The bodies of murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman from Soham were discovered in which year?
"was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Detective Constable Brian Stevens, who had spoken at the memorial service, was acquitted of charges of indecent assault and child pornography offences when no evidence was offered by the prosecution. Soham murders The Soham murders occurred in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England, on 4 August 2002. The victims were two 10-year-old girls, Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Aimee Chapman. Their bodies were found near RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, on 17 August 2002, by a local farm worker Keith Pryer. Ian Kevin Huntley, a caretaker at local secondary school Soham Village College, was convicted on 17 December 2003"
"and Humberside Police did not adequately inform the authorities in Cambridgeshire about Huntley when he moved to Soham to work as a school caretaker. He was found guilty of murdering two 10-year-old girls (Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman) in 2003. This led to the Bichard enquiry for the police force and the Kelly report for the local council (North East Lincolnshire Council). It returned to the headlines in 2005 when Colin Inglis, its chairman at the time of the crisis, appeared in court charged with indecent assaults against children dating back to the 1980s. Inglis was cleared of all charges"
"miles away, near RAF Lakenheath, on 17 August. In December 2003, Ian Huntley, who had been employed as the caretaker at Soham Village College, was convicted of their murders. He had given newspaper and television interviews while the girls were missing, claiming to have seen them on the evening of their disappearance, and was finally arrested several hours before their bodies were found, following the recovery of clothing belonging to the girls on the school site. The house in College Close where Huntley lived and admitted at his trial the girls died, was demolished in 2004. The A142 road from"
"of disrepair over the decades, although a 2017 appeal initiated by a local author named Neil Milkins to restore their graves and headstones raised more than £4,000, he having been inspired to do so after speaking to relatives of both girls, who were upset by the state of disrepair of the graves. The girls' graves were subsequently restored in 2018. Harold Jones (murderer) Harold Jones (11 January 1906 – 1971) was a child murderer who committed the murder of two preadolescent girls in Monmouthshire, Wales in 1921 when he himself was aged 15. Jones was acquitted of the murder of"
"1987. The police were called by her husband after he returned home and discovered her partially clothed body on the floor of the couple's bedroom closet. Hellams was a resident in neurosurgery at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. Her attacker apparently gained access to the house by cutting out a large portion of a second-story bedroom window screen. The medical examiner determined that the cause of Hellams' death was ligature strangulation, apparently caused by two belts found around her neck. On November 22, 1987, Diane Cho, a 15-year-old high school student, was found in her family's apartment located"
"Sundown Murders The Sundown Murders refer to the murder of Sally (Thyra) Bowman (43), her daughter Wendy Bowman (14), and family friend Thomas Whelan (22) on Sundown Station in northern South Australia outback in December 1957. The search for their killer was one of the biggest manhunts in South Australian history. Pete and Sally Bowman with their two daughters Wendy and Marion managed Glen Helen station in the Northern Territory. In November 1957, a family friend named Thomas Whelan (22) travelled north to visit the family while on holiday. The Bowmans agreed to travel with Whelan back to Adelaide via"
"black 1938 DeSoto. Footprints believed to belong to the killer had been found at the murder scene, and were estimated as being a size 7 or 8. Bailey wore a size 5½ shoe. In February 2013, Bishop appealed to the Governor of South Australia, Kevin Scarce, to grant a posthumous pardon for Bailey but was declined. Sundown Murders The Sundown Murders refer to the murder of Sally (Thyra) Bowman (43), her daughter Wendy Bowman (14), and family friend Thomas Whelan (22) on Sundown Station in northern South Australia outback in December 1957. The search for their killer was one of"
"December 1953. The axe is in the Black Museum at Scotland Yard. Towpath murders The towpath murders was a case in which two teenage girls were murdered on the towpath near Teddington Lock on the River Thames, England, on 31 May 1953. Alfred Charles Whiteway was hanged for the murders, which got a deal of press attention, the case being described at the time as ""one of Scotland Yard's most notable triumphs in a century"". At the trial, defence counsel Peter Rawlinson had subjected lead detective Herbert Hannam to what was at the time considered a very sharp cross examination"
