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Swindon, England, March 19th, 2011. At 2.53am, CCTV showed 22-year-old
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Sian O'Callaghan leaving a nightclub, then later getting into a taxi.
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Little did she know, her cab driver was a ruthless killer.
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It was the perfect cover for a man who wanted
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to kill women. What could be more innocuous than a
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minicab driver? Sian never returned home. In the days that followed,
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hundreds of locals joined the desperate hunt to find her.
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She could have been anyone's sister, daughter, friend. You just
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had that sort of look about her. We really felt
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for her and her family.
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But Sian had been murdered.
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47-year-old Christopher Halliwell had brutally stabbed and strangled her, then
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dumped her body.
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His murders didn't come out of the blue. They were
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a long time.
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In the making.
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It turned out the friendly cabbie had killed before. He
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led a double life, prowling the streets at night to
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indulge his addiction to depraved sexual violence. That makes Christopher
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Halliwell one of the world's most evil killers. When Sian
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O'Callaghan's body was found in Uffington, Oxfordshire, on March 24th, 2011,
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it brought the five-day hunt for her to a heartbreaking end.
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She'd been savagely murdered by local cab driver Christopher Halliwell.
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It was a devastating blow for her hometown of Swindon,
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as local reporter Scott Darcy remembers.
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It struck a chord with me and people around me
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because it was like, you know, this could have been
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a young woman that I know, and I think that's
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why it resonated with the rest of the town. It really,
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really did rock the community in a way that I
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haven't seen before or since.
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When Halliwell was finally arrested, he shocked the town by
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leading police to another body, 20-year-old Becky Godden-Edwards. He'd strangled
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her eight years previously, then dumped her in nearby Gloucestershire.
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Now Swindon had learned they had a killer living amongst them.
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The community in Wiltshire, and in Swindon in particular, were
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desperately upset by the killing and certainly felt that Halliwell
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was a monster in their midst.
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There could be no doubt about that.
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He didn't look like a monster. He just looked like
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a normal guy. You would walk past him in the
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street and not think about it. He would get in
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his cab. And I think that's what sticks with me, really,
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is the normality of that evil.
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He was able to maintain this double life, essentially. The
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devoted family man, the nice neighbor. But underneath that, he
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really was evil.
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This killer's story begins in 1964. Christopher Halliwell was born
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in Swindon, but then moved north to the Stuartree region
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of Scotland. His family life was not a happy one.
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His mother was violent and abusive.
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He endured an awful lot of abuse, a lot of beatings.
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So here was a young lad who was basically learning
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that home is not a safe place to be. violence
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was normal, violence was expected, and this is something that
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we see often in the cases of serial killers.
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Time after time, that's a signal in the upbringing that
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points to someone who is truly disturbed, and there's no
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doubt whatever that Halliwell had a very, very disturbed childhood.
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It was the abuse from his mother that seemed to
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hit the young Halliwell hardest.
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The most salient aspect of Howell's childhood is the relationship
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he has with his mother. It unquestionably is the seed
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of his relationship with women for the rest of his life.
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Howell's mother was a sadist.
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She was brutally punishing, including physically punishing, repeatedly over long
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periods of time. But more important than being brutally punishing,
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she enjoyed it. What his mother would do would press
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a hot iron against his hand while looking at him
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and smiling.
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Halliwell later claimed that his mother's sadistic punishments had a
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lifelong impact on him.
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What we know about sadistic mothers is that they are
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not bonded to their children.
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They view their children as a burden. They view the
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duties of care as an enslavement.
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They're looking for an excuse to be rid of their children,
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who they resent for existing because the children cramped their style.
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He makes a resolution to get his revenge. And if
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you look at Halliwell's life and his homicides, it's a
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life dedicated.
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To getting revenge for his mother. And so his mother
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was the.
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Seed, the beginning and the end of his relationship with women,
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who in his core he hated for the rest of
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his life.
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Young Halliwell built up a seething resentment towards women, but
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for now he only had defenceless insects to inflict his
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anger upon.
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Halliwell really did take his time when he was a
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child in terms of pulling the wings off butterflies and
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the legs off insects. He really kind of relished this.
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Long ago, it was discovered as a commonality in the
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history of people who commit serious violent crimes that there is.
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A history of torture and cruelty to animals.
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And I suspect that what that's all about is that
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people who are victims of torture Seek to be victimizers,
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and at some point when you're small, the only thing
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smaller than you is a helpless animal.
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This is something that children will often do when they've
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experienced neglect, when they've experienced abuse, because there's not very
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much over which they can have control.
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This was a kid who was practicing as a child
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to be an adult sadist.
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His mother's ultimate rejection came at the age of 15
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when she placed the teenage Halliwell in a foster home.
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When he eventually left the care of the state, he fell.
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Into a life of crime.
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At 19, he had his first criminal conviction, four years
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for burglary. In prison, he had plenty of time on
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his hands to indulge in dark, sadistic thoughts.
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He finds himself in Her Majesty's prison on Dartmoor.
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While he's there, he talks to a fellow inmate, a cellmate,
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about how many people do you have to kill to
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be called a serial killer, and his fantasy about strangling
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a woman while having sex with her. Whether or not
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that was, in fact, what he had in mind... we
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will probably never know.
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One would hope that those who've been the victim of
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sadism would be a part of the march against it,
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not part of the continuation of it. What makes what
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he did horrible is that as a victim, he knew
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enough to know how horrible it was.
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After leaving prison, Halliwell struggled to commit to a steady job.
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Halliwell's early adult life was one of drifting, was one
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of rootlessness. So he had a range of different jobs.
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He was a chauffeur, a window cleaner, a bin man.
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He didn't really stick at one thing for any particular
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period of time. And this is something that is quite
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characteristic of those who have psychopathic traits and behaviors. They're
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quite kind of prone to boredom. They have that need
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for stimulation. So he really was just living by his
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own rules.
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By this time, he's quite a tall man. He's got staring,
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sharp blue eyes. He's not unattractive. You know, he's got
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a way with him. He's quite chatty, but he's also
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a villain.
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Halliwell was very much a predator, and if you look
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at a lot of the jobs that he did, these
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are jobs that involved working unsupervised, spending periods of time
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on his own, ruminating, fantasizing.
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Halliwell realized that he needed to keep his twisted fantasies
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to himself and begun to develop a veneer of respectability.
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Halliwell got married and had children, so he's got this
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kind of facade of normality.
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After settling in Swindon with his wife and children, in
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the year 2000, at the age of 36, he set
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up his own private hire minicab business.
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So I think he realizes that being seen as the
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devoted family man is something that's quite important for the
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way that other people perceive him.
