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Jo Frost on Killer Kids - Season 1

Series: Jo Frost on Killer Kids
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Episodes
4
Rating
TV14
Year
2017
Language
English
Publisher
Keshet International

About

Jo Frost is on a journey to find out why children kill. The child behavioural expert, who has over 30 years experience in her field, is used to dealing with troubled kids but none of them have been quite as deranged as the four individuals in this series.
Jo is ready to ask the important questions… What makes a young person so angry and frustrated that they decide to take the life of another? Are they born with a lethal trigger inside of them or are they products of the environment around them? Quite simply put, is it nature or nurture?
Kids like James Fairweather, a serial killer obsessed 15 year old who randomly attacked and murdered two complete strangers

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Episodes

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1. Daniel Bartlam

43h 32m

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In 2011 Daniel Bartlam beat his mother Jacqui Bartlam to death with a hammer and then set fire to her body in their family home. Inspired by a soap opera plot, he had fantasized about killing her for months, even going so far as to script his own mum's death. He was just 14 years old. But what drives a son to kill his own mother?
Renowned parenting expert Jo Frost speaks to Jacqui's partner at the time, Simon Matters, and hears from experts such as criminologist Liz Yardley, neuroscientist Dr. Francesca Happe and criminal justice expert Malcolm Stevens to find the answer to the most difficult of questions – can children be born evil?

2. James Fairweather

43h 26m

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In the early hours of Saturday March 29th 2014, the body of Jim Attfield was found lying in Colchester's Castle Park. The father of five had been stabbed 102 times. Three months later, 31-year-old Saudi Arabian student, Nahid Almanea was attacked in broad daylight on the Salary Brook Trail. Both victims suffered multiple wounds and were stabbed in the eyes. Nearly a year later another attack was thwarted. This time the police caught the suspected serial killer, only to discover it was a 15-year-old boy called James Fairweather.
Renowned parenting expert Jo Frost speaks to Jim Attfield's mum Julie Finch, criminologist Liz Yardley, neuroscientist Dr. Francesca Happe and criminal justice expert Malcolm Stevens to answer the question: what leads a teenage boy to start killing strangers?

3. Sharon Carr

42h 58m

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On June 7th 1992, 18-year-old hairdresser Katie Rackliff was found brutally stabbed to death in Farnborough, Hampshire. Based on the ferocity of the murder, which had left her body mutilated, police assumed that it must have been committed by a man. It would take four years for the police to discover the shocking truth. Katie's killer had in fact been a 12-year-old girl called Sharon Carr. More than two decades after this horrific crime, over 40 people contacted were still too scared and disturbed to speak about it on camera…
To find out why, renowned parenting expert Jo Frost hears from crime reporter Paul Cheston and speaks to criminologist Liz Yardley, neuroscientist Dr. Francesca Happe and criminal justice expert Malcolm Stevens in an attempt to understand how someone so young could become a sadistic killer.

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Artists

Matt Blythdirector
Jo Frostactor
Caleb Castilleactor