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I think I'll just, I'll just, I'll just use the Internet. Well, we do appreciate our United Kingdom and English and listeners abroad in general, but we do appreciate you guys listening and recommending cases because it's always an interesting way to learn about some, some different cases. And a listener actually recommended this case. It's an older case, but there's been some recent developments. And my source for this one was the BBC. And this concerns the horrific case of Ian Huntley, a convicted murderer who recently died. On March 7, 2026, he was murdered himself. He was killed in a well. He was attacked in prison and sustained head trauma from a makeshift weapon at the HMP Franklin ON, on February 26, 2026. He was left on life support for a while, but then it was switched off and he died on March 7th. Even found. Yeah, like lying in a pool of blood in this workshop. And the BBC reported that a killer named Anthony Russell, who's 43, was suspected of attacking him. This is not the first time Ian Huntley was attacked in prison. He had been attacked actually a number of times before and when you learn what he did is not, it is not hard to understand why that was. Ian Huntley was convicted of murdering two young girls, Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, in 2002. And this is a very haunting case. And my understanding is, I mean, these are two 10 year old girls, first of all. And in addition to that, it's, it's horrific, but there's also a lot of lingering unknowns, which I think sometimes that makes people so uneasy, understandably, myself included, because it's like you can kind of fill in the most horrific possibilities. So Holly and Jessica were good friends. They were at a family barbecue near the small town of, in the small town of Soham, Cambridgeshire. And that's near Cambridge. And this is Sunday, August 4, 2002. And at some point they leave Holly's house and they are looking to buy sweets, I think from a vending machine. Not too far away, they pass by Ian Huntley's house and the thing about him is that he was living with his girlfriend, a woman named Maxine Carr. Carr was the teaching assistant, so she was known to both girls. Maxine Carr was actually away in Grimsby at the time, but basically using that connection. And it's believed that Ian Huntley was able to lure them into his home. And at some point, you know, around, I think they, I think they like left around 6pm and then maybe like 45 minutes later, Jessica's mobile phone goes off and we don't really know what happened to them. Like we don't know what he did to them. And that's I think maybe the, one of the most troubling things about this. So, you know, hour, you know, a few hours later, 8pm the parents noticed that they have never come back from the sweets, you know, shopping expedition. And it's past Holly's curfew. They go on a search. 9:55, I think they're reported missing officially and they, their, you know, their photo becomes kind of famous. They kind of like, people are like following this. It's a scary thing where you have these like, you know, adorable 10 year old girls disappear. It's very suspicious, it's very sinister. People want to know what happened, can they be recovered safely, what's going on? Meanwhile, Ian Huntley starts doing a lot of press around this. He starts doing interviews, you know, in the days after they're missing. He's kind of acting like he's a concerned, you know, neighbor and saying all this weird stuff. Then the girls bodies are found. August 17, 2002, 13 days after they went missing, three people found their charred remains and decomposed remains in an irrigation ditch In Suffolk, about 10 miles away from Soham. And the next day police came out and said, hey, we believe that these are the girls. But it was positively formalized with DNA identification on August 21st and Huntley is, is arrested. And you know, again, this is after giving a lot of very bizarre interviews. So even though again, they don't really quite know what happened. Police concluded that the girls had likely been as asphyxiated and that this was likely sexually motivated. And they had good reason to believe that it's because Ian Huntley was a pervert who had abused multiple underage girls sexually. Many of them did not go forward to police or complain. This is in the 90s. And then in 1998, he was charged with raping a 18 year old young woman. Those charges were dropped. Then he was accused of doing that to another 18 year old woman. Charges were dropped. He was accused of indecently assaulting an 11 year old in 1997. There was another rape case brewing in 1999, but Maxine Carr gave him an alibi. And let's go back to Maxine Carr. This is a woman working with children, a woman who is teaching. She gave this guy a fake alibi and that she was also found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice. By doing that, she's ultimately been released from prison and has a new identity now. I don't know why. I mean, I don't know. I'm not going to tell another country how to do their laws. It's just, I feel like you should have to live with that shame, you know, what you did to those kids, it's not like something where it's like you made a bunch of bad decisions as a really young person and like shoplifted or like got into drugs. I mean, you helped a rapist pervert try to get away with murdering two kids. I think there's nothing lower than that other than doing it, you know, other than doing the actual murders. So, so Huntley, despite all of this, was able to kind of be free in society and despite, and also, you know, he actually had a job with a, with a school. So I mean this is, I mean it obviously can, you know, caused a lot of outrage when this all came to light, but it's a horrible story. What happened to these two young girls is just absolutely horrific and it just, it's now, I guess in a way kind of come to an end because the guy who perpetrated it is gone. And you know, good riddance. Enough with over complicating your wardrobe. Stop buying trendy cheap stuff that doesn't last. Curate your style with high quality pieces that you can mix and match. Our wonderful sponsor Quince can help you out with that.
