In the Dark

A woman in Texas agrees to carry a child for a wealthy couple in California. She thinks she’s helping a family in need. Then she becomes a whistle-blower.

A major investigative podcast from The New Yorker's Heidi Blake has launched a six-part examination of Britain's White House Farm murders, presenting evidence that could challenge Jeremy Bamber's four-decade conviction for killing five family members in 1985.

Investigative journalist Heidi Blake has uncovered significant evidence challenging Jeremy Bamber's conviction for the 1985 White House Farm murders in Essex, England—revealing potential crime scene interference by police and a phone call made from inside the farm when Bamber was reportedly elsewhere.

On the night of 6–7 August 1985, five members of the Bamber family were shot dead at White House Farm near Tolleshunt D'Arcy in Essex, England. Jeremy Bamber was convicted of the murders in 1986, but his case remains mired in controversy, with claims of police misconduct and disputed evidence keeping the case in the public eye.

Jacob Wetterling was 11 years old when he vanished while cycling home from a convenience store in rural Minnesota in October 1989. Twenty-seven years later, DNA evidence and a confessional plea deal would finally reveal what happened to him—and podcasters would document every twist of this watershed case.

Since launching in September 2016, *In the Dark* has become one of the most consequential true crime podcasts, using meticulous investigative journalism to examine not the crimes themselves, but the systemic failures that allow injustice to persist. Now produced by *The New Yorker* and Condé Nast Entertainment, the series has prompted legislative reform and overturned convictions.