"Two young girls go missing on a Sunday evening. It's still light and warm. Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman are 10 years old, best friends and having a great time. It's a lovely day, there's a barbecue. They are inseparable chatting, playing at each other's homes, listening to music, eating sweets. They disappear sometime after 6pm."
"Most inquiries of this kind end quickly. The girls are found. They were at a friend's house, watching TV or walking around the village. They had lost track of time. There was no such easy explanation in this case, no moment of angry relief from their mums and dads when they popped their heads round the door. They really had gone."
"This interest became an obsession; an obsession that, as days passed, was sadly inversely proportional to the hope that the girls could still be found safe and well. The police operation kept expanding. Four hundred officers and countless volunteers were involved in the search."
In August 2002, two best friends, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, both aged 10, vanished from Soham, a quiet Cambridgeshire village. They disappeared on a Sunday evening after 6pm during pleasant weather. When their parents could not locate them by late evening, police were called just before 10pm. Unlike typical missing children cases that resolve quickly with children found nearby, these girls remained missing. The disappearance sparked an enormous response involving four hundred police officers and countless volunteers. National media attention intensified as days passed, with public obsession growing inversely to hopes of finding the girls alive. The investigation became a major focus for law enforcement and the country.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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