Anguish of the true crime producer who killed himself

The producer of a true crime series took his own life partly due to the pressure of trying to get justice for the families involved, his family has claimed. Channel 4 has opened an urgent investigation into the circumstances that led to the death of John Balson, 40, who left behind a three-year-old daughter and a wife who is seven months pregnant. He died on May 17 after eight weeks working on the cold case show In the Footsteps of …