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Idiot Box: Killer Kids Inspired by TV

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True Crime Campfire

Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In the cases we cover, there are types of relationship that frequently crop up between killer and victim, romantic partners or romantic rivals most of all. Sometimes, though, the relationship that is broken by murder is more shocking: a parent killing a child, or a child killing a parent. And sometimes that killer is still literally a child, someone you would never suspect to be capable of such brutal action. Case 1: The Murder of Jackie Bartlam. Case 2: The Murder of Gina Padilla. Tickets are on sale now for CrimeWave 2.0! Visit crimewaveatsea.com/CAMPFIRE to book your cabin, plus get $100 off and a private meet-and-greet with us! The cruise is from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to Nassau, Bahamas, Feb. 8-12, 2027.Sources:https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/coronation-street-obsessed-killer-who-9828273 https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/daniel-bartlam-14-year-old-255698 https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/uk-world-news/chilling-story-coronation-street-obsessed-9289922 https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/02/teenager-daniel-bartlam-jailed-murderA&E's "Killer Kids" S1E14, “A Scream & Banana Split” https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-23-me-58845-story.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2-guilty-of-iscream-i-murder/ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-02-me-52343-story.htmlFollow us, campers!Patreon (join to get all episodes ad-free, at least a day early, an extra episode a month, and a free sticker!): https://patreon.com/TrueCrimeCampfirehttps://www.truecrimecampfirepod.com/Facebook: True Crime CampfireInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimecampfire/?hl=enTwitter: @TCCampfire https://twitter.com/TCCampfireEmail: truecrimecampfirepod@gmail.comMERCH! https://true-crime-campfire.myspreadshop.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.7

Hello, campers.

0:01.6

Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

0:04.8

We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie.

0:06.8

And I'm Whitney.

0:08.2

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

0:12.1

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.

0:19.1

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0:38.1

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0:43.3

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0:48.8

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0:53.8

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0:57.0

That's crimewave at sea.com slash campfire.

1:08.2

In the cases we cover, there are types of relationships that frequently crop up between killer and victim,

1:13.1

romantic partners or romantic rivals most often of all. Sometimes, though,

1:19.2

the relationship that is broken by murder is more shocking. A parent killing a child or a child killing a parent. And sometimes that killer is still literally a child, someone you would never

1:24.7

suspect to be capable of such brutal action.

1:33.9

This is Idiot Box, a grab bag of killer kids who took their inspiration from the TV.

1:50.0

So, campers, for this one, we're in England, in the Nottingham suburb of Arnold, April 25, 2011. The nighttime piece of Georgia Drive was broken by flames licking out of an upstairs window, and the sound of children screaming.

1:58.0

Neighbors who hurried over saw 14-year-old Daniel Bartlam standing outside,

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