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I specifically remember talking to neighbors, and I think this
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is what stuck with me, my impression of him throughout, really,
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is that one of the neighbors I remember describing was
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a smashing bloke. You know, he used to say hello
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to him all the time. He was always washing his car.
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You know, the kind of model of a neighbor you
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wouldn't think anything of him if you saw him in
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the street. Another neighbor, I think, said, I wouldn't think
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anything to let my daughter get a taxi with him.
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But soon, the cracks in this facade of normal family
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life began to show.
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He began cheating on his wife with other women.
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This is incredibly revealing. He's doing this on his own.
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own doorstep, and that shows that he is only concerned
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about himself and getting what he wants and what he needs.
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But extramarital affairs weren't enough for Halliwell. he was also
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leading a double life out on the streets at night
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searching for women willing to satisfy his darker fantasies.
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At some point he becomes bored and he begins having
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sexual liaisons.
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With other women, particularly prostitutes, who.
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At his particular point in life are the easiest access
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to sexual gratification outside of the marriage. And I have
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to say, This is not a characteristic that is particular
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to killers or sadists. It's a characteristic that's fairly common
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in a large percentage of males in our culture.
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But what we find out is that in the course of.
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His relationship with prostitutes, he wants something more from them.
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This something more that Halliwell wanted would even sicken the
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prostitutes he paid. His twisted fantasies about sex and strangulation
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would eventually lead him.
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On a path to murder.
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At the age of 38, Christopher Halliwell seemed the pillar
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of respectability. He was married with children and ran his
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own minicab business. But there was another dark side to Halliwell,
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one who saw prostitutes to satisfy his insatiable need for rough,
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sadistic sex.
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Halliwell's murders did not just come out of the blue.
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He didn't go from being a normal, healthy, functioning individual
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one minute into a murderer the next. He had a
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violent reputation. He was known amongst the sex workers of
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Swindon for this.
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Some of them were later to describe him as liking
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rough sex, very, very rough sex, which some felt was
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creepy and weird and worrying.
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It is not surprising at all that a man with
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a violently sadistic mother would be violently sadistic with sex workers.
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In some ways, they're the safest people to be this
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way with.
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Halliwell had found an outlet to indulge his sadistic urges
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without fear of detections.
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Halliwell's treatment of sex workers was very much characteristic of
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his treatment of women in general. They were there for
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him to use and abuse and to fulfill his wants
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and his needs. So he has a reputation, but it's
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the idea that this reputation isn't one that's come onto
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the police's radar. And I think Halliwell is very well
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aware of the fact that sex workers are going to
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be highly unlikely to go to the police and report
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being abused or manhandled by one of their clients.
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Sex workers are in a very difficult position with men.
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because what they're doing is technically illegal. And in order
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for them to report a crime, an assault, they have
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to go to the police and, in essence, describe themselves
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as regularly committing illegal acts.
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That's problem number one.
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Problem number two, if a sex worker in a relatively
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small community is reporting people to the police, they're an
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unemployed sex worker very quickly.
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No-one in the local community suspected that Christopher Halliwell was
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harbouring this dark, sadistic side.
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So, as somebody who's balancing this quite well, it's something
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that a lot of men do, but when you look
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at how Christopher Halliwell does it, it does become quite sinister.
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Here you come to something I think's truly interesting about Halliwell.
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He could present to the neighbour as quite a nice man,
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That was one Halliwell. The other Halliwell, who had issues
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with women, one was hiding within the other. They were two,
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but you didn't always see the fierce one.
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But the fierce side of Halliwell would soon rear its
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head with fatal consequences. His occupation allowed him to stalk
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the Swindon streets at night under the radar.
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Being a taxi driver is the perfect cover for a
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murderer like Christopher Halliwell, because taxi drivers are not an
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unusual sight in the nighttime economy. They're the good guys.
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They're the ones that take us home. They're the ones
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that look after us. But they're also the ones who
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see us at our most vulnerable when we're tired, when
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we're intoxicated. So he would trawl the streets for victims.
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One sex worker Halliwell regularly met on the streets was
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20-year-old Becky Gordon Edwards. Becky had fallen into prostitution to
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support her heroin habit.
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Becky was somebody who had a lot of problems. She
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was a very vulnerable individual, but also she was very self-aware.
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She was incredibly smart, and she wanted to save her
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family the trauma of seeing her when she was addicted
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to drugs, so she basically taken herself away from them
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and vowed that one day she'd get clean and she'd
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go back to them, and they'd pick up where they
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left off. Halliwell was well aware of her vulnerability, and
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that's something that he preyed on.
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But it seemed Becky was more than a prostitute he
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paid for sex.
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She was an obsession. Halliwell was absolutely besotted with her.
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This is the fascinating thing.
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He doesn't want a prostitute simply to be a paid
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sexual partner. He wants to actually have a relationship with
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the prostitutes. And what I suspect from this is something
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very telling, that he hates his mother and wants revenge
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upon his mother.
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I think secretly what he really wanted is for her
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to love him.
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Halliwell very much saw Becky as his. He wanted to
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own and possess her. She was his and only his.
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On the 3rd of January, Becky had been out with
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friends at one of Swindon's nightclubs. As she left in
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the early hours, Christopher Halliwell was waiting in his cab outside.
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It's one of the most poignant moments for me in
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her story, is the nightclub she was leaving was called
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Desire and Destiny. For Becky's destiny was to be in
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the hands of Halliwell.
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A friend saw her arguing with a taxi driver, then
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walking away before she decided to return and get into
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his car.
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It was a decision that would seal her fate.
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Becky clearly didn't want to get into Halliwell's taxi because
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the two had something of an altercation before she did
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get in. And I think this shows how manipulative Halliwell is,
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that he was able to coerce her to go with him.
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That night, Halliwell finally gave in to his darkest of fantasies.
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He strangled Becky to death, then dumped her body.
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Whether he attacked her sexually or not, whether he strangled
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her in the act of sex in the back of
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his cab, we will never know, because her body wasn't
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to be discovered for years.
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So this really is complete ownership, possession, and control. This is,
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I'm going to do what I want to do to
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you because I have a right to do that, because
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I'm entitled to do that.
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She was killed ultimately because to him, she was not
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a prostitute. And she was unprepared, unable, and didn't know
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that what was required of her.
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To be with him is to actually be a mate.
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And for this, she paid with her life.
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Halliwell needed to hide his guilt He drove Becky's body
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20 miles to the deepest and remotest part of the
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nearby Gloucestershire countryside, East Leach, near Cirencester.
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Halliwell disposed of Becky's body. He buried it in a
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shallow grave in a field. His disposal method was very pragmatic.
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Simply stick the body in a hole in the ground,
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cover it over, and hope nobody finds it.
