Jeremy Bamber and the Murders at White House Farm
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IT was amid summer's night in essex, england. The small village of tolerant Darcy was fast to sleep when police sirens echo across the countryside. They were heading toward White house farm, where the owners novel, and june bAmber, where pillars in the local community IT was August seventh one thousand nine hundred and eighty five read around four o'clock in the morning, three police officers exited their cruise er at the end of the White house driveway.

Moments later, novel and junes elder sun jeremy arrived behind them in a silver sedan he had called local officers about an hour earlier to report a strange, panicked phone call he had received from his father. His father said, that is, schizophrenic sister sha had gone pressure with a gun. Police never heard any gun shots.

Upon arrival, White house farm was silent other than the soft wine of the bAmber family dog. Two officers moved up with jeremy right behind them. As they got across the front yard, one of the officers saw a shadow looming in an upstairs bedroom.

They bold jeremy down, and the trio ducked behind a hedge for cover. They anticipated gunshots, but none ever came worried for their lives. The officers returned to the patrol car and radios for back up.

They weren't going near the farm without a small army of armored cops and ballistic shields as they waited. Jeremy bAmber e made a small confession the day before he's gone rabbit hunting on the expensive property. He used his fathers twenty two kaleb's and shelf z rifle and remembered leaving IT on the kitchen table, still loaded.

Oh god, jerrem worried. I hope he hasn't done anything. Silly panic got the Better of him. Jeremy begged officers to charge and help his family, but they wouldn't move. Finally, around five A M, A van full of armored officers arrived. They set up shop in a cattles bar near the house, where they held a position for two and a half more hours. Instead of charging the property, officers called through a megahed, ordering shelia to surrender once more White house farm answered back with the soft winners of the bAmber's dog.

At seven, thirty three and a half hours after officers arrived with jeremy, high command authorized a RAID team to advance on the property as they moved up, one of the officer saw what he believed to be a woman on the kitchen floor, but he was hard detail. They gathered on the rear door, which was locked from the inside. Officers smashed a debit, but the sledge hammer and cleared every corner as they moved through the house room by room, they discovered the gruesome m scene hidden within the White house walls.

Navel bAmber was in the kitchen, slumped in a chair, pajama, a pants around his knees. His brains were blasted onto the side of the wall and blood pulled on the floor and eath his chair. He'd been shot eight times through the ARM shoulder and head as they examined navels body.

Officers heard movement on the floor above. They formed up and inched their way of the stairs poorly, expecting define shell on the landing with the rifle point to door them. Instead, all they found were more bodies.

June bAmber was on the threshold of the master bedroom. She'd been shot seven times once between the eyes, and six more times through her head, neck and chest. A nightgown was soaked in blood.

The movement they heard was the family dog crisp E A sheet too, who was scared shitless under the bed. Across the hall. Police found sla on her back, nevels twenty two, and shots lay across her body.

A bible rested. Besides, IT was open to SMS, fifty one to fifty five underscored. And blood was the line, save me from blood.

Guilty is the twenties room was by far the worst of the White house scenes. You'd think the twins, Daniel and Nicholas, or asleep, or IT, not for the blood dripping from their tiny beds. Daniel had five bullet wounds in the back of his head.

Nicholas was shot three times in the face. Jeremy was alone outside when an officer delivered the gut ringing news. You said everything would be alright.

Jeremy muttered as he began to cry. I know the officer answered, we like to think things will work out. SHE got to be in a nut house for what she's done, jerrem said before excusing himself to vomit in a nearby field.

In one fell swoop, jeremy bAmber lost everything. His sister went crazy and murdered his family before turning the gun on herself. His father tried calling for help, but by the time police arrived, IT was too late.

That's the story jerrem wants you to believe, but it's not the story police wound up following. Instead, a series of clues, happen stances and odd behavior suggested that the real killer was standing outside with officers the entire time. According to the crown, jeremy murdered his family and staged the scene depended on shea. He stood doing heit vast swath of land and money upon his parents death, cutting shiela and her children out of the picture, insured that everything would go to him. Family members described him as a greedy material list who always put himself first every word he says as a lie, a con or a manipulation.

What is that? Just what the crown wants you to think? The jeremy bAmber cases among england's most fascinating murder mysteries, up there with jack the ripper and the temps torso killer, is jeremy and innocent man doomed to spend the rest of his life behind bars, or is he a cold, calculated killer and murdered his neighbors to make a quick buck?

Part one, the devils daughter novel member, met june speakman when he was in his mid delayed twice and working as a magistrate in his local court system. Before that, the well built six foot foreign man was a decorated pilot in the royal air force. Remember his height and physical stature as it'll play a role later in the story level.

In june, married in one thousand forty nine and settled on three hundred acres of speakman farming and indulgent Darcy, which junes father graciously leased them. Soon after their wedding, june began struggling with severe mental illness. Doctors believed IT was due to grief brought on by her inability to conceive a child.

June was a deeply religious woman. SHE believed her barren woman was a punishment from god. Every failed pregNancy deepen in this belief until june eventually slipped into psychosis.

