The Soham Murders: Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman

[@DiD86]

Corrections: I accidentally mis-typed the date on the opening title card. Should read 17th of December, as per the narration, not the 7th. My apologies.

[@duchessoffunk4490]

Thank you for ending this episode with the only two who truly matter, Jessica & Holly, the two little darlings. Never to be forgotten 💖💖.

[@kddicks5115]

Shark eyes. That’s what my husband (RIP❤) and I call eyes like that. Your 100% right about child predators…they can not be rehabilitated, reformed or changed. Thank you for such an honest and heartfelt telling of this most repugnant of crimes. The world is a more beautiful place for having those two amazing girls in it, even so short a time. 💔💔

[@PSD-ms8yl]

You're channel is fantastic. No dramatics, dry and to the point. Glad I found it. Thanks for making these.

[@DiD86]

Thank you very much for saying so. 😇

[@phinhnanthasone1231]

It was infuriating that the school didn't bother to make a background check and hired Ian

[@DiD86]

Yeah, thank god that sort of thing has changed, these days.

[@zoefree3950]

Unbelievably private tutors still have no legal requirement to get dbs checked, it’s only if they sign up to an agency that requires it

[@DiD86]

I did not know that! Bloody hell! That’s a hell of an oversight! That needs sorting post-haste!

[@TheMadRocker68]

I agree with what has been said about dbs checks. I’m 55 and recently got accepted as a guitar tutor but before I was accepted I had to have a basic disclosure carried out and paid for by myself. This should be the case for anyone who is going to be interacting with younger people

[@philiphubbard6234]

I was a School Governor for nine year's and had to have two CRB checks during that time, as they have to be done every four year's, but if the Head allowed this to happen at the school I was at the school governors would have sacked him, thankfully the school I was a Governor at the Head was one for the finest detail.

[@chesspiece81]

YES!!! A DiD upload! Such a horrible, horrible case. Maybe since I'm the father of girls, but when someone kills kids but girls, especially, it just hurts a little more and is a little more sad. When these perverts see these young kids as viable sexual participants, it is even more disturbing and disgusting.

[@DiD86]

I don’t have kids and still this sort of case boils my piss!

[@timeandnourishment1961]

Huntley must be the worst kind of lowlife for even the Yorkshire Ripper to look down on him. May they both do well on Satan's barbecue. Thanks for this wonderfully sensitive treatment of a heartwrenching case, DiD. Cheers 🍻!

[@TheMadRocker68]

As always you deliver a must watch video. No matter how many other versions of this particular and other ones you cover yours are always more gripping and informative. I also think that your voice is always excellent especially when you are reading out women’s statements. Keep up the great work 👍👍👍

[@DiD86]

Thank you very much.

[@alinapopescu872]

He's only sorry he got caught. And words have become so cheap that they mean nothing and are thrown about easily. "Sorry" used to be the hardest word, now it's the cheapest.

[@DiD86]

Totally agree. He’s not even worthy to think their names, let alone say them.

[@paulrowan2828]

I worked with Les Chapman.... Jessica dad in the maintenance department of an engineering company based in Enfield. Unfortunately for Les, together with another lad, were made redundant from the company. Les told me he was relocating to a place called Soham. So that's how Jessica Chapman came to be in Soham

[@DiD86]

Ah Jesus! If only one could turn back the clock…😞

[@paulrowan2828]

Real Sliding Doors moment! It was only after the conviction of Huntley & the parents gave interviews to the media I suddenly recognised Les on tv

[@adamlee3772]

I had just moved back down under and then this case was all over the news in NZ where I was then living and also in Australia where I travelled frequently on business. It was incredible the following it got there as the girls had gone missing and then again during the trial. I was also in regular contact with a cousin in Canada who was emailing me often about it. There was a great sense of shock, sadness and love and support for the families and friends of those girls. I never believe in capital punishment, these monsters like Huntley should be forced to live the rest of their days in the full knowledge of what they did and the constant fear of harm from prison justice, that is a far more painful punishment than getting the escape from it that death offers. Your videos are very well produced and very sensitive and respectful. Thank you for uploading them. Rest In Peace Holly and Jessica.

