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From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives,” an investigative series

From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives,” an investigative series

Update: 2025-10-31
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On August 7, 1985, five family members were shot dead in their English country manor, Whitehouse Farm. It looked like an open-and-shut case. But the New Yorker staff writer Heidi Blake finds that almost nothing about this story is as it seems. 

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From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives,” an investigative series

From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives,” an investigative series

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