"and began work on 26 November 2001; the caretaker's job came with a tied cottage. Huntley's trial opened at the Old Bailey on 5 November 2003 before Mr Justice Moses, charged with two counts of murder. The families of Wells and Chapman were present for the duration. Huntley admitted that the girls had died in his house; he claimed that he accidentally knocked Wells into the bath while helping her control a nosebleed, and this caused her to drown. Chapman witnessed this and he claimed that he accidentally suffocated her while attempting to stifle her screaming. By the time he"
"Babes in the Wood murders (Wild Park) The Babes in the Wood Murders were the murders of two 9-year-old girls, Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway, on October 9,1986 by a 20-year-old local roofer, Russell Bishop. Bishop was tried and acquitted in 1987. The case remained open until December 10 2018, when Bishop was found guilty of the murders in a second trial. The investigation into the two girls' deaths is the largest and longest-running inquiry ever conducted by Sussex Police. Nicola and Karen were best friends who lived close to one another on the Moulsecoomb estate in Brighton, despite attending"
"Bichard report The Bichard report or Bichard inquiry is a public inquiry into child protection, which was produced after the subsequent media attention around the Soham murders, where two young girls were murdered in Cambridgeshire by their school caretaker Ian Huntley. The inquiry was launched on 18 December 2003, the day after an Old Bailey jury found Huntley guilty of murdering the two girls. After the verdict was delivered, it was revealed that Huntley had been investigated by police for crimes including burglary, indecent assault and rape during the 1990s, but had still been able to get a job as"
"the future. The key reconsiderations were: The main thing that has come from the Bichard report is CRB checks, making it possible to check each person for any previous crimes. Bichard report The Bichard report or Bichard inquiry is a public inquiry into child protection, which was produced after the subsequent media attention around the Soham murders, where two young girls were murdered in Cambridgeshire by their school caretaker Ian Huntley. The inquiry was launched on 18 December 2003, the day after an Old Bailey jury found Huntley guilty of murdering the two girls. After the verdict was delivered, it"
"clear that the forensic samples taken as ""tapings"" in 1986 had been so carefully handled by the police and so well preserved by scientists that Altman could present them as a ""time capsule"" that proved Bishop's guilt. On December 10, 2018, after a nine-week trial at the Central Criminal Court — better known as the Old Bailey — with a jury of seven men and five women, they returned a guilty verdict after two-and-a-half hours of deliberation. Babes in the Wood murders (Wild Park) The Babes in the Wood Murders were the murders of two 9-year-old girls, Nicola Fellows and"
"Murders of Rhonda Johnson and Sharon Shaw Rhonda Renee Johnson (December 16, 1956 – August 4, 1971) and Sharon Lynn Shaw (August 11, 1957 — August 4, 1971) were two teenage girls who disappeared in Harris County, Texas on the afternoon of August 4, 1971. In early 1972, skeletal remains of both girls were discovered in and around Clear Lake near Galveston Bay. A local man, Michael Lloyd Self, was charged with their murders in 1972 and convicted of Shaw's in 1975, though controversy arose in 1998 when serial killer Edward Harold Bell confessed to the murders; this paired with"
"were last seen wearing, including their Manchester United shirts. Huntley and Carr were arrested in the early hours of 17 August, on suspicion of murder. This was the first time that the police announced that they feared the girls were now dead. The bodies of both girls were found in a ditch near the perimeter fence of RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, about twelve miles from Soham, on the afternoon of 17 August. They were formally identified on 21 August. The girls had been missing for thirteen days when their bodies were found, with police stating that both corpses were ""severely"
"dump sites, and specific wound patterns that linked many of the murders, suggesting a common perpetrator. On October 24, 1978, 27-year-old Cathy Millican (born May 25, 1951) was photographing birds at the Chandler Brook Wetland Preserve in New London, New Hampshire. The next day, her body, with at least 29 stab wounds, was found only yards away from where she was last seen. On July 25, 1981, 37-year-old Mary Elizabeth Critchley, a student from the University of Vermont, disappeared near Interstate 91 at the Massachusetts-Vermont border, where she had been hitchhiking to Waterbury, Vermont. On August 9, her body was"