[@CarolineDarvill]

I love that your content highlights the safeguarding and care of young and vulnerable, not just looking at the crimes alone. Thank you.

[@DiD86]

I would feel remiss if I didn’t. Children and the elderly deserve to be treated properly and protected at all costs.

[@CarolineDarvill]

@@DiD86 Well im very glad I came across your channel.

[@DiD86]

Welcome aboard! 👌🏻

[@suzymurray9720]

I live in Cambs and have 3 daughters too, one which was born in 1992. Given the opportunity to lay flowers 🌸 they were adamant to do so, even as children they grasped the sheer gravity of it all. Never truer words tho MC in police station should have spilled!!! Self preservation at this point is total selfishness 😢

[@garrybroadbent8297]

RIP young girls…I remember it well and being a father of young girls at the time I found it horrific..Huntley and Carr will never leave my memory and may they rot in hell.

[@bigdunc1313]

We are far too soft on sex offender’s, even KZbin protects them. Theres a line you don’t cross and for those that do then they should be removed from society for the rest of their lives. Not giving them suspended sentences and allowing them to destroy innocent young lives. They are monsters but are treated like humans..

[@christyb5575]

Agree!! Child predators are the worst of the worst, to take a child’s innocence is the worst thing you can do.

[@bigdunc1313]

👍⭐️

[@deanbuss1678]

Thanks!

[@DiD86]

Thank you very much. 👍🏻😁

[@laranovelletto8694]

You truly done fuck up when a guy know as "ripper" calls you a monster

[@roseanne74]

I moved from Cambridge to Ely just after the murders happened. As I said in the pre-release post, even my parents back home in Australia were well aware of the whole incident.

[@domformula1]

I was 21 at the time of this story breaking, still remember it as I was recovering from a rather nasty bout of appendicitis and whilst sat at home watching TV signed off work, coverage of this story was everywhere. What a horrendous loss those poor parents must have felt and I hope that waste of humanity rots in jail forever.

[@donshipman8441]

Such an amazing channel

[@DiD86]

😁

[@Damien_Clarke]

I have a friend of mine that suggests a solution for convicted Pedo offenders. His take is that we shouldn't spend money to house them, but instead profit from them. His idea is that a colosseum or arena could be build for the purpose, charging a small free for stones and a fee for a streaming service - even having a proxy means for the streaming viewers to cast stones. When the signal is made, everyone throws their stones at the convicted, end of issue! At the end of each event a portion of the funds is given to the families of the victims. There are times that I don't disagree with him...

[@DiD86]

The late great George Carlin had a similar idea.

[@Damien_Clarke]

@@DiD86 Oh, you know my friend then! 😉

[@kimifur]

Trouble is, this would likely happen to someone wrongly accused at some point. If the death penalty was only ever applied to the guilty I would happily agree with it, but, sadly, it isn't even close to being so.

[@tanyacollins3732]

Thank you for telling thier story without the sensationalism that a lot of the media do. Rest in peace girls. We will never know who or what you would’ve been if it wasn’t for this monster

[@grapeshot]

Yeah kind of reminds me of the case in Delphi Indiana.

[@jessicamilestone4026]

I remember this case very well. 😢. Rest in Peace Holly and Jessica

[@malloryknox9319]

I LOVE your voice ❤

[@DiD86]

Thank you very much. At last, I’ve found something I’m good for! 😂😂😂

[@scottessery100]

In 1998 I secured a job in Ely and was a lodger in a house that backed onto St. Andrews school and could see the playground from the bedroom window I could never imagine anything so awful could ever happen and It’s shocking the headmaster couldn’t be bothered to do due diligence

[@DiD86]

It’s a shame that it always takes something horrific for rules to change.