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Halliwell's cunning plan seemed to work.
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Days became weeks, weeks became months, and months became years.
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No one had realized Becky was missing. Her friends assumed
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she'd moved on.
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She was somebody who was very much off the radar.
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She was one of what we call the missing missing,
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and that made her a very easy prey for someone
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like Christopher Halliwell.
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Halliwell now had a dark secret, and he seemed to
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relish in it.
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Halliwell would actually go back to the burial site at
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regular intervals. Here's somebody for whom control is very important.
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He wants to make sure that this site hasn't been discovered.
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He wants to make sure that nobody else knows where
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Becky's body is, because that knowledge is a source of
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power to him.
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So poor Becky just disappeared off the radar as though
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she'd never been there.
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And Halliwell got away with murder.
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Four years later, in 2007, after being unable to trace her,
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Becky's mother contacted the National Missing Persons Line. There was
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still no word for another four years, so she launched
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an appeal.
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One of the great tragedies of this case is that.
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By that time, her daughter had been dead for eight years,
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although she didn't know it.
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Becky's disappearance was never properly investigated at the time because
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her family believed that she was actually in Bristol. I
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think that was the impression that many people who knew
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Becky were under and they thought that one day she
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would just come back but unfortunately that never happened.
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Eight years had passed since Christopher Halliwell had succumbed to
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his darkest fantasies, strangling 20-year-old Becky Godden Edwards. By 2011,
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he was divorced and his minicab business had gone bust.
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But 47-year-old Halliwell found work with another taxi firm to
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continue roaming the streets at night unnoticed. In the early
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hours of Saturday, March 19th, he was on the prowl
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past Swindon's pubs and nightclubs.
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I think he was very much in the mood for
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picking up a victim this night, and he was cruising
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the streets. He was looking for somebody, looking for somebody
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on their own, looking for somebody vulnerable.
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That somebody was 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan.
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Sean O'Callaghan was a very clever, very attractive young woman
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who was working as an administrator in Swindon. Now, she'd
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just moved in with her boyfriend. This was a very
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kind of exciting time.
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Of her life.
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She's just starting out. And she goes out with her
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girlfriends on an evening out in the town centre.
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Sean and her friends ended up in the town's Japanese-themed nightclub, Suju.
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Just before 3 a.m., she decided to make her excuses
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and leave. CCTV showed Sian on her way out down
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the nightclub stairs. Unbeknownst to Sian, killer cab driver Christopher
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Halliwell was lying in wait nearby.
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She leaves the club on her own. Now, Christopher Halliwell
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spots her, and he essentially decides that he's going to
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take advantage of this opportunity.
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Sian was last seen on CCTV at 2.57am getting into
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a green Toyota Avensis taxi. The car belonged to Christopher Halliwell.
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Halliwell should have been a trustworthy citizen. After all, he
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was driving a minicab. Perfectly respectable thing to do.
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Except Halliwell was not a respectable man and he certainly
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wasn't trustworthy.
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Halliwell may have pretended to offer a ride.
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We don't quite know exactly what the subterfuge was, but
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what we do know is that Sian never got back
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to her boyfriend.
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Once Halliwell had his second victim safely in his cab,
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he then drove Sian 15 miles to the remote Savanac Forest,
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where he sexually assaulted her and stabbed her.
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Stab wounds to the scalp or any injury to the
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scalp tend to bleed very heavily. There will be a
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lot of blood produced from those injuries. They will be painful.
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Sian was stabbed twice in the neck and in the head.
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Stab wounds to the head are the sort of things
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that we really see when somebody is very, very angry.
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They are directing their anger towards the head, which is
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often a site of attack when you're angry. But to
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stab in the head is not an effective way to
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kill somebody. It suggests that there's just an act of
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anger going on there.
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Halliwell ended Sian's life by strangling her. He hid her
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body in the forest before returning to Swindon, to the
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home he shared with his girlfriend. As a local cabbie,
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he could keep up the pretense that he'd had a normal,
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uneventful night shift. But for Sian's boyfriend, her no-show was
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out of character. His text messages went unanswered.
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When she doesn't appear, he immediately contacts the police, who
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immediately launch a manhunt.
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Kevin reported Sian missing at 9.45 in the morning.
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News of her.
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Disappearance spread quickly through the close-knit community of Swindon.
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Sian's disappearance became a cause célèbre, particularly in Wiltshire. Everyone
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was anxious to find her. She was well-liked, lots and
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lots of friends.
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Before we knew it, there was a full-scale missing persons
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investigation going on. And for me, this is really interesting
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in terms of the contrast with Becky's case.
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Reporter Claire Hayhurst had a press release from Wiltshire Police
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about a missing 22-year-old woman and immediately headed to Swindon
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to cover the story.
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As time progressed, her family were trying her mobile phone.
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It was ringing out, ringing out, and then suddenly it
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went dead. The battery had run out. and I think
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for them that was really significant because they knew that
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she wouldn't have let her phone run out of battery.
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Her boyfriend made an emotional appeal for her return.
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I just want to say how very worried we are
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about Charlotte.
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Desperate to find her still alive, police managed to trace
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her last mobile phone signal to Savanac Forest near Marlborough.
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The community in Swindon really rallied around as soon as
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Shana Callaghan went missing, and I remember there being lots
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of posts up on Facebook with people desperately trying to
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reunite her with her family, giving any bits of information
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they thought were relevant.
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Police organised a search of the area, making a public
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request for volunteers. More than 400 people responded. Swindon journalist
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Scott Darcy was at the scene.
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People just came out of everywhere, really, to try and
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help and support friends, but walking around, putting up posters,
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coached loads of people who were arriving at Savanac Forest
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to help with sort of fingertip searching through what was
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a vast, vast area. So it was unprecedented, I think,
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for the town. It really struck a chord with them
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and they felt like they had to get out and help.
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Meanwhile, seeing the scale of the search, Halliwell panicked and
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returned to the murder scene at night.
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Halliwell immediately escaped.
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Drives back to Savanach Forest and moves her body, not
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all that far away, but a good distance away, in
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an effort, clearly, to conceal his crime.
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Halliwell drove Sian's body another 20 miles away to Uffington
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in Oxfordshire, where he.
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Dumped her in a ditch.
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But unbeknownst to Halliwell, CCTV had captured his taxi, seen
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circling Swindon at the time Sian left the nightclub. The
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suspect had also crossed paths with a patrolling police car,
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and records showed this had automatically captured the license plate.
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The net was closing in on the killer.
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So the first thing we found out about the person
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suspected of kidnappers it was then of kidnapping Sharno Callaghan
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was that they were a taxi driver or a private
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hire driver. Wiltshire Police had put out an appeal asking
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for anyone with information about a green Toyota Avensis, which
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had been seen driving between Swindon and the Savanac Forest,
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where Sharno Callaghan's mobile phone last pinged.
