Gordon Wardell had claimed an armed gang had knocked him out and then undressed him. ibid.
The trial of the century: Olympic and Paralympic icon Oscar Pistorius accused of deliberately murdering his girlfriend – the model and TV reality star Reeva Steenkamp. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s2e4: Oscar Pistorius
The man who had everything except self-control. ibid.
‘You do everything to throw tantrums in front of people … I’m scared of you sometimes and how you snap at me and of how you will react to me.’ ibid. Reeva’s text
Dramatic mood changes, an explosive temper and a fascination with guns. ibid.
The verdict would be the most divisive of all. ibid.
Missing on Valentine’s Day: Rachel McLean just 19 with everything to live for. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s2e5: John Tanner & Paul Dyson
He was studying over a hundred miles away in Nottingham. ibid.
A boyfriend’s tears but where is Joanne Nelson? A secret journey and the marks that pointed to murder. ibid.
Joanne Nelson aged 22. Reported missing from her home. ibid.
‘Dyson takes Joanne’s body over seventy miles away.’ ibid. profiler
He confessed to a friend. ibid.
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
An extraordinary story of deception, greed and murder. ibid.
‘Hello there, my partner has been missing since Monday.’ ibid. Ian’s 999 call
‘He’s a cold, disengaged character.’ ibid. profiler
He was trying to cash in on Helen’s estate. ibid.
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: Nasri & Evans
London, June 2006: her name Nisha Patel-Nasri … In 2003 she married Fadi Nasri, a businessman seven years her senior. ibid.
Fadi Nasri went on to make further public appeals. ibid.
They were convinced he’d hired a hit squad to murder Nisha. ibid.
Warminster in Wiltshire January 1997: one of the biggest police searches in history. The girl’s name was Zoe Evans … Zoe had no apparent reason to run away. ibid.
His [Miles] appeal created a very different impression. But was that feeling of unease justified? ibid.
The DNA results arrived: they pointed to one person. ibid.
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 & Nicholas Kay, Discovery 2018
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 murdered and attacked again and again. ibid.
The police didn’t know he was already a serial rapist. ibid.
21 month 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 Lansley
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 … Rhonda did make an appointment with her lawyer but just a few days later she was reported missing by her friend not her husband. ibid.
His body language and facial gestures become clear … ‘Two reliable indicators that contradict that claim … a slight head-shake that says no … contradicts the positive statement he’s making: he’s faking it.’ ibid. Cliff Lansley
A new law gave police the power to bug private property: he [new rozzer Trevor Davies] would be the first to use it, targeting the home Nicholas Kay shared with his new wife, Sharon. ibid.
With no body and no explanation of 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.
Manchester Arena, May 2017 and a young man called Salman Abedi was in the foyer and he detonated his bomb just before the end of concert as people were dashing out.’ Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e2: Parker & Wallner, Chris Parker to TV crew
‘All of that carnage and for what?’ ibid. Kerry Daynes
‘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 a 14-year-old girl. He ignored incoming calls from her relatives desperate to find out if she was alive. ibid.
A quiet road in Cobham, Surrey … But this Friday in June 2009 was different because at this house the wheelie bin was different: ‘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.’ As word spread of the discovery, police asked if anyone could remember the 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. dude
Peter Wallner told different stories to different people. 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 that so nearly could have happened.’ ibid. Kerry Daynes, psychologist
The former television weather man Fred Talbot has been found guilty of seven charges of indecent assault on teenage boys … Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e3: Talbot & Thompson
Fred the weatherman, famous for leaping around a floating map on ITV’s This Morning, was jailed for five years … Fifteen cases would go to court … ibid.
After years of obstruction and non-cooperation Fred Talbot finally and for the first time pleaded guilty. Fred Talbot was given an additional eight months bringing his total sentence to just under ten years. ibid.
Carlisle June 2015: At midnight a teenager lies amongst the gravestones. He screamed out for help before being murdered. But it would not be until the following morning that his body would be discovered. The victim was Jordan Watson aged 14. ibid.
Very soon the police had a suspect: George Thompson, 18 … Police found traces of blood on one of the knives in his bedroom, and the glove at the cemetery contained Watson’s DNA. ibid.
For the first time ever, analysing the words and actions of Britain’s most prolific serial killer: the moment Harold Shipman appeared paralysed by fear. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e4: Harold Shipman
For the leading QC who put him behind bars: ‘At no stage in those six days of cross-examination did I detect any sense at all of regret on his part or for anything he’d done.’ ibid.
The biggest mass murder in British criminal history. Hundreds killed by one man, a local GP Harold Shipman. A position he believed gave him power over life and death. ibid.
But his power was draining away. Linking Mrs Grundy to local drug dealers was wrong and desperate. ibid.
A mystery unsolved for 33 years: Yianoulla Yianni. An amazing breakthrough. And the lies that exposed the killer … January 2016: In North London a man [James Warnock] is questioned by police … ibid.
Yianoulla Yianni was seventeen years old … ‘He decided to come up with a cock-n-ball story of how the two were having a secret affair …’ ibid. Kerry Daynes, psychologist
In an unrelated investigation, in January 2016 police arrest a local man – James Warnock, aged 56. His DNA is a direct match for DNA retrieved at the crime scene. ibid.