Jussie Smollet, star of one of America’s biggest TV dramas. Singer, activist, and apparent victim of a violent hate and horrific crime … Was the truth even more disturbing? Faking It Special s1e9: Jussie Smollett
The Hollywood star exposed as a hoaxer. ibid.
From teenage students to Jihadi brides. The world’s most barbaric terror group and a schoolgirl recruit now desperate to come home. As Shimima Begum fights to return to the UK, debate continues to rage. Should we forgive? And can we afford to forget? Faking It Special s1e10: Shamima Begum
‘She is probably lying.’ ibid. Cliff Lansley
‘I don’t think that she is sorry. But she has been through a process of brainwashing. This is what the end result of brainwashing is.’ ibid. Kerry Daynes
‘R Kelly is a predatory rapist with dozens of victims over thirty years.’ Faking It Special s1e11: R Kelly, Jim DeRogatis, DiscoveryPlus 2023
When he makes a claim … I didn’t do it; his body is saying he did. ibid. Cliff Landsley
My God, if this is what he’s like with everyone watching him, with the cameras, what the hell does he do in private? ibid. Kerry Daynes
He’s not even trying to hide his interest in underaged girls. ibid.
R Kelly Sex Cult: Girls Held Against Their Will. ibid. article
He’s trying to play the victim but there’s no genuine emotion. ibid.
A string of federal charges … He was found guilty of all charges. ibid.
First their father was seen as a hero. Then suspicions grew. Faking It Special s1e12: Mick Philpott
Ten seconds in, the performance of fake sadness is on. ibid. Cliff Lansley
We’re ten years on now and yet this case still shocks. How can someone play so fast and loose with their children’s lives? ibid. Kerry Daynes
Mick Philpott arranged a press conference but said no questions would be allowed. ibid.
He never once mentioned those six children. ibid. observer
The child whose murder shamed a nation. And the adults who filled his life with torment. A suburban house of horrors. And a story concocted by a dad and step-mum how dissected frame by frame. Faking It Special s2e1: Labinjo-Hughes, Arthur, Discovery 2023
The shocking death of a young British mother. Her husband’s desperate plea. And his failure of words. A murder that fuelled protests against domestic violence and sparked suspicion against foreigners. Faking It Special s2e2: Caroline Crouch
‘He’s trying to create the impression of sadness by hooking his fingers into the corners of his eyeballs.’ ibid. Cliff Lansley
11 May 2021: Police arrived at the luxury house north of Athens to a devastating scene. In the main bedroom they found the lifeless body of a young woman. Her name Caroline Crouch ibid.
We’re talking Clockwork Orange levels of violence and sadism here. ibid. Kerry Daynes
Caroline was 15 when they met and he was 28. ibid.
How had Babis managed to call the police when he was tied, blindfolded and gagged? ibid. commentary
He asked for an ambulance … He didn’t know at this point he needed an ambulance. ibid. Dawn
Those diary entries charted the history of their relationship. ibid. Kerry
A spirited young woman documenting a dream road-trip across the USA. Projecting this sunny image of the perfect life. Faking It Special s2e3: The Murder of Gabby Petito
A search across American on the road and online. What happened to Gabby Petito gripped the world. ibid.
Sometimes scratches on a perpetrator is all that you will see when a women has been subject to non-fatal strangulation. ibid. Kerry Daynes
Utah police made the bodycam footage public. ibid.
A beautiful mum bludgeoned to death in her own home. And a supposedly devastated husband with a strange taste for the limelight. Grieving partner or brazen liar? Faking It Special s2e4: Joe O’Reilly
If we look at his hands, he’s reliving the moment where he was actually in the bedroom. ibid. Cliff Lansley
We’ve got all these indicators clustering within about five seconds that make him prime suspect number one. ibid.
The father who killed six of his children and tried to lame someone else. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s1e1: Quy & Philpott, Discovery 2017
A fatal blaze and a bizarre media appearance: the couple who tried to cry for the cameras. ibid.
Derby, May 2012: At four in the morning fire roars through a family’s home. ibid.
A tabloid villain … making £50,000 a year in state benefits and no job. ibid.
They cried. They lied. And they believe they can get away with it. Criminals who tried to play victims. ibid.
Lynsey Quy, 22-years-old and mother of two children … She’d marriage Mitchell Quy in 1995 while pregnant with another man’s baby but she’d suffered violence and abuse from day one. ibid.
The man who had for so long maintained his innocence decided to confess all. ibid.
February 2008: a telephone call that triggers one of the biggest police man-hunts of modern times. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s1e2: Karen Matthews
People began to notice Sharon Matthews’ unusual behaviour. ibid.
Shannon Matthews had been found alive and well. ibid.
Matthews had known all along where Shannon was. ibid.
Crying for the cameras. Lying to the public. And believing they would get away with it. But liars transmit tiny signals. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s2e1: Ian Huntley, Discovery 2017
One of Britain’s most notorious murderers. How he was faking it and for the first time spotting how he lied. A girlfriend who covered up for him. ibid.
‘A strong signal of deception’ … At odd moments Huntley’s face betrayed him. ibid. Cliff Lansley
‘Maxine talking about Holly in the past tense.’ ibid. reporter
By choosing to speak on camera both Huntley and Carr have made a crucial mistake. They helped to give themselves away. ibid.
Crying for the cameras. Lying to the public. And believing they’d get away with it. But liars transmit tiny signals. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s2e2: Andrews & Gifford-Hull
The crime that had the nation gripped: an alleged road rage murder with a shocking twist. ibid.
Worcestershire in the English Midlands December 1996: police investigate a murder in a quiet country lane, the result of a reported high speed car chase. The dead man: Lee Harvey aged 25 and father of a baby daughter. Travelling alongside him his girlfriend Tracie Andrews, 27, a single mum, barmaid and part-time model. ibid.
Birmingham Crown Court: four weeks later Tracie Andrews was found guilty of murder. ibid.
A missing mum and apparently distraught husband. A live TV appeal and what the camera weren’t meant to catch. ibid.
Winchester in the south of England: Kirsi Gifford-Hull, a 39-year-old mother of two, is reported missing from her family home. As missing stories went, this one was rare. ibid.
‘Her husband had been having several affairs with women he had met on the internet and with prostitutes.’ ibid. profiler
Crying for the cameras, lying to the public. And believing they’d get away with it. But liars transmit tiny signals … The parents who asked what everyone was thinking. Now the experts analyse the tears, the lies and the video tape. A murder that shocked a community. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s2e3: Shafelia Ahmed & Gordon Wardell
Warrington, Cheshire, 2003: A press conference guaranteed to capture national attention. ibid.
Police began to investigate what Shafilea had told her friends – frequent rows she’d been having with her parents. ibid.
Her parents were found guilty of her murder. ibid.
Robbery, kidnap and murder: but is the grief-stricken husband faking it? ibid.
Nuneaton in Warwickshire 1994: scene of a headline-grabbing crime. The victim: Carole Wardell, 39-years-old, married and a building society manager. ibid.