A Killer in the Family

How do you go on when someone you know and love turns out to be a monster? Even with the most heinous criminals, from the Yorkshire Ripper and Raoul Moat, the Craigslist killer to Ted Bundy, there are a string of silent victims. Family members surrounding the most feared criminals are left to grapple with the broken pieces of their once normal families.

We tend to refer to serial killers and murderers as black sheep or loners. This is rarely the case. In fact, even the most villainous monsters come from normal and loving backgrounds. They too have mothers, fathers and siblings, the ramifications of their crimes spill into the lives of all those surrounding them. Using exclusive interviews from family members placed in conversation with specialised psychologists Dr. Gwen Adshead and Dr. Amlan Basu, A Killer In The Family explores the hellish reality of discovering the worst about a loved one. For some, it is easy to cut all ties, while others struggle with a desperate need to understand andeven forgive the person they thought they knew. A Killer in the Family unravels the reality behind the world's most notorious headlines.