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Cold Case Season 1 Episode 1
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00:00opportunity to scream. The police would have been frustrated because as time went
00:05down they would have been thinking we haven't caught him yet but they'd also
00:08be very fearful that another murder could happen. When all leads are exhausted the
00:14search for the killer reaches a dead end but decades later a new cold case team
00:19emerges. In 2008 our role was to look at historic undetected unresolved murders
00:27and rapes within the county of Kent and our intention was to try and identify
00:32the offender for the horrific rapes and murders of both of those girls. The
00:39cold case detectives eventually had a number one suspect and they knocked on
00:44his door. This was a level of offending the level of depravity that went way
00:56beyond anything that we've seen. The case officer said if you thought the
01:01murders were bad what we found out is just unthinkable and imaginable it's
01:08horrific. I've often heard the word monster being used to describe this man
01:16but does the word monster go far enough?
01:23Tunbridge Wells or Royal Tunbridge Wells as it's been known for over a hundred years was a big
01:50favourites of the rural family in the Victorian era and is best known as a spa town.
01:55This was a good place to live and to bring up a family.
02:00It was a low crime place which created a sense of safety.
02:08There were sexual offences of course but in terms of things like murders you know those kind of
02:16things didn't come along often. In the summer of 1987 a horrific crime shatters the peace of
02:25Tunbridge Wells. The victim is 25 year old Wendy Nell a well-known local resident.
02:31She just was a young girl that was living her life really and she had a boyfriend and worked at Super
02:41Snaps. Wendy was a very popular young woman she was well thought of by her work colleagues she was
02:49seen as very good at her job she was good at interacting with people she was close to her
02:54family and she had a close circle of friends and she was well thought of. She had married young and the
03:01marriage hadn't worked out. Wendy badly wanted to be in love and be married and start a family but
03:08after her marriage ended she was a little bit down but she wanted to retain her independence and
03:13she got herself a bedsit flat in the Guildford Road area of Tunbridge Wells. It was basically a place
03:23where she could lay her head at night and it did for the time being. Guildford Road has very large
03:31houses almost all of them have been converted in one way or another into flats of bedsit. A very affluent
03:38looking area within a short walk of the town centre so a lot of people would walk to work. Wendy would
03:46work later at her job at Super Snaps and often she was the last one there and she would be on her
03:52own for a period of time and she would have to lock up. She didn't particularly like this she did feel
03:56a little bit unsafe being a woman on her own and these premises especially as it got dark or as it got
04:00later into the evening. In fact her boyfriend at the time would go and meet her there to walk her home so
04:06she would feel safe. So 11 p.m. on the 22nd of June Wendy was delivered home by her boyfriend in on
04:17the back of his motorbike to her bedsit in Guildford Road. They parted company no doubt amicably and off
04:26she went inside. That was the last ever time she was seen. One of the things that Wendy had noticed
04:35about her flat was that there was a rear window that did not close properly because the latch had
04:40been painted over. The following morning June the 23rd Wendy does not show up to work and this caused
04:54alarm amongst her colleagues because Wendy was a very good communicator she was very good at turning
04:59up for her job. She was never really late so it was very unlike her and they were slightly perturbed at
05:06this. They attempted to contact Wendy herself they had her landline telephone number but they couldn't
05:14get a response. After a number of times of trying this they contacted Wendy's boyfriend and explained
05:20the situation. He was very confused because he knew he had left her off safely the night before at around
05:2511 o'clock so he decided to straight away go to Wendy's flat. He tried to get in but the door was locked.
05:38He then knew that he could go around the back and try and get into the property that way and as he did so
05:45when he reached the rear of the property he noticed that rear window was open and he thought that was
05:52strange and he made his way into the flat where he found Wendy dead.
05:57There was blood on the walls turmoil in the house but on the bed there was this naked figure of his
06:10girlfriend who had clearly been bludgeoned around the head and had also been strangled and sexually assaulted.
