In August 1985, Jeremy Bamber murdered his entire family: his parents, his sister Sheila and her twin 6 year old sons. Then he staged the crime scene to make it appear that Sheila Caffell had gone berserk with a gun, shot them all and committed suicide.
This was plausible because Sheila had struggled with schizophrenia, certainly the senior officers on the case were fooled, and they wrapped it up in double quick time. Not everybody was so easily taken in though, including the junior officers and members of the extended Bamber family. But for the latter, Bamber would almost certainly have gotten clean away with it.
This documentary includes reconstructions and interviews inter alia with a local press correspondent who covered the case. Its makers appear also to have been taken in by some of the many specious claims made by bamberettes - Bamber supporters of both sexes. Only one of these need be mentioned here, that the officers on the ground entered into a conversation with someone inside the building. This needs some explaining.
The massacre was carried out at the isolated White House Farm; the police were informed by Bamber who claimed to have received a telephone call from his father to the effect that Sheila had gone berserk with a gun. They met him outside the house in the early morning, and not knowing what they were facing, had to assume there were people inside and that there was perhaps a hostage situation. They shouted into the house, and no one shouted back. A police telephonist miles away - who did not know what was happening on the ground - entered into a log words to the effect that contact had been made. Years later when this document was disclosed to Bamber's legal team, his supporters tried to make a big deal of it, but shouting into a morgue does not constitute a conversation.
There are countless other distortions and outright lies about this case that have been spread by bamberettes over the years, but they have been countered more than effectively on social media. In any case, what really matters is the Court of Appeal, whose December 2002 judgment runs to 522 paragraphs.
Shortly after this documentary was released, Bob Woffinden changed his mind about Bamber, claiming he had worked out the minutae of the crime. Whether or not he is correct, that is as bad an omen as any convicted murderer can have. Woffinden means well but is extremely gullible, so if he doesn't believe Bamber, only the crazies will from now on.