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Once they ran the number plate a few times, they
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saw that he'd moved several times. He'd gone out to Huffington.
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It was a bit of telephony and a bit of AMPR,
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which is automated number plate recognition, cameras that managed, I think,
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to get him on the suspect list.
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Within three days of Sian's disappearance, police now had their
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prime suspect, taxi driver Christopher Halliwell. They started watching his
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every move.
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Once Halliwell was placed under surveillance, he was doing some
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rather interesting things, which just confirmed for the police... that
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they had their man. They just needed to collect the evidence.
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Halliwell attempted to keep up the appearance of being a
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concerned citizen.
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In the days following Sian's murder, Halliwell is just going
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through the motions. He's acting very much as normal, but
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he's adapting his behavior to that heightened sense of fear
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in his local community. So he's putting up missing posters
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of Sian in his own taxi. He's also... basically trying
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to get rid of evidence. He's burning items from his
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car out in the countryside in the middle of the night.
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He's removing seat covers. And he's being very systematic and
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very methodical. These are not the actions of an innocent man.
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He's trying to look like, you know, a concerned member
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of the public who's trying to help the appeal, even
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though he knows full well where Sian is.
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On March 24th, five days after Sian's disappearance, Halliwell was
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seen buying a huge overdose quantity of pills. As the
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surveillance operation hadn't led police to Sian, they had to
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act now before it was too late.
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Just after 11 o'clock in the morning, the police pounce
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on Halliwell. They have the number plate, they have the surveillance,
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and they have Halliwell now.
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Arrested on suspicion.
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Halliwell was apprehended in broad daylight in a soup car
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park by a team led by Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher.
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Because Detective Superintendent Fulcher believes that Sean might possibly be alive,
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he offers Halliwell a deal. I won't take you to
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the police station if you will show me where she is.
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And they have this nine-minute face-off where Steve Faulkner is
490
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pleading with Halliwell to tell me where Sian is, tell
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me where Sian is, and tries to plead to his humanity, really,
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to say, look, you know, you know where Sian is,
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you're the only person who knows where Sian is, please
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tell us.
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The game was finally up for Halliwell. But he still
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had the police under his power. Only he knew where
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Sian was. Now he had to decide... whether to reveal
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00:30:30.390 --> 00:30:37.170
his sinister secret. Serial killer Christopher Halliwell's cover story as
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the friendly local cabbie was unraveling. When Detective Superintendent Stephen
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Fulcher begged Halliwell to reveal Sian's whereabouts, he finally broke
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and admitted to her murder.
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Fulcher and Halliwell drive to Huffington, to the White Horse.
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In the end, Fulcher persuades Halliwell to show him where
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Sean's body is. The poor young woman is found naked
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from the waist down and face down in the undergrowth.
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D.S.
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Fulcher had gone against procedure. He hadn't taken Halliwell to
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the police station to see a solicitor or read him
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his rights. The killer, though, had revealed his darkest secret.
510
00:31:24.059 --> 00:31:27.049
Now he had another one to offer that he knew
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police couldn't refuse.
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Christopher Halliwell is quite enjoying being in control, and I
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00:31:34.450 --> 00:31:37.009
think he wants to maintain that sense of power, that
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sense of control. And he's also concerned for himself at
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this point in time. And he would quite like a cigarette.
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So he says to DS Vulture, would you like another one?
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I'm going to trade some information about the whereabouts of
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a body for a cigarette.
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He says, give me another cigarette and I'll give you
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another body. The coldness, callousness of that.
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Is truly shocking.
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Steve Fulcher late said, had him talking, I needed to
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keep him talking. Here was potentially a murder that we
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knew nothing about and he was going to give.
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It to me on a plate. I've got to take it.
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00:32:15.809 --> 00:32:21.559
And Fulcher makes another mistake, compounds the first and drives
527
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Halliwell to the site in which Halliwell has buried Becky's body,
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some 20, 25 miles away.
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DS Fulcher had uncovered another murder, but once again, he'd
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ignored procedure by failing to read Halliwell his rights. He
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finally took his suspect back to the police station. Halliwell
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seemed to enjoy his newfound notoriety.
533
00:32:50.579 --> 00:32:53.930
So here's somebody who is not growing a conscience, feeling
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00:32:53.990 --> 00:32:56.990
bad about the victim's family. He's enjoying the sense of power.
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and that being in control of this whole circus, this drama,
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and he doesn't want that to end.
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Even if they don't feel guilty, a part of people
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00:33:05.910 --> 00:33:09.500
feel burdened by the holding of a secret, by all
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00:33:09.539 --> 00:33:12.700
the tension that's around holding the secret. And so there's
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an element of release to confession that doesn't have to
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do with salvation or God or repentance. It has to
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do with just being free of the tension of the
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secret itself.
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The town of Swindon was devastated. Now they'd learnt two
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young women had been brutally slaughtered in their midst.
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After Sian's body was discovered, the outpouring of grief across
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Swindon was absolutely huge. I remember she was referred to
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as Swindon's angel, and there were murals painted across the
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city with that on them. And I also have very
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vivid memories of the blanket of scented candles... Even for
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people who didn't know Sian, they would just stand there
552
00:33:57.119 --> 00:34:00.119
and look at all these tributes because they felt so
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00:34:00.259 --> 00:34:03.000
touched by her story and affected by her death.
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Becky's mother, Karen, had started a campaign to find her.
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Now she'd learned the awful truth.
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Here was her daughter, who she assumed or hoped was
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still alive. Even though she hadn't seen her for more
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than eight years, her hope had gone. Becky was never
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going to walk back through the door again.
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On March 28th, 2011, Halliwell finally appeared in court, charged
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with Sian O'Callaghan's murder.
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When Christopher Halliwell first came to court, he was brought
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before Swindon Magistrates Court, charged with Sian O'Callaghan's murder. And
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I remember very clearly there was a huge mob of
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people that had turned out. And as the police van
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containing Halliwell was brought in, they attacked it and shouted
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abuse at it. And when he got into the magistrate's court, again,
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there was more abuse from the public gallery. And as
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the police van drove away from that courtroom, people tried
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to chase the van down the street. I think that
571
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illustrates the level of feeling that people had about what
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Halliwell had done to Sian and to Becky as well.
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Throughout the following court hearings, Halliwell maintained his innocence. But
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when the case eventually reached Bristol Crown Court on October 19th, 2012,
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he decided to plead guilty. Halliwell seemed to relish his
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time on the stand, trying to blame Sian's death on
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his victim.
