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🗓️ 25 August 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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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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0:53.2 | 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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