A woman calls 911. Her husband has been shot. She is hysterical. She is screaming. She is crying. The dispatcher asks if she knows who did it. She says no. The detective arrives. The woman's tears stop. Her voice returns to normal. She asks if she can go get coffee. The detective notices. The woman is not grieving. She is performing.

In this episode, I examine the worst acting performance ever captured on police body camera. The woman had killed her husband with a shotgun. She staged the scene to look like a burglary. She called 911 with convincing panic. But she could not maintain the performance. When the detective arrived, she forgot to cry. She answered questions with a flat affect. She showed no curiosity about her husband's condition. She showed no concern for the children who would grow up without a father.

The interrogation lasted three hours. The woman maintained her innocence for two of them. Then the detective played her 911 call next to a video of her talking to police. The contrast was obvious. The 911 caller was an actress. The woman in the interrogation room was a suspect. The woman confessed. She was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. The 911 call was played for the jury. They laughed.

Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because the worst acting performance you will ever see is not in a movie. It is in a police body camera.

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