Spotting the lies of the murder of Madeleine part 2

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Train to lie spotters get to the truth 90% of the time. The rest of us were only 54% accurate. Why is it so easy to learn? Well, they're good liars and they're bad liars. They're no real original liars. We all make the same mistakes. We all use the same techniques. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you two patterns of deception. And then we're going to look at the hot spots and see if we can find them ourselves. We're going to start with speech. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody it's a lie. Not a single time. Never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people. Thank you. Okay. What were the telltale signs? Well, first we heard what's known as a non-contracted denial. Studies show that people who are over-determined in their denial will resort to formal rather than informal language. We also heard distancing language, that woman. We know that liars will unconsciously distance themselves from their subject. We're not the ones that has done something wrong. Can you express me? You've gone into that apartment and taken a little girl away from a family. Now, Bill Clinton has said, well, they tell you the truth. Or Richard Nixon's favorite in all candor. He would have been a dead giveaway for any lie spotter that knows the qualifying language as it's called qualifying language like that. Further discredits the subject. Did you kill your daughter? No. That's an infarticule. That's an infarticule. No. That's an infarticule. Now, if he had repeated the question in its entirety or if he had peppered his account with a little too much detail. Well, the shutter was open. The window was open. I'm not lying about that. And even if they wanted to say theoretically, or she wandered out of the back of the apartment, they were basically saying a three-year-old has opened the long curtains, closed them behind her, opened the patio doors, closed them behind her, opened the gate at the top of the stairs, closed that behind her. And don't say what they're supposed to mean. It's just not possible. He would have further discredited himself. Freud had it right. Freud said, look, there's much more to it than speech. No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips. And we all do it. No matter how powerful you are, we all chatter with our fingertips. With body language, here's what you got to do. You really got to just throw your assumptions out the door. Let the science temper your knowledge a little bit. Because we think liars fidget all the time. Well, guess what? They're known to freeze their upper bodies when they're lying. We rehearse our words, but we rarely rehearse our gestures. We say, yes, we shake our heads no. We tell very convincing stories. We slightly shrug our shoulders. We commit terrible crimes and we smile at the delight in getting away with it. Now, that smile is known in the trade as duping delight. And we're going to see that in several videos moving forward, but we're going to start for those of you that don't know him. This is presidential candidate John Edwards, who shocked America by fathering a child out of wedlock. We're going to see him talk about getting a paternity test. See now if you can spot him saying, yes, while shaking his head no, slightly shrugging his shoulders, lots of people. I'm happy to participate in one. I know that it's not possible that this job could be mine because of the timing of events. So I know it's not possible. Happy to take a paternity test and would love to see it happen. Okay, those head shakes are much easier to spot once you know to look for them. You know, we're not going to comment anything, but you know, there is absolutely no way we use any set of drugs up anything like that. And you know, we we have cooperated fully with the police will answer any queries. Any test that they want to do at any point will answer any queries. Any test that they want to do at any point. Now, there are going to be times when someone makes one expression while masking another that just kind of leaks through in a flash. Murderers are known to leak sadness. Your new joint venture partner might shake your hand, celebrate, go out to dinner with you, and then leak an expression of anger. And we're not all going to become facial expression experts overnight here, but there's one I can teach you that's very dangerous and that's easy to learn. And that's the expression of contempt. Now, with anger, you've got two people on an even playing field. It's still somewhat of a healthy relationship, but when anger turns to contempt, you've been dismissed. It's associated with moral superiority and for that reason, it's very, very hard to recover from. Here's what it looks like. It's marked by one lip corner pulled up and in. It's the only asymmetrical expression. And in the presence of contempt, whether or not deception follows and it doesn't always follow, look the other way, go the other direction, reconsider the deal, say no, thank you. I'm not coming. I was madly not set the night before about being left alone. Had she had a moment and got out of bed and started crying and started looking for her. I mean, I don't want to dwell on it too much, but I don't know if you saw the documentary last night, so I'm going to have talk about it. Madeleine made a comment in passing that where were you when I cried. Not just to mummy, but either way, just generally. It just seemed a bit odd. I mean, it was a very kind of passing remark and we just thought she doesn't usually wake up and she woke up. That means that, you know, she was to fall in the back of sleep very quickly and then she moved on. But she moved on. Anybody with young children will understand. Here's what it looks like. It's marked by one lip corner pulled up and in. It's the only asymmetrical expression. And in the presence of contempt, whether or not deception follows and it doesn't always follow, look the other way, go the other direction. Now we've talked a little bit about how to talk to someone who's lying, how to spot a lie. And as I promise, we're now going to look at what the truth looks like. And I'm going to show you two videos. Two mothers. One is lying, one is telling the truth. And these were surfaced by researcher David Matsumoto in California. And I think they're an excellent example of what the truth looks like. This mother, Diane Downes, shot her kids at close range. Drove them to the hospital while they bled all over the car. Claimed a scraggie-haired stranger did it. And you'll see when you see the video. She can't even pretend to be an agonizing mother. What you want to look for here is an incredible discrepancy between horrific events that she describes. And her very, very cool demeanor. And if you look closely, you'll see doping delight throughout this video. But at night when I close my eyes, I can see Christy reaching her hand out to me while I'm driving. And the blood just keeps coming out of her mouth. And that, maybe it'll fade too with time. But I don't think so. That harms me the most. Just take us through the emotional experience you go through. I mean, the main thing for us is known if the sighting is credible or not really. To be honest, we don't go through that emotional rollercoaster with regards to the sightings. From the moment that someone says, I'm definite that I've seen Madeline to when it's discounted. I mean, the main thing for us is known if the sighting is credible or not really. I'm definite that I've seen Madeline to when it's discounted. I mean, the main thing for us is known if the sighting is credible or not really. Do you kill your daughter? No. That's something fat, you know. Now I'm going to show you a video of an actual grieving mother, Erin Runyon, confining her daughter's murder and torture in court. Here you're going to see no false emotion, just the authentic expression of a mother's agony. I wrote the statement on the third anniversary of the night you took my baby. And you heard her? Then you crushed her? You terrified her? Tell her her heart stopped. And she fought. And I know she fought you. But I know she looked at you with those amazing brown eyes and you still wanted to kill her. And I don't understand it and I never will. Okay, there's no doubting the veracity of those emotions. From the moment that someone says, I'm definite that I've seen Madeline to when it's discounted. We see this during every day, every dream we eat ribs. But we didn't find the clue that that girl was in that house. She said, please help me get out. So I'm hoping the door, we can't get in that way. The body can't press through the door on your hand. So we could kick the bottle. And she comes out and she says, get some old girls up in that house.