The speedboat killer: The victim just 24, the boat owner determined to escape punishment. He claims to be innocent. But does his story add up? Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e3: Jack Shepherd
2015: A speedboat owner gets ready to take his new date on a sightseeing tour. His name Jack Shepherd. ibid.
On her cameraphone Charlotte can be heard commenting on the speed. ibid.
Three miles from home their ride came to a sickening end as the boat hit a submerged object, and then overturned. It took search teams 20 minutes to find Charlotte, who died from the effects of the icy water soon afterwards. ibid.
* Cliff: Dry sniffs, tissue, no signs on face, forcing voice to sound sad & double-sided shoulder shrug
* Dawn: Being careful, can’t remember, thinking only of self
* D: Further lies in interview of low alcohol levels
* C: Single-handed shrug to camera
Ashford, Kent: April 30th 2012 one man arrives with murder in mind, 38-year-old Ivan Esack. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e4: Ivan Esack
Ivan Esack walks in and then he attacks her [Natalie, ex-wife] with the knife. ibid.
Esack was a bully, and he subjected Natalie to violence and abuse, and she had left several times and was persuaded to go back to him. ibid. Kerry
‘Just lost the plot, basically.’ ibid. Esack
Evidence some emerged of his menacing behaviour in the weeks leading up to it. ibid.
* Cliff: blames victim, micro head shake no (multiple), single sided hand shrug (multiple) = he didn’t just snap
* Dawn: being careful with words, convince mode
35 years on and still Britain’s biggest unsolved missing person’s inquiry: Suzy Lamplugh. The prime suspect who is not what he seems: John Cannan. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e4: John Cannan
28th July 1986: Suzy Lamplugh, 25, an estate agent, leaves her office at midday, her diary recording an appointment with Mr Kipper. She’s never seen again. ibid.
Aged 14, John Cannan committed his first sexual attack; more followed, culminating in an attack at a local precinct in 1981. ibid.
John Cannan was jailed for rape. After spending 5 years in prison he moed to Bristol and enrolled at a dating agency under a false name. ibid.
He tried to kidnap a woman near the Bristol waterfront but her screams forced him to run away. ibid.
Three weeks later, more than 100 miles away, in Lemington Spa, police arrest a man after he uses a knife to threaten a shop assistant: his name John Cannan. ibid.
The photofit of Mr Kipper, the man seen with a woman who looked like Suzy Lamplugh on the day she went missing, bore a striking resemblance to John Cannan. ibid.
After he was jailed for life for the murder of Shirley Banks in Bristol, and other violent sexual attacks, officers investigating the Suzy Lamplugh case questioned John Cannan in prison. ibid.
* Cliff: Superficial charm, faking it, contempt then fear, fear in eyes
* Dawn: Language giving him away
* Kerry: Psychopaths tend to use more Malapropisms
* C: No Denial, evasiveness,
10th June 2017: a 21-year-old man is rushed to the A&E unit at Bedford Hospital. His name: Alex Skeel. Alex tells police the person who has attacked him is his 22-year-old girlfriend, Jordan Worth. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e4: Jordan Worth
Jordan Worth pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent, and was the first woman in the UK to be guilty of the new offence of coercive control. She was jailed for seven and a half years. ibid.
* Cliff: Trying to create vulnerability, but right hand clenched & hand gesture of stabbing (reliving moment) & gentle smile on face
* Dawn: Volume drops, hesitation, pauses
* C: Yes I do pour boiling water on him, but different place
When a pregnant mum goes missing her husband [Mark Galante] joins the search. But is he hiding vital information? Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e5: Mark Galante
Stanhope Gardens, home in 2006 to a young couple Mark and Jody Galante. On January 7th, Mark Galante telephoned police saying he was due to collect Jody at the local shopping mall, but when he’d arrived with daughter Zayla, Jody hadn’t showed up. ibid.
