The bodies of murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman from Soham were discovered in which year?
Soham murders 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 of the girls' murder and sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment, with the High Court later setting a minimum term of 40 years. His girlfriend, Maxine Ann Carr, was the girls' teaching assistant at St
Soham murders immediately noticed that Carr was referring to Wells in the past tense, even though she had not been reported dead and police were still treating their disappearance as a missing persons case rather than a possible murder investigation. In the early days of the investigation, a woman living in the nearby village of Little Thetford claimed to have seen two girls whose appearance and clothing matched those of Wells and Chapman walking past her home on the morning after they were reported missing. Police also seized a white van from a caravan park in Wentworth, some ten miles from Soham,