THE CALDWELL FARMHOUSE MURDERS: True crime biographies

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Baker's brother, Byron, told the Idaho Statesman he thought his sister and brother-in-law were still in the process of moving from Utah to their new home in Caldwell when family members became concerned because they hadn't heard from them. Jeremy Bamber's lawyers given more time to prepare case" Archived 18 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine, BBC News, 19 July 2011. Several dead birds and dogs - likely family pets - were also found on the property, and other living animals including a snake, rat and some rabbits were removed during the subsequent investigation.

Mugford alleged he had discussed cycling along the back roads to the house, entering through the kitchen window because the catch was broken, and leaving it via a different window that latched when it was shut from the outside. She had seen his mother's bicycle there, she said; the prosecution later alleged that he had used this bicycle to cycle between his cottage and White House Farm on the night of the murders to avoid being seen in his car on the road.He had shot Sheila in the main bedroom, next to her mother, and had shot the children in their beds as they slept. Sarah Hall, "Bamber loses appeal over murder convictions" Archived 2 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, 13 December 2002. The women’s bodies were found decomposing in a storage shed on Bullinger’s Caldwell, Idaho, property in June after Baker’s family asked deputies to make a welfare check on the couple, according to a news release from the Canyon County, Idaho, Sheriff’s Office. He had been shot eight times, six times to the head and face, fired when the rifle was a few inches from his skin.

Jeremy and Mugford had started dating in 1983, when she was aged 19 and studying for a degree in education at Goldsmiths College in London. The parents' estate included land and buildings occupied by Jeremy's cousins, who were made aware, after the murders, that he intended to sell them. There was no probative value in the finding of a hacksaw in the garden, because Jeremy had entered the house via the windows many times, before the killings and since. At Bullinger’s newly purchased home, police discovered a gruesome scene: three bodies so badly decomposed that police could not immediately identify their ages or genders.

He said he had spent time looking up the number, and even though his father had asked him to come quickly, he had first telephoned his girlfriend, Julie Mugford, in London, then had driven slowly to the farmhouse. She spoke about suicide, although the court heard that Ferguson did not regard her as a suicide risk. At one point, when prosecutors accused him of lying, he replied: "That is what you have got to establish.