He marched in front of the cameras and told everyone his girlfriend had gone missing on Valentine’s Day. But was the boyfriend faking it? Faking It: Tears of a Crime s2e5: John Tanner
The 1989 [Oxford] intake included Rachel McLean, an 18-year-old English scholar from Blackpool, Lancashire. ibid.
Two years older, he was studying over a hundred miles away in Nottingham. ibid.
We see all the worrying signs of possession, obsession, of jealousy. ibid.
* Cliff: He said yes but with closed eyes = negates statement
* C: Rolling of lips a reliable indicator of anger
* C: Series of eye closures with positive statement = cancels out
* C: Positive statement with head shake no
A £1.5 million luxury home in Hertfordshire and a visit from the major crime unit. They have a warrant and a body camera. The murder victim one of Britain’s best loved and widely read authors, Helen Bailey. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s2e6: Ian Stewart
Sees the garage door open and he’s trying to work out, Have they recovered the body? ibid. Cliff
An extraordinary story of deception, greed and murder. ibid.
Helen’s health did soon start to deteriorate. According to her internet search history she was chronically fatigued. ibid.
Four weeks into the search her brother John makes a televised appeal. Noticeably, Ian Stewart, the finance who’d reported Helen was missing, does not take part in the appeal. ibid.
He is a cold, disengaged character. ibid. Kerry
He’s manipulating throughout with his spectacles. He’s working hard to try and say the right thing. ibid. Cliff
He was trying to cash in on Helen’s estate. ibid.
* Dawn: Semantic script mode: what someone always does rather than specific day & using past tense
2006: Death on the doorstep: A special police constable stabbed and a husband suspected. Were his television appeals genuine or was he faking it? Faking It: Tears of a Crime s2e7: Fadi Nasri
London, June 2006: Flowers are laid in honour of the young woman murdered in her own home. An intruder had stabbed her in the hallway. They left her bleeding to death on the doorstep. Her name: Nisha Patel-Nasri. ibid.
In 2003 she married Fadi Nasri, a businessman seven years her senior. ibid.
‘What’s wrong with this guy? He was trying to be convincing, and in doing so, that was the last thing he was.’ ibid. editor Crimewatch
He’d recently persuaded Nisha to sign a joint life insurance policy. ibid.
They were convinced he’d hired a hit squad to murder Nisha. ibid.
* Cliff: Single-sided shoulder shrug contradicts words, eyes closed, low volume
* C: A smiling muscle is pulling up his lips. And we call this Duping Delight (the pleasure of getting away with a lie)
* C: Mouth shrug (often with shoulder shrug) = contradicts
When a nine-year-old girl goes missing, a distraught mother appeals for her return. It’s then left to the child’s stepfather to face the cameras. But does his story stand up? Faking It: Tears of a Crime s2e7: Miles Evans
Warminster in Wiltshire, January 1997: One of the biggest police searches in history. The girl’s name was Zoe Evans. ibid.
‘Miles Evans was a private in the Royal Logistics Corps. He was a driver. He worked at the garrison in Warminster.’ ibid. reporter
But his words and actions drew a different response from those present. ibid.
His [Miles] appeal created a very different impression. But was that feeling of unease justified? ibid.
There’s a movement of the upper arm. This suggests that he’s manipulating on his knee. This is something we do to comfort ourselves when we’re under stress. ibid. Cliff
If we don’t see that facial display, you need to question whether the emotion is being felt. ibid. Cliff
The DNA results arrived: they pointed to one person. ibid.
* Cliff: Eye closures x2, movement of upper arm [& head shake no?]
One of Britain’s most notorious serial killers, Levi Bellfield. By day a wheel-clamper, by night a savage predator. Four different interrogations, four very different performances. And clues to his guilt every time. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e1: Levi Bellfield
Aged 13, days before she became one of the most famous missing persons in the world, her name: Milly Dowler. At this time few knew his name. Milly’s disappearance in 2002 remained unsolved for seven years, years when Bellfield attacked and murder murdered again and again. ibid.