06:17The police arrived to the bed set straight away and they decided to treat it then and there obviously
06:26as a murder on a crime scene. Wendy's father also arrived at the scene and the police bearing in mind
06:34they had to preserve a crime scene could not let him in to the flat but they confirmed to her father that
06:42my neighbor's dad. After the crime scene is secured police begin scouring the bedsit for evidence.
06:51This is a murder we need to absolutely capture whatever forensic evidence that we can
06:58so that we can try and identify the offender. You know back in the 80s we were identifying people
07:03through blood. The initial CSIs would have gone there they would have photographed everything
07:08meticulously photographed Wendy in situ on her bed. They would have taken swabs to kind of for the blood
07:19spatter and whatever else they would have been picking up. As we now know through DNA that could
07:25have been saliva, semen, hair which could have been attributed to the offender. The first thing they
07:32discovered was that Wendy's body was sprawled but slightly on our left side with a
07:38knee is bent. It was almost as if she'd been placed there in some sort of meticulous way.
07:45There were some clues left scattered around the house left by the killer. Firstly there was a
07:52fingerprint in blood on a shopping bag belonging to Wendy. Then there were some missing keys and her
07:59diary which clearly the killer had taken as trophies or for whatever memento.
08:03A partial footprint had been found on Wendy Nell's blouse in in her room and that was a Clark sports track trainer.
08:17Police next begin to appeal for witnesses along Guilford Road.
08:20The neighbors did not hear or report any screams or any signs of struggle or anything alarming coming
08:30from Wendy's flat. Now that was interesting because you would expect with such a vicious attack the
08:36police would have heard this but the police theory was that the killer had made his way into Wendy's flat
08:44through the rear window and had waited for Wendy to come home. Wendy also lacked any signs of defense
08:52wounds on her body which would indicate that she was sleeping when the killer made his move and attacked
08:58her. The majority of murder victims are killed by someone they know so in this instance the police
09:06obviously question Wendy's then boyfriend quite extensively he's the last one to see her alive
09:11he is the one that finds her so straight away he is a suspect.
09:18He was in the premises he'd found her there but he was eliminated from the inquiry but you still have to
09:25go through that process of visiting partners associates people who came up on the inquiry as peeping toms
09:32who'd had convictions for sex offences for burglaries and the like so there was a whole host of people
09:38I cannot convey what a massive inquiry this was. They also questioned her father they also questioned
09:47her ex-husband and any males that she knew and they were all eliminated.
09:55A young female victim and a dangerous sexual predator at large murder detectives have several clues and
10:03crucial evidence but no leads. Will the killer evade capture long enough to strike again?
10:25Tunebridge Wells Kent 1987. On June 23rd 25 year old Wendy Nell is found murdered in her bedsit,
10:35victim of a sadistic and sexually motivated attack. Investigators are hard at work trying to unmask her killer
10:43who is still at large.
10:44That murder shook the community. There would have been huge priorities to try and capture that offender very,
10:55very quickly. A major crime unit, you know experienced senior investigating officers would have been in charge
11:01and you know there would have been a lot of media interest.
11:09The police haven't arrested anyone, they haven't charged anyone, they haven't solved the crime,
11:15they haven't caught the killer. There will be a very genuine fear within the minds of the investigating officers
11:22that this individual could strike again. Then, just five months later on the 24th of November,
11:30another horrific attack takes place.
11:32Caroline Pierce is out for a night in the town with her friends. She gets a taxi back to her bedsit
11:42around midnight and that is the last time she is seen. She fails to turn up to work the next day
11:51and similar to Wendy's case, alarm bells start ringing. Police go to her bedsit, she isn't there,
11:57there's no sign of her and her family are immediately concerned and they know something is wrong.
12:05The belief has always been that she was attacked outside her house.
