Dr. John C. Yulle Forensic Psychologist

Send us Fan Mail A single interview can decide someone’s future, especially when there’s no physical evidence to fall back on. We dig into a case from King County and Enumclaw, Washington involving Malcolm Fraser and Sound Doctrine Church, and we ask a hard question: what happens when the investigation itself shapes the story that later becomes “proof”?We rely heavily on forensic psychology and the science of memory, focusing on the late Dr. John C. Ewell and the interviewing standards he helped popularize, including the Stepwise interview protocol for children and adolescents. We talk about why open-ended prompts matter, how leading or suggestive questions can contaminate recall, and why repeated suggestion can lock in details that were never freely reported. If you care about eyewitness memory, child forensic interviewing, credibility assessment, and wrongful convictions, this conversation connects the research to real courtroom consequences.From there, we walk through the transcript’s allegations of investigative misconduct, prosecutorial tunnel vision, and evidence handling failures, plus what it means when appeals courts uphold a verdict despite expert critique. The goal is not just to relive one controversy, but to make the process visible so listeners can spot the difference between a careful investigation and a narrative built under pressure.If this raised new questions for you, subscribe, share the episode with someone who follows true crime or criminal justice reform, and leave a review so more people can find it. What safeguards should exist before an interview becomes the cornerstone of a conviction? www.consider.info