[@kevindrew8878]

I try not to believe in the rightness of the death penalty but every once in a while and too often for comfort a case comes along that reinforces the idea that the ultimate punishment is entirely apt.... this is such a case.

[@davidpowell6098]

Huntley wasn't born, he was spat on a wall, and formed. I read a lot about this case, but you exposed a lot of info I had never heard before. Nice job.

[@stephenwise3635]

This haunts our nation or at least those with souls. Nice one DiD stay safe :) x

[@deanbuss1678]

I should have to admit, it's hard to find a way to complement such a story. If I understand your character, I'm sure you get what I mean. I'll just say "good job chap!"

[@kristiskinner8542]

We have Primary school in the US. Its kindergarden through 2nd grade, typically 5yrs old to 8yrs old. Might vary in some places or if its a private school but public schools far as I know are still that way

[@DiD86]

Ours goes 4-11 then high school til 16.

[@zaravacher906]

I remember these poor girls being on sky news before i set off for school their parents pouring their hearts out :( these poor girls.

[@Nx2.1]

14:49 Huntly doesn't understand the meaning of sorrow, perhaps one day he will? 👿

[@rosequartz7841]

Wish these videos were longer x

[@DiD86]

I wish I had more to share with this one.

[@deewhite4346]

I know what you mean ,more so because I could listen to DID voice all day long . So I binge watch 😊

[@MrPete1x]

RIP little darlings

[@DiD86]

Amen! 🙏🏻

[@jakobrebeki]

Dear Sir, that Fireman that was killed at Soham not only was awarded the George Cross but also had a railway locomotive named after him. It is a Class 47 Number 479. It is now been rebuilt and is in full service on a preserved Railway The mid Hants Railway also known as The Watercress line running between Alton to Alresford. I work there as a volunteer in the P-WAY dept. It looks mint and runs perfect....

[@DiD86]

Thank you for the extra info.

[@LMB222]

In the six weeks that I lived in the UK, there was a sick murder every week. Not the type if "he hit her so she stabbed him", but of the "he dragged the victim - unkniwn to him - to the tracks and killed her with a hammer" type.

[@philiphubbard6234]

Huntley in August 2002, was detained at Rampton Hospital in Bassetlaw, for nearly two months after his arrest, but transferred to a mainstream prison on remand after being declared fit to stand trail, people who don't know what Rampton Hospital it's one of the high security Mental Hospital, the other two being Ashworth Hospital near Liverpool and the most famous one Broadmoor Hospital, Rampton Hospital as at the moment and as since she was sentenced Nurse Beverley Allitt, unfortunately I live in Bassetlaw with Ranby Prison and Rampton Hospital in the same area is not good for house value, also Charles Bronson was also at Rampton Hospital.

[@jackharrison6771]

Thanks for another excellent video. I think the Railway incident at the start in a very good audiobook 'Steaming to Victory'. Also- There is also another good audiobook about the Soham murders; both available at Audible. What a terrible thing to happen to the two girls, their families, and the town; to have a creature like him amongst them. And she only distanced herself from him, to try to improve her own position.

[@DiseaseShaker]

I work in recruitment - the Soham case led to the establishment of the CRB (now the DBS) to perform criminal record checks for those recruited to work with children and vulnerable adults.

[@DiD86]

At least some good came out of it but why must it always take a disaster to identify holes in the system? 😔

[@adedamolaadeleke6228]

They'd actually be 32 years old now.