12:12Screams were heard just after the taxi had pulled away. Nobody acted on it, I suspect nobody thought
12:18that could possibly mean that some poor girl was being abducted but clearly she was attacked and abducted
12:25from her doorstep. Two women of very similar backgrounds and lifestyles, one dead, one missing,
12:36they thought for immediately this is possibly linked and certainly when the media alert went out
12:41it was pretty clear to the media as well that this was a possibly linked situation, that there was a man
12:48on the loose capable of attacking young women. Women in their 20s, particularly those living on their own,
12:54were absolutely terrified. Three weeks after Carleen Pearce was missing on the 15th of December,
13:03police receive a call. A body has been found 40 miles away from Thunbridge Wells in Romney Marsh.
13:13Romney Marsh is a very rural area, it's full of wetlands and fields and it's extremely remote.
13:21A farmer out doing his work in the field, sitting on his tractor, looks down and sees to the side of a
13:31field in a water culvert, a body. The search for Carleen Pearce is over.
13:40When police examined Carleen's body, they found she, like Wendy, had been beaten around the head.
13:46She'd been strangled and raped before being left for dead.
13:53Body was clearly in the drainage ditch in a fetal position in a similar way with her knees up as
14:00Wendy had been found.
14:01Caroline was found 40 miles away. Why would they have discarded her body in a trench? She lay naked,
14:16but for wearing a pair of woolly black tights.
14:22Police immediately did a fingertip search of the area around Romney Marsh, going out from where
14:29Carleen's body was found and they found Carleen's handbag. But crucially, they notice that Carleen's
14:37keys are missing from the handbag and that's another similarity, that's another potential link between
14:43Wendy's murder and Carleen's murder because Wendy Nell's keys were also missing from the crime scene.
14:49So that's something else the police are very interested in.
14:54Police were getting increasingly confident that the same man was responsible for both crimes and they were very concerned,
15:00as were the women of the Kent area. They were very concerned that a killer was on the loose,
15:05targeting young women in sexually motivated attacks.
15:09Who was this killer who was at large? Clearly, the police were struggling to find any lead to go on.
15:16There would have been very, very serious concerns that five months apart,
15:21two women between the age of 20 and 25 were both murdered. And you know, coming up to Christmas,
15:2715th of December and finding a body discarded, it was absolutely horrendous.
15:32So the police would have been frustrated because as time went on, they would have been thinking,
15:40we need to catch this guy. We haven't caught him yet. But they'd also be very fearful that another
15:45murder could happen. There was no real attempt to conceal these crimes. He didn't care. These young
15:52women were mere objects to him. And he thought nothing about how he left them. He left them with no dignity.
15:59Caroline Pierce was 20. She lived just a mile away from Wendy Nail and also lived in a bedsit.
16:08She was the manager of an American style diner restaurant called Buster Browns. She had a very
16:14close-knit circle of friends, many of whom she worked with. Her friends would say that she was the
16:20centre of the party. She liked to be where everybody else was and she enjoyed life.
16:28You know, she was at the start of her life really with lots of aspirations.
16:32This girl was so young when everything was taken away from her. When you're faced with things like that,
16:39you know, you know that the female demograph of the population are just going to be running scared.
16:44They're not going to want to go out. They're going to have to start being cautious about telling
16:49husbands, boyfriends, partners, family, you know, where they're going, what time they're going to be.
16:53So it would have been really scary.
16:57Months go by and the killing seem to have ceased. But investigators are no closer to solving the double
17:03homicide. The community lives in fear of another attack.
17:09And as the days and the weeks and the months follow when there are no other
17:12crimes that are followed up, police are thinking and hoping that the offender has
17:19perhaps ended up in prison for another offence. The offender perhaps has went abroad. The offender
17:27perhaps has died. So there are a number of factors as to why a crime series suddenly stops.
17:34They never officially closed the case, but it was inevitably wound down, which was came as a great
17:44disappointment to family and friends of the victims, but was inevitable. They could not justify
17:52carrying on throwing so much resources of their limited budget into a case that had no new leads.
17:58Unfortunately, this case goes cold.
18:12In June 1987, 25-year-old Wendy Nell is discovered murdered in her bedsit in Tunbridge Wells.
