Michael Brookes and David Wilson on Voice of a Killer Special
I was lucky to holiday in Burgundy this summer. Every afternoon I ignored the heatwave and pool outside, however. I was watching killers being interviewed on my laptop.
This was homework for the new series of Voice of a Killer Special, on which I am a contributor. This CBS Reality programme takes an intriguing look at how the police interview murderers.
Using real-life interviews, lip-synched by actors, the episodes bring to life the psychologically twisting encounters between detectives and suspects.
Professor Mike Berry has studied the Williams case
Sex offender Colonel Russell Williams
These are nothing like TV cop dramas. They tend to be low-key, very long and sometimes a little dull.
But, if you watch closely, there is always something going on beneath the surface.
The series’ opener is about a particularly chilling and unpleasant killer, Colonel Russell Williams of the Royal Canadian Airforce. He graduated from burglarising homes, stealing female underwear, which he photographed himself wearing, before moving on to rape and murder.