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Pictured above: Colton Seale, Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice at New England College, teaches interpersonal communication to law enforcement.

Excerpt taken from The Keene Sentinel; July 8, 2023; by Christopher Cartwright, Sentinel Staff.

When retired FBI agent Colton Seale enters The Sentinel鈥檚 offices, he mentions he didn鈥檛 mind driving to Keene because he needed to pick up a new iPhone. It鈥檚 a seemingly insignificant comment, but an hour into the conversation鈥攃overing his time investigating kidnappings in Alaska, questioning suspected terrorists in Pakistan and researching interrogation methods in the U.S.鈥攈e tells the story.

鈥淭oday, I had to go to the iPhone store鈥� I thought that process would take like an hour, like every other time, and it took like 15 minutes,鈥� Seale said. He then went to Walmart to buy a phone charger, and, upon leaving, found someone with a head injury in the parking lot.

Is the story true? How can one tell if he鈥檚 lying? These are the questions Seale specialized in during his 21-year career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he found himself interviewing witnesses, suspects and informants. The notions of truth, lies and effective communication have tied his career together and opened the door for his post-FBI path.

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Seale, 57, was born in Colorado and moved to Peterborough after retiring from the FBI in 2020. He graduated from the University of California Davis and went to the University of Chicago for a public policy master’s. He was pursuing a PhD in sociology at UChicago when he got a consulting position with Science Applications International Corp., a technology company.

鈥淢ost people in the Bureau or whatever鈥�kind of grow up dreaming of doing that [job], and it literally never crossed my mind,鈥� Seale said. 鈥淧eople kept telling me, 鈥榊ou鈥檇 be a great FBI agent.鈥� And I鈥檓 like, 鈥業 have a ponytail and earrings. What about me is a great FBI agent?鈥欌��

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