18:32Five months later, in November of that same year, 20-year-old Caroline Pearce is abducted from her nearby
18:39flat. Her body is discovered three weeks later, 40 miles away in the rural area of Romney. Both women
18:47had been sexually assaulted and strangled, and police have long believed that this is the work of one
18:52killer. But with no suspect identified, the case turns cold. But eight years later,
18:58advancements in DNA technology offer newfound hope in catching the killer.
19:06In 1995, the national DNA database is established in the United Kingdom.
19:14Police had a trace suspect sample taken from the types of Caroline Pearce, but they had not at this
19:23point established a full DNA profile from that sample. But police had correctly collected the
19:32forensic samples from the duvet cover in Wendy's bed, and that they got saliva from that, so therefore
19:38they got a DNA profile. And police put the DNA profile collected from the Wendy Nell crime scene
19:46and to the database. But there were no direct hits on the database. And by that mean, the offender hadn't
19:54committed a crime and had his DNA loaded. Despite this remarkable progress, investigators are unable to
20:03match the DNA, and the case goes cold yet again. But a full 13 years later, a new team of detectives take on
20:10this case in a bid to find definitive proof that this is the work of a serial killer. Our role was to
20:19look at historic undetected, unresolved murders and rapes within the county of Kent.
20:29In 2008, when I was the DS on the team, there was a few things that I wanted to focus on in terms of
20:36Wendy Nell and Caroline Pierce murders. One of my roles was to go and visit, in this case,
20:44Pam and Bill Nell. It's a very humbling experience, because as much as you can see names and faces
20:51about a particular crime, until you go and meet the family, you realise how it's torn their lives apart.
21:00The loss of a loved one, their child, in such horrific circumstances. They were so welcoming,
21:07and they really wanted us to come in and have a cup of tea, and they wanted to talk about Wendy,
21:12and tell us a bit about her life. They showed us pictures, they shared different memories. Both of
21:23them had this pain on their face, as if time had stood still, when Wendy died. And one of the things
21:31that will stick with me is, Bill told me that it was his birthday when Wendy was murdered. So his
21:38birthdays are never, never were the same again. Pam would say things like, she kissed the photograph
21:47of Wendy when she went to bed every night. And then they both talked about the fact that their marriage
21:56ended when Wendy was murdered, because they slept in different beds, different rooms, and they went
22:04about their business, because it was a hole that nobody could fill. I remember Pam telling me Wendy,
22:10she wanted children. You know, she really wanted to enforce that when we visited her on different
22:14occasions. When you meet the family, it becomes a very human part of what you're actually trying to
22:22achieve. It does become very human to you, because you've got pictures of their other children,
22:29grandchildren around the house, and yet the absence was Wendy. And, and I think from that time,
22:36you know, I was, I was just thinking, you know, with my team that we, we should never forget what
22:41happened. And we should try our best to try and bring the offender to justice.
22:47The police, to their credit, would have stayed in contact with the family members of both girls.
22:53Not necessarily always to give them an update, because in a lot of instances, there was nothing
23:00to update, but to just let them know and to reassure them that they were thinking of them,
23:05that they hadn't give up and that they were still determined to get them justice.
23:10The cold case unit combed through the case files from 1987 and follow up inquiries or leads since.
23:17Their priority is to confirm the theory that the murders were carried out by the same individual.
23:23If we can match the semen from the duvet that was covering Wendy Nell to semen, if we can get it from the
23:31degraded material of the tights that Caroline Pierce was found wearing. So if we could do that,
23:37we would link them. And that eureka moment, for want of a better word, came in March 2019.
23:46They discover that the DNA profiles match. The same man has killed both women. They come up with a new
23:56idea. This new idea is called familial DNA testing. Familial DNA testing is where you have a DNA profile
24:06that comes from a cluster of other DNA profiles. And there are similarities amongst those different
24:13profiles that connect them together. Every car has a registration number, the same way that everybody
24:22has a DNA profile. DNA profiling works the same way. Working through 6.5 million profiles, the police were
24:35able to bring a cluster of profiles down to under 100. So they had 90 specific suspects to work through.
