Shameless killers who were interviewed on TV – before being found guilty of grim crimes

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Serial killers sometimes give interviews after they’ve been sentenced – but what is even more macabre is when we find out someone was interviewed before they were caught.These interviews reveal how cold-blooded killers would occasionally imitate the emotions that ordinary people would experience if they were the victim of a heinous crime.Here the Daily Star has rounded up five convicted criminals who spoke to TV crews before they were arrested for their heinous crimes.Bus driver Darren Vickers befriended, groomed and abused eight-year-old Jamie Lavis before killing him in Openshaw, Greater Manchester in 1997.He said he was the last person to see the youngster when he drove him on the bus.

In a truly dark twist, Darren quickly joined the search for the little boy and spoke on TV and purporting to represent Jamie's shattered parents John and Karen Lavis.Desperate to find their son, Jamie's parents even permitted Darren to move in with them during the search, moving out of their own bed so he could be there.Jamie's dismembered body was eventually found on a golf course, with his head and limbs missing, and Darren was jailed for life and ordered to serve 25 years in 1999.A 2018 documentary,Faking It: Tears Of A Crime, analysed the statements Vickers made during the search for Jamie and revealed the killer gave himself away.Body language expert Cliff Lansley says that when Darren spoke to TV reporters he showed he was lying by repeatedly shaking his head and occasionally shrugging his shoulders.“The head shake is tiny but it's a gift to a body language analyst because those tiny gestures are below consciousness and they leak the contradiction to the statement he is making,” Mr Lansey said on the programme.The shocking murder.