"should be the rapist and murderer of 12 year old Michella Welch in Tacoma, Washington in 1986. The police arrested and charged Gary Hartman, one of the brothers, using DNA from a discarded napkin. They identified the killer of 40 year old realtor Virginia Freeman in 1981 in Brazos County, Texas as James Otto Earhart executed in 1999 for another murder. Police in Indiana worked with Parabon to solve the 1988 rape and murder of April M. Tinsley (8 years old), and arrested in July 2018 a suspect, John D. Miller who confessed and plead guilty in court. Parabon also"
"the BBC television programme ""Crimewatch Roadshow"". In December 2018 Lord Justice Hickinbottom, sitting with Mrs Justice Whipple, ordered that a new inquest be held. Hickinbottom noted that a confession had been made by a suspect in 1979, that matched the 2014 evidence, but at the time the Crown Prosecution Service had decided not to prosecute him. Death of Helen Bailey Helen Bailey was an eight-year-old schoolgirl who was killed near her home in Great Barr, Birmingham, England, on 10 August 1975. Bailey, a pupil at Calshot Junior School, lived in nearby Booths Farm Road, and the day after she was"
"detectives linked him to DNA samples from the victims using new forensic technologies. The case of Deanna Wilson, 30, who was found in a garage on August 30, 1990, was later dropped, but was used by prosecutors to establish Hughes' pattern. Hughes killed 15-year-old Yvonne Coleman on January 22, 1986. Her body was found in a park in Inglewood, California. The other two were killed in Los Angeles. Verna Williams, 36, was discovered in a stairwell on May 26, 1986. She was considered at the time to be a victim of the prolific, then-unidentified serial killer known as the Southside"
"""stranger danger"" killings of children are incredibly rare, and that the overwhelming amount of cases of child abuse and murder were committed by someone who was known to the child. The Soham Murders in Cambridgeshire, where two 10-year-old girls were found dead two weeks after their disappearance in August 2002, are a notable example — the killer of the girls, Ian Huntley, was known to both of his victims, and his role as a local school caretaker perhaps portrayed him as a man with a position of trust, who would not appear to be a likely danger to children whether"
"2010, Woodham made a request to Governor of Mississippi, Haley Barbour, asking for clemency; however, his request was rejected. Pearl High School shooting The Pearl High School shooting was as a school shooting that occurred on October 1, 1997 at Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi, a suburb of Jackson. The gunman, 16-year-old Luke Woodham (born February 5, 1981), killed two students and injured seven others at the school after killing his mother at her home earlier that morning. The incident began on the morning of Wednesday, October 1, 1997, when Luke Woodham fatally stabbed and bludgeoned his mother, Mary"
"was having an affair with her ex-husband. Rodgers was sentenced to death. She successfully convicted Franklin Lee Reed in 2003 for the 1986 rape and murder of 13-year-old Mollie Pittman, a Lockhart Junior High school student. Pittman's body was found in a Needles Drive home on May 11, 1986—stabbed 12 times with an ice pick. In 2005, she obtained three life sentences for Brent Mackinder, who was convicted of raping his 7-year-old niece and then trying to kill her along West Orange Trail. Also in 2005, she prosecuted Derek Pelto, who killed his girlfriend by stabbing her and then striking"
"by police. The victims were 16-year-old Barbara Songhurst and 18-year-old Christine Reed. The girls had been on a bicycle trip on Sunday, 31 May 1953, and were seen cycling along the towpath beside the River Thames at about 11am. They failed to return home. Songhurst's body was found the next day floating in the river, and Reed's body was found on 6 June, after a section of the river was drained. Pathologist Keith Mant determined that both victims had been beaten, raped and killed with a hatchet. Alfred Charles Whiteway, separated from his wife and living with his parents in"
"1998 in Subiaco, Western Australia whilst Dixie was burgling her house; Dixie has yet to be formally charged with this attack, though a DNA sample from the woman's underwear has been matched to him. On 11 September 2008, a memorial was held to mark what would have been Bowman's 21st birthday. Balloons were released in Central Croydon outside Primark in North End. In August 2017 Bowman's family revealed that her ashes had been exhumed four years previously as her grave had been repeatedly targeted by vandals. Murder of Sally Anne Bowman Sally Anne Bowman (11 September 1987 – 25 September"
"to be introduced nationally, which was achieved by 2006. Underhill was also an adviser [for one day] in the case of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, who were abducted and murdered. He then moved to the Training Department in Sussex Police, having qualified as a police trainer, assessor and verifier. On retirement he moved to Dorset. Underhill went on to campaign for safeguarding issues, including Sarah's Law, which was introduced into Dorset in October 2011. Underhill became the Laymember on his Local Safeguarding Children's Board, as well as becoming a trustee for the Bournefree charity. He is a visiting lecturer"
