Today, August 4, marks 20 years since schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman went missing after they left a family barbecue to buy sweets. Best friends Holly and Jessica were just 10 years old when their lives were cruelly cut short by deceitful murderer Ian Huntley.
After getting snacks from a vending machine at their local leisure centre, the pair walked past caretaker Huntley's house. He claimed his girlfriend Maxine, a teaching assistant at their school, was inside and lured them into his home before murdering them in cold blood.
Police descended on the small Cambridgeshire town of Soham during the summer of 2002 to try and find the missing schoolgirls. Their faces were plastered over every national and local newspaper, while more than 400 officers and countless members of the public were involved in the search.