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Christopher Halliwell's account was... that Sian had been very drunk,
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she'd been aggressive. It was extraordinary because this was a
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man who'd pleaded guilty to murder and it sounded like
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he was giving a self-defense argument. And what was very
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striking about Christopher Halliwell is that he tried to maintain
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eye contact with members of the press. So I remember
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very clearly him looking directly into my eyes as he
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00:36:00.619 --> 00:36:04.079
sat there during this hearing. I found that very chilling
586
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and I've covered many very disturbing cases. It was a
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very striking.
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Moment Christopher Halliwell finally received a 25-year sentence for the
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murder of Sian O'Callaghan. But the result for investigators and
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00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:20.619
the public was bittersweet.
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As D.S.
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Fulcher had failed to follow Police and Criminal Evidence Act procedure,
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Halliwell's confession to Becky's killing had been ruled inadmissible, so
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there was no justice for his first victim.
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I think many people in the town felt that sense
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of injustice and were incredulous.
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I remember Becky's mother, Karen, came outside Bristol Crown Court
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and stood on the steps and gave a very passionate
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00:36:45.530 --> 00:36:48.409
plea to the media to help secure justice for her
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little girl, for Becky.
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Our family's fight for justice for Becky has only just begun.
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I would like to thank everyone for their.
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Continued support in striving for justice for Becky.
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The failure of justice for Becky caused ructions. DS Stephen
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Fulcher faced disciplinary proceedings and later resigned in 2014. Meanwhile,
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00:37:22.869 --> 00:37:25.869
his force had to go back to the drawing board
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00:37:26.369 --> 00:37:30.230
to find more evidence linking Halliwell to the killing.
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The police do not give up hope on pinning Becky's
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00:37:33.880 --> 00:37:38.300
murder on Halliwell. In particular, they search... his house, and
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00:37:38.380 --> 00:37:43.159
find soil on a shovel that puts him close, very,
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00:37:43.260 --> 00:37:47.119
very close, to Becky's body, which he'd buried in a
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00:37:47.139 --> 00:37:47.780
shallow grave.
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00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:52.880
Forensic soil scientist Professor Lorna Dawson was brought in to
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00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:57.739
put the Earth particles found on Halliwell's tools under the microscope.
615
00:37:58.980 --> 00:38:02.920
These tools were examined, and any soil that was on
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00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:07.590
them was carefully recovered. It was an interesting case because
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00:38:07.750 --> 00:38:10.730
the samples were very small, so it was very challenging.
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Lorna's work helped confirm police suspicions.
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Soil information showed that there was a high degree of
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comparability between the soil on a couple of items found
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in the garden shed and the soil where Becky was
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recovered from.
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Police found further evidence to make their case against Halliwell watertight.
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A call to a roadside rescue service placed him close
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to the murder scene.
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On the night Halliwell murdered Becky, he ran out of
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fuel just maybe six miles away from the field where
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he'd left her remains. And later that day, he went
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to his doctor with a hand injury, which he said
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00:38:52.570 --> 00:38:56.190
had been sustained during a fight with a customer. When
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police went back through his work logs, they found that
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Christopher Halliwell had not been working that day, so his
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00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:03.619
story about a fight with a customer did not add up.
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00:39:06.179 --> 00:39:10.980
Killer Christopher Halliwell finally faced trial for Becky's murder a
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00:39:11.099 --> 00:39:16.219
second time on September 5th, 2016, at Bristol Crown Court.
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This time, he pleaded not guilty, and he had another
637
00:39:20.630 --> 00:39:22.030
surprise in store.
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00:39:23.690 --> 00:39:28.090
Halliwell sacked his defense team and set about representing himself,
639
00:39:28.349 --> 00:39:31.500
and there's an old saying that goes, anybody who represents
640
00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:34.400
himself has a fall for a client. But I'd say
641
00:39:34.420 --> 00:39:38.489
in this case, they've got a narcissistic egomaniac for a client.
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00:39:39.050 --> 00:39:41.530
At the beginning, he dressed smartly. He wanted to look
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00:39:41.829 --> 00:39:44.670
the part. But he began to get more and more
644
00:39:44.730 --> 00:39:47.469
disheveled throughout the week. His shirt became untucked. His sleeves
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00:39:47.510 --> 00:39:50.449
rolled up. It was a performance, really. The family said
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00:39:50.489 --> 00:39:52.230
that they felt like it was a show. He was
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00:39:52.250 --> 00:39:53.670
trying to manipulate them from the dock.
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00:39:53.730 --> 00:39:55.170
He was trying to get into their heads, that sort
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00:39:55.190 --> 00:39:55.429
of thing.
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00:39:55.469 --> 00:39:57.630
So that's what it was, really.
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It was.
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00:39:59.889 --> 00:40:02.139
Almost a show trial for him, for his own ego.
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As Halliwell reveled in this performance, he even got to
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cross-examine his nemesis, the man who tracked him down, D.S.
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Stephen Fulcher.
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It was a.
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Gripping exchange between these two men. the police detective who
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00:40:18.409 --> 00:40:21.829
had caught Halliwell but effectively lost his career in the process,
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00:40:22.309 --> 00:40:25.150
and Halliwell who was now standing here accused of a
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00:40:25.190 --> 00:40:28.989
second murder with evidence that Stephen Fulcher had helped secure
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00:40:29.030 --> 00:40:34.619
against him. The exchanges between the two men were fascinating
662
00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:39.000
to watch. Stephen Fulcher at one point made reference to
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the fact he believed Christopher Halliwell had killed other women,
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whereas at the end of his evidence, Christopher Halliwell had
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to have the last word, and he told Stephen Fulcher,
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it was a pleasure ruining your career, you corrupt bastard.
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Two weeks into the trial, Halliwell was found guilty of
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Becky's murder, to the relief of Swindon and his victim's families.
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he was sentenced by Sir John Griffith Williams to a
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whole life term in prison.
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Halliwell's response?
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He laughed at Becky's relatives from the dock before being
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led away.
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Halliwell will never see freedom again, and I have to say,
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I think the world is a much safer place without
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him in it. If anyone deserved a whole life term,
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00:41:31.909 --> 00:41:32.969
it was certainly Halliwell.
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Christopher Halliwell is a deeply controlling man who's shown no
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remorse or regret for his actions. The prosecution said that
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the lies just dripped off his tongue, and that's certainly
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00:41:43.030 --> 00:41:45.730
the impression that stayed with me. He came across as
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a remarkably cold and calculating man.
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Although Halliwell's never been charged for any other murders, former
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detective superintendent Stephen Fulcher.
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Suspects he has more victims.
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A pond connected to the killer was searched by police
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in 2014. They uncovered Sian's boots and Becky's cardigan, but
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00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:13.320
also found other clothes belonging to unidentified women.
