Dr. Timothy Stryker

It didn't look good.

And when Stryker got back from the Caribbean, the police were eager to talk to him again.

And they told me that everything about my story was checking out okay.

But they just wanted to do a little polygraph so they could rule me out as a suspect.

And off you went to the polygraph.

And off I went to the polygraph.

According to transcripts of the lie detector session, the polygraph examiner asks Stryker, do you know why I've asked you here?

Stryker replies, the boyfriend is usually the number one suspect.

Later, Stryker is asked, did you cause the death of Lynn Gowdy?

And Stryker replies, no.

When he's asked, do you think she was murdered?

Stryker says, it's easier to accept suicide.

The police told Stryker the results of the polygraph, in their words, clearly indicated he was involved.

And that's when Tim Stryker said he did not want to continue cooperating.

The police say Stryker incriminated himself further after the polygraph when he told them, quote, I just put a noose around my neck.

I can see my world crumbling.

Did you say after the lie detector test, I just put the noose around my neck?

No, I would never say something like that.

It would have been more like, I think you guys are trying to put a noose around my neck because my feeling at the time was that these people were trying to badger me.

Soon after Stryker got an attorney, the investigation into Lynn's death stalled.