatt, Paul continues to teach statement analysis to a worldwide community that includes investigators, law enforcement professionals, intelligence personnel, analysts, psychologists, and true crime enthusiasts.

Lisa and Paul discuss how the words people choose—and sometimes the words they avoid—can provide clues during criminal investigations, police interviews, financial crime investigations, forensic interviews, and everyday conversations.

They explore questions such as:

• What can a person's language reveal about their account of events?
• How can statement analysis be used in investigative interviews?
• What linguistic patterns may raise questions about a statement?
• Why do people sometimes reveal information without realizing it?
• What can omissions, changes in wording, and unnecessary details tell an investigator?
• How does statement analysis differ from simply listening for lies?
• What can we learn from the language of suspects, witnesses, and victims?

This episode takes a deeper look at the connection between language, psychology, deception, credibility, and human behavior—and why listening carefully may reveal more than simply hearing what someone says.

If you’re interested in true crime, criminal investigations, deception detection, statement analysis, forensic interviewing, interrogation techniques, psychology, law enforcement, behavioral analysis, and the science of human communication, this conversation is one you won't want to miss.

Can words betray a liar—or reveal a truth they never intended to tell?

🎧 Listen to Liars & Lovers with Lisa Ribacoff and Paul Maillardet.

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