Real Crime

The Truth About the Babes in the Wood (2x7)

: 15, 2002

How revelations by jailed paedophile Ronald Jebson finally allowed police to close the case of the infamous 'Babes in the Wood' murder in which the entwined bodies of two children were found in Epping Forest in May 1970. Lifer Jebson played an elaborate psychological game with the police, claiming to know the identity of the murderer before the truth finally emerged in 2000.