Trailer: Blood Relatives

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. New Yorker subscribers get full, ad-free access to “Blood Relatives” and every season of In the Dark. In Apple Podcasts, tap the link at the top of the feed to subscribe or link an existing subscription. Or visit newyorker.com/dark to subscribe and listen in the New Yorker app. In the Dark has merch! Buy specially designed hats, T-shirts, and totes for yourself or a loved one at store.newyorker.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

• 0:02Speaker 00

  It's a pretty desolate place. Kind of driving in under smouldering grey cloud. The story I want to tell you begins here, deep in the English countryside. Yeah, here's the farmhouse. At an elegant country manor, White House Farm. Big sign saying trespassers will be prosecuted. It became the scene of one of Britain's most infamous crimes. It's one of the most notorious and shocking crimes in living memory.

• 0:36Speaker 01

  In the dead of the night, five members of the same family were brutally murdered in their farm.

• 0:40Speaker 02

  It was one of the most sensational murder cases of the decade.

• 0:43Speaker 00

  It was a story so often told and retold. It seemed there was nothing more to know.

• 0:50Speaker 03

  Oh, not this again. Listen, we're not going to go anywhere with this. We're not going anywhere with this.

• 0:59Speaker 00

  But then I got a tip that that story was wrong.

• 1:04Speaker 04

  I always said to people, "I don't know what's going to happen, but I know there's going to be a twist, a massive twist."

• 1:10Speaker 05

  They wanted to give the impression, I think, that everything's fine, but underneath, you know, there's turmoil.

• 1:17Speaker 00

  The whole thing was just shambolic. You know, it was panic, 24/7 panic. What can we salvage? What can we resubmit? And your family, I think, was very instrumental in finding the evidence and putting the case together, really.

• 1:29Speaker 03

  I think we hadn't have done. I think he pretty got away with it. I really do. I think he would have got away with it.

• 1:40Speaker 00

  The story I uncovered challenged what I thought I knew, not only about the murders at White House Farm, but also about the police, the judiciary, the whole British legal establishment. At every level of the criminal justice system, there's been a cover-up in this case. Well, I certainly didn't give anyone a statement. No one's spoken to me about it since the 1980s, other than you. That seems kind of strange. Strange to you? I didn't murder my wife. I mean, I promise you. You know, no matter how many times we slice up this case, I'm always innocent.

• 2:24Speaker 00

  I'm Heidi Blake. This is Blood Relatives, a new series from In the Dark and The New Yorker, coming October 28th, wherever you get your podcasts.