A mother murdered found by her husband. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e1: David Pomphret
Warrington, Cheshire, November 2018: The victim – his wife: Ann Marie Pomphret. The scene – the secluded stables where they kept horses, 2 miles from their £500,000 home. ibid.
The first clue – his reluctance to mention Ann-Marie’s name in the 999 call. ibid.
If this was genuine sadness, you would expect to see tears. ibid. Cliff
After murdering his wife, Pomphret moved quickly to cover his tracks. ibid.
* Cliff: Raised eyebrows, asymmetric (genuine sadness brows symmetrical) & this is a forced sob & no tears & he relives incident with aggressive fists and hand gestures
Jeremy Bamber, charged with killing five members of his family … It was in the early hours of August 7th 1985 that a report came in that would shatter for ever the peaceful image of White House Farm. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e2: Jeremy Bamber
Bamber’s slow driving seemed odd. So did his explanation of his father’s phone call. ibid.
Bamber said straight from the outset, My sister’s a nutter. And because they believed that she was ‘a nutter’, it was easy for them to believe that she was capable of being the killer. ibid. Kerry
Massacre at White House Farm: Suicide girl kills twins and parents. ibid. Daily Express front page
I’m very confident he’s not sad. This is a fake pose. ibid. Cliff
* Cliff: Fake grief: all we see is side of face, hand covering face, brows asymmetric (we should see raised brows), pout on bottom lip (forcing chin boss upward, or pout) = we can be sure he’s faking it
Luton, Bedfordshire, May 23rd 2016: Just before midnight paramedics call police to a house 3 miles west of the town centre. They had been trying to save a woman [Saima Khan] stabbed in her own home but it’s too late. The victim is Saima Khan, a 34-year-old careworker. Her 4 children were asleep in their beds while their mother was murdered. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e2: Sabah Khan
Sabah Khan said she was upstairs in the bathroom when her sister Saima returned home. She had called down to her. ibid.
The murder had been long and brutal. ibid.
When the police started looking at the family, things got more complicated and dire. ibid.
‘She wanted Hafeez to herself. And she referred her sister as ‘that bitch’ in text messages to Hafeez.’ ibid. woman
Sabah Khan’s own words give her away. ibid.
* Cliff: Eyes wide open (fear) … high-pitched whiny voice
He threatened some of Britain’s most powerful falsely claiming they were paedophiles and child-killers. But what clues were there about the man known as Nick. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e3: Carl Beech
He claimed that as a child he and other had been sexually abused by a group of powerful men, a VIP paedophile ring that went to the top of the British establishment. ibid.
‘Crucially, he said three children had been killed.’ ibid. man
The emotions and the behaviour he’s exhibiting don’t fit with the account that he’s relating. ibid. Cliff
* Cliff: Very little eye contact, head down, not connected = deception may be at play
* C: Slight headshake no, micro shoulder raise contradicts ‘taken out of school’, pauses = depception
* Dawn: long pauses throughout, generic vague
* C: manipulating leg, feeling anxious &
* C: issue prop, no tears
Pembrokeshire, west Wales, 2011: Police receive a heartbreaking phone call. 4 days later Betty Guy was cremated. 4 years later a murder investigation began: a woman approached police claiming Betty Guy had been murdered. The man she accused – her former partner and Betty’s grandson, Barry Rogers. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e3: Barry Rogers
But why would anyone want to suffocate an 84-year-old woman? ibid.
Another interview, another giveaway. ibid.
He’s not convincing anyone and he’s panicking. ibid. Kerry
* Cliff: Legs moving up and down 45rpm, anxiety, stress, convince mode, checks interviewer with eye stare, drop of volume = lie
C: left hand manipulates, uneasiness, increasing anxiety, dry mouth (takes drink)
* C: mother head shakes no & lifting shoulder while claiming she didn’t head question & hang wringing then hand shrug = lie
Hunting a suspected serial killer. He’s murdered two women but are there more? Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e4: Christopher Halliwell
Swindon, March 19th 2011 2:52 a.m.: A young woman leaves a nightclub, turns out of the door then heads home, then vanishes. Her name, Sian O’Callaghan. ibid.
‘Other CCTV around in the area showed a green Toyota Avensis with a taxi label on the side.’ ibid. rozzer
The car was tracked back to a 47-year-old local taxi driver. His name: Christopher Halliwell. ibid.
By 2015 Halliwell had been convicted of Sian’s murder. ibid.
What did Halliwell want protection from? ibid.
‘Will clearing this up be enough to stop everything else?’ ibid. Halliwell to rozzer
* Cliff: Gesturing like a card game
* C: Long-distance stare: is he really visualising these other cases?
* Dawn: Much more controlled. He knows the seriousness
September 4th 2014: A beauty spot and a brutal death [Pennie Davis]. Who is the mystery man in the mystery car? Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e4: Justin Robertson
The New Forest, Hampshire … The darkest crimes can happen in the most beautiful places. And in September 2014 one of them happened here. ibid.
‘Police teams scouring the fields near Beaulieu today where Pennie Davis’s body was found on Tuesday afternoon – a full-scale murder investigation launched as police reveal the 47-year-old mother of five had been killed by multiple stab wounds as she tended to her horses in this open field in broad daylight.’ ibid. TV news
Justin Robertson: He was dishonest, he had a string of convictions for burglaries and thefts, and he used to deal drugs and as well as take drugs … If you didn’t do as he said, he could be lethal. ibid. Kerry
‘Nobody will ever describe me as a murderer or somebody involved in a murder. It’s not my thing. It really isn’t.’ ibid. Robertson
Police were now convinced that both Carr & Robertson were involved in Pennie’s murder. ibid.
* Cliff: Double-handed shrug (no confidence), turn of hands disconnects = deception & lip press (control speech) = deception
* C: Fiddles with paper throughout
* C: Micro handshrug, says I think …, micro head gesture no
A heartbreaking discovery: a mother and baby daughter killed and a husband on trial. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e5: Neil Entwistle
Neil Entwistle’s life was a lie. There was no job in England, no salary, no offshore account. ibid.
‘Two police officers enter the house and they detect a foul odour in the air, and they instantly know it is the odour of death’ ibid. reporter
The scene of a heartbreaking double murder that shocked America and Britain. Immediately, it seemed police knew who the killer was. By now they knew Neil Entwistle had flown to England. ibid.
The smile is there in all its glory. ibid.