Huntley had been investigated for a series of sex attacks. ibid.
Holly and Jessica. They were almost perfect victims ... Their crime become more symbolic. Professor David Wilson
On August 4th 2002 two ten-year-old schoolgirls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, went missing in the small Cambridgeshire village of Soham. Their disappearance sparked the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen. Soham 10 Years On, Sky Crime 2012
Ian Huntley knew his victims – he worked at their school. He had been helping the police in their searches. ibid.
There was much more to Ian Huntley’s shadowy past. ibid.
The police searched the caretaker’s storage hanger and found the burnt remains of Holly’ and Jessica’s clothes. ibid.
Two bodies had been found near RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. ibid.
Maxine Carr – did she know more than she let on? ibid.
I want Ian Huntley to rot in Hell. David Blunkett, former Home Secretary
Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman left a family barbecue to play outside on the sleepy streets of their rural village of Soham: their parents never saw them again. They had been murdered by school caretaker Ian Huntley. Soham: A Parent’s Tale, ITV 2012
Hundreds of others had relentlessly scoured the fields, lanes and houses in and around Soham but there was no sign of the girls. ibid.
They’d been dumped in a waterlogged ditch near an American airbase six miles from Soham. ibid.
The caretaker was later charged with two counts of murder; his teaching-assistant girlfriend Maxine Carr had provided him with an alibi and lied to the police. ibid.
Massive flaws in the system had been highlighted by the case. ibid.
The loss of Holly is still felt keenly by her whole family. ibid.
It was a quarter of a century before the police discovered who the killer was ... Why did Ronald Jebson admit to his guilt? Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook: Babes in the Wood, CI 2013
11-year-old Susan Blatchford and 12-year-old Gary Hanlon ... were found in the shallow in a wood at the edge of Epping Forest. ibid.
In 1970, 24 children under the age of 14 had gone missing in London but most had been found. ibid.
An alcoholic and amphetamine addict. ibid.
It was 9:50 p.m. on December 1st 1964 when the 9-year-old girl was discovered lying in a ditch. She’d been raped, strangled, and left for dead. Thankfully, she was still alive but only just. Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook: The Cannock Chase Murders
Another young girl had been abducted; but this time Margaret [Reynolds] had simply vanished into thin air. ibid.
Another young girl went out for a walk – five-year-old Dianne Tift left her grandmother’s house. ibid.
Christine Darby had vanished. ibid.
On 27th April 2008 the horrific case of Josef Fritzl sent shockwaves around the world ... For twenty-four years Josef Fritzl had kept his own daughter captive in a cellar beneath his house. In that time he had used her as a sex slave and fathered seven children. Fritzl by Fred Dineage, CI 2014
In 1967 he was convicted of a rape. ibid.
At first Josef Fritzl entered a plea of not guilty. ibid.
He murdered hundreds of Ecuadorian girls. Monster of the Andes, CI 2014
Dozens of girls between the ages of eight and twelve had vanished. ibid.
Then the bodies of young girls began to be discovered. They had been raped and strangled. More and more young girls began to disappear. ibid.
A twisted sense of immortality. ibid.
March 1980 ... Lopez claimed to have raped and killed more than three hundred girls. ibid.
When he was eight Pedro Lopez ran away from home. ibid.
He was taken to an abandoned building and raped. ibid.
I am the worst of the worst. Perhaps even a complete animal. Pedro Lopez
A British schoolgirl [Caroline Dickinson] has been raped and suffocated on a school holiday to France. ITN News at Ten
On 18th July 1996 a school trip from Cornwall was enjoying a stay in Brittany … among the party was Caroline Dickinson. The Caroline Dickinson Murder, Crime Channel 2013
The man who confessed to the murder was a local vagrant. ibid.
The link between the two attacks had been completely ignored by the original investigation. ibid.
The name of the man being held in Miami and his date of birth – 14th March 1950 – matched those of Francisco Arce Montes, who had disappeared from France some five years earlier and who was the prime suspect for the murder of Caroline Dickinson. ibid.
It took six months for Montes to be extradited from the United States to France, and a further two years for the trial. ibid.
Cannock Chase child killer Raymond Morris lives a ‘quiet and simple’ life in prison, with other inmates unaware of his notoriety, his solicitor said today.
The years have ‘taken their toll’ on the 81-year-old, who is fighting to clear his name over the murder of seven-year-old Walsall girl Christine Darby in 1967, it is claimed.
Morris, a former engineer from Green Lane, Walsall, is behind bars at HMP Wymott in Preston. He was has been locked up for the past 42 years for the murder and is also the prime suspect in the killings of schoolgirls Margaret Reynolds of Aston and Diane Tift from Bloxwich. Express and Star online article 4th November 2010
March 1995: The girl was thirteen-year-old Cindy Zarzycki, better known to her friends and family as Cindy Jo. Crime Stories: Girls Just Wanna Be Found, 2010
45-year-old [Art] Ream owned a carpet business in the area ... 15 years in prison for raping a 15-year-old girl. ibid.
Detroit, 2006: A paedophile, Art Ream, had abducted and killed Cindy Zarzycki. ibid.
Art Ream tried to strike a deal ... Guilty. ibid.
Cindy was finally laid to rest. ibid.
Arthur Ream who has been convicted of the murder of Cindy was Scott Ream’s father. According to Assistant Prosecutor Steve Kaplan at the murder trial Ream had lured Cindy to the Dairy Queen by telling her he was having a birthday party for his son. Kaplin stated that after Ream picked her up he raped her, murdered her and hid her body. Digital Journal online article 5th August 2008
On 1st July 2000, 8-year-old Sarah Payne vanished while playing one summer’s eve. 17 days later she was found murdered. Roy Whiting, an already convicted paedophile, had taken her life. Crimes that Shook Britain s1e6: Sarah Payne, CI 2008
Her mum vows that the loss of her beautiful daughter will not be in vain ... The fight for Sarah’s law starts. ibid.
Forensic tests on the van have brought a major breakthrough. ibid.
The judge recommends he [Roy Whiting] is never released. ibid
Operation Yewtree: one name when it was made public sent shockwaves around the country and the world. He was an entertainer loved and admired across the globe. But when rumours began to emerge about a dark past, the public were stunned. At his trial, the full story of the abuse carried out by the television star was laid bare. Crimes that Shook Britain s6e1: Rolf Harris, CI 2020
‘There’s just no remorse in him. He thought his fame was going to get him off.’ ibid. abuse lawyer
A spectacular fall from grace … with one victim as young as twelve. ibid.
Sarah Payne: the little girl murdered on a family outing to the seaside; the eight-year-old who changed the law. The Fight For Sarah’s Law, Crime Channel 2013 aka Real Crime s7e2: The Fight For Sarah’s Law, ITV 2008
In 1995 Whiting had been convicted for an indecent assault on an eight-year-old girl in Crawley. ibid.
Roy Whiting was released but police kept hold of his van. ibid.
Operation Maple: the biggest investigation that Sussex Police has ever mounted, bigger even than the Brighton bomb. ibid.
Reports of a discovery of a little girl’s body. ibid.