"Bega schoolgirl murders The Bega schoolgirl murders refer to the abduction, rape and murder of two schoolgirls 14-year-old Lauren Margaret Barry and 16-year-old Nichole Emma Collins of Bega, New South Wales, Australia on 6 October 1997. They were abducted by Leslie Camilleri and Lindsay Beckett, both from the New South Wales town of Yass. The men subjected the girls to repeated rapes and sexual assaults on five or more separate occasions, while driving them to remote locations throughout rural New South Wales and Victoria. Over a twelve-hour period, the girls had been driven several hundred kilometres from Bega to Fiddler's"
"or their friend. Griffith’s body was discovered two days later at Ormond, in an abandoned building. She had been gagged, bound and strangled to death. On January 10, 1931, he abducted 16-year-old Hazel Wilson and strangled her to death. Her body was also found in the suburb of Ormond. He had gagged both girls and tied their hands behind their backs with portions of their clothing. Sodeman struck for the third time on January 1, 1935. His victim, Ethel Belshaw, was a 12-year-old girl whom he strangled at the sea-side town of Inverloch. Belshaw was intending to buy an ice"
"Towpath murders The towpath murders was a case in which two teenage girls were murdered on the towpath near Teddington Lock on the River Thames, England, on 31 May 1953. Alfred Charles Whiteway was hanged for the murders, which got a deal of press attention, the case being described at the time as ""one of Scotland Yard's most notable triumphs in a century"". At the trial, defence counsel Peter Rawlinson had subjected lead detective Herbert Hannam to what was at the time considered a very sharp cross examination on Whiteway's contention that the main evidence against him had been manufactured"
"Parker–Hulme murder case The Parker–Hulme murder case began in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, on 22 June 1954, when Honorah Rieper (also known as Honorah Parker, her legal name) was killed by her teenage daughter, Pauline Parker, and Pauline's close friend, Juliet Hulme (later known as Anne Perry). Parker was 16 at the time, while Hulme was 15. The murder has inspired plays, novels, non-fiction books, and films including Peter Jackson's 1994 film ""Heavenly Creatures"". On 22 June 1954, the body of Honorah Rieper was discovered in Victoria Park, in Christchurch, New Zealand. That morning, Honorah had gone for"
"Pearl High School shooting The Pearl High School shooting was as a school shooting that occurred on October 1, 1997 at Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi, a suburb of Jackson. The gunman, 16-year-old Luke Woodham (born February 5, 1981), killed two students and injured seven others at the school after killing his mother at her home earlier that morning. The incident began on the morning of Wednesday, October 1, 1997, when Luke Woodham fatally stabbed and bludgeoned his mother, Mary Ann Woodham, as she prepared for a morning jog. At his trial, Woodham claimed that he could not remember"
"Whitechapel murders The Whitechapel murders were committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London between 3 April 1888 and 13 February 1891. At various points some or all of these eleven unsolved murders of women have been ascribed to the notorious unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper. Most, if not all, of the victims—Emma Elizabeth Smith, Martha Tabram, Mary Ann ""Polly"" Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly, Rose Mylett, Alice McKenzie, Frances Coles, and an unidentified woman—were prostitutes. Smith was sexually assaulted and robbed by a gang. Tabram"
"(age 14, born April 24, 1949), and Cynthia Wesley (age 14, born April 30, 1949), were killed in the attack. The explosion was so intense that one of the girls' bodies was decapitated and so badly mutilated in the explosion that her body could only be identified through her clothing and a ring, whereas another victim had been killed by a piece of mortar embedded in her skull. The then-pastor of the church, the Reverend John Cross, would recollect in 2001 that the girls' bodies were found ""stacked on top of each other, clung together"". All four girls were pronounced"
"were abducted from the Washoe County Fair in Reno, Nevada. Charlene later testified that Gerald beat the girls to death with a shovel or hammer. Their remains were not found and identified until twenty years later. Similarly, on 24 April 1980, Stacy Ann Redican and Karen Chipman-Twiggs went missing from a Sacramento mall. They were found in July, sexually abused and bludgeoned to death. While hitchhiking on 6 June 1980, Linda Teresa Aguilar – who was pregnant – was abducted, murdered with a blunt object, and buried in a shallow grave. On July 17, 1980, 34-year-old Virginia Mochel was abducted"