The Soham Murders - Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman

On Sunday August 4th 2002, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were reported missing at 9.45pm by their parents after the girls hadn't come home from buying sweets. Earlier on in the day the girls had been at a barbecue at Holly's home in Red house Gardens, Soham, Cambridgeshire. At about 6.15pm the girls went out to go buy some sweets and on their way back walked past the house of Ian Huntley the caretaker at the local school but the girls never came home. After the girls were reported missing the police released a photograph taken only hours before the girls disappearance of the them wearing Manchester United replica football shirts and a physical description of each of them. In the early days of the search for the missing girls a women living in the village of Little Thelford claimed to have seen two girls who matched the appearance and clothing of that of Holly and Jessica walking past her home on the morning after they were reported missing. On August 7th police seized ...