The Man Who Helped Them Look: Ian Huntley and the Soham Murders
On 4 August 2002, ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman left a family barbecue in Soham to buy sweets. A security camera caught them in matching red Manchester United shirts. They never came home. For thirteen days the town searched, and the school caretaker who said he was the last person to speak to them stood in front of the cameras and helped look. Alexander Lawson tells the story of Ian Huntley, the false alibi given by Maxine Carr, the Old Bailey trial, and the police records that should have stopped him getting a job in a school. This episode does not describe how the girls…
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