SHE was hospitalized with paranoia and depression and to underwent several rounds of electoral shock therapy after the White house murder. Her psychiatrists would tell police that june saw everything in terms of good and evil. That belief did irreparable harm to her daughter. Years later, nobody knew that jeremy and sheba ba were adopted navel and junes inability to conceive with the best kept secret in ethics. Jeremy bAmber was born in january in one thousand nine hundred sixty one.

As the result of an affair between a Young woman and a british army sergeant, the couple wasn't ready to raise a child and gave the baby up for adoption after six weeks navel and june bAmber came along six months later and brought baby jeremy home. Four years later, they adopted baby shola. SHE was biological mother was the eighteen year old daughter of eric J, A senior chaplain to the archbishop of canterbury.

Eric new level from his days in the R, A, F, and believed the members would make an excEllent adoptive family. He couldn't have been more wrong. June was always hard on shila, to the point where IT left permanent mental scars as a teenager.

June called her the devil s child and blamed her typical teenage behavior on c tank impulses. Apparently, the devil was making sheela flirt with boys and sun bathe naked. SHE look couldn't take IT anymore.

Under seventeenth's birthday, SHE moved to london and launched a model in career, on stage. And in her social circles, SHE little was known as bambi. SHE met and felling love with Colin careful, an artist in the big city.

They quickly moved in together, but the relationship was far from perfect in his book in search of the rainbows end colon rights, how violence was just below the surface. Things got worse when shela became pregnant. According to Colin, there were times we could have killed each other for june bAmber.

And out of red lock baby was the devils work. He insisted they get married, and SHE la and collin obliged. Sadly, the baby was still born.

Shortly after the ceremony, a second pregNancy ended in a miscarriage, and soon SHE la began having the same religious illusions as her mother. God was punishing her with info link SHE believed, and her mother reinforced, that SHE omitted an evil ora. Despite the ora, shaller gave birth to twin boys Nicholas and Daniel in one hundred seventy nine.

Colin left her for another woman shortly after while pregnant with the twins. SHE has parents bought a small flat in hampstead in upscale residential community north of camden town in london alone with her delusions. And the twins sla came apart at the scenes murderer illustrations ravage to mine.

SHE, even called social services one day, worried that he might harm the children, when nick Daniel were four level in june, took them in, while SHE ela sought treatment at same Andrews, the same psychiatric hospital that treated her mother all those years ago. According to her doctor, shiela had bizarre illusions. SHE thought her sons would seduce her and saw evil in both of them.

Nicolas, more than Daniel SHE, feared he'd grow up to be a woman. Hatred and potential murderer. Above all, SHE was greatest fear was that she'd one day killed the boys.

The doctor diagnosed her with paranoid schizophrenia a and prescribed an assortment of anti psychotic pills. SHE loves mental struggles, ended her model in career. SHE soon went on welfare and took odd jobs, cleaning and waiting tables.

Once SHE posed for new photographs, a decision he regretted for the rest of her short life, her employers were called showing up. This shovelled and dirty often advise staring into space with this empty look in her eyes. Never l in june noticed her determination with each trip out to White house farm.

One time, SHE a offered her thirteen year old cousin drugs and granted about committing suicide. By then, SHE la had stopped taking her prescribe bed mads. Instead, he was self medicating with cocaine.

Ivana SHE began hearing voices and believed the devil was following her, chasing her even five months before the White house murders, SHE live flew into a frenzy at her london flat. SHE began beating the walls with her fists and accused those trying to help her of trying to kill her. After the incident, a friend of shell's told the police, I was extremely scared for everyones safety.

SHE was behaving like a person possessed. The incident earned SHE LED a trip back to send Andrews. This time, her doctor prescribed a new anti psychotic one heated minister via injection once a month.

That way, shela couldn't skip IT. That was in march of one thousand hundred and eighty five, five months before the White house farm murders. Between then and August, SHE list children spent most of their time with colleen and his new girlfriend.

When they weren't with Colin, they were at White house with novel in june, a month before the murders. SHE will somehow convinced her doctor to only give her half dose of her medication. It's unclear why the doctor agreed, or if there were any signs that he has mental health was improving.

According to jeremy and other family sources, there were talks of taking the children away from shila and placing them in Foster care. The last conversation allegedly happened at dinner on the night of the murders. To the brogger sun navel in june were among the wealthiest people and told us and Darcy, nobody liked to spend their parents money more than jeremy members.

They enroll them in private prep in boarding schools, including gashes, one of england's most prestigious institutions. But instead of taking his education seriously, jeremy squandered IT for punk bands and alcohol. He got in trouble for brewing beer in his room and sneaking out at night to party around town.

He was a charming teenager who believed his good looks were all he needed, according to some sources, he to maintain multiple relationships with men and women. Jeremy didn't have many friends other than his sexual partners. Once the other kids learned of his adoption, they began calling him the board and refused to be seen with him.

