Video surging 6.4x the video's usual pace

Cold Trace revisits a lockdown family killing and the shotgun license behind it

A week after it went up, the documentary has pulled ahead of every other recent upload on the British true crime channel.

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Why this story? The video is running at 51,250 views a day, 6.4 times its usual pace (7,977).

The Father Who Executed His Entire Family During Lockdown

It started slowly. "The Father Who Executed His Entire Family During Lockdown" spent its first day with under 9,000 views. A week on, it is passing 100,000 and drawing about six times its usual daily audience, enough to lift the whole channel well above an ordinary day.

The film covers a case from Britain's first COVID lockdown, when a man killed his partner and their two young daughters and then himself. According to the description, friends and family saw a quiet, devoted father, while he was hiding addiction, debt and mental-health problems. He bought the shotgun days before the killings. Drawing on family testimony and police evidence, the film examines a crime that was never fully explained and the firearm-licensing failures that came before it.

In the comments, many viewers talk about mental health and ask why such killings happen at all. Others question why investigators could not establish a time of death, or point out how rare shootings like this are in Britain.

This is familiar ground for Cold Trace. Its recent uploads have also covered British domestic murders, including a Cornwall case that the police failed to stop and a killing during the school run.

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