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00:00Tunbridge Wells. Two brutal murders leaves one peaceful town gripped by fear.
00:08Two women between the age of 20 and 25 were both murdered.
00:13There would have been huge priorities to try and capture that offender very, very quickly.
00:19The killer had stalked these young women for quite some time.
00:24And like a predator in the wild, stalking its prey,
00:27he just waited for the right moment and the right opportunity to strike.
00:33The police would have been frustrated because as time went on,
00:36they would have been thinking, we haven't caught him yet.
00:38But they'd also be very fearful that another murder could happen.
00:42When all leads are exhausted, the search for the killer reaches a dead end.
00:46But decades later, a new cold case team emerges.
00:50In 2008, our role was to look at historic undetected and resolved murders and rapes within the county of Kent.
01:00And our intention was to try and identify the offender for the horrific rapes and murders of both of those girls.
01:08The cold case detectives eventually had a number one suspect.
01:13And they knocked on his door.
01:15Morning, this place.
01:19I don't need to come and speak to you.
01:21This was a level of offending, a level of depravity that went way beyond anything that we've seen.
01:29The case officer said, if you thought the murders were bad, what we found out is just unthinkable, unimaginable.
01:38It's horrific.
01:40I've often heard the word monster being used to describe this man.
01:46But does the word monster go far enough?
02:14Tunbridge Wells, or Royal Tunbridge Wells, as it's been known for over 100 years, was a big favourite of the royal family in the Victorian era.
02:23And it's best known as a spa town.
02:27This was a good place to live and to bring up a family.
02:34It was a low crime place, which created a sense of safety.
02:39There were sexual offences, of course.
02:42But in terms of things like murders, you know, those kind of things didn't come along often.
02:48In the summer of 1987, a horrific crime shatters the peace of Tunbridge Wells.
02:56The victim is 25-year-old Wendy Nell, a well-known local resident.
03:03She just was a young girl that was living her life, really.
03:08And she had a boyfriend and worked at Super Snaps.
03:12Wendy was a very popular young woman.
03:17She was well thought of by her work colleagues.
03:19She was seen as very good at her job.
03:21She was good at interacting with people.
03:23She was close to her family, and she had a close circle of friends, and she was well thought of.
03:28She had married young, and the marriage hadn't worked out.
03:33Wendy badly wanted to be in love and be married and start a family.
03:38But after her marriage ended, she was a little bit down, but she wanted to retain her independence.
03:43And she got herself a bedsit flat in the Guildford Road area of Tunbridge Wells.
03:52It was basically a place where she could lay her head at night, and it did for the time being.
03:59Guildford Road has very large houses.
04:02Almost all of them have been converted in one way or another into flats and bedsit.
04:07A very affluent-looking area within a short walk of the town centre.
04:12So a lot of people would walk to work.
04:15Wendy would work later at her job at Super Snaps, and often she was the last one there,
04:21and she would be on her own for a period of time, and she would have to lock up.
04:24She didn't particularly like this.
04:26She did feel a little bit unsafe being a woman on her own in these premises,
04:29especially as it got dark or as it got later into the evening.
04:32In fact, her boyfriend at the time would go and meet her there to walk her home, so she would feel safe.
04:37It's 11pm on the 22nd of June.
04:43Wendy was delivered home by her boyfriend on the back of his motorbike to her bedsit in Guildford Road.
04:52They parted company, no doubt amicably, and off she went inside.
04:57That was the last ever time she was seen.
05:03One of the things that Wendy had noticed about her flat was that there was a rear window that did not close properly
05:09because the latch had been painted over.
05:12The following morning, June the 23rd, Wendy does not show up to work.
05:23And this caused alarm amongst her colleagues because Wendy was a very good communicator.
05:28She was very good at turning up for her job.
05:31She was never really late, so it was very unlike her, and they were slightly perturbed at this.
05:37They attempted to contact Wendy herself.
05:41They had her landline telephone number, but they couldn't get a response.
05:45After a number of times of trying this, they contacted Wendy's boyfriend and explained the situation.
05:51He was very confused because he knew he had left her off safely the night before at around 11 o'clock.