Millie Dowler’s disappearance in March 2002 was the latest in a series of attacks that Bellfield had got away with. 21 months later in December 2003 Bellfield was arrested for violence against a female victim, a vicious attack on a women at a bus stop. ibid.
By 2003 Levi Bellfield had committed a series of rapes and murders. But by fear and cunning he kept under the police radar. Already acquitted of one brutal attack on a woman at a bus stop, Bellfield was free to execute his hatred towards women whenever the urge took him. But in 2004 he was to be interviewed again for the murder of Amelie Delagrange. ibid.
He chooses not to speak but his body gives an affirmative nod. ibid. Cliff
Levi Bellfield’s body language once again spoke volumes. ibid.
* Cliff: Micro headshake no, single-sided shoulder shrug; exaggerated hands (convince mode) = fake story
* C: Sole comfort is to recline in chair
* C: Picks teeth (disdain) & low volume = two indicators
A young mother missing. And remarkably, her husband agrees to face the press. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e1: Nicholas Kay
Newbury in Berkshire, home to 40,000 people. And in the 1990s home to Nicholas and Rhonda Kay, husband, wife and business partners. Late in 1992 Nicholas Kay began an affair with the women who’d been renting one of their rooms. For Rhonda it would set off a catastrophic chain of events. In November 1992 Rhonda did make an appointment with her lawyer. But just a few days later she was reported missing by her friend, not by her husband. ibid.
He never mentions her name. ibid. Dawn
With no body and no explanation as to how Rhonda died, the jury at Reading Crown Court ruled Nicholas Kay not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter. He was jailed for six years and is now free. Rhonda Kay’s body has never been found. ibid.
* Cliff: Chest breathing, closes eyes, micro shoulder shrug, slight head shake no contradicts positive statement
* Have you killed your wife? slight nod
Manchester Arena, May 2017: A terror attack and a homeless man … The night terrorism came home. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e2: Chris Parker
All of that carnage and for what? ibid. Kerry
‘I’ve seen people running that way and I’ve gone back in to try and help people …’ ibid. Chris Parker to TV crew
Amid the horror, for the media there was a hero, Chris Parker, the homeless man who had gone back into the arena to help the injured and dying. ibid.
The CCTV showed Chris Parker stealing a credit card from a badly wounded woman and a mobile phone from an injured 14-year-old girl. He ignored incoming calls from her relatives desperate to find out if she was still alive. ibid.
* Chris: I’m fine, he says, but shakes his head (wild shake, no problem) but eyes closing (distancing), lips tightening, brows coming down, eyes glaring, twitching right to colleague
* When we see a disconnect between the words and gestures, suspect lie
A missing wife. The husband says it’s self-defence. But is he faking it? Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e2: Peter Wallner
A quiet road in Cobham, Surrey, the commuter belt just south of London. It’s a Friday morning – time for the fortnightly emptying of wheelie bins. But this Friday in June 2009 was different because at this house the wheelie bin was different. ibid.
‘The bin was too heavy. The rubbishmen refused to remove it, then the landlords turned up, and on his way out he looked at the bin and he saw a foot sticking out the top.’ ibid. reporter
As word spread of the discovery, police asked if anyone could remember the young woman who lived at the house. Melanie Wallner, aged 30. It was while working at this exclusive hotel in Surrey she met the chef – Peter Wallner recently arrived from Germany. ibid.
His solution is to put her out with the rubbish. And he thinks that because the rubbish is collected mechanically that she will be tipped into the garbage disposal, probably crushed, end up on a landfill and no-one would be any the wiser. And actually that so nearly could have happened. ibid. Kerry
* Cliff: Brows down (Darwin’s muscle of difficulty), flip of hand with thumb out (shrug)
* Cliff: Says no, heads says yes