Christopher Berry Dee is at the center of a Guardian investigation that alleges multiple accusations of assault and child sexual abuse. The report says the claims stretch across decades and include accounts from family members and other alleged victims.
Berry-Dee is described as the UK’s all-time bestselling true crime author, with nearly 1m total sales and a three decade-long career. In 2002, he said: “I speak for the victims who have suffered at the hands of the monsters with two faces … for the next of kin who have lost loved ones.”
Zoe and Sasha in Curdridge
In the early 1990s, Berry-Dee lived in Curdridge, near Winchester, with Tracey Dee and their two young daughters, Zoe and Sasha. Zoe said she found the clothes of a nine-year-old girl who had been murdered in a wardrobe in the family home and remembered “putting it all on … going downstairs and everyone being absolutely traumatised”.
She also said, “It would always be on,” when describing tape recordings of confessions in the house, and added: “At the time, it felt normal.” The house also held the Austin Metro that Michael Sams had used to transport a body in 1991, with bloodied sections of the seatbelts later cut out for forensic tests.
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says it spoke with multiple alleged victims and witnesses over a six-month investigation period. It says Berry-Dee has been reported to the police multiple times for child sexual abuse.
The report also says he wrote to convicted murderers in jail and befriended them, while routinely appearing on TV documentaries and podcasts and at true crime conferences. That public image sits alongside the allegations in the investigation, which the report says include assault and child sexual abuse.
Christopher Berry Dee allegations
Berry-Dee’s profile rests on a long career built around serial killers and victims’ stories, but the claims set out in the investigation raise a sharper question for readers: what evidence and responses exist for the allegations against Christopher Berry-Dee? The report itself sets out the accusations; it does not resolve them, leaving the claims and his 2002 public remarks in direct conflict.