05:56So he decided to straight away go to Wendy's flat.
06:04He tried to get in, but the door was locked.
06:08He then knew that he could go round the back and try and get into the property that way.
06:14And as he did so, when he reached the rear of the property, he noticed that rear window was open.
06:20And he thought that was strange, and he made his way into the flat where he found Wendy dead.
06:33There was blood on the walls, turmoil in the house, but on the bed there was this naked figure of his girlfriend,
06:41who had clearly been bludgeoned around the head and had also been strangled and sexually assaulted.
06:49The police arrived to the bed, sit straight away, and they decided to treat it then and there, obviously, as a murder on a crime scene.
06:59Wendy's father also arrived at the scene, and the police, bearing in mind they had to preserve the crime scene,
07:06could not let him in to the flat, but they confirmed to her father that Wendy was dead.
07:16After the crime scene is secured, police begin scouring the bedsit for evidence.
07:20This is a murder. We need to absolutely capture whatever forensic evidence that we can so that we can try and identify the offender.
07:30You know, back in the 80s, we were identifying people through blood.
07:33The initial CSIs would have gone there, they would have photographed everything meticulously,
07:39photographed Wendy in situ on her bed.
07:43They would have taken swabs for the blood spatter and whatever else they would have been picking up.
07:53As we now know through DNA, that could have been saliva, semen, hair,
07:58which could have been attributed to the offender.
08:02The first thing they discovered was that Wendy's body was sprawled,
08:06but slightly on her left side with her knees bent.
08:09It was almost as if she'd been placed there in some sort of meticulous way.
08:16There were some clues left scattered around the house, left by the killer.
08:21Firstly, there was a fingerprint in blood on a shopping bag belonging to Wendy.
08:27Then there were some missing keys and her diary, which clearly the killer had taken as trophies or for whatever memento.
08:34A partial footprint had been found on Wendy Nell's blouse in her room,
08:40and that was a Clark sports track trainer.
08:47Police next begin to appeal for witnesses along Guilford Road.
08:50The neighbours did not hear or report any screams or any signs of struggle or anything alarming coming from Wendy's flat.
09:02Now, that was interesting because you would expect with such a vicious attack the police would have heard this.
09:07But the police theory was that the killer had made his way into Wendy's flat through the rear window and had waited for Wendy to come home.
09:18Wendy also lacked any signs of defence wounds on her body, which would indicate that she was sleeping when the killer made his move and attacked her.
09:28The majority of murder victims are killed by someone they know.
09:34So in this instance, the police obviously question Wendy's then boyfriend quite extensively.
09:39He's the last one to see her alive. He is the one that finds her.
09:43So straight away, he is a suspect.
09:45He was in the premises, he'd found her there, but he was eliminated from the inquiry.
09:54But you still have to go through that process of visiting partners, associates, people who came up on the inquiry as peeping toms,
10:02who'd had convictions for sex offences, for burglaries and the like.
10:07So there was a whole host of people. I cannot convey what a massive inquiry this was.
10:13They also questioned her father, they also questioned her ex-husband and any males that she knew, and they were all eliminated.
10:26A young female victim and a dangerous sexual predator at large.
10:31Murder detectives have several clues and crucial evidence, but no leads.
10:36Will the killer evade capture long enough to strike again?
10:43How close the murder牌 are needed.
10:45True events to dwell on the lives of generations.
10:48To the people who are guaranteed enough to support back to their due-term connection of the sexual vulnerability in line.
10:57Tunbridge Wells, Kent
10:591987. On June 23rd, 25-year-old Wendy Nell is found murdered in her bedsit, victim of
11:06a sadistic and sexually motivated attack. Investigators are hard at work trying to unmask
11:12her killer, who is still at large.
11:15That murder shook the community. There would have been huge priorities to try and capture
11:24that offender very, very quickly. A major crime unit, you know, experienced senior investigating
11:30officers would have been in charge. And, you know, there would have been a lot of media
11:35interest.