Jeremy left gresham. Having achieved very little academically, he exemplified the same sees, and these get degrees back home. Jeremy disGraced his family by growing marijuana plants behind the cattle.

He also had an affair with a married mother of three. He abandoned the farm to jet set around the world for money. He doubled in fruitless careers, including professional scuba diving and waiting tables.

But let's be honest, most of jeremy spending cash came from the White house bank account. He lived rent free in a small cottage, his father round about three and a half miles from the farm. He also held in eight percent stake in the family's Carry van park O C road camp sites.

Jeremy would later admit to rubbing the park office and stealing nearly one thousand pounds. The radical sun spending habits in poor behavior drove his uncle Robert bound flower insane. Robert was an uptight man who entered the speakman family after mary june sister.

He would describe jeremy as a degenerate with a constant craving for money. Roberts daughter and eaten was also skeptical of a cousin, jeremy, after the White house murder and went the jeremey cottage to sit and grieve within. While he talked to the police something about the way he talked, told on the jeremy was lying, SHE pulled a scrap of paper from her pocket and wrote down everything he said, but why be so skeptical of your cousin?

After somebody murdered his family at the time the White house murder were in open and shot case, shi went crazy and killed them all. Everybody, including an, knew he struggled with mental illness and illusions. To Better understand and skepticism, let's unpack how the bAmber and the about flowers are financially entertained.

Neither family was particularly fond of the other. Their businesses, though, were inseparable. Among their most valuable shared assets was the O C road caravan, an park. The same point, jeremy had an eight percent stake in and admitted to robbing n after the White house murder, jeremy was the prime suspect in the brain long before his family was killed. Robert and and dance husband Peter eaten wondered r if jeremy would murder his family to see his complete control of the estate.

The bAmber estate included a fifty acre farm called little renters for an and Peter eaten little renters was their only escape from the crushing thumb of debt the eats had fAllen on hard financial times in the summer of one thousand and eighty five to help them level purchased little renters, which was supposed to be an investment vehicle and may have countered chickens before they hatched. SHE at her sites said on volt manner a White fronted mansion where her elderly grandmother was living out the rest of her days. Although grandma speakman lived there, SHE didn't fully own the property.

Much of IT was tied up in family trusts, which meant that jeremy or an would need to buy IT outright once he passed, depending on how the will was structured. This financial complexity added to the family tensions over inheritance upon grandma's death and planned to sell little renters and purchase volt manner for her family. SHE could almost taste IT as grandma speakman grew increasingly frail.

Then a few weeks before the White house murder, jeremy told him that his family planned to sell little renters and use the money to buy volt manner for themselves, and was so furious that SHE allegedly went home and tore down the wallpaper in her bathroom with june dead. Jeremy still do inherit everything. Upon his grandmother's passing, alarmed, Robert went to grandma speakman on her death bed and convinced her to write jerrem out of the will.

IT worked, but jeremy still inherited everything in june, and novels name IT was only a matter of time before the rest of the White house farm and all its associated properties were his. Robert wasn't about to let this to generate ruin his daughter's life. Part three, the about flower theory detective chief inspector tough Jones LED the investigation into the White house murder abon examining the windows and doors, he concluded that all of them were locked from the inside when the murders occurred.

Meanwhile, the medical examiner determined that based on her injuries, SHE likely killed her parents and children before turning the gun on herself and firing twice, both bullets passed under her chin, with one significantly higher up on her throat. According to the medical examiner, the lower injury goods killer, but not straight away. Meanwhile, the higher bullet wound would have caused instant death.

All told, the bAmber case had a simple solution, murder, suicide, the hands of shea cafe at the belt flower farmhouse. And and Robert came to a different conclusion, one that seemed just as obvious to them. Robert t.

Always called Sheila a featherbrained girl. You'd never seen her hold a gun, and he didn't think he could fire one properly. Let's consider the murder weapon for a moment.

According to police, shila or jeremy used a twenty two kaleb's and shots five twenty five rifle. The an shot five twenty five is a semi automatic rifle with a ten round magazine. According to police reports, a total of twenty five shots were fired on the night of the murder. There is no indication that novel had a thirty round magazine on his gun.

Therefore, the shooter had to reload twice to fire twenty five bullets with five remaining in the third clip and that's assuming they didn't miss according to an shilo was so uncoordinated that she's missed the cup when pouring tea how then could he fire twenty five times without missing and reload twice, all while in the throne s of a psychotic episode. Furthermore, out of you over power level, who was about one hundred pounds heavy and a foot taller than her, according to the police theory, navel and the shooter engaged in a struggle upstairs. He was shot multiple times and severely weakened by the time he made IT to the kitchen, likely on his way to grab the phone to call for help.

That's when the shooter put the final bullets through his head. Then there was the silence, or never will always kept attached to his river. IT was missing when police found the gun across SHE was body had had been a IT would have made the barrel too long for china to hold IT under hurt chain and pull the trigger that simple fact LED and and Robert to believe jeremy had unscrewed the silencer before planting the gun on shea's body if they could find that they could prove SHE less innocence they brought their theory to tough Jones at the local police station.