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No-one can explain.
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The eight-year gap between Becky and Sian's killings.
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Eight years passed before Halliwell killed again. Do I really
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believe that?
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No.
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I believe that Halliwell committed other murders of other women
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in the intervening years between 2003 and 2011. I do
696
00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:41.719
not believe for one moment that Halliwell became a changed
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00:42:41.780 --> 00:42:47.110
man I think he nurtured his hatred of women like
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a flame.
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The town of Swindon was rocked by the cold-blooded murders
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of two young women with their whole lives ahead of them.
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They were sickened by the senseless brutality of the killings
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00:43:01.260 --> 00:43:04.460
and how, through them, the man who ended their lives
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00:43:04.860 --> 00:43:05.860
enjoyed his.
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15 minutes of fame.
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This is what makes Christopher Halliwell one of the world's
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most evil killers.
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Swindon, England, March 19th, 2011. At 2.53am, CCTV showed 22-year-old
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Sian O'Callaghan leaving a nightclub, then later getting into a taxi.
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Little did she know, her cab driver was a ruthless killer.
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It was the perfect cover for a man who wanted
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to kill women. What could be more innocuous than a
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minicab driver? Sian never returned home. In the days that followed,
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hundreds of locals joined the desperate hunt to find her.
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She could have been anyone's sister, daughter, friend. You just
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had that sort of look about her. We really felt
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for her and her family.
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But Sian had been murdered.
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47-year-old Christopher Halliwell had brutally stabbed and strangled her, then
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dumped her body.
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His murders didn't come out of the blue. They were
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a long time.
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In the making.
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It turned out the friendly cabbie had killed before. He
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led a double life, prowling the streets at night to
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indulge his addiction to depraved sexual violence. That makes Christopher
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Halliwell one of the world's most evil killers. When Sian
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O'Callaghan's body was found in Uffington, Oxfordshire, on March 24th, 2011,
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it brought the five-day hunt for her to a heartbreaking end.
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She'd been savagely murdered by local cab driver Christopher Halliwell.
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It was a devastating blow for her hometown of Swindon,
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as local reporter Scott Darcy remembers.
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It struck a chord with me and people around me
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because it was like, you know, this could have been
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a young woman that I know, and I think that's
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why it resonated with the rest of the town. It really,
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really did rock the community in a way that I
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haven't seen before or since.
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When Halliwell was finally arrested, he shocked the town by
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leading police to another body, 20-year-old Becky Godden-Edwards. He'd strangled
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her eight years previously, then dumped her in nearby Gloucestershire.
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Now Swindon had learned they had a killer living amongst them.
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The community in Wiltshire, and in Swindon in particular, were
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desperately upset by the killing and certainly felt that Halliwell
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was a monster in their midst.
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There could be no doubt about that.
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He didn't look like a monster. He just looked like
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a normal guy. You would walk past him in the
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street and not think about it. He would get in
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his cab. And I think that's what sticks with me, really,
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is the normality of that evil.
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He was able to maintain this double life, essentially. The
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devoted family man, the nice neighbor. But underneath that, he
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really was evil.
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This killer's story begins in 1964. Christopher Halliwell was born
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in Swindon, but then moved north to the Stuartree region
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of Scotland. His family life was not a happy one.
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His mother was violent and abusive.
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He endured an awful lot of abuse, a lot of beatings.
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So here was a young lad who was basically learning
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that home is not a safe place to be. violence
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was normal, violence was expected, and this is something that
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we see often in the cases of serial killers.
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Time after time, that's a signal in the upbringing that
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points to someone who is truly disturbed, and there's no
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doubt whatever that Halliwell had a very, very disturbed childhood.
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It was the abuse from his mother that seemed to
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hit the young Halliwell hardest.
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The most salient aspect of Howell's childhood is the relationship
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he has with his mother. It unquestionably is the seed
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of his relationship with women for the rest of his life.
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Howell's mother was a sadist.
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She was brutally punishing, including physically punishing, repeatedly over long
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periods of time. But more important than being brutally punishing,
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she enjoyed it. What his mother would do would press
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a hot iron against his hand while looking at him
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and smiling.
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Halliwell later claimed that his mother's sadistic punishments had a
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lifelong impact on him.
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What we know about sadistic mothers is that they are
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not bonded to their children.
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They view their children as a burden. They view the
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duties of care as an enslavement.
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They're looking for an excuse to be rid of their children,
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who they resent for existing because the children cramped their style.
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He makes a resolution to get his revenge. And if
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you look at Halliwell's life and his homicides, it's a
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life dedicated.
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To getting revenge for his mother. And so his mother
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was the.
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Seed, the beginning and the end of his relationship with women,
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who in his core he hated for the rest of
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his life.
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Young Halliwell built up a seething resentment towards women, but
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for now he only had defenceless insects to inflict his
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anger upon.
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Halliwell really did take his time when he was a
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child in terms of pulling the wings off butterflies and
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the legs off insects. He really kind of relished this.
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Long ago, it was discovered as a commonality in the
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history of people who commit serious violent crimes that there is.
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A history of torture and cruelty to animals.
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And I suspect that what that's all about is that
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people who are victims of torture Seek to be victimizers,
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and at some point when you're small, the only thing
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smaller than you is a helpless animal.
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This is something that children will often do when they've
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experienced neglect, when they've experienced abuse, because there's not very
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much over which they can have control.
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This was a kid who was practicing as a child
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to be an adult sadist.
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His mother's ultimate rejection came at the age of 15
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when she placed the teenage Halliwell in a foster home.
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When he eventually left the care of the state, he fell.
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Into a life of crime.
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At 19, he had his first criminal conviction, four years
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for burglary. In prison, he had plenty of time on
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his hands to indulge in dark, sadistic thoughts.
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He finds himself in Her Majesty's prison on Dartmoor.
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While he's there, he talks to a fellow inmate, a cellmate,
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about how many people do you have to kill to
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be called a serial killer, and his fantasy about strangling
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a woman while having sex with her. Whether or not
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that was, in fact, what he had in mind... we
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will probably never know.
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One would hope that those who've been the victim of
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sadism would be a part of the march against it,
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not part of the continuation of it. What makes what
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he did horrible is that as a victim, he knew
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enough to know how horrible it was.
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After leaving prison, Halliwell struggled to commit to a steady job.
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Halliwell's early adult life was one of drifting, was one
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of rootlessness. So he had a range of different jobs.
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He was a chauffeur, a window cleaner, a bin man.
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He didn't really stick at one thing for any particular
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period of time. And this is something that is quite
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characteristic of those who have psychopathic traits and behaviors. They're
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quite kind of prone to boredom. They have that need
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for stimulation. So he really was just living by his
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own rules.
