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?

In March 2014 Body of Jim Attfield was found lying in Colchester’s Castle Park. 3 months later, 31-year-old Nahid Almanea was attacked in broad daylight on the Salary Brook Trail. Both suffered multiple wounds and were stabbed in the eyes. Police caught the suspect, James Fairweather, age 15. Renowned parenting expert Jo Frost sets out to understand what leads a boy to start killing strangers?

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

June 7th 1992. 18-year-old hairdresser Katie Rackliff was found brutally stabbed to death in Farnborough, Hampshire. Katie’s killer had in fact been a 12-year-old girl called Sharon Carr. Renowned parenting expert Jo Frost attempts to understand how someone so young could become a sadistic killer.