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00:00You
00:05On the 5th of September 2004, Merseyside police...
00:10...to receive a call from a resident who's concerned about their neighbours.
00:14When the police...
00:15...to force entry into the home...
00:17...they are confronted with the decaying bodies of Sidney and Jackie.
00:20The only person missing from the home...
00:24...is the...
00:25...the little bull's teenage son, Brian.
00:28Blackwell had been lavishing his girlfriend...
00:30...with presents and promises.
00:32He fantasized about success and power.
00:35To pay for his narcissistic dreams...
00:37...the teenager raided his parents' savings account.
00:40Mike, to you, does Brian fit the profile?
00:45Of a killer.
00:46No, he doesn't.
00:47He's an 18-year-old, well brought up.
00:50Pleasant, by all accounts.
00:52Young man.
00:53But he clearly was capable of...
00:55...horrendous killings.
00:57She was still breathing...
00:59...and that...
01:00...at that point...
01:01...I'd already planned to go on holiday...
01:02...um...
01:03...I fled.
01:05...I fled to him...
01:07...on other hand.
01:08No, he said it.
01:09No, that's true, no.
01:10over the last few years the number of teenagers convicted of murder has
01:15risen drastically it's unimaginable that a young person could conceive of such
01:20a brutal act i'm looking into the cases of britain's killer teens and trying to answer the most
01:25difficult question why
01:30you
01:35you
01:40you
01:45you
01:50you
01:55you
01:57brian blackwell's unaccomplished life
02:00things finally came to a head last summer when his lies began to
02:05catch up with him
02:07he got to a violent stage
02:09you
02:10in the arguments
02:12with my dad
02:14where
02:15i obviously felt
02:17under pressure enough
02:20to push back and then
02:22struck him with the soft side
02:25i hope that i'm out
02:30on paper
02:34on paper
02:35brian blackwell was the perfect son
02:37he was due to go to university to study medicine just a few
02:40months before he killed his parents in a fit of rage
02:43i'm meeting senior investigating
02:45officer mike keogh
02:46to find out what it was like to head up a murder investigation with the prime
02:50suspect is the couple's teenage son
02:52suspect is the couple's teenage son
02:53suspect is the couple's teenage son
02:55when did you first get the call that something
02:57when did you first get the call that something
02:59when did you first get the call that something
03:01when did you first get the call that something
03:03when did you first get the call that something
03:05when did you first get the call that something
03:07when did you first get the call that something
03:09when did you first get the call that something
03:11when did you first get the call that something
03:13when did you first get the call that something
03:15when did you first get the call that something
03:17and he could see that there was a lot of flies at the window
03:19and a smell coming from the house.
03:22He then decided to ring the police.
03:25So the police forced an entry in.
03:27He went into the house, and then they found the two bodies.
03:32One in the front room and one in the bathroom.
03:34Initially, they thought they'd both been shot.
03:37They thought they'd both or no.
03:56Did not copy?
04:00When you went in,
04:05what did you see?
04:06Mr Blackwell, senior, in a chair with a paper.
04:10A paper near to him with head injuries and blood on his shirt.
04:15And Mrs Blackwell was laying face down on the bathroom floor.
04:20Having bled out.
04:26You've been on many crime scenes.
04:28How did you feel?
04:29What did you feel?
04:30Do you think it happened?
04:31It was a horrific crime scene because the bodies have been there for so long.
04:35The stench and the deterioration in the bodies was significant.
04:40I was reviewing these cases as part of work I was doing with...
04:45Colleagues told me at the time that as they went into the...
04:50every house there was actual crunching underneath their feet
04:53because of the amount of flies and...
04:55all the blue bottles were at the scene.
04:57It's very unusual for bodies to be left.
05:00in a house for a long period of time.
05:03Usually there is some...
05:05effort to hide bodies, to dispose of them.
05:08So the fact that the bodies...
05:10the bodies were left for a significant period of time...
05:12is quite unusual.
05:15When we went into the house it was clear that they hadn't...
05:20been shot but they had head injuries and stab wounds.
05:25and that's how they died.