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By this time, he's quite a tall man. He's got staring,
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sharp blue eyes. He's not unattractive. You know, he's got
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a way with him. He's quite chatty, but he's also
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a villain.
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Halliwell was very much a predator, and if you look
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at a lot of the jobs that he did, these
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are jobs that involved working unsupervised, spending periods of time
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on his own, ruminating, fantasizing.
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Halliwell realized that he needed to keep his twisted fantasies
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to himself and begun to develop a veneer of respectability.
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Halliwell got married and had children, so he's got this
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kind of facade of normality.
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After settling in Swindon with his wife and children, in
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the year 2000, at the age of 36, he set
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up his own private hire minicab business.
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So I think he realizes that being seen as the
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devoted family man is something that's quite important for the
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way that other people perceive him.
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I specifically remember talking to neighbors, and I think this
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is what stuck with me, my impression of him throughout, really,
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is that one of the neighbors I remember describing was
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a smashing bloke. You know, he used to say hello
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to him all the time. He was always washing his car.
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You know, the kind of model of a neighbor you
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wouldn't think anything of him if you saw him in
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the street. Another neighbor, I think, said, I wouldn't think
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anything to let my daughter get a taxi with him.
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But soon, the cracks in this facade of normal family
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life began to show.
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He began cheating on his wife with other women.
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This is incredibly revealing. He's doing this on his own.
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own doorstep, and that shows that he is only concerned
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about himself and getting what he wants and what he needs.
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But extramarital affairs weren't enough for Halliwell. he was also
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leading a double life out on the streets at night
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searching for women willing to satisfy his darker fantasies.
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At some point he becomes bored and he begins having
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sexual liaisons.
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With other women, particularly prostitutes, who.
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At his particular point in life are the easiest access
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to sexual gratification outside of the marriage. And I have
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to say, This is not a characteristic that is particular
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to killers or sadists. It's a characteristic that's fairly common
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in a large percentage of males in our culture.
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But what we find out is that in the course of.
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His relationship with prostitutes, he wants something more from them.
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This something more that Halliwell wanted would even sicken the
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prostitutes he paid. His twisted fantasies about sex and strangulation
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would eventually lead him.
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On a path to murder.
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At the age of 38, Christopher Halliwell seemed the pillar
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of respectability. He was married with children and ran his
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own minicab business. But there was another dark side to Halliwell,
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one who saw prostitutes to satisfy his insatiable need for rough,
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sadistic sex.
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Halliwell's murders did not just come out of the blue.
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He didn't go from being a normal, healthy, functioning individual
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one minute into a murderer the next. He had a
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violent reputation. He was known amongst the sex workers of
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Swindon for this.
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Some of them were later to describe him as liking
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rough sex, very, very rough sex, which some felt was
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creepy and weird and worrying.
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It is not surprising at all that a man with
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a violently sadistic mother would be violently sadistic with sex workers.
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In some ways, they're the safest people to be this
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way with.
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Halliwell had found an outlet to indulge his sadistic urges
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without fear of detections.
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Halliwell's treatment of sex workers was very much characteristic of
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his treatment of women in general. They were there for
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him to use and abuse and to fulfill his wants
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and his needs. So he has a reputation, but it's
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the idea that this reputation isn't one that's come onto
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the police's radar. And I think Halliwell is very well
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aware of the fact that sex workers are going to
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be highly unlikely to go to the police and report
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being abused or manhandled by one of their clients.
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Sex workers are in a very difficult position with men.
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because what they're doing is technically illegal. And in order
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for them to report a crime, an assault, they have
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to go to the police and, in essence, describe themselves
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as regularly committing illegal acts.
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That's problem number one.
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Problem number two, if a sex worker in a relatively
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small community is reporting people to the police, they're an
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unemployed sex worker very quickly.
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No-one in the local community suspected that Christopher Halliwell was
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harbouring this dark, sadistic side.
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So, as somebody who's balancing this quite well, it's something
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that a lot of men do, but when you look
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at how Christopher Halliwell does it, it does become quite sinister.
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Here you come to something I think's truly interesting about Halliwell.
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He could present to the neighbour as quite a nice man,
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That was one Halliwell. The other Halliwell, who had issues
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with women, one was hiding within the other. They were two,
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but you didn't always see the fierce one.
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But the fierce side of Halliwell would soon rear its
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head with fatal consequences. His occupation allowed him to stalk
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the Swindon streets at night under the radar.
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Being a taxi driver is the perfect cover for a
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murderer like Christopher Halliwell, because taxi drivers are not an
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unusual sight in the nighttime economy. They're the good guys.
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They're the ones that take us home. They're the ones
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that look after us. But they're also the ones who
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see us at our most vulnerable when we're tired, when
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we're intoxicated. So he would trawl the streets for victims.
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One sex worker Halliwell regularly met on the streets was
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20-year-old Becky Gordon Edwards. Becky had fallen into prostitution to
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support her heroin habit.
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Becky was somebody who had a lot of problems. She
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was a very vulnerable individual, but also she was very self-aware.
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She was incredibly smart, and she wanted to save her
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family the trauma of seeing her when she was addicted
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to drugs, so she basically taken herself away from them
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and vowed that one day she'd get clean and she'd
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go back to them, and they'd pick up where they
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left off. Halliwell was well aware of her vulnerability, and
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that's something that he preyed on.
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But it seemed Becky was more than a prostitute he
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paid for sex.
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She was an obsession. Halliwell was absolutely besotted with her.
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This is the fascinating thing.
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He doesn't want a prostitute simply to be a paid
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sexual partner. He wants to actually have a relationship with
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the prostitutes. And what I suspect from this is something
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very telling, that he hates his mother and wants revenge
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upon his mother.
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I think secretly what he really wanted is for her
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to love him.
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Halliwell very much saw Becky as his. He wanted to
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own and possess her. She was his and only his.
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On the 3rd of January, Becky had been out with
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friends at one of Swindon's nightclubs. As she left in
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the early hours, Christopher Halliwell was waiting in his cab outside.
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It's one of the most poignant moments for me in
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her story, is the nightclub she was leaving was called
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Desire and Destiny. For Becky's destiny was to be in
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the hands of Halliwell.
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A friend saw her arguing with a taxi driver, then
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walking away before she decided to return and get into
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his car.
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It was a decision that would seal her fate.
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Becky clearly didn't want to get into Halliwell's taxi because
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the two had something of an altercation before she did
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get in. And I think this shows how manipulative Halliwell is,
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that he was able to coerce her to go with him.
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That night, Halliwell finally gave in to his darkest of fantasies.
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He strangled Becky to death, then dumped her body.
