Two Girls From Soham: Remembering Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman | Ep. 235

In August 2002, two ten-year-old best friends left their homes in the quiet Cambridgeshire town of Soham to buy some sweets. It was a warm summer evening during the school holidays, and the sort of trip they’d made plenty of times before. But when Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman didn’t return home, a simple errand quickly turned into one of the biggest missing persons searches Britain had ever seen. Two little girls had seemingly vanished without a trace.

Holly and Jessica had grown up side by side. They went to school together, played together, and spent most days wandering around with the kind of freedom kids in tight knit communities often have. But one evening, something went terribly wrong. Within days, the entire country was watching as the search unfolded, and at the centre of it all stood a local school caretaker who claimed he might have been the last person to see the girls alive.

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