He didn't want to hear IT the case was closed. They had already cleaned the crime scene and burned the bodies. Blood stained carpets and mattress had been throwing from the windows, and police ordered farmworkers round everything up and burn IT.

Whatever evidence that may have been left behind was gone if they wanted to prove jeremies guilt they'd after do with themselves. They figured the best place to start was with jeremy himself. And and Robert went to jeremy s.

Cottage later that morning. He was crying, so and went over to consult him. SHE used the opportunity to examine his arms for any scratches, bruises or signs of a struggle.

To her dismay, jeremy was clean. A doctor arrived moments later with a volume prescription. The drug, along with copious amounts of alcohol, became jeremy's best friend over the next several weeks.

But all the booze and volume in the world couldn't get jerrem back in his parents house. Their murders still haunted him. So and volunteer to be the crime seem keyhole der.

Until jeremy recovered, they could search the house with immunity ity. And nobody would ever ask why they were there, and stood in the kitchen in the next day and said, give us a clear uncle level. That's when he saw a pair of bloodstained women's underpants discarded in a bucket.

They were SHE less SHE must have been monstrat before he died and took them knowing they might come in handy later on next and went to the sink where he examined the overhead window. SHE wondered if jeremy could have escaped through IT and locked the window from the outside. Robert and and's brother David joined her later that day.

They rummaged through bAmber family valuables, searching junes draws for jewelery and levels clothes for loose cash. That's when David made the discovery of a lifetime. While looking through uncle levels gun covered under the stairs, David found the long lost silencer.

He said IT was projecting from a cardboard box among hundreds of rounds of amo. IT was only later back at and house that they discovered blood inside the silencers barrel. All three went to june novel and shea's funerals.

Armed with this knowledge, they watched as jeremy cried and buckle at the knees, they watched people hug and console, and they craned when the pastor asked god mercy for sa sadly and tragically dr. Anged little bugger, Peter ian said he thinks he's got away with IT. Part four red crums.

Jeremy bAmber r existed in his own little world before and after the funeral. Many questions, his behavior in a way reminiscent of Scott Peterson. IT wasn't acting like someone who just lost his family.

He was acting like someone who was finally off the hook and asked jeremy to come to White house to collect some personal items a few days before the funeral. SHE really just wanted to observe his reaction to the crime scene. As jeremy hadn't been back inside the home since the murder, he was pale and he trembled as he walked around the home.

Due to a heavy dose of volume, he was hardly able to walk or talk, according to robbert bwt flower, who was there with soon, jeremy noticed that certain valuable items were missing around the house. He flew into a rage and ordered and an uncle robbert not to take anything else a few days later and return to White house to find jeremy loading his car with family treasures. Jeremy spent little to note time in tAllent Darcy after the funeral like a post barrier honeymoon.

E and his girlfriend july mugford left the reception to get drunk with friends at a local carribean restaurant. From there they went on a wind surfing vacation and sale to amster dam. With jeremy gone and and Robert could dig deeper into their theory.

They found an ali and detective sergeant stand Jones. IT was willing to explore the jeremy did IT angle as he'd had the same sneaking suspicions Jones was over the moon when they showed him the silencer. He agreed that there was blood on the inside, but that wasn't all there.

Look to be red paint ships similar to the paint found on the White house kitchen. Mental peace, that's when an recalled the scratch Marks on the mental piece, suggesting a struggle between novel and the shooter. The shooter, either seller or jeremy, must have hit the mental piece with the barrel, causing the damage. Detective Jones sent the silence, are away for testing and ordered his men to take paint samples from the mental peace.

Among the hardest st points to prove was how jeremy locked the doors from the inside and flood the scene to call the police while he was out of town and and Robert returned to White house to see if jeremy could have used any secret exits or weaknesses according to an one could easily climb through the kitchen window and close IT from the outside next and discovered a brand new bicycle leaning against jeremy's cottage. After several tests, they determined that jeremy could have used the bike to escape the scene and returned to his cottage in time to call the police. Shortly before four A M and and Robert brought their fightings to stand Jones.

But when Jones rended up the total pole, he was shouted back down by his superiors. Everything pointed to shila and police and told, and Darcy weren't going to waste another minute on crazy conspiracy theories. Then, exactly one month after the murders at White house farm, jeremy's girlfriend came forward accusing him of plotting dicky's family.

Part five, a woman's corned. Jeremy met july mugford in one thousand nine hundred eighty three when SHE was a student at gold Smith college in london. They began dating, but things fizzled out shortly after the White house murder, according to Julie, jeremy called her the morning of the murders, saying there's something wrong at home.

He sounded disjointed and worried, but the phone call woke july up, so SHE went back to bed, not truly processing IT july changed her story on september seventh. SHE claimed jeremy had wanted to kill his family since the day he met him. He always resented his parents, claiming they were trying to run his life.

As for china, they didn't get along as adopted brother and sister. He talked about reading his parents wills and wishing he could just get rid of them all. Then between october and december of one thousand nine hundred eighty four, killing his parents was all jeremy could talk about.

