Jo Frost on Killer Kids

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. What drives a son to kill his own mother? Renowned parenting expert Jo Frost tries to find the answer to the most difficult of questions – can children be born evil?

James Fairweather a 15yearold obsessed with serial killers and known to have idolized the Yorkshire Ripper stabbed two strangers to death in Colchester England in 2014 He was motivated by a desire for notoriety and was influenced by violent video games and fantasies about rape and murder Before taking the life of a third victim a passerby caught him and reported him to the police

Jo Frost looks at Sharon Carr The Devils Daughter who was convicted of the murder of 18yearold Katie Rackliff in June 1992 when Carr was just 12 years old Carr randomly picked Rackliff as her victim and almost got away with it until an attack and stabbing of another young person four years later led to her eventual conviction Carr is the youngest sentenced female murderer in the UK

Parenting expert and host Jo Frost looks at what motivated a 14yearold UK boy Michael Hamer to violently murder his schoolmate after luring him to his house with a faked letter from a teacher Frost attempts to build a comprehensive picture of the young killers life experiences and psychological makeup to understand the factors that contributed to his lethal ideation and actions