24:47These people are not an exact match. If they were an exact match, the police would go and arrest them
24:53straight away. They have similar characteristics within their DNA profile. So it is not them
25:00specifically the police are interested in, but their relatives, their family members. Because the closer
25:06you are to somebody, family-wise, the more similar the DNA profile is.
25:12It would be a process of all those 90 people being briefed by the cold case investigation team. They
25:21had all of the knowledge and experience and understanding about the crime scene stains and
25:27questions that we would want to ask people that we wanted to eliminate from the DNA.
25:32When they start speaking to these 90 people, they're specifically asking them about their relatives.
25:41What age are their male relatives? What area do they come from? What area were they living in 1987?
25:49And it's through those lines of questioning that a suspect comes to their attention.
25:55A man who had the most similar DNA to Wendy and Caroline's killer told the police that he had a
26:03brother who fitted the age range, geographically lived in the area at the time, and he gives the
26:08police his brother's name. And the name is David Fuller.
26:15Fuller had been in trouble with the police from an early age. In school days, he stole bikes,
26:21set fire to property. But when he grew up, he was working as an electrician on the maintenance side,
26:29first at the Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells, and then secondly,
26:33at the Tunbridge Wells Hospital on its Pembury site.
26:38He had full access anywhere on the site. He would do whatever was asked with,
26:43a fuse or a light bulb or whatever, with a smile and with a minimum of fuss.
26:48He was a member of the cycling club, went on cycling holidays, he liked bird watching,
26:55and he was a keen photographer. A man with a settled home life, a settled job. Surely he couldn't be a double murderer.
27:04Police look further into the background of general maintenance man David Fuller,
27:08and find he's not as innocent as he may seem. What the police particularly was attracted to was his
27:17convictions for what they called creeper burglaries. Burglaries is an interesting offence in that it
27:23does transgress boundaries. It involves going into someone's home or a premises and there are clear
27:29boundaries there. He also offended by engaging in voyeuristic acts. That means watching people without
27:35their consent, usually in an intimate situation. This is someone who gains entry often through a window
27:41to a property, not necessarily with the intention of stealing property for financial gain, but really
27:47just to look around, even to the extent of just standing in a bedroom looking at the property owners
27:54asleep in bed. And this lit up a huge big red light for the police saying this man is of particular interest.
28:09The police were to find that these cycle routes that he took with his club members and
28:15on holidays often crossed Romney Marsh. And this was of interest to them as this was where Caroline had
28:27been dumped in the middle of nowhere. Clearly the person who had dumped Caroline's body must have had
28:34some knowledge of the locality in the Romney Marsh area. They had a name, they had a number one suspect,
28:41and on the 3rd of December and pre-dawn, they knocked on his door.
28:56This man, 66 year old, he'd lived for decades in his quiet life, he just sat there.
29:03He is calm, he doesn't protest.
29:06You're under arrest and suspicion of the murders of Wendy Nell and Caroline Pearce in 1987. Do you understand?
29:14Yes.
29:14It was almost a meek acceptance.
29:18Right, I'm going to take you away now.
29:23Following Fuller's arrest, police search his home for evidence, and it's screwed to the back of a chest
29:28of drawers and then hidden inside a wardrobe. The detectives make an unimaginably disturbing discovery.
29:36What is the case?
29:42I'm sorry.
29:51Tunbridge Wells in Kent. A cold case team have identified 66 year old maintenance man David Fuller
29:58as a suspect in the 1987 murders of 25-year-old Wendy Nell
30:02and 20-year-old Caroline Pearce.
30:08Police arrest him at his home in East Sussex.
30:12Investigators are now searching his property for incriminating evidence
30:15tying him to the murders that terrorised Tunbridge Wells.
30:20Police are going through everything in this home,
30:24looking for evidence linking him to Caroline and to Wendy.
30:29In particular, police were hoping to find the missing objects
30:32that were taken from Wendy, her key ring and her diary,
30:37and from Caroline, the key rings taken from her as well.
