Blood Relatives, Episode 2
In The Dark
The New Yorker
4.7 • 28.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Heidi visits an unlikely group of detectives: the victims’ extended family. Their sleuthing upended the police’s original theory of the case.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Madeline. Before you tune in to this episode, I wanted to remind you that New Yorker |
| 0:05.3 | subscribers get access to the full Blood Relative series early. All six episodes ad-free in the New Yorker |
| 0:12.0 | app. It's just $1 a week to subscribe, which you can do by visiting new yorker.com |
| 0:18.1 | slash dark. That's new yorker.com slash dark. |
| 0:24.0 | On a sunny day in April last year, |
| 0:27.0 | I arrived outside a gabled farmhouse, |
| 0:29.6 | deep in the Essex countryside, |
| 0:31.9 | a place not far from White House farm |
| 0:34.5 | where the Bamba family had been killed. |
| 0:38.0 | Let's go and see what's going on. |
| 0:42.9 | I walked through a big yard, full of tractors and other farm equipment. |
| 0:47.8 | A row of mud-spattered range rovers were parked in the drive. |
| 0:52.2 | I knocked on the door and waited on the porch of the farmhouse. |
| 0:56.4 | Through the windows, I could see shotgun cartridges stacked against the glass. After a few |
| 1:01.6 | minutes, I saw someone coming around the side. Is it David? Hello, then. Hi. I'm so sorry to |
| 1:08.4 | help you. My name's Heidi. I wrote to you a few weeks ago. |
| 1:11.6 | I don't know if you got my letter. No, he didn't. Oh, you might start. David Beauflower is part of the Bamba's extended family, Jeremy and Sheila's cousin. He's in his 70s now, with a farmer's tan and grizzled hair. I'd written to him a few weeks earlier to ask him to talk to me about the murders at White House Farm. |
| 1:31.4 | And I would love to talk to you about it. |
| 1:33.6 | I wonder if... |
| 1:34.0 | I'll give you five minutes, yeah. |
| 1:35.0 | Oh, that's so quiet. |
| 1:39.1 | I was here to talk to David because I wanted to understand how this apparently clear-cut case of murder |
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