The seven seconds that proved Levi Bellfield was GUILTY: Body language experts reveal how Milly Dowler's killer unwittingly exposed his LIES in police interview about earlier horrific attack
- Psychologists and linguists have analysed video from four police interrogations
- They claim to have exposed 'tells' that gave away Bellfield's guilt in several cases
- Includes an 'affirmative nod' when asked if he killed student Amelie Delagrange
- He's also seen trying to hide body language during interviews over Milly Dowler
Body language experts have revealed the tell-tale signs that prove Levi Bellfield was lying about attacking and murdering women during police interviews.
Psychologists and linguists have analysed footage from four police interrogations with serial killer Bellfield, the infamous murderer of 13-year-old Milly Dowler.
They claim to have exposed 'tells' that gave away Bellfield's guilt in several cases, including an 'affirmative nod' when asked if he killed student Amelie Delagrange.
Footage also reveals numerous signs of deception in just seven seconds of one interview in which he was questioned about a bus stop attack in 2003.
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Experts also analysed tapes into the Milly Dowler murder, during which he tries to stop his body leaking information by crossing his legs and clamping hold of his knee (pictured)
Experts claim to have exposed 'tells' that gave away Bellfield's guilt in several cases, including an 'affirmative nod' (shown) when asked if he killed student Amelie Delagrange
In the video, he drops his shoulder, exaggerates with his hands and then shakes his head during an affirmative answer, all of which are indications of deception.
Experts also analysed tapes from the Milly Dowler investigation, during which he tries to stop his body from giving away information by crossing his legs and holding his knee.
The tell-tale signs have been analysed for the first time as part of an episode of Faking It: Tears of a Crime, which will air on Friday night on Discovery.
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Bellfield is currently serving a whole life sentence for Milly's abduction, rape and murder in 2002.
Milly was snatched from the street while on her way from school to her home in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
Her body was found in a wood in Yateley Heath, Hampshire - 25 miles from Walton-on-Thames, and he was not caught and jailed for the crime until 2011.
Psychologists and linguists have analysed footage from four police interrogations with serial killer Bellfield (left), the infamous murderer of 13-year-old Milly Dowler (right)
In one video, he drops his shoulder, exaggerates with his hands (pictured) and then shakes his head during an affirmative answer, all of which are indications of deception
He was already serving a jail term for the murders of Amelie Delagrange in 2004 and Marsha McDonnell in 2003, as well as the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy in 2004.
He lived 50 yards from where Milly vanished but, as a result of the blunders by police, did not become a suspect until arrested in 2004 for other attacks.
Police are now looking into a number of other crimes in the wake of his shock confession.
Bellfield, who married four times and had 11 children by five different mothers before he was jailed, is already suspected of several other attacks.
At the time of his conviction in June 2011, detectives said they believed Bellfield may have been responsible for around 20 attacks on women which were never solved.
These included the killing of Judith Gold, who was hit over the head in Hampstead, north London, in 1990, and Bellfield's schoolfriend Patsy Morris, 14, who was strangled on Hounslow Heath, west London, in 1980.
CCTV footage showing a Daewoo Nexia identical to the car owned by the girlfriend of Levi Bellfield in Walton-on-Thames, half an hour after Milly Dowler was last seen
Murder victim Amelie Delagrange is shown as she boarded a bus shortly before she was found suffering from fatal head wounds in Twickenham
Anna Maria Rennie identified Bellfield as the man who tried to force her in to a car in Whitton, west of London, when she was just 17 in October 2001.
Attempts for a retrial for attempted kidnap failed when Miss Rennie refused to attend court.
A jury at Bellfield's 2008 trial for the murders of two other women could not agree and the charge was left on file.
It has been reported that Bellfield will be questioned in prison over the murders of a mother and daughter Lin and Megan Russell, who were tied up and beaten with a hammer while walking down a country lane near Canterbury, Kent.
Michael Stone, 55, was found guilty of the murders in 1996 but has continued to protest his innocence.
The 'bus stop killer': A timeline of Levi Bellfield's attacks
French student Amelie Delagrange
March 21 2002: Milly, 13, is walking home from school in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, when she disappears. Her remains are found six months later 25 miles away.
February 2003: Marsha McDonnell, 19, gets off a bus near her home in Hampton after a night out with friends, and is struck three times on the back of the head with a blunt object by Bellfield.
May 2004: Kate Sheedy, 18, is left for dead after Bellfield runs her down in his car after she gets off a bus in Isleworth after spending the evening with friends.
August 2004: Amelie Delagrange, 22, is battered to death by Bellfield after she gets off at the wrong bus stop and is attacked walking across Twickenham Green. She dies of head injuries.
Marsha McDonnell was attacked after getting off the bus
February 2008: Bellfield is convicted of the murders of Marsha and Amelie, and the attempted murder of Kate.
March 2010: Bellfield is charged with killing Milly.
May 2011: Bellfield goes on trial at the Old Bailey after he denies abducting and murdering Milly.
June 2011: Bellfield yawns as he is found guilty of Milly's murder. The following day he refuses to attend court where he is jailed for life. Bellfield becomes the first person to receive two whole-life terms.
February 2012: Bellfield loses a Court of Appeal bid to challenge his conviction for Milly's kidnap and murder.
January 2016: Bellfield admits abducting, raping and killing schoolgirl Milly Dowler for the first time, Surrey Police say.
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