The Profiler with Kerry Daynes

On the night of March 3rd, 2021, during the Covid lockdown, 33-year-old Sarah Everard was walking home from a friend's house in south London. She never arrived. Days later, detectives raced the last person seen with her to one of their own: a serving Metropolitan Police officer named Wayne Couzens.
In this episode, forensic psychologist Kerry Daynes pieces together Sarah's final journey and examines the failings that let her killer hide in plain sight inside Britain's biggest police force.

In this episode
The eerie, near-empty London of lockdown, and why the phrase "she was just walking home" struck such a chord with the public
The dashcam and bus footage, and the car registration that led detectives to Couzens
Couzens's bodycam interview, and the "gang" story he invented when police pressed him
How deception experts read his body language and his words
His careful planning, the "kidnap kit" and the rehearsal drive
The vigil on Clapham Common, the police response, and the sentencing at the Old Bailey
What came out afterwards about his earlier offences, and the Met's promises of reform

Kerry's psychological insights
Why Sarah's disappearance gripped the country, and affected the everyday safety calculations so many women make
The warning signs colleagues reportedly saw, and why Kerry calls him a "ticking time bomb"
What his planning tells us about the fantasies he had likely nursed for years
How an egocentric killer can compartmentalise and put on a show of normality

Featuring
Kerry Daynes, forensic psychologist and presenter
Steve Keogh, former Scotland Yard homicide detective
Dan Rivers, ITV News
Minnie Stephenson, Channel 4 News
Professor Dawn Archer, linguistics and deception expert

Content note: This episode deals with abduction, rape and murder. Listener discretion is advised.

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Stay in touch
Website and weekly email: theprofiler.co.uk
Follow Kerry Daynes on all social media platforms, or via her Substack, which has articles to go with nearly every episode
If you enjoy the show, please follow or subscribe, leave a five-star rating or review, and share it with fellow true crime fans

Credits
• Presented by Kerry Daynes
• Produced by Shearwater Media and Heromedia Productions
• Executive producers: Jeff Anderson and Steve Anderson
• Editing and Music: Rob Warner
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In January 2006, police in Hopkinton, Massachusetts found the bodies of 27-year-old Rachel Entwistle and her nine-month-old daughter Lillian. They were lying in bed, arm in arm, shot at close range. Rachel's British husband, Neil Entwistle, was already 3,000 miles away.
In this episode, forensic psychologist Kerry Daynes profiles a man who seemed to have it all, but who had actually built his life on lies.

In this episode
How a Nottinghamshire coal miner's son and an American exchange student met at York University and built a life together
The "affluent professional" image Entwistle projected, and the debts, fake job and eBay fraud investigation behind it
How Entwistle carried out the murders - using his father-in-law’s gun – before driving to Boston Logan Airport and boarding a flight back to England to stay with his parents.
A recorded phone call with a Massachusetts state trooper, in which Entwistle says he was too upset to call 911 and hasn't even cried yet
The murder weapon, the DNA evidence, and the double life uncovered on his computer
His arrest at a London tube station, the trial, and the courtroom moment that stunned observers
Kerry's verdict on what drove him, and why she doesn't believe his story about suicide

Kerry's psychological insights
Kerry steps out of the story to examine his behaviour, including:
His flat, matter-of-fact tone on the police call
Why his claim that he considered suicide doesn't ring true
What his courtroom reaction really signified
The fantasy, entitlement and emotional detachment that led him to destroy his family

Featuring
Kerry Daynes, forensic psychologist and presenter
Steve Anderson, journalist and TV documentary producer
Joe Dwinnell, Boston Herald

Content note:
This episode deals with the murder of a woman and a baby. Listener discretion is advised.

