The Murders at White House Farm: The Podcast

Episode 2: The Family

In this second, highly emotional episode of the companion podcast to HBO Max’s The Murders At White House Farm, host Lauren Bright Pacheco speaks with Colin Caffell, father of the two youngest victims, and the ex-husband of initial suspect Sheila Caffell, whose body was discovered by police at the scene of the crime with the murder weapon. In what he has said will be his last ever public interview about that night and the drama to subsequently unfold, Colin goes into great detail about the complicated family dynamic between him, Sheila, her parents, and her brother Jeremy, before that fateful night changed everything. Colin also discusses coping with trauma, the damaging effects of the tabloid press coverage, and his reactions to watching the series for the first time.

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On the night of August 6th, 1985, just outside of the picturesque village of Tolleshunt D’Arcy in Essex, England, a shocking attack left five members – and three generations – of a family brutally murdered. At first, the police thought they were dealing with an open-and-shut case, suspecting that it was Sheila Caffell – diagnosed with schizophrenia – who had shot her adoptive parents and twin sons before turning the gun on herself. As one detective set out to prove, however, certain elements of that narrative that didn’t add up – and the spotlight turned to Sheila’s brother, Jeremy Bamber.  In the new companion podcast to the HBO Max limited series The Murders at White House Farm, host Lauren Bright Pacheco speaks with the show’s creators, as well as with Carol Ann Lee -- author of the book The Murders at White House Farm -- and Colin Caffell, the father of the two young boys. Each episode of the podcast takes a deeper dive into one of six nuanced themes that contributed to the particularly disturbing nature of this surprisingly complicated case, providing further context and background for this horrific crime.