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A Report on the Investigation by Cambridgeshire Constabulary into the Murders of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells

In the early evening of Sunday 4 August 2002, two ten year old girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells went missing in their home town of Soham, Cambridgeshire. When their parents, friends and neighbours could not locate them, this was reported to Cambridgeshire Constabulary at 9.56pm. A police search was immediately initiated which over the following days was to grow into one of the most large-scale searches recently conducted in the UK. Unsurprisingly, as some thirteen days passed without the girls being recovered or without public evidence of real progress being made, media and public interest rose to the highest levels of intensity.

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