Soham murders
Sign in to saveOn 4 August 2002, two 10-year-old girls, Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Amiee Chapman, were lured into the home of a local resident and school caretaker, Ian Huntley, in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England. Both children were murdered – most likely by asphyxiation – and their bodies disposed of in an irrigation ditch close to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. The bodies were discovered on 17 August 2002.
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- murder
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Soham
- Location
- Soham
- Number of deaths
- +2
- Number of injured
- +0
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