11:36The police haven't arrested anyone, they haven't charged anyone, they haven't solved
11:44the crime, they haven't caught the killer. There will be a very genuine fear within the
11:50minds of the investigating officers that this individual could strike again.
11:57Then just five months later, on the 24th of November, another horrific attack takes place.
12:05Caroline Pearce is out for a night in the town with her friends. She gets a taxi back to her
12:12bedsit around midnight. And that is the last time she is seen. She fails to turn up to work
12:20the next day. And similar to Wendy's case, alarm bells start ringing. Police go to her bedsit.
12:27She isn't there. There's no sign of her. And her family are immediately concerned. And
12:33they know something is wrong.
12:36The belief has always been that she was attacked outside her house. Screams were heard just after
12:44the taxi had pulled away.
12:46They acted on it. I suspect nobody thought that it could possibly mean that some poor
12:50girl was being abducted. But clearly, she was attacked and abducted from her doorstep.
13:00Two women of very similar backgrounds and lifestyles. One dead, one missing. They thought for immediately,
13:07this is possibly linked. And certainly, when the media alert went out, it was pretty clear
13:12to the media as well that this was a possibly linked situation. That there was a man on the
13:18loose capable of attacking young women. Women in their twenties, particularly those living
13:24on their own, were absolutely terrified.
13:28Three weeks after Carleen Pearce was missing, on the 15th of December, police receive a call. A body
13:36has been found 40 miles away from Tunbridge Wells in Romney Marsh.
13:44Romney Marsh is a very rural area. It's full of wetlands and fields and it's extremely remote.
13:51A farmer out doing his work in the field, sitting in his tractor, looks down and sees to the side
14:01of a field, in a water culvert, a body. The search for Carleen Pearce is over.
14:11When police examined Carleen's body, they found she, like Wendy, had been beaten around the head.
14:17She'd been strangled and raped before being left for dead.
14:23The body was clearly in the Dranjitich, in a fetal position, in a similar way with her knees up, as Wendy had been found.
14:34Caroline was found 40 miles away. Why would they have discarded her body in a trench?
14:43She lay naked, but for wearing a pair of woolly black tights.
14:52Police immediately did a fingertip search of the area around Romney Marsh, going out from where Carleen's body was found.
15:01And they found Carleen's handbag. But, crucially, they noticed that Carleen's keys are missing from the handbag.
15:09And that's another similarity. That's another potential link between Wendy's murder and Carleen's murder.
15:15Because Wendy Nell's keys were also missing from the crime scene.
15:18So that's something else the police are very interested in.
15:23Police were getting increasingly confident that the same man was responsible for both crimes.
15:28And they were very concerned, as were the women of the Kent area.
15:31They were very concerned that a killer was on the loose, targeting young women in sexually motivated attacks.
15:37Who was this killer? Who was, at large, clearly, the police were struggling to find any lead to go on.
15:46There would have been very, very serious concerns that five months apart, two women, between the age of 20 and 25, were both murdered.
15:55And, you know, coming up to Christmas, 15th of December, and finding a body discarded was absolutely horrendous.
16:02So the police would have been frustrated because as time went on, they would have been thinking, we need to catch this guy.
16:11We haven't caught him yet. But they'd also be very fearful that another murder could happen.
16:16There was no real attempt to conceal these crimes. He didn't care. These young women were mere objects to him.
16:23And he thought nothing about how he left them. He left them with no dignity.
16:27Carleen Pearce was 20.
16:30She lived just a mile away from Wendy Nail and also lived in a bedsit.
16:37She was the manager of an American-style diner restaurant called Buster Browns.
16:43She had a very close-knit circle of friends, many of whom she worked with.
16:47Her friends would say that she was the centre of the party.
16:51She liked to be where everybody else was and she enjoyed life.
16:56You know, she was at the start of her life, really, with lots of aspirations.
17:01This girl was so young when everything was taken away from her.
17:05When you're faced with things like that, you know that the female demograph of the population are just going to be running scared and not going to want to go out.
17:15They're going to have to start being cautious about telling husbands, boyfriends, partners, family, you know, where they're going, what time they're going to be.
17:22So it would have been really scary.
17:24Months go by and the killing seem to have ceased.