[@Pottawattamie]

A few points it was Carr that had the relationship with the girls and may have already groomed them it certainly appears likely in my opinion. He as far as I know didn't know them and worked at the College not their school even though close in proximity. A scenario I considered was she was incensed at not getting the job she applied for and wanted to get back at the school by arranging a staged kidnapping and implicating him at the same time allegedly. She knew full well his history with young girls and likely rightly assumed he would be blamed. Of course she made sure she had an alibi. She could have invited them to the house and once inside they would have panicked realising they she was not there and they were alone with a man they didn't know. He could indeed be telling the truth in part and I wouldn't be surprised if no SA occurred because that wasn't the motive. She wanted to be a hero and they were not supposed to be harmed just held long enough for her to come home and save them from her monster boyfriend allegedly. I would like to know if Jessica had bought Carr a gift on holiday I believe the girls had left home without telling anyone that was unusual according to parents. His reason for keeping quiet is he won't admit the real reason these beautiful children died was to please a woman who he is no longer in a relationship with allegedly. This is my theory I think the whole investigation was rushed as it seemed an obvious case of a P having access to children in a school setting however she had even more.

[@DiD86]

Some good points there. Food for thought, for sure.

[@Pottawattamie]

@@DiD86 To add to this who did get that job at the school? Was it Jessica's mother not sure on that but everything else is as I remember at the time. These beautiful bright children were everything she wasn't and I question her real feelings toward them. If this was a grooming situation with her being the enabler why did it end this way. I am aware of his past behaviour but I still think these girls were too young. She was described as highly manipulative and this was possibly a mutually abusive relationship. This would not be the first time a woman planned something like this and to conclude she was the one with access and in my opinion a motive. Thanks for taking the time to read and reply.

[@mikethepsych2084]

I remembered this back when I was on my paper round. I remember the one word headline GUILTY. RIP Holly and Jessica

[@deeayenn]

Just here to leave a comment. Not sure I can watch this yet. Sure you've done your usual good work. I'll be back at some point..

[@DiD86]

I understand. It’s not easy to talk or hear about such things.

[@15-Peter-20]

Do you know Kevin Lidgard of Grimsby?

[@DiD86]

Not off the top of my head. Although the surname is familiar.

[@roseanne74]

Have you done a podcast on Milly Dowler?

[@DiD86]

Not yet but certainly will be doing at some point.

[@annabasnatural]

Hah! I didn’t know it was Hobson who had done it. Possibly the only good thing he’s ever done

[@DiD86]

Definitely!

[@rosequartz7841]

Lessons learned regarding thorough background checks! These poor dear souls needlessly lost their lives to a monster!.x Lest we forget!❤

[@suzannewilliam-james9744]

💔💔💔

[@chris-the-gent6676]

If this knob-head was truly sorry then he'd tell the police what REALLY happened with the two girls. The parents of Jessica & Holly have been saying for many years on TV interviews that it would bring them closure if they knew what happened to their daughters and what Huntley's motive was.

[@Cornz38]

Maxine Carr, apparently, lives in or around Macclesfield.

[@synetturnbull704]

Maxine Carr when she was in prison somebody left her house outside of Brigg Lincolnshire she moved there in 2005 she changed her name and her hair colour an hairstyle but you can tell it's Maxine she works in the cake factory in Brigg and she's still lives the

[@DiD86]

😳 I know she was in York for a while but I didn’t know this.

[@synetturnbull704]

@@DiD86 Yeah she still lives there now well she just outside of brigg on the road to Humberside airport

[@DiD86]

I regularly drive that road! 😅

[@synetturnbull704]

I do think it is wrong for her to have Netflix story and getting paid for covering up for a paedophile and the one thing I do believe from his mouth when he says she helped him to try and cover up in my eyes she's as sick as Moura Hindley but that one got away with it and where's prophet's of crime that's exactly what she's getting with getting paid by Netflix

[@synetturnbull704]

This is a bit strange one lass that works with her on the early shift at cheesecake factory told me that she used to go and see his family at Grimsby 🤔

[@adamsmith8307]

A very very tragic story indeed.

[@DiD86]

As tragic as it is sickening.

[@LegendaryPatMan]

Well, i said DiD would do it justice and I wasn't disappointed in the slightest

[@patricioaguayo9088]

Poor girls😢

[@iandawe948]

A good video but seemed very short. Think it needs a good hour at least to cover it in great detail..