He had started an affair with a woman he’d met on the internet. ibid. Kerry
From the start police had suspected Jodie’s husband, Mark Galante. ibid.
* Dawn: Uses past tense & long pause & evasion
* Cliff: Awkward performance, constant headshake no, anger and disgust, tiny single-sided shoulder shrug, past tense & no tears & tissue
* C: At funeral distorted mouth arches up = fake sadness
January 1993: In a remote woodland in Berkshire two men meet to seal a drugs deal. The buyer is carrying around £6,000 in cash. The seller claims to have three kilos of cannabis. But he’s lying. After driving the buyer to a deserted spot to complete the supposed handover, he orders him out of the car, forces him on to his knees and fires a single shotgun bullet into his head from 6 inches. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e5: Andrew Everson
The victim was 31-year-old David Watkins from Reading. ibid.
Everson stood trial at Reading Crown Court. That verdict [Not Guilty] came after doubts about the scientific evidence … It would be another quarter century before the wheels of justice finally caught up with him … Fibre analysis had moved on, and scientists were able to look again at whether Watkins had been inside the vehicle on the night he was shot. ibid.
* Cliff: Micro shoulder gesture with affirmative statement
* Dawn: Anxiety, no explanation for evidence, minimising language e.g. ‘sell him a bit of drugs’ & ‘I did not kill this man’ (convince mode) &
* C: Anxiety lips press, little bite, upper chest breathing, fear on face (corner of mouth pulled back & eye closure & hand turn & little head shake no = you weren’t shocked; you were there when you did this
When a mum [Anna] and her daughter are declared missing, her husband [John Sharpe] breaks down in public. Is his distress genuine? Or is he hiding a terrible secret? Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e6: John Sharpe
So this is a very very poor attempt at portraying concern and sadness. ibid. Cliff
Melbourne on Australia’s south coast. 40 miles from the centre stands the sun-drenched suburb of Mornington. At the centre of that horror – 41 year old Anna Kemp, devoted mother of a 20-month-old daughter, and with another baby on the way. ibid.
Despite his protests of innocence, the questions wouldn’t go away. ibid.
‘Anna’s family were suspicious right from the start.’ ibid. journalist
‘He knew the game was up.’ ibid. journalist
Sharpe shot Gracie [daughter] with the gun four times. He then dumped her at a municipal tip along with Anna’s dismembered body parts. It took a police team three weeks to comb throught he refuse and find them. ibid.
* Cliff: Fake sadness & prolonged eyeblink & squirming with his brows (unusual) & mouth raised into a growl = face contortions
* Dawn: He’s trying too hard & ‘either of them’ is distancing & volume drops, words are painful = he is struggling, no confidence in what he is saying
* C: Multiple indicators of deception: Prop of tissue, no tears, pained expression, mouth raised upwards, he says ‘I haven’t harmed either of them’ & prolonged headshakes after the words (convincing) & asymmetric brows & nothing from lower face, so we know this is a pose
A wealthy city banker suspected of murder. Does his account add up? Or is he faking it? Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e6: Zahid Naseem
26th May 2018: Police mount an urgent search for a 29-year-old woman. Hours earlier, Christina Abbots had missed a long-awaited get-together leaving her family to fear the worst. ibid.
2.20 a.m. Officers forced their way inside. There, they found her battered and blood-stained body in the bedroom. But she wasn’t alone. In an adjoining room and apparently unconscious a middle-aged man [Zahid Naseem] wearing only a dressing-gown. ibid.
He’s half-naked and he’s locked in a flat from the inside that doesn’t belong to him, and Christina’s body is in the bedroom next door. So he’s got some pretty big eplaining to do, hasn’t he? ibid. Kerry
The man was Zahid Naseem, a 47-year-old father of two, who lived 60 miles away in Buckinghamshire. ibid.
He had no explanation for why Christina is dead. ibid.
She’d been strangled with bare hands and bludgeoned thirteen times with the kitchen pestle. ibid.