17:29But investigators are no closer to solving the double homicide.
17:33The community lives in fear of another attack.
17:36And as the days and the weeks and the months follow when there are no other crimes that are followed up,
17:43police are thinking and hoping that the offender has perhaps ended up in prison for another offence.
17:51The offender perhaps has went abroad.
17:55The offender perhaps has died.
17:57So there are a number of factors as to why a crime series suddenly stops.
18:04They never officially closed the case, but it was inevitably wound down, which came as a great disappointment to family and friends of the victims, but was inevitable.
18:18They could not justify carrying on throwing so much resources of their limited budget into a case that had no new leads.
18:30Unfortunately, this case goes cold.
18:48In June 1987, 25-year-old Wendy Nell is discovered murdered in her bedsit in Tunbridge Wells.
19:02Five months later, in November that same year, 20-year-old Caroline Pierce is abducted from her nearby flat.
19:09Her body is discovered three weeks later, 40 miles away, in the rural area of Romney.
19:15Both women had been sexually assaulted and strangled, and police have long believed that this is the work of one killer.
19:22But with no suspect identified, the case turns cold.
19:26But eight years later, advancements in DNA technology offer newfound hope in catching the killer.
19:32In 1995, the national DNA database is established in the United Kingdom.
19:41Police had a trace suspect sample taken from the types of Caroline Pierce, but they had not, at this point, established a full DNA profile from that sample.
19:55But police had correctly collected the forensic samples from the duvet cover in Wendy's bed, and that they got saliva from that, so therefore they got a DNA profile.
20:08And police put the DNA profile collected from the Wendy Nell crime scene into the database.
20:16But there were no direct hits on the database, and by that mean the offender hadn't committed a crime and had his DNA loaded.
20:29Despite this remarkable progress, investigators are unable to match the DNA, and the case goes cold yet again.
20:36But a full 13 years later, a new team of detectives take on this case, in a bid to find definitive proof that this is the work of a serial killer.
20:47Our role was to look at historic undetected, unresolved murders and rapes within the county of Kent.
20:59In 2008, when I was the DS on the team, there was a few things that I wanted to focus on in terms of Wendy Nell and Caroline Pierce murders.
21:09One of my roles was to go and visit, in this case, Pam and Bill Nell.
21:15It's a very humbling experience, because as much as you can see names and faces about a particular crime, until you go and meet the family, you realise how it's torn their lives apart.
21:29The loss of a loved one, their child, in such horrific circumstances.
21:35They were so welcoming, and they really wanted us to come in and have a cup of tea, and they wanted to talk about Wendy, and tell us a bit about her life.
21:46They showed us pictures, they shared different memories.
21:52Both of them had this pain on their face, as if time had stood still, when Wendy died.
21:58And one of the things that will stick with me is, Bill told me that it was his birthday when Wendy was murdered.
22:07So his birthdays never were the same again. Pam would say things like, she kissed the photograph of Wendy when she went to bed every night.
22:20And then they both talked about the fact that their marriage ended when Wendy was murdered, because they slept in different beds, different rooms, and they went about their business, because it was a hole that nobody could fill.
22:36I remember Pam telling me that Wendy wanted children.
22:41You know, she really wanted to enforce that when we visited her on different occasions.
22:45When you meet the family, it becomes a very human part of what you're actually trying to achieve.
22:52It does become very human to you, because you've got pictures of their other children, grandchildren around the house, and yet the absence was Wendy.
23:03And I think from that time, you know, I was just thinking, you know, with my team that we should never forget what happened, and we should try our best to try and bring the offender to justice.
23:16The police, to their credit, would have stayed in contact with the family members of both girls.
23:23Not necessarily always to give them an update, because in a lot of instances there was nothing to update, but to just let them know and to reassure them that they were thinking of them, that they hadn't given up, and that they were still determined to get them justice.
23:39The cold case unit combed through the case files from 1987, and follow up inquiries or leads since.
23:46Their priority is to confirm the theory that the murders were carried out by the same individual.
