Interview with Jim Smyth: Colonel Russell Williams Interview Interrogator

Colonel Russell Williams Interview and Interrogation was performed by Jim Smyth. What do four of the world's top body language, behavior, and interrogation experts want to know from Ontario Provincial Police Detective Superintendent Jim Smyth? How did DS Jim Smyth get Williams to confess!

Detective-Sergeant Jim Smyth began his career with the York Regional Police (in Ontario, Canada) in 1988 before joining the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in 1997.

In 2003, Smyth completed the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship Understudy Program, resulting in certification as a criminal profiler. In 2006, Jim completed the Canadian Police College Polygraph Examiner's course resulting in his certification as a forensic polygraph examiner and forensic interviewer.

Smyth's interrogation techniques have earned the attention of other police agencies, law school classrooms, and even the general public.

Many people, such as journalist Michelle Lund, have commented that Smyth's soft-spoken interrogations (before he goes for the throat, trampling the criminal's arrogant certainty that Smyth can be fooled) are now literally textbook examples. Probably the most famous example is Smyth's 9-hour interrogation of Colonel Russell Williams. Smyth showed no sweat, no anxiety; but within an hour, Williams was telling lies every which way but loose, while his body language confessed that he was lying; and halfway through the afternoon, Williams cracked and confessed to all his crimes.

In 2007 Smyth began working with the Ontario Provincial Police force's Polygraph Unit, Behavioral Sciences and Analysis Services. Smyth has also taught forensic interviewing and forensic behavioral science at Toronto's Seneca College. In December 2011, it was announced that Smyth was assigned to the Criminal Behavioral Analysis Section of the Ontario Provincial Police and is the Unit Coordinator for the four-member Polygraph Unit. In 2012, Smyth was recently promoted to the OPP's major Criminal Investigations Branch as a major case manager.

Russell Williams is a Canadian convicted of homicide and former colonel in the Canadian Forces.

In late January 2010, the Ontario Provincial Police discovered evidence that led them to suspect Williams' involvement in Jessica Lloyd's disappearance and suspected links to two other crimes that had been committed in close proximity to other locations near Williams’ previous home. On February 7, Williams was interrogated by OPP investigator Detective Superintendent Jim Smyth and confronted with the evidence of tire tracks and boot prints at Lloyd's home. Over the next 10 hours, Williams gave a detailed confession around Lloyd, but also Corporal Marie-Frances Comeau and at least two other cases initially.

The Behavior Panel is a group made up of the world's top body language and behavior experts, Mark Bowden, Scott Rouse, Greg Hartley, and Chase Hughes. Together they analyze the body language and behavior displayed in videos in the public interest. The Behavior Panel is a non-partisan group, looking to educate and entertain the public with their interest and expertise in nonverbal communication, body language, deception detection, interrogation, and resistance to interrogation.

Watch the Russell Williams full interrogation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndaaS...

By looking at the gestures, facial expressions, micro-expressions, and context around what people say, this group of nonverbal behavior experts reveals the possible truth and deceptions.

This behavior profiler group takes on the task of investigating the behavior behind the crime news that often forces us to think and feel the way we do. The Behavior Panel is a task force made up of four of the best body language and behavior profiler experts in the world.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to The Behavior Panel
0:40​ Jim Smyth Master Interrogator
1:34​ How did Jim Smyth Become an Interrogator
4:22 The Reid Interrogation Technique
11:17 Resistance To Interrogation Training
13:44 Colonel Russell Williams Interrogation
35:20 Getting Your Kids To Tell The Truth

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