Here’s the trailer for the documentary I’ve been talking about for several months. Dark Son will go out on BBC Wales on 12 January and on BBC4 on 22 January.
The revelations will be ‘astonishing’, according to Professor David Wilson, the leading criminologist who presents the film.
It is remarkable that since I wrote The Hunt for the 60s’ Ripper in 2017 this film has been made exploring fresh angles.
Leading criminologists, former detectives, a genealogist and writers have come together to re-investigate this unsolved, grotesque series of crimes. I was delighted to be asked to take part.
Who murdered six women and left their naked bodies in public places in the Swinging London of 1964-65? This was a huge police hunt and media story that eventually faded from the headlines.
Dark Son should refocus everyone’s attention on this mystery – not least that of the Met. A major theme of the film will look at child murderer Harold Jones.
As a 15-year-old he murdered two little girls in 1921. He served 20 years in jail.
However, detectives investigating the Nude Murders were never aware of the fact that he was living amid the crimes in Hammersmith during this time.
What would Scotland Yard’s detectives have discovered about him if they had known he was there?
