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The White House Farm massacre – exclusive: new forensic evidence suggests Sheila Caffell killed herself. Is Jeremy Bamber innocent?
In 1986, Bamber was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing five members of his family. Now analysis of crime scene photographs by a leading forensic biologist could exonerate him On 7 August 1985 , five people were found dead at White House Farm in Essex , England: 28-year-old Sheila Caffell (familiarly known as Bambi ); her six-year-old twin sons Daniel and Nicholas ; and her 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 alerted Essex police to a disturbance inside the farmhouse – he said his father had called to tell him – and was outside with the police for four hours before the bodies were discovered. Caffell, who had recently been hospitalised with schizoaffective disorder and is said to have feared her children were going to be taken into foster care, was found with the ri
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In 1986, Bamber was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing five members of his family. Now analysis of crime scene photographs by a leading forensic biologist could exonerate him On 7 August 1985 , five people were found dead at White House Farm in Essex , England: 28-year-old Sheila Caffell (familiarly known as Bambi ); her six-year-old twin sons Daniel and Nicholas ; and her 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 alerted Essex police to a disturbance inside the farmhouse – he said his father had called to tell him – and was outside with the police for four hours before the bodies were discovered. Caffell, who had recently been hospitalised with schizoaffective disorder and is said to have feared her children were going to be taken into foster care, was found with the ri
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According to The Guardian’s source item, The White House Farm massacre – exclusive: new forensic evidence suggests Sheila Caffell killed herself. Is Jeremy Bamber innocent?, In 1986, Bamber was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing five members of his family. Now analysis of crime scene photographs by a leading forensic biologist could exonerate him On 7 August 1985 , five people were found dead at White House Farm in Essex , England: 28-year-old Sheila Caffell (familiarly known as Bambi ); her six-year-old twin sons Daniel and Nicholas ; and her 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 alerted Essex police to a disturbance inside the farmhouse – he said his father had called to tell him – and was outside with the police for four hours before the bodies were discovered. Caffell, who had recently been hospitalised with schizoaffective disorder and is said to have feared her children were going to be taken into foster care, was found with the ri
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