Killer Couples: True Stories of Partners in Crime, Including Fred West & Rose West by Tammy Cohen

Author:Tammy Cohen [Tammy Cohen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True Crime, General
ISBN: 9781857827378
Google: uyGtDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Published: 2012-02-23T23:24:25.884950+00:00

‘They’ll fit me up for this, if they can,’ he’d told her, right at the start. And she believed he was right. After all, hadn’t they tried to pin that other rape charge on him? But she knew Ian: she knew he wasn’t capable of lying about something like this. He’d go straight to pieces. She couldn’t wait for them to find out what had really happened to those girls so they could all get on with their lives.

But slowly, very slowly, evidence was coming in that would shred Maxine’s certainties one by one until they floated away like dust on the Soham summer breeze. A television interview with the concerned caretaker who’d provided the last-known sighting of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman prompted a phone call to police. It was from a woman in Grimsby whose daughter was one of those who claimed to have been sexually assaulted by Ian Huntley. Did police know the man on the TV who was talking about the disappearance of those two little girls had been investigated for rape?

Suddenly Ian Huntley was no longer a witness, but a number one suspect.

On Friday, 16 August, Ian and Maxine were questioned again at length. Again Ian told his happy-ending fairy story – the girls came skipping past when he was outside with the dog, they asked about Maxine. Then they went off ‘happy as Larry’. He’d told the tale enough times he’d almost started to believe it.

Later that night, nearly two weeks after the girls disappeared, a police officer searched a storage hanger belonging to Soham Village College. It was full of stuff and he held out little hope of finding anything of interest, but he started anyway, picking his way through the contents of several large plastic bins. The third bin was lined with a black bin liner. After removing it, the policeman leaned in to look at the contents and his heart gave a sudden lurch. At the bottom was a pile of what looked to be rags. One of them was red, with black letters and part of a number visible. It was a Manchester United football shirt. The material smelled scorched, as if it had been partially burned. Holly and Jessica’s clothes had been found.

Earlier that night, while Maxine went to a hotel room provided by police, Ian Huntley had gone to stay with his parents.

‘I really need to talk to you about something,’ he’d told his mum, Lynda Nixon, on the phone, his voice strange and strained, like an over-tightened violin string.

‘No wonder he sounds so stressed,’ his parents told each other. ‘After all he’s been through, all the questions and the interviews. You’re bound to blame yourself, aren’t you, if you’re the last person they spoke to, you’re bound to wonder if you could have done more?’

When Ian arrived at his father Kevin’s house, he was in no fit state to talk about anything – exhausted, over-emotional. ‘I just needed a break from everything,’ he told his family, but there was no need to explain.

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