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Stay in touch
Website and weekly email: www.theprofiler.co.uk
Follow Kerry Daynes on all social media platforms, or via her Substack, which has articles to go with nearly every episode
If you enjoy the show, please follow or subscribe, leave a five-star rating or review, and share it with fellow true crime fans

Credits
• Presented by Kerry Daynes
• Produced by Shearwater Media
• Executive producers: Jeff Anderson and Steve Anderson
• Editing and Music: Rob Warner

The Profiler with Kerry Daynes is a Shearwater Media and Heromedia production.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In November 2011, 84-year-old Betty Guy died at her home in Johnston, Pembrokeshire. Her daughter, Penny John, called 999 to say her mother had passed away after a battle with cancer. A doctor certified natural causes, and Betty was cremated four days later. Nobody suspected a thing.
Then, four years later, police received a call out of the blue. An ex-partner of Betty's grandson, Barry Rogers, claimed he had admitted to suffocating his grandmother with a pillow. Other former partners told detectives the same story.
In this episode, forensic psychologist Kerry Daynes looks at how what should have been the perfect crime unravelled. She also asks what the evidence reveals about the two people at its centre, and why Rogers couldn't keep quiet about it.

In this episode
The 999 call police pulled from the archive, and the two details in it that raised alarm bells
What petechiae are, and why those tiny marks mattered so much
How police plan and plant a covert listening device
The secretly recorded conversations between Rogers and his mother, including the moment he says "jackpot"
Kerry's analysis of the power dynamic between mother and son, and why Penny John kept repeating that her mother died "of old age"
The bug detector story that didn't add up
The 2018 trial at Swansea Crown Court and the puzzle of the missing motive

Guests
Bronwen Weatherby, LBC Wales correspondent
Danni Brooke, former undercover police officer
Professor Jason Payne-James, specialist in forensic and legal medicine
Archive audio and footage courtesy of Faking It (Series 4).

Content note:
This episode discusses murder, domestic abuse and violence against an elderly person.

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Stay in touch
If you enjoy the show, please follow or subscribe, leave a five-star rating or review, and share it with fellow true crime fans. For updates and Kerry's weekly email, visit theprofiler.co.uk. You can also follow Kerry Daynes on social media and on Substack.

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Credits
• Presented by Kerry Daynes
• Produced by Shearwater Media
• Executive producers: Jeff Anderson and Steve Anderson
• Editing and Music: Rob Warner

Content note
This episode contains detailed and distressing descriptions of child abuse and murder. Listener discretion is strongly advised. If you're concerned about a child's welfare, contact the NSPCC Helpline on 0808 800 5000, or the police on 999 in an emergency.

The Profiler with Kerry Daynes is a Shearwater Media and Heromedia production.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode features world-renowned body language expert Dr Cliff Lansley, director of the Emotional Intelligence Academy. For his online course on human behaviour and how to spot the signs of deception go to www.emotionintell.com/theprofiler

On 31 July 2021, five-year-old Logan Mwangi's body was found in the River Ogmore in South Wales, shortly after his mother, Angharad Williamson, reported him missing. In this episode, forensic psychologist Kerry Daynes examines how Logan was killed by Williamson, her partner John Cole, and Cole's teenage son Craig Mulligan, following a campaign of abuse rooted in Cole's racism towards his mixed-race stepson. Drawing on police bodycam and interview footage, and behavioural analysis from body language expert Dr Cliff Lansley, Kerry unpicks the calculated cover-up that followed Logan's death, and the catalogue of missed warning signs that preceded it.

Key psychological themes
This episode explores: child abuse and 'Cinderella Syndrome' • coercive control and complicity • deception detection and micro-expressions • racially motivated abuse • blame-shifting and the 'cutthroat defence' under interrogation • institutional failure in child protection

Contributors featured in this episode
• Kerry Daynes — Forensic psychologist, presenter, and author of Dark Side of the Mind and What Lies Buried.
• Dr Cliff Lansley — Body language expert and founder of the Emotional Intelligence Academy.
• Bronwen Weatherby — Journalist who covered the case for the Press Association.
• Hamish Auskerry — ITV Wales reporter.
• Leyla Hayes — ITV News journalist.
• Paul Barton — Former homicide detective.