[@jeanettehinds4253]

I love your videos, but this one was way too short. It's very naughty of you.😊😊

[@singingcrafter1520]

Those poor girls 😢

[@adrianparker-e9f]

How did the girls know where Carr lived ? Had they been there before ?

[@adamlee3772]

@@adrianparker-e9f she lived at the same house as Huntley which was on the school property.

[@adrianparker-e9f]

@@adamlee3772 That was at Soham Village College, where the girls would have gone the next term. They had been attending St. Andrew's Primary School. The house is also in the opposite direction from where the girls lived, and some distance from their school. I think the information must have been given to the girls by Carr, but had they been to the house before ?

[@anniehills3580]

He looks like the Nathan who killed his sister, Becky Watts. Acts like him too!

[@EmmaRoyd-t3z]

These poor girls would be the same age as me now awful just awful

[@DiD86]

😞

[@Mario36724]

Look into information outside of the mainstream media reports. Huntley is the fall guy for a much bigger cover up which involves the USAF military base in Lakenheath where the girls' bodies where discovered on its perimeter. The only officer who happened to be the family liason officer for one of the family's was the only one who attempted to make a link between the murder of the girls' and the military base. Not long after he was suddenly charged with being in possession of child porn and also had been accused of rape against a minor and silenced from then on. After that there was never any mention again of the link between the murders and the military base. There's more to it.

[@DiD86]

I’m afraid that has a whiff of the tin-foil hats about it.

[@Mario36724]

@@DiD86 sure. And what the news and the Netflix show tell us is gospel, correct?

[@adrianparker-e9f]

As with any case, the police will leave out any information that complicates their prosecution. Even when they have the correct culprit the story may have to be 'adjusted' to make it believable. ( Did Huntley go to the police to make a statement or was he approached as part of house to house enquiries ?)

[@echosmotorcompany9852]

@@DiD86well said

[@williamemerson1799]

Prison justice! Yeah baby. 👍🍻

[@1220b]

How is Carr still not in prison. Oh yeah she played the female victim card.

[@tabriz1359]

I come here for culture.

[@harieljjohnson878]

Straight into the Loving arms of Jesus Christ🕊🕊

[@nothingtoseeherebutthetrut4636]

There’s a KZbinr called VIDEO CRAIG & he thought it would be funny to make a comedy sketch mocking them poor wee girls & the video of him doing this in on this platform!!!! Man should be ashamed but he isn’t & still makes fun of the horrendous crime against 2 innocent little girls #RIP

[@DiD86]

Christ! Some people have no shame!

[@nothingtoseeherebutthetrut4636]

@@DiD86 he really has no shame as he openly picks & bullies woman & vulnerable adults on his channel & all for jokes

[@nothingtoseeherebutthetrut4636]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIfVZ5yNe8abh6csi=lka7UkwkSBblB-uT 2.22mins in

[@adedamolaadeleke6228]

They were just kids spending some time together

[@michaeldean1289]

Jail is too good for these types of dogs!

[@Slaktrax]

Dear DiD, will you be doing anything on the WW2 Nazi battalions of Ukraine... 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) Waffen Grenadier Regiment of the SS (1st Romanian) And Latvia (who still commerate this each year) 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian) As well as 1st Lithuanian SS Division and the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) ?

[@DiD86]

I’ve no plans at this moment in time but almost certainly I will be covering at some point in the future. The behaviour of the Waffen SS is certainly something that needs its own video.

[@Slaktrax]

@@DiD86 Thank you for your prompt reply once again from a devoted sub'. 🙂

[@Slaktrax]

@@DiD86 It's notable that these countries have such a holier than thou attitude yet hide a dark past as they were all responsible for murdering tens of thousands of Jews. Latvia in particular with the way it commemorates their Nazi past and the way they are treating ethnic Russians presently. 🙂