July 2019, London: ‘Anti-terrorism officers have this evening arrested a man suspected of plotting a series of attacks across the capital.’ Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e5: Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, news
The suspect: Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, aged 27, tells police they’ve got the wrong man. What Chowdhury didn’t know is that he had been under police surveillance ever since he had been found Not Guilty of preparing another potential terrorist attack. ibid.
The man wielding the sword was Mohiussunnath Chowdhury then aged 25. ibid.
When Chowdhury wasn’t driving his Uber, he was online devouring Islamist propaganda. ibid.
* Cliff: Clamped arms, exaggerated gestures not synchronised = likely deception, vibration from legs, rapid blink movements, lips clamp, clamping fists
A shop explodes. 5 people die but the owner survives. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e6: Aram Kurd
Leicester on the night of February 25th 2018: 50-foot flames engulf a convenience store. ibid.
There were already doubts about Kurd’s story. ibid.
Police discovered this CCTV from the day before the blast … Hawker Hassan [friend] buying petrol from a local garage. ibid.
Across Leicester in the hours leading up to the blast, other CCTV cameras had recorded the gang’s preparations. ibid.
* Cliff: Blink sandwich = Rapid blinks, statement, rapid blinks
* C: leans forward, convince mode, exaggerated gestures & single-sided shoulder shrug
* C: Inward take of breath, wide eyes = fear
A remote beauty spot and a vicious murder. An e-fit, a suspect and a deadly combination. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e6: Alexander Palmer
A summer’s day in Norfolk. Amid this rural peaceful backwater … August 5th 2017: Peter Wrighton didn’t come home. Just 35 minutes after being caught on CCTV he was dead bearing the scars of a horrific attack. The murder of the kindly retired BT engineer. ibid.
Now the police had a name, Alex Palmer, an ex-paratrooper with a bad story. ibid.
‘Alexander Palmer had been in the army since he was 16 years old … He was discharged from the military after suffering a head injury … He’d completely changed as a person.’ ibid. man
He said he heard voices urging him to kill. ibid.
Automatic number-plate recognition confirmed his route. It was enough to bring Palmer in for questioning. ibid.
Voices in the head: that’s probably true. ibid.
* Cliff: Single-sided hand shrug, micro single-sided shoulder shrug & low volume
* C: Hang shrug, micro head no, manipulating hands stop,
At home a young woman with her mother. Bent on killing them her ex-husband. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e7: Craig Savage
St Leonards on Sea: A man is captured by a security camera. In his left hand he openly carries a semi-automatic rifle. He aims at a front door. One woman in the house makes a desperate 999 call. ibid.
His name is Craig Savage. He’s killed his ex-wife Michelle and her mother Heather. ibid.
* Cliff: Fake sadness, poor acting, squeezing brow, tissue to face, no tears, rubbing head, hiding face, micro head shake no
He told the world he had nothing to do with the disappearance of his girlfriend. 27 years later accused again. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e7: John Tanner
New Zealand, September 2018, Whanganui, North Island: A 49-year old-man appears in court charged with violently attacking his girlfriend and threatening to kill her. His name John Tanner. Six months of violence had culminating in a day of repeated assaults in September 2017. ibid.
‘He’s a violent, dominant and controlling man … John Tanner is a serial perpetrator … not fit to be around women.’ ibid. Kerry
Rachel McLean: One name stood out as a possible suspect … He had killed Rachel, covered her in a rolled-up carpet and hid her under the floorboards of her house. ibid.
* Cliff: Body swaying, hands folded, increased blink rate = cognitive load & eye closures
The Babes in the Woods killer: ‘Bishop was a simmering evil paedophile whose world revolved around him and him alone.’ Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e1: Russell Bishop, dude, 2021
May 2016 and police bring a 50-year-old man in for questioning over the murder of two young girls. A case that’s been unsolved for 3 decades. In 1986, 9-year-old friends Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows were both sexually assaulted and strangled. Local man Russell Bishop was charged with the killings but later cleared. ibid.
Two members of the public discovered Nicola and Karen dead. ibid.
Right from the get-go Russell Bishop started to draw attention to himself; he joined in the search for the girls’ bodies. ibid. Kerry
February 1990 and a 7-year-old girl is snatched near her home … The young victim remembered her attacker … In December 1990 he was convicted of all charges. By the start of 2016 Bishop had been locked up for 25 years and was looking forward to his release. He didn’t know it but his past was about to catch up with him. Forensic science provided that evidence. ibid.
* Dawn: Full form: I did not do this & missing ‘I’
* Cliff: Increased blink rate & upper chest breathing = anxiety
* C: Micro head-shake no contradicts answer & single-sided shoulder shrug
East Midlands Airport October 2014: Among those passing through Departures 25-year-old care-worker Tareena Shakil. Shakil paid £400 to take her 14-month son to the Turkish resort of Antalya, supposedly on a week-long holiday. But 2 days later she contacted her family to say they wouldn’t be returning. Instead, she was preparing to take him across the border to Syria, a stronghold of the world’s most feared terrorist group, Isis. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e1: Tareena Shakil
But just 4 months later she was back in the UK insisting she’d been forced into going. When her plane touched down in February 2015 she promised to tell anti-terrorist police the full story. ibid.
Her account was vivid but important information was missing. ibid.
* Cliff: Closed posture, no eye contact, slow speech, lot of hesitations, manipulators
* C: Speed 50% faster, illustrators (hands), volume up, chin up = second half true
Groomed, held captive and murdered. Fifteen years old, the target of an online predator. How her dream date turned into a night of horror. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e2: Luke Harlow & Stephen Beadman
Kayleigh Haywood. 15 years old. Innocent. And love struck. ibid.
She’s arranged to meet a man 12 years her senior, unemployed loner Luke Harlow. ibid.
When officers searched Harlow’s flat, they found some of Kayleigh’s possessions and saw signs of a possible struggle. ibid.
There was a second man in the flat: Stephen Beadman. ibid.
There was one thing he [Beadman] couldn’t conceal: the marks on his face. ibid.
* Cliff: Sweaty palms, manipulation, cracks knuckles to release tension, pause, little headshake no to straight question,
* C: [Beadman] Says no idea but with rotation of head x2 = this is a tell; hand gesture and words not synchonised & moves back in chair & ‘I honestly can’t remember’ (convincing tactic) & clamped up
When a young woman dies her boyfriend has the perfect alibi but is it about to crumble? Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e2: James Tobin
The early hours of April 24th 2015: A 999 alert in South Wales and a caller apparently so distressed he needs his father to help explain the emergency. ibid.
The woman in the house was Kellie Gillard, a 25-year-old last seen in public just a few hours earlier looking as fit and healthy as she always did. ibid.
The 999 call had come from James Tobin, a successful amateur boxer who Kellie had been seeing for the past year. ibid.
What Tobin didn’t know is that his home had been bugged. ibid.
‘She was going to die; she was an accident waiting to happen.’ ibid. Tobin with father
* Dawn: Says ex-girlfriend x2 but not her name
* Cliff: Big swallow (anxiety) & wiping hands on trousers & manipulators, micro headshake no & convince tactic
* D: Missing ‘I’s (distancing)
* C: No direct denial & head down & sharp intake of breath