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.
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