His first alleged plan was the drug, his family with sleeping pills during dinner. Then i'd returned to White house via car or bicycle, and burn the place down with them inside. I didn't go through with that plan because burning the house down would destroy all their valuables.

His next plan was to shoot his family and escape with the kitchen window. He knew the catch had never worked, and anybody could easily slip in and out if they wanted to. Finally, IT plant the gun on shiller, making IT look like he went crazy and killed everyone and herself around nine fifty pm, on the night of the murders, jeremy allegedly called july and said, it's tonight or never.

He sounded pissed off and high strong. He claimed jeremy had grown increasingly violent in the weeks before the murder to puffed himself up. He tried strangers ling rats with his bare hands, but when he couldn't stomach that, he realized he'd never be able to shot his parents and sister.

So jeremy allegedly hired a hit man to do IT for um a local plumber named Matthew mcDonald. Jeremy allegedly paid mcDonald two thousand pounds to execute his family and then call from White house. When the job was done, jeremy told july there was a fight in the kitchen between mcDonald and navel bAmber out of anger.

c. Donald shot the man seven times before moving on the june shila and the kids when police explored the mcDonald angle, they learned that the plummer had a rocks solid. He couldn't have been at White house that night, thus disproving the hit man theory.

The rest of Julie story was so compelling that police assumed jeremy lidow about the hit man upon hearing jewelery statement. Tough Jones is jaw hit the floor. He pulled his feet from the sheer cement and listed jeremy bAmber is the prime suspect.

Tough went to london, where jeremy was living in shea's old department. He pounded on the door and demanded the jeremy answer. When he did, taf arrested him on suspicion of murdering his mother, father, sister and her two children.

Jeremy starred and said, I don't believe what I am hearing. IT must be something else. You want me for that murder?

At the police station, jeremy claimed that he and jewelry had recently broken up. SHE fabricated the story to get back at him. He told the police if he could put me behind bars, then nobody else could have me.

After jeremy's arrest, news broke that he had tried to sell his life story and nude photographs of SHE into the sun magazine for twenty thousand pounds. Jeremy admitted IT was true, but claimed he was drinking and hopped up on volume. When he did IT, he was still mad cha for killing their parents and ruining his life and the interrogation room.

Jeremy acknowledged that his relationship with june was both rough and smooth still. He loved his mother and would never do anything to hurt. Regarding sa, jeremy said the same thing.

He knew he was dealing with mental illness and at times didn't know how to cope or help, so he distances himself. While he denied any involvement in the murders, jeremy confessed to Robin, the office at the O C. Road vacation park.

In fact, Julie helped him pull IT off. SHE was her own kind of career criminal. While talking to the police, he admitted to the robber y and a check frag scheme SHE ran with her flat, made the admissions, made her an imperfect witness.

Her testimony alone wasn't enough to hold jeremy and custody, let alone charging with murder. After five long days, officers let jeremy go. He left the station in a friend's jack war police tailed him as he spent the night drinking and bouncing between strip clubs.

As of now, he was free, but he wouldn't remain free much longer. Art six blood and painting chips the White house murders occurred during the earliest stages of DNA evidence and genetic fingerprinting. The first man tried and convicted based on DNA evidence was Colin pitchfork.

In one nine hundred eighty seven, he was found guilty of raping and murdering two teenage girls, unless to share england. More importantly, DNA evidence helped to prove the initial suspect, Richard the buckland, a disabled seventeen year old boy, was innocent. In one thousand nine hundred eighty five, police had to rely on crude forms of forensic testing to back their theories.

For example, swabs of Sheila's hands revealed a little residue for someone who had just fired a rifle to twenty five times. A bare feet were also alarmingly cleaned. You'd think they'd be covered in blood when examined under a microscope.

Paint chips from the kitchen mental matched those found inside the, furthermore, the scratch Marks on the mental or consistent with someone hitting IT with the barrel, rudimentary DNA evidence proved that the blood found inside the silencer matched chillers. According to one expert, the blood was likely backspace from the close rain shot to shea throat. Remember, if the silence or was attached, shela couldn't have shot herself.

The blood and paint chips strengthens the case against jeremy bAmber. Just like that, he went from a helpless victim to a calculated killer who murdered his family for the vast wealth. He to the game upon returning from a trip to central pay france, police arrested jeremy and charged him with the murder of june navel shaller Nicholas and Daniel.

Jeremy pleaded not guilty to all five charges while in jail, he wrote a confident letter to a friend saying, why should they convict an innocent man of such a terrible charge? The prosecution painted jeremy bAmber is a cold, calculated killer. Multiple witnesses said that he despised his parents, and I talked about killing them numerous times.

As for sha, some witnesses testified to their inexperience with firearms. Her psychiatrist talked openly about her mental health struggles, but insisted that he would never take things to such an extreme. July mugford was the prosecutions star witness SHE regale ed her story about jeremy calling her iring a hit man and planning his family's murder for months.

