Trailer: Blood Relatives

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 28.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Five family members, murdered. A sixth in prison for life. It’s one of Britain’s most infamous crimes. But did the justice system get it wrong? “Blood Relatives,” a six-part series from In the Dark, is coming on October 28th.

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0:00.0	It's a pretty desolate place.
0:05.0	I'm kind of driving in under smouldering grey cloud.
0:10.0	The story I want to tell you begins here, deep in the English countryside.
0:17.0	Yeah, here's the farmhouse.
0:19.0	At an elegant country manner, White House Farm.
0:24.2	Big signs saying trespassers will be prosecuted.
0:27.7	It became the scene of one of Britain's most infamous crimes.
0:32.4	It's one of the most notorious and shocking crimes in living memory.
0:36.2	In the day of the night, five members of the same family were brutally murdered in their farm.
0:40.3	It was one of the most sensational murder cases of the decade.
0:43.3	It was a story so often told and retold.
0:46.3	It seemed there was nothing more to know.
0:50.3	Oh Lord, not this again.
0:52.3	Listen, we're not going to go anywhere with this.
0:54.7	We're not going anywhere with this.
0:58.6	But then I got a tip that that story was wrong.
1:04.3	I always said to people, I don't know what's going to happen,
1:07.0	but I know there's going to be a twist, a massive twist.
1:10.0	They wanted to give the impression,
1:11.7	I think, that everything's fine, but underneath, you know, there's turmoil. The whole thing was
1:17.8	just shambolic, you know, it was panic, 24-7 panic. What can we salvage? What can we resubmit?
1:23.6	And your family, I think, was very instrumental in finding the evidence and putting the case together, really.
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