studying
session. However, it is also possible that Tommy, to
some degree or another successfully deceived Dr.
Lesse.
The patient was questioned intensively with
regard to any referential trends towards his peers or
towards Martha Moxley. He was questioned intensively
with regard to strong sexual desires towards girls or
to Martha Moxley. I could not elicit any evidence of
strong feelings towards the murdered girl. Indeed,
this young man appears to be psychosexually very
immature. I believe this interview is very valid. The
patient was so anxious in relationship to the needle
that the level of anxiety that was present would have
tended to block or prevent a deliberate falsification
of the response.
Lesse does not include any quotes from Tommy's
testimony under sodium amytal, nor does he explain
what exactly Tommy's "attitudes and emotions" were.
Moreover, he seems inexplicably willing to overlook
the obvious when it comes to evaluating Tommy's
behavior. The test was performed in the
patient's room. As the needle was inserted, he became
extremely apprehensive once again, began to whimper
and at times cried openly. "Please take it out,
please take it out!" he held his body rigid and had
to be reassured that nothing would go amiss.
Dr. Lesse does not consider the possibility that
Tommy's strong reaction to the test was not only fear
of needles, but a fear of being exposed as a liar.
Since we now know Tommy was, at the time,
being untruthful, he had an understandable motive for
fearing how the sodium amytal would effect him in
this regard.
From the sodium amytal interview section of Dr.
Lesses's report: [Tommy] was queried on a
point by point basis as to the events that had taken
place on the night of October 30th and on October
31st. He was repeatedly questioned with regard
[^] his attitudes and
emotions prior to, during and since October 30th. The
patient's response did not deviate from that which he
[sic] had been obtained by direct
questioning when he was fully awake as they pertained
to the Martha Moxley
murder.
With his original story, which we now know to be
partly untrue, we suspect Tommy may have passed one
polygraph test and rendered another inconclusive. As
such, we have good reason to suspect Tommy was able
to deceive the polygraphers.
On October 7, 1994 [footnote
1] , Tommy broke down in tears and informed
Sutton investigators that he had, in fact, spent at
least an additional twenty minutes with Martha Moxley
behind his house. From a Sutton Associates memorandum
regarding this interview: They began an
extended (20 minute) kissing and fondling session
which includes mutual fondling (breast, vagina, and
penis), and is concluded when both masturbate partner
to orgasm. At this point (approximately 9:50 pm),
both Martha and Tom rearrange their clothes and
Martha says good night. She is last seen by Tom
hurrying across the rear lawn towards her home. Tom
stated that he did not open Martha's brassiere;
however, he did fondle her breasts while his hand was
under her outer garments and shirt. He further stated
that he opened Martha's pants, slightly pushing them
down. He fondled her vagina without pushing her
panties
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