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The White House Farm massacre phone calls: could a single disputed digit set Jeremy Bamber free?

Simon Hattenstone10/30/2026
The White House Farm massacre phone calls: could a single disputed digit set Jeremy Bamber free?

He has been in prison for 41 years for killing five members of his family. But if a phone call was made to the police by Bamber’s father on the night of the murders – as his team believes – one of the UK’s most notorious criminals could be exonerated On 7 August 1985 , five people were found dead at White House Farm in Essex, England: 28 -year-old Sheila Caffell ( known to her family as Bambi ); her six -year-old twin sons, Daniel and Nicholas ; and her 61 -year-old adoptive parents, June and Nevill Bamber . All five had been shot with a rifle. Caffell’s 24 -year-old brother, Jeremy Bamber, who was also adopted, had called to alert Essex police to a disturbance inside the farmhouse – he said his father had call…

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