GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A Michigan man suspected in the slaying of his wife passed a private polygraph test after he was said to have failed a police polygraph test, his lawyer said.
Bob Bashara of Grosse Pointe Park, identified by police as the only person of interest in the death of his wife Jane, passed the privately administered lie detector test, attorney David Griem told the Detroit Free Press.
Bashara reported his wife missing Jan. 24. Police found her strangled in the backseat of her car the following day in Detroit.
Capt. David Loch of the Grosse Pointe Park Police offered no comment on the lie detector tests, although Griem pointed out the second test was given to refute reports Bashara had failed a polygraph test performed for the police. The lawyer noted such tests are rarely used in court.
"There is a reason they're not admissible. The results are more often subjective than objective," he said.
The attorney pressed an attack against a former tenant and handyman, whose name was not reported. The newspaper, citing a source familiar with the investigation, said the tenant allegedly told police Bob Bashara had hired him to kill Jane Bashara.
