The disappearance of two schoolgirls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, shocked the nation twenty years ago this week and sparked a huge manhunt during the summer holidays of 2002 in Soham.
But there has been little publicity about the breakthrough by an eagle-eyed newspaper reader that led police to first come across murderer Ian Huntley as a potential suspect.
The hero reader made a call to the Grimsby Telegraph 12 days after the 10-year-old girls first went missing regarding Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr.
They had seen local college caretaker, Huntley, being interviewed by television broadcasters. After checking the newspaper archives at the suggestion of the caller, a reporter in the Grimsby newsroom alerted Humberside Police to the link with earlier investigations into Huntley, reported Grimsby Live.His name appeared in court reports and allegations of sex attacks - which the Telegraph had published and Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr, from Grimsby, were detained and questioned by police after.Holly and Jessica had gone for a walk together on August 4 2002 during a family barbecue.They were then lured into the home of local resident and school caretaker, Ian Kevin Huntley, who subsequently murdered the children - before disposing of their bodies in an irrigation ditch close to RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk.Cambridgeshire Police quickly established their route and identified Ian Huntley as the last person to see them alive.
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