23:51If we can match the semen from the duvet that was covering Wendy Nell to semen, if we can get it from the degraded material of the tights that Caroline Pierce was found wearing.
24:05So if we could do that, we would link them. And that eureka moment, for want of a better word, came in March 2019.
24:13They discover that the DNA profiles match. The same man has killed both women. They come up with a new idea.
24:26This new idea is called familial DNA testing. Familial DNA testing is where you have a DNA profile that comes from a cluster of other DNA profiles.
24:39And there are similarities amongst those different profiles that connect them together.
24:46Every car has a registration number, the same way that everybody has a DNA profile.
24:54DNA profiling works the same way.
24:58Working through 6.5 million profiles, the police were able to bring a cluster of profiles down to under 100.
25:11So they had 90 specific suspects to work through.
25:17These people are not an exact match. If they were an exact match, the police would go and arrest them straight away.
25:23They have similar characteristics within their DNA profile.
25:27So it is not them specifically the police are interested in, but their relatives, their family members.
25:34Because the closer you are to somebody, family-wise, the more similar the DNA profile is.
25:43It would be a process of all those 90 people being briefed by the Cold Case Investigation team.
25:51They had all of the knowledge and experience and understanding about the crime scene stains.
25:56And questions that we would want to ask people that we wanted to eliminate from the DNA.
26:04When they start speaking to these 90 people, they are specifically asking them about their relatives.
26:11What age are their male relatives? What area do they come from? What area were they living in 1987?
26:18And it is through those lanes of questioning that a suspect comes to their attention.
26:25A man who had the most similar DNA to Wendy and Caroline's killer told the police that he had a brother who fitted the age range.
26:34Geographically, lived in the area at the time. And he gives the police his brother's name.
26:39And the name is David Fuller.
26:41David Fuller had been in trouble with the police from an early age.
26:47In school days, he stole bikes, set fire to property.
26:52But when he grew up, he was working as an electrician on the maintenance side.
26:58First at the Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells,
27:02and then secondly at the Tunbridge Wells Hospital on its Pembry site.
27:07He had full access anywhere on the site.
27:10He would do whatever was asked with, a fuse or a light bulb or whatever, with a smile and with a minimum of fuss.
27:19He was a member of the cycling club, went on cycling holidays.
27:22He liked bird watching. And he was a keen photographer.
27:26A man with a settled home life, a settled job.
27:30Surely he couldn't be a double murderer.
27:33Police look further into the background of general maintenance man David Fuller,
27:38and find he's not as innocent as he may seem.
27:42What the police particularly was attracted to was his convictions for what they called creeper burglaries.
27:50Burglaries is an interesting offence in that it does transgress boundaries.
27:55It involves going into someone's home or a premises, and there are clear boundaries there.
28:00He also offended by engaging in voyeuristic acts.
28:03That means watching people without their consent, usually in an intimate situation.
28:07This is someone who gains entry often through a window to a property,
28:12not necessarily with the intention of stealing property for financial gain,
28:16but really just to look around, even to the extent of just standing in a bedroom,
28:21looking at the property owners asleep in bed.
28:24And this lit up a huge, big red light for the police saying,
28:30this man is of particular interest.
28:32The police were to find that these cycle routes that he took with his club members on holidays,
28:45often crossed Romney Marsh.
28:52And this was of interest to them, as this was where Caroline had been dumped in the middle of nowhere.
28:58Cleve, the person who had dumped Caroline's body, must have had some knowledge of the locality in the Romney Marsh area.
29:07They had a name, they had a number one suspect.
29:11And on the 3rd of December, pre-dawn, they knocked on his door.
29:16This man, 66-year-old, who'd lived for decades his quiet life, he'd just sat there.
29:31He is calm. He doesn't protest.
29:35You're under arrest and suspicion of the murders of Wendy Nell and Caroline Pearce in 1987. Do you understand?
29:43Do you understand?
29:44Yes.
29:45It was almost a meek acceptance.
29:48Right, let me take you away now.
29:52Following Fuller's arrest, police search his home for evidence.
29:56And it's screwed to the back of a chest of drawers, and then hidden inside a wardrobe.