What you'll learn in this episode
• Why body language expert Dr Cliff Lansley says Angharad Williamson's cries on police bodycam don't match genuine grief
• How a neighbour's security camera undid the family's story that they were all asleep when Logan disappeared
• Why detectives believe Logan was targeted by his stepfather John Cole because of his race, and how that hostility spread through the household
• How Cole, Mulligan and Williamson turned on one another once confronted with forensic evidence, in what detectives call a 'cutthroat defence'
• Why Logan's bloodstained bedsheets, quietly put through the wash the morning he died, became one of the case's most damning pieces of evidence
• What the post-mortem revealed about Logan's final hours, and why his injuries needn't have been fatal if his family had called for help
• Why Logan had been placed on the child protection register, then removed just a month before his death

Relevant links and further reading
• Kerry Daynes — Dark Side of the Mind (Endeavour, 2019)
• Kerry Daynes — What Lies Buried (Endeavour, 2021)
• Faking It: Tears of a Crime / Inside the Arrest — streaming on Discovery+
• Dr Cliff Lansley — Emotional Intelligence Academy
• Child protection support — NSPCC Helpline (0808 800 5000)

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Credits
• Presented by Kerry Daynes
• Produced by Shearwater Media
• Executive producers: Jeff Anderson and Steve Anderson
• Editing and Music: Rob Warner

Content note
This episode contains detailed and distressing descriptions of child abuse and murder. Listener discretion is strongly advised. If you're concerned about a child's welfare, contact the NSPCC Helpline on 0808 800 5000, or the police on 999 in an emergency.

The Profiler with Kerry Daynes is a Shearwater Media and Heromedia production.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 8 December 2015, 24-year-old Charlotte Brown died in the Thames after a first date with web consultant Jack Shepherd ended in his speedboat capsizing near Westminster. In this episode, forensic psychologist Kerry Daynes examines how Shepherd, driving drunk at nearly three times the speed limit with no life jackets and a disconnected safety kill-cord, tried to blame Charlotte for the crash, then vanished before his trial, living under a changed identity in Tbilisi for months while the case unfolded in his absence. Drawing on police, journalists and Shepherd's own defiant TV interviews, Kerry unpicks the verbal slips and self-serving language of a man who, even when confronted a second time over a violent offence, could only ever really think about himself.

Key psychological themes
This episode explores: narcissism and self-serving deception • victim-blaming and diffusion of responsibility • recklessness and disregard for safety • flight from justice and identity change • verbal slips and language analysis • alcohol-fuelled violence and impulse control

Contributors featured in this episode
• Kerry Daynes — Forensic psychologist, presenter, and author of Dark Side of the Mind and What Lies Buried.
• Chris Davis — Metropolitan Police detective sergeant who investigated the case.
• Dan Rivers — ITV News reporter who covered the trial and manhunt.
• John Simpson — Former crime correspondent for The Times.

What you'll learn in this episode
• How Jack Shepherd drove his speedboat at nearly three times the legal night-time limit, with no life jackets on board and a safety kill-cord left unattached
• Why he told police Charlotte had taken the controls moments before the crash, and why detectives believe responsibility still lay with him as the boat's reckless owner
• How Shepherd vanished before his own trial, was convicted in his absence, and was later tracked down living under a changed appearance in Tbilisi, Georgia
• Why Kerry identifies a telling 'verbal slip' in Shepherd's TV interview that reveals how self-focused his thinking really was
• How Shepherd tried to shift blame onto Charlotte's grieving father, and why police say the claim was baseless
• Why CCTV of an unrelated, unprovoked bottle attack in a Devon pub reveals a pattern of impulsive, alcohol-fuelled violence
• What happened when Shepherd was finally extradited, and why he remains behind bars today after breaching the terms of his licence

Relevant links and further reading
• Kerry Daynes — Dark Side of the Mind (Endeavour, 2019)
• Kerry Daynes — What Lies Buried (Endeavour, 2021)
• Faking It: Tears of a Crime — streaming on Discovery+
• BBC News — coverage of the trial and extradition of Jack Shepherd

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If you're gripped by The Profiler, with Kerry Daynes, follow the show in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. A rating or review takes thirty seconds and genuinely helps new listeners find us.

Visit theprofiler.co.uk
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Credits
• Presented by Kerry Daynes
• Produced by Shearwater Media
• Executive producers: Jeff Anderson and Steve Anderson
• Music & Editing: Rob Warner
• Edit Assistant: Kay Homan

Content note
This episode contains descriptions of a fatal accident, alcohol-fuelled violence, and victim-blaming. Listener discretion is advised.

The Profiler with Kerry Daynes is a Shearwater Media and Heromedia production.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.