When asked why he kept in a secret for so long, he said, I was scared of what jeremy might do. The prosecutions version of events is as follows. Jeremy left his parents home around ten pm.

On August sixth. After then and the early hours of August seven, he rode his bike back to White house and slipped in. There were downstairs window.

He grabs his father's rifle, attached the silencer, and walked upstairs to june and novels bedroom. He opened fire june crown from the bed and died on the threshold. Meanwhile, never have fought back, and their struggle Carried downstairs and into the kitchen.

During the fight, the rifle struck the amount piece and the paint. Jeremy regained control and shot his weekend father to death. Finally, jeremy killed shila and the children.

As he planted the gun on sheller, he realized the silence, or would make IT impossible of for her to shoot herself. So he unscrewed IT and hit ted among novels, other firearms. Before leaving, jeremy took the kitchen phone off the hook, us leaving the line open.

He slipped into the night and called july from his cottage, sank. There's something broken at home at exactly three, twenty six, eight. On August seven, jeremy called accounts for the police station's direct line instead of nine, nine, nine emergency services.

He told them about a call he just received from his father, in which novel said, please come over. Your sister has gone crazy and has got the gun. The prosecution suggested that jeremy never received such a phone call.

If SHE la had truly gone crazy, never would have dialed nine, nine, nine first, then his son, when impressed on why he didn't call nine, nine, nine, jeremy said that people didn't understand shiela and her schizophrenic episodes. SHE was clearly in the throws of a bad episode, but jeremy didn't think IT was that serious. SHE had never grabbed a gun before, he said.

Instead of involving nine, nine, nine services, jeremy called the local police station to avoid blowing things out of proportion. The prosecution case rested on the silencer and the evidence collected inside the barrel. IT also relied on shields reported inability to wheel the firearm, even though multiple witnesses for the defense said SHE will knew how to use novels, guns and would go shooting regularly.

In fact, she'd gone on a three day shooting trip with her cousin David boat flower long before the White house murder. The judge left this fact out, claiming there was no evidence at all that chela knew how to load and fire weapons. In the end, gave the prosecution a favorable summary in english courts, its customer for the judge to summarize the case for the jury.

In his summary, judge mary drake said china was quite clearly a disturbed woman, but they were certainly no evidence to suggest SHE was in a psychotic state on the night of the murder. He was small and thin, making IT very unlikely indeed that SHE wanna struggle against her robust father. Her feet and hands were so clean that I was inconceivable that he committed this crime.

And according to experts, the blood inside the silence, or was overwhelmingly likely to be SHE, was during deliberations, the jury asked the judge to clarify whether or not the blood was a perfect match for sha. Judge drag said IT did not match anyone else. About twenty minutes later, they returned with a tended to verdict guilty.

The room fell silent. Two jurors, quietly, likely the two who voted in favor of jeremy. Jeremy sank his chair is five guilty verdict were read aloud.

The judge then looked down on him and said, you're conduct in planning and Carrying out the killing of five members of your family was evil almost beyond belief. He sentenced jeremy to the rest of his life in prison, and that's where he remains as of twenty twenty four. Those fighting in his corner believe he'll be a free man soon.

Part seven, unraveling string by string, the case against jeremy bAmber slowly unraveled as he routed away in prison. Independent investigations learned that those who played significant roles in getting him convicted profitted handsomly because of IT, for example, the beat flower family inherited novel in june fortune as murderer, aren't allowed to inherit anything from their victims and and Peter eaten moved into the home on White house farm and their money problems vanished overnight. After the trial, Julie mugford sold her story to news of the world for twenty five thousand pounds.

The article, titled I tried to mother the sleeping bambi beast, dove into Julie and jeremy sex life, among other salacious details about their relationship. In one of jeremey first appeals, he pointed out the conflict of interest. Julie made money off the story, but would have made far less if jeremy had won the case.

Therefore, her testimony could have been motivated by profit. Julie has always insisted that her testimony was not based on money. When asked what he did with the twenty five thousand, SHE said, I bought a flat.

It's also worth noting that Julie was never charged for committing chek fraud. Her bank dropped the charges during the bAmber case. According to the bank manager, detective stand Jones came with jewelry when SHE begging berlin.

Ency Jones claims he did no such thing. If he had IT would spoil our case. This wasn't the only he said, he said situation Jones found himself in. According to shea's ex call and cafe, he submitted a statement that Jones was handled and misconstrued in a statement calling was speaking to jeremy sense of sympathy. He said i'd had a rough deal all along in respective shea's illness.

However, when Jones typed the statement, he wrote head at a rough deal all along, the simple pronto mistake changes the meaning of colon statement, thus making that sound like jeremy struggle to deal with Sheilas mental illness. Not Colin, Colin claims Jones told her, not to mention the mix up on the stand, as IT would cause all sorts of trouble again. Jones denies making this statement.

The next string to unraveled was the testimony of doctor hugh ferguson. He claimed that shell was sick, but unlikely to hurt her parents or children. The jury took his word as gospel and leaned on IT to convict jeremy.