30:01The detectives make an unimaginably disturbing discovery.
30:04Tunbridge Wells in Kent.
30:22A cold case team have identified 66-year-old maintenance man David Fuller as a suspect in the 1987 murders of 25-year-old Wendy Nell,
30:33and 20-year-old Caroline Pearce.
30:38Police arrest him at his home in East Sussex.
30:41Investigators are now searching his property for incriminating evidence, tying him to the murders that terrorised Tunbridge Wells.
30:48Police were going through everything in this home, looking for evidence, linking him to Caroline and to Wendy.
30:58In particular, police were hoping to find the missing objects that were taken from Wendy.
31:03Her key ring and her diary, and from Caroline, the key rings taken from her as well.
31:09David Fuller turned out to be quite a hoarder.
31:13He had documents, records, almost a complete record of his life and his movements over the previous decades.
31:20This was absolute gold dust in terms of evidence for the police.
31:25They found an old diary of his, and within that diary they found references to things he was interested in.
31:32But they also found the name Buster Browns, which was the restaurant that Caroline had worked in.
31:39Do you remember this restaurant? Quite popular at the time? Buster Browns?
31:50No, no, no.
31:52They also found a number of items belonging to SuperSnaps, which was the shop that Wendy Nell worked in.
31:59So they found these two items that were able to connect him to the victims.
32:05But he was telling the police, I never met them, I didn't know them.
32:10He was lying to the police.
32:13But the key element they found was a photograph of David Fuller with his shoes pointing almost immediately in front of the camera lens.
32:25And the sole of that shoe could clearly be identified as identical to the shoe print found in Wendy's flat.
32:35Here surely was the killer.
32:39After a while, the police were working through into his bedroom and in a cupboard.
32:46There was a secret compartment containing hard drive discs.
32:50Why was this hidden away when everything else was all out?
32:54Little did any of those investigated officers know what was going to unfold.
33:00The footage recovered was unimaginable.
33:03For what they found on the hard drives, it was horrific.
33:07What did those hard drive discs contain?
33:10And when it was plugged in and it was shown for the first time, the police were absolutely staggered by what they saw.
33:19Why does that person look?
33:22This was thousands and thousands and thousands of images and videos taken by Fuller himself of him abusing dead bodies in the hospital morgue.
33:34Police had the arduous harrowing task of going through each video, going through each photograph and looking for distinguishable marks, scars, tattoos, distinguishable features that would have helped the police identify the victims and therefore go on to alert their families of the horrors of what had happened.
34:02Through looking at the videos and images for hours and hours, the police were able to identify that there were at least 98 bodies that Fuller had sexually interfered with and the age range was huge.
34:13David Fuller managed to change his method of operation.
34:18He was aware that after the murders of Wendy and Carline, the cases were being linked.
34:23He was aware there was a higher police presence on the ground in Tumbridge Wells.
34:27He was aware people were talking about it.
34:29He was aware that the police were probably expecting him to strike again.
34:33The evidence showed that Fuller had abused multiple deceased bodies, multiple people.
34:38These were real people.
34:39But what was also disturbing was that evidence showed that Fuller had gone on the internet searching for evidence of these people when they were alive.
34:47He was looking on social media platforms, looking at what these people were like in life, yet he'd abused them so viciously in death.
34:54So, do you know when you started Sussex Hospital?
35:01In 1989.
35:03What was your role there?
35:05Electrician.
35:06The job he got in 1989 as an electrician, he saw an opportunity.
35:15And after the murders of Wendy Nell and Caroline Pierce in Tumbridge Wells at that time, there were no similar murders within the vicinity.
35:26And I just thought to myself, well it must be that to do those things, he'd obviously decided on another course of offending.
35:35To get his kicks.
35:37And the fact that he had access to a mortuary and dead bodies, I just can't get my head round that somebody could commit such abhorrent crimes.
35:50And he gradually over time came to perfect this method of offending.
35:56He groomed the hospital staff, he was given a swipe card which led him into the mortuary.
36:02He became aware that half the mortuary had CCTV cameras, the other half didn't.
36:07And he had access to the half that didn't.
