2026-08-18
30 分钟This is The Guardian.
Today, the famous crime writer accused of rape and sexual assault.
Just before we start, a warning that today's episode does contain descriptions of sexual abuse and violence.
So this story starts in a family home in Southampton, and it's a very normal family home, red brick.
It's quite idyllic, actually, surrounded by fields, rolling countryside.
And in this house in the early 1990s lives a family.
So there's the father, who is a true crime writer called Christopher Berry Dee.
And he's living there with his second wife, Tracy, and their two young daughters, Zoe and Sasha.
This is Shirin Kale.
She is an investigative journalist at The Guardian.
Months ago, she and her reporting partner, Lucy Osborne,
started looking into Christopher Berry Dee and what was happening inside that house.
And what they discovered was almost as disturbing as one of his grisly true crime bestsellers.
Christopher Berry-D's profession, he's a true crime writer, his fascination particularly with serial killers,
his thing is that he gets inside these people's heads and the intention is for you,
the reader, to almost be there seeing the murder unfold in real time.
And how Berry-D's fascination with these killers seeped into the lives of his young family.
So you have in a wardrobe what's alleged to be the clothes that a nine-year-old girl was murdered in.
In a very famous murder case.
And later, when the family moves to another house nearby,