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Bonus - Holly and Jessica: The Soham Murders

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On 4 August 2002, 10 year old best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman vanished from a family barbeque in Soham, Cambridgeshire. This sparked one of the biggest police hunts in UK history and when a series of grim discoveries were made, it changed the country forever.


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0:00.0

I'm Hannah, I'm Suryty, and welcome and also congratulations everyone. Welcome to the first

0:15.7

of your reward bonus episodes for you all being absolute top lads and making us finally

0:20.9

the award-winning podcast that we've always wanted to be and secretly always knew that we were.

0:25.2

Exactly, so here is your silver quality bonus episode voted for by you. Might I add,

0:31.9

these weren't cases selected by Hannah or I, these were cases that you guys picked. So yeah,

0:37.2

no complaining. Thank you very much. If that makes no sense to you, welcome to the second

0:42.0

most popular podcast in the United Kingdom, and we're giving you this bonus content because you

0:46.4

all voted for us just like you should in November. So we, Asurouda, said, let you pick the cases

0:53.2

that you wanted us to cover and a whole bunch of you voted for this case, which is the so

0:57.6

a murders, but you already know that because I assume that you can all read. And also, maybe you

1:02.7

didn't all know this, but you are quite a clever bunch because this case just so happens to have

1:07.2

unfolded 18 years ago last week. So you're all so timely. So timely, I'm like, did you guys know that?

1:14.4

Was it just a coincidence? Because I didn't figure that out until we knew the case had been chosen,

1:20.0

and that's what we were doing. Yeah, me either had no idea. But the names Holly and Jessica

1:24.6

ring a whole bell-free of bells in every British person's mind. If you're not British, it's hard

1:29.8

to describe just how much of an impact this case had. Everyone knows about it. Everyone knows who

1:35.1

did it. And of course, everyone remembers that photograph. Iconic seems like the wrong word,

1:40.0

but it is easily one of the most recognizable images of the 2000s. And if you don't already know

1:45.6

the picture I'm talking about, follow us the fuck on Instagram. What are you doing? So,

1:50.0

let's get into it. This case is called the So Emerders because that is where it happened. So

1:56.1

em is in Cambridge, it's a pretty teeny tiny town. It's around eight square miles and it has a

2:00.6

population of just over 10,000. It's your typical middle-England town. It's got churches,

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