36:09He changed his shift pattern so he could have later shifts in the evening, knowing fully well that it was a lot quieter in the evening time and night time than the day when it was busy.
36:19And he stood a higher chance of being disturbed.
36:21He had free access in the hospitals to do whatever he wanted to do.
36:27This is beyond the pale offending.
36:29This is a totally different level of offender who was willing to change his MO and his lust for victims to suit him.
36:37I'm not insane.
36:42I may have some sort of residual personality problems.
36:47I've gone a completely almost Christian life and the deadliest life altogether at the same time.
36:55With no crossovers. It's just two different personalities.
36:59Fuller described himself during an interview as someone who was just like two people.
37:05A normal person doing everyday things and someone who was also offending.
37:09This might have been a mechanism of how he allowed himself to do that.
37:13It's easier to try and say, oh, that's not me. That's not the real me doing these things.
37:18And it helps people justify that continuation to themselves.
37:21But ultimately offending of any kind is a decision.
37:24Fuller made the decision to offend and he ruined lots of people's lives in the process.
37:32Police run a DNA test on Fuller to finally confirm if he is the killer of Wendy and Caroline.
37:39As well as being the abuser of over a hundred deceased women.
37:43They take a DNA swab from the inside of his mouth and send it off to the forensic labs.
37:50Police get the phone call from the forensic scientists confirming that David Fuller's DNA is a 100% match to the DNA belonging to the killer of Wendy and Caroline Pearce.
38:04It was absolutely overwhelming really to hear that they'd found the offender.
38:12But I'm so glad that all the hard work from all of the team involved, the teams, the scientists, you know, the CSIs at the original investigations, you know, what they picked up on those tapings was allowing us as years later, forensic scientists to be able to evolve and link.
38:32And link an offender to a crime.
38:38Charged with the murders of Wendy Nell and Caroline Pearce, David Fuller goes on trial in November 2021.
38:46Fuller confesses to the crimes, but he intends to plead not guilty by way of diminished responsibility.
38:54But again, he's trying to get off of it. He's trying to get a lesser charge or a lesser sentence.
39:00Or instead of going to prison, maybe he'll go to a mental health hospital.
39:04He's thinking of himself and he's thinking at this stage as damage limitation. He's aware they have DNA evidence.
39:10Fuller would have heard all of this information. He would have heard the links of him being a cyclist in Romney Marsh where Caroline's body was found.
39:20Links to Buster Browns where he'd carried out some work. Links to where he'd had some photos developed as SuperSnaps where Wendy was the manageress.
39:30And just links generally to the community or the hospital where he worked. It would have been an overwhelming series of facts being poured out in front of him.
39:42They've got a truckload of circumstantial evidence along with the forensic evidence to put against him.
39:48And he's thinking here, how can I limit this for me? How can I limit the damage of sentencing for me?
39:55But then it changes during the trial. Four days into the trial, as the evidence is going out and out and out, he just goes to his brief.
40:03Enough of this. I'm pleading guilty.
40:06On the 15th of December 2021, Fuller received two whole life tariffs for the murders of Wendy and Caroline.
40:16He's just a blight on society, really. Killing two people, molesting over 100 people is a monster.
40:27I've often heard the word monster being used to describe David Fuller. But does the word monster go far enough?
40:35I don't think so.
40:37You want the families to get that closure. I don't think they ever do get closure.
40:46But as a seasoned, retired detective sergeant, I did raise my glass that night to Wendy and Caroline.
40:54It had taken decades. Many people had moved on in their lives. People had even died from members of their family. But nobody had forgotten the girls.
41:07The memory of their contribution to life, their liveliness, their vivacity, was never dimmed.
41:18The cold case detectives had clearly shown a value in never giving up. Justice at last was served.
41:28In 2022, David Fuller received 16 years in prison to be added on to his two life sentences for the offences carried out in the mortuary.
41:39This came to a little comfort to the family members of his victims in the mortuaries. He will never be released.
41:50His head's worth
41:57During you, he's determined to make sure he is dead
42:11When they view his victims in the mortuary we have to fall in at least two or seven years
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