The document summarizes the Soham murders case from 2002 in England. On August 4th, 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman went missing from a BBQ. Their bodies were found two weeks later. Ian Huntley, a school caretaker, became a suspect. Forensic evidence like fibers, hairs, fingerprints, soil, and pollen from Huntley's car matched the crime scenes. Huntley eventually confessed but claimed the girls died accidentally in his home. In 2003, he was convicted of their murders and sentenced to life in prison.

1. Soham Murders
Name: Eman Mehar
Program: Biotechnology
Course title: Fundamentals of Forensic science

2. CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Earlier events
• Girls gone missing
• Investigation
• Who's the murderer?
• Evidences
• Truth and lies
• Confession & Conviction

3. Introduction
• The soham murders are the murders of two ten-years-old girls which occurred in soham,
Cambridge, England on 4th August 2002.
• The victims were Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Their bodies were found near RAF
Lake heath, Suffolk, on 17 August 2002, by local farm worker, Keith Pryer.

4. Earlier Events
• On Sunday 4th august 2002,Jessica chapman went to Holly's bbq party at
her home in Soham Cambridge.
• At 5:09 pm at bbq, a photograph of both girls wearing Manchester united
shirts was taken by Holly Wells mother.
• At 6:15 pm they left home to buy some sweets without informing anyone.
• At 8:00 pm Holly and Jessica's parents discover girls were missing and
raise an alarm.

5. GIRLS GONE MISSING
• On Sunday 4th august 2002, In Cambridge Soham at 9:55
pm Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were reported
missing by their parents.
• Police immediately launched an intensive search to locate
the missing girls. Over 400 officers were assigned to
search for girls.
• To assist in their public appeals for information, police
released a photograph of holly and Jessica taken two
hours before the girls disappearance.

6. Investigation
• Police launch a search.
• A member of public claim to saw the girls crossing sand street.
• An individual lan Huntley claimed to spoke with the girls and last seen
them walking towards local library.
• On 8th august, detectors released a CCTV footage of the girls. This
footage depicted the girls arriving at local sports center at 6:28 pm.
• David Hankins, the officer leading the inquiry admits that the police are
looking at the possibility of abduction.

7. Conti...
• On 16th august, Friday, police interviewed Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr
over the disappearance of the missing girls.
• At 12:30 pm on Saturday 17th august, a man Keith Pryer discovered two
bodies near an airbase at Milden hall in Suffolk.
• The girls football shirts were found at the school in a bin.
• On the same day police arrested Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr on suspicion
of abduction & murders of both girls.
• On Sunday august 18th, the police identified the bodies as Jessica and Holly.

8. Who's the murderer?
• Now after the discovery of the death bodies
police starts searching the murderer.
• Police receive information from the people who
recognized lan Huntley and recalled that he had
been accused of rape several years earlier.
• Huntley and Maxine Carr was a strong suspect.
• Huntley's car was also subjected to a detailed
forensic examination.

9. Evidences
Multiple pieces of evidence where retrieved from the three
crime scenes which where further analyzed in a forensic
laboratory.
• Dead bodies
• Mobile phone
• Hair and fibers
• Fingerprints
• Pollen
• Soil
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10. Dead Bodies
• A forensic pathologist Dr Nathaniel Cary carried out a post Morton on both
bodies to determine the cause and time of death.
• The post Morton suggested that the bodies were placed at the scene not long
after death.
• The pathologist was able to identify the children's bodies through DNA
profiling, using the molecular genetics of the children comparing them to
biological fluids they were able to retrieve from the children's items at home.
• The pathologist identified there was no neck injuries located on either of the
children, but was not able to fully identify what the cause of death was due to
the degree of degradation. Although the pathologist was able to prove that Ian
Huntley's account of what had happened to the girls was in fact false, this was
proven through no blood being located on the children's shirts.

11. Mobile phone
• Jessica Chapman had her mobile phone with her when the girls went
missing which helps police to analyze the details that when & why it was
last used and where it was cut off.
• The police used cell site analysis to analyze conclude that the mobile phone
was last in use within the perimeter of 5 College Close where Ian Huntley
lived. This prove that the children disappeared in the direction of Ian
Huntley's home.
• Cell site analysis was also used on Ian Huntley's phone this stated he
visited a Tire shop in Ely on the 5th of August after the children went
missing. The police had evidence that proved Ian had four Tire's changed
on his car after the girls had went missing and been left at the crime scene
near Suffolk.

12. Hairs, Fibers & Fingerprints
• Forensic Scientists performed fiber analysis on the shirts and compared
this to fibers on the curtains as well as carpets located within the house.
77 fibers were found matched.
• Microscopic examinations were able to prove this by white light, blue
filtered light and ultra violet light. 5 hair samples were found on girls
shirts, which after DNA analysis were matched to Ian Huntley.
• Huntley's fingerprints were also matched to fingerprints found inside &
outside of bin containing clothes.
• The scientific techniques used by the forensic scientists where beyond
relevant and gave strong value that Ian Huntley had committed the
crime.

13. Pollen & Soil
• Pollen discovered from Huntley’s car matched 64 different species
of plants.
• Huntley’s clothes and shoes were examined under a high powered
microscope where specks of pollens were found.
• As Huntley changed the tires of his car after the girls disappeared.
However forensic geologist found soil on side and underside of car.
• This soil matched the soil of deposition site. As the soil was made u
of an unusual combination of material the match was far more
compelling.

14. Truth and Lies
• On Tuesday August 30 the two people were arrested identified as Ian
Huntley.
• Huntley's effort to feign symptoms of mentalness
• Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Christopher Clark on October all declared
Huntley mentally competent.

15. Confession & Conviction
• Huntley admitted that the girls had died in his house.
• He claimed that he accidently knocked Holley into the bath while helping her to control a
nose bleed and this caused her to drown.
• Jessica witnessed this and he accidently suffocated her while attempting to stifle her
screaming.
• Based on this version of events, Huntley admitted man slaughter.
• The jury rejected his claims that the girls had died accidently.
• On December 17th 2003 lan Huntley was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life
imprisonment.

16. References
• https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/articles/soham-murders-crime-
rocked-close-knit-town
• https://thesohammurderantoniasumner.weebly.com/analysis-of-
evidence.html
• https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a11435528/soham-murders-
jessica-chapman-holly-wells-ian-huntley/
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1258/rsmmsl.45.3.187