30:41David Fuller turned out to be quite a hoarder.
30:44He had documents, records, almost a complete record
30:47of his life and his movements over the previous decades.
30:51This was absolute guldust in terms of evidence for the police.
30:56They found an old diary of his,
31:00and within that diary they found references to things he was interested in.
31:03But they also found the name Buster Brown's,
31:07which was the restaurant that Caroline had worked in.
31:10Do you remember this restaurant?
31:14Quite popular at the time.
31:17Buster Brown's.
31:18No, no, no.
31:23They also found a number of items belonging to Supersnaps,
31:27which was the shop that Wendy Nell worked in.
31:30So they found these two items that were able to connect him to the victims.
31:36But he was telling the police,
31:38I never met them, I didn't know them.
31:41He was lying to the police.
31:42But the key element they found was a photograph of David Fuller
31:50with his shoes pointing almost immediately in front of the camera lens.
31:55And the sole of that shoe could clearly be identified as identical to the shoe print found in Wendy's flat.
32:06Here surely was the killer.
32:10After a while, the police were working through into his bedroom.
32:14And in a cupboard, there was a secret compartment containing hard drive discs.
32:21Why was this hidden away when everything else was all out?
32:25Little did any of those investigated officers know what was going to unfold.
32:30The footage recovered was unimaginable for what they found on the hard drives.
32:36It was horrific.
32:38What did those hard drive discs contain?
32:41And when it was plugged in and it was shown for the first time,
32:45the police were absolutely staggered by what they saw.
32:48Police had the arduous, harrowing task of going through each video,
33:16going through each photograph and looking for distinguishable marks, scars, tattoos,
33:23distinguishable features that would have helped the police identify the victims
33:27and therefore go on to alert their families of the horrors of what had happened.
33:33Through looking at the videos and images for hours and hours,
33:36the police were able to identify that there were at least 98 bodies
33:40that Fuller had sexually interfered with and the age range was huge.
33:44David Fuller managed to change his method of operation.
33:49He was aware that after the murders of Wendy and Carline, the cases were being linked.
33:54He was aware there was a higher police presence on the ground in Tumbridge Wells.
33:58He was aware people were talking about it.
34:00He was aware that the police were probably expecting him to strike again.
34:04The evidence showed that Fuller had abused multiple deceased bodies, multiple people.
34:09These were real people.
34:10But what was also disturbing was that evidence showed that Fuller had gone on the internet
34:14searching for evidence of these people when they were alive.
34:17He was looking on social media platforms, looking at what these people were like in life,
34:22yet he'd abused them so viciously in death.
34:24So, do you know when you started at Sussex Hospital?
34:32In 1989.
34:34What was your role there?
34:36Electrician.
34:39The job he got in 1989 as an electrician, he saw an opportunity.
34:45And after the murders of Wendy and Carline Pearce in Tumbridge Wells at that time,
34:52there were no similar murders within the vicinity.
34:56And I just thought to myself, well, it must be that to do those things,
35:02he'd obviously decided on another course of offending to get his kicks.
35:07And the fact that he had access to a mortuary and dead bodies,
35:15I just can't get my head around that somebody could commit such abhorrent crimes.
35:20And he gradually, over time, came to perfect this method of offending.
35:27He groomed the hospital staff.
35:29He was given a swipe card, which led him into the mortuary.
35:33He became aware that half the mortuary had CCTV cameras, the other half didn't.
35:38And he had access to the half that didn't.
35:40He changed his shift pattern so he could have later shifts in the evening,
35:44knowing fully well that it was a lot quieter in the evening time and night time
35:48than the day when it was busy.
35:50And he stood a higher chance of being disturbed.
35:54He had free access in the hospitals to do whatever he wanted to do.
35:58This is beyond the PL offending.
36:00This is a totally different level of offender
36:03who is willing to change his M.O. and his lust for victims to suit him.
36:11I'm not in time.
36:13I may have some sort of residual personality problems.