05:29There was 30...
05:30stab wounds to Sydney and 20 stab wounds to Jacqueline.
05:34Which suggests...
05:35a level of emotion.
05:37It's not just...
05:39a one stab...
05:40a one stab wound to kill.
05:41It's an expression of rage.
05:45They were a quiet, retired, unassuming couple.
05:51No...
05:52anti-social connections whatsoever.
05:55They were the last...
05:57kind of people that you would expect to be...
05:59a victim of...
06:00such a frenzied assault.
06:04These people have been...
06:05murdered quite a while back.
06:06So how do you begin...
06:07looking for suspects at this point?
06:09House to house is very important.
06:10Has anybody seen or heard anything?
06:12Background of the people who live there.
06:16I think at that point then...
06:17you're building up a profile of the victims first of all...
06:19which...
06:20which led us to find that...
06:21they actually had a son...
06:22who wasn't at the house.
06:23Who wasn't at the house.
06:26So if the couple had a son...
06:28where was he?
06:29And where had...
06:30been all of this time?
06:31The investigation had to focus...
06:33on tracking down 18...
06:35in your old brain.
06:40We tried to...
06:40cut him down through his girlfriend.
06:41We first of all...
06:42needed to break the news to him...
06:43that his parents...
06:44had been...
06:45been killed.
06:46What was his reaction to the...
06:47the news?
06:48He became...
06:49very upset...
06:50very emotional at first...
06:51which you'd expect...
06:52wouldn't you...
06:53when your parents...
06:54had been told...
06:55that your parents...
06:56had died.
06:57And then he asked them...
06:58the most curious...
06:59question of all...
07:00was to say...
07:01is prison cold?
07:04a very strange thing...
07:05for anybody to say.
07:06Why do you think...
07:07he asked that?
07:08I had no idea.
07:09it just didn't seem right.
07:10He didn't seem right.
07:11He didn't seem right.
07:15It sounds like...
07:16Mike had a gut feeling...
07:17about Brian...
07:18but I...
07:19want to understand more...
07:20about who Brian...
07:21really was.
07:22I'm on my way to...
07:24speak to Laverne Antibus...
07:25a psychologist...
07:26in children's mental health...
07:27to find out...
07:28about Brian's...
07:29relationship...
07:30with his parents.
07:34Laverne...
07:35what was...
07:36Brian Blackwell's...
07:37background?
07:38Well...
07:39it feels like...
07:40he came from...
07:39a very stable family...
07:40parents...
07:41who...
07:42very connected to him...
07:43you know...
07:44very much...
07:45behind him...
07:46in terms of his pursuits...
07:47wanting him to do well...
07:48and seemingly...
07:49a very loving family.
07:50His parents...
07:51really set everything up...
07:52quite beautifully for him...
07:53and I'm sure...
07:54you know...
07:54had to make some...
07:55sort of...
07:56sacrifices for themselves...
07:57sending him to a private school...
07:58really...
07:59making...
08:00it clear to him...
08:01that they wanted him...
08:02to be successful.
08:04Ohh...
08:09AHHHH!
08:09Brian Blackwell's parents wanted the very best for the 18-year-old.
08:13They used their same...
08:14...to send him to a private school.
08:17Brian was a hard-working...
08:19...exemplary student.
08:21He was ambitious.
08:24I think he was self-confident, well-balanced, and he knew where he was going.
08:29And he had a very promising future ahead of him.
08:34Had Brian ever shown any sign of violence?
08:38I think this is why it's so s**t.
08:39It was very shocking, you know, because in a way he was living the dream.
08:44His parents adored him.
08:46They put quite a bit of pressure on him to achieve, but...
08:49...he didn't seem to mind that.
08:51He lived up to it.
08:52He was outgoing, he was confident.
08:54Yet, it was all about him.
08:59From what I'm learning about Brian, he doesn't fit the profile.
09:04...of someone who would kill, but what strikes me is what an innocent teenager...
09:09...ask, is prison cold?
09:12I mean, is that the first thing?
09:14...that would come to your mind when you find out your parents are dead?
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