But the beamer case wasn't the only high profile murder doctor ferguson was involved in. A former patient of his, a teacher named paul paget. Lewis was allowed to keep his job thanks to ferguson diagnosis.

This was after paul had been stocking one of his male students and shadow the boy's window with a brick. Paul later shot and killed four people, including the boy's father. When police arrested him, he allegedly said, why didn't you stop me before I did IT? I gave all the warning signs, the most tightly woven piece of string.

The blood in the silencer unraveled in two thousand, one when DNA tests could not find shea's profile in the sample. In two thousand one further DNA testing on the silence are contradicted earlier findings. Initial blood tests had suggested the blood type matched SHE elas supporting the theory SHE couldn't have shot herself.

However, new DNA analysis found that the blood didn't match she's DNA, but instead could match another individual, potentially her uncle Robert belt flower, whose blood type was similar dishes. This finding raised questions about evidence, contamination and the reliability of the original blood analysis. The judges in charge dismissed the new DNA evidence, claiming the sample could have degraded.

After all this time, so many people had handled the silencer between doctors, police officers and jurors that IT was likely contaminated. James, clearly one of england's leading DNA experts called bs blood, is a rich source of DNA. He told the new yorker.

There wasn't announced of science in anything the judge said. Quite Frankly, the judge had no idea what he was talking about. It's more likely that he was trying to protect the sanctity of the english court system, rather than admit jeremy bAmber might be innocent, and he's not the only one.

England has a long and dark history of keeping wrongly fully convicted people in jail. Look no further than the birmingham, a group of northern irishman jailed for bombing two pumps in one hundred and seventy four in one thousand nine hundred ninety one, they were released from prison when news broke that the police fabricated and suppressed crucial evidence in their case. Lord town dann is among england's most celebrated judges, is also among the most controversial.

While speaking on the birmingham six, he said, IT is Better that some innocent men remain in jail than not the integrity of the english judicial system be impune. In other words, IT rather keep an innocent person in jail than admit he was wrong. Denning through himself out of the allegations of police corruption in the birmingham case, which turned out to be true afterward, he said things would have been Better off if the men were simply hanged, they would have been forgotten and the whole community would be satisfied.

During one of their many failed appeal attempts, jeremy's lawyers presented evidence that police must handle the crime scene by knocking over furniture in moving certain items. The appeals court rejected that claim because disturbing a crime scene would be a mortal. In other words, our cops are Better than that and would never miss with a crime scene.

Photos of shea's body in the bible beside IT back to differ. The prosecution used the bibles unnatural position on SHE is shoulder to suggest jeremy planted IT there. However, red smudge between the pages suggest somebody opened and closed the bible at least once.

One officer testified that the bible on shea's body was not in the same position as when I sign. He claims the book was originally against a waste, not a shoulder. If that's true, then who moved IT?

According to officers present on the scene, inspector ron cook, the lead crime scene officer at White house farm, lifted the bibo up and had to look at IT. Cook realized his mistake and fumbled the bible, causing IT to close. He opened IT again and frantically asked what page IT was on before placing IT back on Sheila's body.

According to his fellow officers, this incident and similar incidents earned ron cook the nickname bumbling ron. Chaos rain wherever he throws. Bumbling ron also oversaw crime scene cleaner.

They had already burned all the blood stand carpets in bedding. When jeremy was named the primary suspect, cook allegedly scrambled defined scraps of evidence. At that point, he was already in trouble after the bible fiascos.

While speaking on the chaos of White house farm, one of ron's fellow officers told the new yorker, I would not be surprised if one day someone comes along and says he is definitive proof that jeremy didn't do IT that proof might be in the very silence are used to convict m the timely for how and when and eaten found the silence or doesn't make sense police had searched inside novel bAmber gun covered and never sight despite David boat flowers claims that the sanctions was protracting from the box and in plain site, some bro jeremy folks believe ann and David found the silence are much earlier than they claim. Remember how ann was taking notes next to jeremy, but he was talking to the police? Buried in those notes is a reminder to look at silencer blood.

That note was written on August sixth, according to n. They didn't find the silencer until the tenth. So if an hadn't seen IT yet, I would. He have known there was blood inside the bAmber family.

Secretary Robert Wilson has always suspected foul play, and David and Robert called to the farm on the tenth, shortly after he arrived, David miraculously found the silencer. According to barba, the discovery was likely staged, SHE said. I would say that they'd already found IT, but they wanted someone to prove that they'd found IT.

The silence are stayed in the belt flower home for two days before they gave IT to police. Then stand, Jones drove over to collected in a paper till tube. Before he left, he shared a healthy glass of whisky with Peter eaten and drove back to the police station allegedly drunk.

From there, Jones failed to log the silence or into evidence. Instead, he locked IT in his desk drawer, where it's SAT until morning rumbling. Ron took IT from there for seventeen days.

The silence are changed hands without any proper records. Meanwhile, ron stand Jones and and eaten return to White house farming and secret to take paint samples from the kitchen. Mental here is where many believe the trio used the silence are described the mental, thus fabricating evidence.

