Blood Relatives, Episode 4

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 28.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

A bloody Bible, propped at an unlikely angle. A manor, locked from the inside. And a silencer, hidden under the stairs, and daubed with blood. Heidi digs into the evidence and uncovers shocking flaws.

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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	One afternoon, a few weeks after I first reached out to Jeremy Bamba, I opened my email
0:29.9	and saw that I'd been sent a link, an invitation to a cloud platform.
0:35.7	When I opened it, I found myself staring at a vast digital repository.
0:41.5	Jeremy Bambor's defence team had given me access to the sprawling case files on the murders
0:47.7	at White House Farm.
0:49.9	You should know that I am a giant nerd when it comes to documents.
0:54.2	I love borrowing through huge piles of paper, searching information. You should know that I am a giant nerd when it comes to documents.
0:59.3	I love burrowing through huge piles of paper, searching for anything hidden.
1:03.4	But this was a truly bewildering morass.
1:12.7	What I had been given was not only the evidence prosecutors presented at trial as proof of Jeremy's guilt.
1:16.9	This repository contained a lot more than that.
1:19.5	There were millions of pages.
1:25.5	Police statements, typewritten memos, barely decipherable handwritten notes,
1:29.6	witness interviews, radio and phone logs, letters and diaries penned by Jeremy's relatives, badly photocopied forensic records, autopsy reports, crime scene photos.
1:36.8	On I scrolled and scrolled.
1:40.6	So much of this evidence, Jeremy Bamber had to fight to obtain.
1:46.0	It had been hidden for years.
1:50.0	Now, he hoped, it and The New Yorker.
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