Blood Relatives, Episode 3

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 28.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

One day, Heidi gets a call from Wakefield Prison, where Jeremy Bamber remains locked up, forty years after the murders. He’s one of the nation’s most reviled villains. But he insists he’s innocent.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Madeline.
0:01.7	Before you tune in to this episode, I wanted to remind you that New Yorker subscribers get access to the full Blood Relative series early.
0:09.1	All six episodes ad-free in the New Yorker app.
0:12.8	It's just $1 a week to subscribe, which you can do by visiting new yorker.com slash dark.
0:19.6	That's new yorker.com slash dark. That's New Yorker.com slash dark.
0:24.2	Heidi, I'm only about 45 minutes.
0:27.0	So we will have to schedule or schedule or whatever it needs to be done.
0:31.9	But it's great because I'm now on the phone with you.
0:34.6	And we can organize times.
0:36.7	We can organize, you know, dates, meetings. But
0:40.3	anyway, not to worry. We'll speak soon. Bye, Heidi. Happy birthday to me. Bye now.
0:49.9	40 years after the murders at White House Farm, Jeremy Bamba remains in prison.
0:57.0	He's locked up in a maximum security facility, known to the press as Monster Mansion.
1:04.1	To this day, his name and photo are still splashed across stories nearly every month,
1:09.7	with headlines like twisted family killers,
1:13.5	or what the UK's most dangerous prisoners eat for Christmas dinner, full menu revealed.
1:22.5	Despite all the fevered publicity surrounding the case. In the years since his trial,
1:28.3	I and the rest of the public had actually heard almost nothing directly from Jeremy Bamber.
1:34.5	Prison authorities in the UK often make it hard for journalists to talk with inmates.
1:40.0	So aside from a few quotes in the newspapers,
1:42.6	mostly disseminated by his supporters,
1:45.2	his own voice was lost in all the noise.
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