36:17I've gone a completely almost Christian life and the deadliest life altogether at the same time.
36:26With no crossovers.
36:27It's just two different personalities.
36:29Fuller described himself during an interview as someone who was just like two people,
36:36a normal person doing everyday things and someone who was also offending.
36:40This might have been a mechanism of how he allowed himself to do that.
36:43It's easier to try and say, oh, that's not me.
36:46That's not the real me doing these things.
36:48And it helps people justify that continuation to themselves.
36:52But ultimately, offending of any kind is a decision.
36:55Fuller made the decision to offend and he ruined lots of people's lives in the process.
36:59Police run a DNA test on Fuller to finally confirm if he is the killer of Wendy and Caroline,
37:09as well as being the abuser of over 100 deceased women.
37:12They take a DNA swab from the inside of his mouth and send it off to the forensic labs.
37:20Police get the phone call from the forensic scientists confirming that David Fuller's DNA
37:27is a 100% match to the DNA belonging to the killer of Wendy and Caroline Pierce.
37:34It was absolutely overwhelming, really, to hear that they'd found the offender.
37:43But I'm so glad that all the hard work from all of the team involved, the teams, the scientists,
37:51you know, the CSIs at the original investigations, you know, what they picked up on those tapings
37:57was allowing us, as years later, forensic scientists, to be able to evolve and link an offender to a crime.
38:08Charged with the murders of Wendy Nell and Caroline Pierce,
38:12David Fuller goes on trial in November 2021.
38:17Fuller confesses to the crimes, but he intends to plead not guilty by way of diminished responsibility.
38:24But again, he's trying to get off of it, he's trying to get a lesser charge or a lesser sentence,
38:30or instead of going to prison, maybe he'll go to a mental health hospital.
38:34He's thinking of himself, and he's thinking of the stage as damage limitation.
38:38He's aware they have DNA evidence.
38:41Fuller would have heard all of this information.
38:43He would have heard the links of him being a cyclist in Romney Marsh,
38:48where Caroline's body was found.
38:51Links to Buster Brown's, where he'd carried out some work.
38:54Links to where he'd had some photos developed as super snaps,
38:58where Wendy was the manageress.
39:01And just links generally to the community, or the hospital where he worked.
39:07It would have been an overwhelming series of facts being poured out in front of him.
39:13They've got a truckload of circumstantial evidence, along with the forensic evidence,
39:17to put against him.
39:19And he's thinking here, how can I limit this for me?
39:23How can I limit the damage of sentencing for me?
39:27But then it changes during the trial.
39:28Four days into the trial, as the evidence is going out and out and out,
39:32he just goes to his brief, enough of this, I'm pleading guilty.
39:35On the 15th of December, 2021, Fuller received two whole-life tariffs
39:42for the murders of Wendy and Caroline.
39:46He's just a blight on society, really.
39:50Killing two people, molesting over 100 people, is a monster.
39:56I've often heard the word monster being used to describe David Fuller,
40:03but does the word monster go far enough?
40:06I don't think so.
40:09You want the families to get that closure.
40:14I don't think they ever do get closure,
40:16but as a seasoned, retired detective sergeant,
40:20I did raise my glass that night to Wendy and Caroline.
40:26It had taken decades.
40:30Many people had moved on in their lives.
40:33People had even died from members of their family.
40:35But nobody had forgotten the girls.
40:40The memory of their contribution to life,
40:42their liveliness, their vivacity, was never dimmed.
40:48The cold case detectives had clearly shown a value in never giving up.
40:53Justice at last was served.
40:56In 2022, David Fuller received 16 years in prison
41:03to be added on to his two life sentences
41:06for the offences carried out in the mortuary.
41:10This came to a little comfort
41:12to the family members of his victims in the mortuaries.
41:18He will never be released.
41:20He will never be released.
41:21But the infants didn't come to him and she will never be released.
41:23Now,
41:24on the floor exam was a very strong Shortly in the mortuary.
41:27If he laid out,
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41:31He will never be moved on to weitere residences.
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