They have always denied this claim. During jeremies trial, the jury soft photographs of the scratch Marks on the kitchen, mental as novel, and jeremy struggled. The silence are must have struck the woodwork, causing the damage.

Peter sotherst, a photographic expert with more than fifty years of experience, believe those pictures were staged. The scratch Marks do not appear in the original crime scene photos. They do appear, however, and images taken thirty four days after the murders.

In his expert opinion, the mark occurred something like a month later, IT was only after our trio's secret trip to White house farm that lab tax found paint chips inside the silence or barrel. The initial tests had been limited, and while no paint chips were noted in those early exams, further more detailed test later revealed the presence of the chips. This raised suspicions that the evidence had been tempered with or improperly handled.

Buried within those records is another astonishing fact. New DNA tests in two thousand, one revealed that the blood on the silencer is not match SHE s DNA. Instead, IT showed evidence of contamination from at least one other person, potentially Robert belt flower, who shares SHE was blood type. This revelation cast out on the integrity of the original blood analysis while he denies touching the silence, or Robert was never cross examined about how his blood could have gotten into the barrel then there's the matter of she's bloody underpants and admitted to having them though he claims he got rid of the panties immediately after SHE has always denied planting SHE was blood on the silence her clues to what really happened that united White house far may lie in the time line from when jeremy's father allegedly called him to when police kicked in the front door.

According to police logs, jeremy called the calm ford station at three twenty six A M to report his father's eroding phone call as officers drove the White house, a british telecom Operator, jc, to see if the White house phone line was open at three fifty six and then again at four thirty IT was open both times. All the Operator could allegedly hear was a barking dog. It's unclear when police arrived at White house.

According to their logs, they passed gerri on the road and likely arrived before four A M. Jeremy pulled in a few minutes later because SHE lh had a gun calms ford officers waited until back up, arrived at five as they stalled. One of the officer saw shadow move in the upstairs window.

IT was enough to die for cover and a weight incoming gun shots. However, a jeremy's trial, that same officer called IT a trick of the light. Could that shadow have been shiver finishing the job in june bedroom? And if I was.

Why didn't the police hear any gun shots? Novels twenty two and shut rifle used low velocity sub sonic ammunition, according to a firearms expert for jeremy's defense team. The shots are so quiet that one could easily sleep through them.

That would explain why SHE le's kids didn't wake up and why officers didn't hear any shots outside. Below velocity, amo significantly reduces the weapons recoil. The long barrel makes IT exceptionally hard to miss at close quarters. If you're close enough to anybody with the rival of that length, you're not even aiming IT.

You're just pointing IT, the expert said, let's assume shela is alive inside White house and actively killing her family by the time jeremy arrives with the police, officers didn't enter the house until seven thirty, meaning they were stationed outside for at least three and a half hours during that time, jerrem y's defense team beliefs SHE look showered or at least cleaned her hands and feet after the ritualistic killing of her children. That explains why her body was so clean when police found her. They also argued that based on pictures of shea's body and several police logs, her blood was still wet when officers entered.

Those pictures were taken between nine and ten A M. If SHE had died before three thirty, as the prosecution suggested, then her blood would have congealed by then. Jeremy's team believes SHE la was alive and downstairs when police began knocking down the door.

That explains why one officer reported seeing a male to female in the kitchen area as they approached the house. But when SHE look fled upstairs and shot herself when they found the body, two officers reported blood leaking from both corners of her mouth, further evidence that someone was alive comes directly from scotland yard. According to their records, a nine, nine, nine call was made from inside White house farm while jeremy was outside.

After investigating the call, detectives produced a signed statement from an ex police officer named Nicholas millbank. The statement never mentioned at nine, nine, nine call and claimed that millbank never heard of peat while monitoring the White house phone line that night. Millbank denies making or signing such a statement.

In fact, his signature on the document is typed rather than hand written in the summer of twenty twenty four, investigative reporter hindy lake found new bank while covering the bAmber case for the new yorker. He was still working for the essex police department and remembered a nine, nine, nine call coming in around six thousand nine on the morning of the murder. While the color didn't speak, millbank recalled hearing a door opening and closing and a chair being moved.

He remembered muffled speech but said, I could have easily been a radio. Most importantly, all these sounds occurred before police entered the home. When asked about his signed statement, millbank was confused.

He said nobody had asked him about the bAmber case since the one thousand eighty if somebody was alive inside White house while jeremy was outside with the belief that he couldn't have done IT as of twenty twenty four, jeremy bAmber remains incarcerated at a maximum security prison and wakefield west, he's been there for over thirty five years, making him one of the longest serving prisoners in the U. K. Either he's guilty of murder or he's the victim of ageth risi syndrome.

When the public and police need a bad guide to blame, ask yourself which version makes a Better story. A schizophrenic girl kills her parents and children before turning the gun on herself. Or an entitled playboy murder his family and frames has mentally ill sister so he can read the family fortune. One version is a tragedy. The other sells more newspapers.