Ian Huntley murdered Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in his Soham home in August 2002. Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman left a family barbecue to get sweets from a vending machine at a local leisure centre and passed Huntley's property on their return. Ian Huntley lured the girls into his home and murdered them, then dumped their bodies in a ditch near RAF Lakenheath.
Ian Huntley's home was a three-bedroom property that came with his job as caretaker at Soham Village College. The property became known as the 'House of Horrors'. Maxine Carr, Huntley's then-girlfriend, tried to provide him with an alibi by insisting she was with him on the weekend of the murders.
Maxine Carr later confessed that she was actually in Grimsby visiting her mother while the girls were being lured into the home. When Maxine Carr returned home, the house was immaculate because Huntley had tried to erase evidence of the killings. Police searched the property during the investigation, stripping floorboards and peeling wallpaper.
The house had pastel-coloured walls, minimal personal possessions, and net curtains pulled back to display a missing persons poster for Holly and Jessica. No blood, hair, or fingerprints belonging to Holly or Jessica were found in the property due to Huntley's cleaning. Police found Holly's handprints on a box of chocolates she had given to Maxine Carr several weeks before the murders.
Two years after the murders, the property was bulldozed to prevent souvenir hunters from taking remains. In August 2004, a 20-tonne bulldozer flattened the property. The precise methods Huntley used to lure the girls and commit the crime remain unclear.
The full legal outcomes for Maxine Carr regarding her alibi are also not detailed in available reports.