36 - Holly and Jessica: The Soham Murders
In 2002, two ten year old girls - Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman - went missing in the quiet and idyllic English town of Soham. It quickly became apparent that the girls had not simply wandered off. What followed was two week search for them, and the revelation that a terrible crime had taken place.
The shocking truth was that the girls had been murdered by a member of their community, someone they knew. And someone they trusted.
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Sources:
Kevin Wells, Goodbye, Dearest Holly: Ten Years On (Peach Publishing, 2012) Purchase here (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Goodbye-Dearest-Holly-Kevin-Wells/dp/0340897910/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dearest+holly&qid=1559845359&s=gateway&smid=A1G3UP32AZJ14F&sr=8-1)
Nathan Yates, Beyond Evil (London: John Blake, 2005) Purchase here (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Evil-Inside-Twisted-Huntley-ebook/dp/B009DCTQUQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1559845390&sr=8-2)
Catriona Harvey – Jenner “16 years on from the Soham murders- what actually happened to Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells?” in Cosmopolitan https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a11435528/soham-murders-jessica-chapman-holly-wells-ian-huntley/ (3 August 2018)
Amanda Devlin and Mark Hodge, “Lair's new life: what happened to Maxine Carr, where is she now and how did she know Soham murderer Ian huntley?” in The Sun https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5557736/maxine-carr-ian-huntley-soham-murders/ (18 January 2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soham_murders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soham