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Whether he attacked her sexually or not, whether he strangled
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her in the act of sex in the back of
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his cab, we will never know, because her body wasn't
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to be discovered for years.
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So this really is complete ownership, possession, and control. This is,
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I'm going to do what I want to do to
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you because I have a right to do that, because
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I'm entitled to do that.
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She was killed ultimately because to him, she was not
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a prostitute. And she was unprepared, unable, and didn't know
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that what was required of her.
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To be with him is to actually be a mate.
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And for this, she paid with her life.
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Halliwell needed to hide his guilt He drove Becky's body
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20 miles to the deepest and remotest part of the
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nearby Gloucestershire countryside, East Leach, near Cirencester.
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Halliwell disposed of Becky's body. He buried it in a
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shallow grave in a field. His disposal method was very pragmatic.
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Simply stick the body in a hole in the ground,
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cover it over, and hope nobody finds it.
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Halliwell's cunning plan seemed to work.
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Days became weeks, weeks became months, and months became years.
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No one had realized Becky was missing. Her friends assumed
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she'd moved on.
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She was somebody who was very much off the radar.
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She was one of what we call the missing missing,
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and that made her a very easy prey for someone
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like Christopher Halliwell.
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Halliwell now had a dark secret, and he seemed to
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relish in it.
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Halliwell would actually go back to the burial site at
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regular intervals. Here's somebody for whom control is very important.
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He wants to make sure that this site hasn't been discovered.
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He wants to make sure that nobody else knows where
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Becky's body is, because that knowledge is a source of
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power to him.
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So poor Becky just disappeared off the radar as though
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she'd never been there.
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And Halliwell got away with murder.
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Four years later, in 2007, after being unable to trace her,
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Becky's mother contacted the National Missing Persons Line. There was
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still no word for another four years, so she launched
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an appeal.
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One of the great tragedies of this case is that.
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By that time, her daughter had been dead for eight years,
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although she didn't know it.
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Becky's disappearance was never properly investigated at the time because
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her family believed that she was actually in Bristol. I
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think that was the impression that many people who knew
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Becky were under and they thought that one day she
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would just come back but unfortunately that never happened.
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Eight years had passed since Christopher Halliwell had succumbed to
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his darkest fantasies, strangling 20-year-old Becky Godden Edwards. By 2011,
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he was divorced and his minicab business had gone bust.
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But 47-year-old Halliwell found work with another taxi firm to
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continue roaming the streets at night unnoticed. In the early
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hours of Saturday, March 19th, he was on the prowl
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past Swindon's pubs and nightclubs.
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I think he was very much in the mood for
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picking up a victim this night, and he was cruising
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the streets. He was looking for somebody, looking for somebody
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on their own, looking for somebody vulnerable.
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That somebody was 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan.
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Sean O'Callaghan was a very clever, very attractive young woman
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who was working as an administrator in Swindon. Now, she'd
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just moved in with her boyfriend. This was a very
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kind of exciting time.
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Of her life.
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She's just starting out. And she goes out with her
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girlfriends on an evening out in the town centre.
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Sean and her friends ended up in the town's Japanese-themed nightclub, Suju.
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Just before 3 a.m., she decided to make her excuses
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and leave. CCTV showed Sian on her way out down
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the nightclub stairs. Unbeknownst to Sian, killer cab driver Christopher
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Halliwell was lying in wait nearby.
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She leaves the club on her own. Now, Christopher Halliwell
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spots her, and he essentially decides that he's going to
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take advantage of this opportunity.
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Sian was last seen on CCTV at 2.57am getting into
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a green Toyota Avensis taxi. The car belonged to Christopher Halliwell.
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Halliwell should have been a trustworthy citizen. After all, he
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was driving a minicab. Perfectly respectable thing to do.
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Except Halliwell was not a respectable man and he certainly
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wasn't trustworthy.
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Halliwell may have pretended to offer a ride.
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We don't quite know exactly what the subterfuge was, but
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what we do know is that Sian never got back
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to her boyfriend.
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Once Halliwell had his second victim safely in his cab,
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he then drove Sian 15 miles to the remote Savanac Forest,
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where he sexually assaulted her and stabbed her.
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Stab wounds to the scalp or any injury to the
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scalp tend to bleed very heavily. There will be a
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lot of blood produced from those injuries. They will be painful.
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Sian was stabbed twice in the neck and in the head.
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Stab wounds to the head are the sort of things
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that we really see when somebody is very, very angry.
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They are directing their anger towards the head, which is
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often a site of attack when you're angry. But to
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stab in the head is not an effective way to
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kill somebody. It suggests that there's just an act of
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anger going on there.
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Halliwell ended Sian's life by strangling her. He hid her
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body in the forest before returning to Swindon, to the
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home he shared with his girlfriend. As a local cabbie,
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he could keep up the pretense that he'd had a normal,
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uneventful night shift. But for Sian's boyfriend, her no-show was
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out of character. His text messages went unanswered.
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When she doesn't appear, he immediately contacts the police, who
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immediately launch a manhunt.
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Kevin reported Sian missing at 9.45 in the morning.
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News of her.
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Disappearance spread quickly through the close-knit community of Swindon.
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Sian's disappearance became a cause célèbre, particularly in Wiltshire. Everyone
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was anxious to find her. She was well-liked, lots and
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lots of friends.
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Before we knew it, there was a full-scale missing persons
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investigation going on. And for me, this is really interesting
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in terms of the contrast with Becky's case.
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Reporter Claire Hayhurst had a press release from Wiltshire Police
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about a missing 22-year-old woman and immediately headed to Swindon
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to cover the story.
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As time progressed, her family were trying her mobile phone.
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It was ringing out, ringing out, and then suddenly it
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went dead. The battery had run out. and I think
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for them that was really significant because they knew that
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she wouldn't have let her phone run out of battery.
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Her boyfriend made an emotional appeal for her return.
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I just want to say how very worried we are
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about Charlotte.
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Desperate to find her still alive, police managed to trace
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her last mobile phone signal to Savanac Forest near Marlborough.
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The community in Swindon really rallied around as soon as
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Shana Callaghan went missing, and I remember there being lots
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of posts up on Facebook with people desperately trying to
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reunite her with her family, giving any bits of information
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they thought were relevant.
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Police organised a search of the area, making a public
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request for volunteers. More than 400 people responded. Swindon journalist
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Scott Darcy was at the scene.
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People just came out of everywhere, really, to try and
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help and support friends, but walking around, putting up posters,
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coached loads of people who were arriving at Savanac Forest
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to help with sort of fingertip searching through what was
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a vast, vast area. So it was unprecedented, I think,
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for the town. It really struck a chord with them
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and they felt like they had to get out and help.
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Meanwhile, seeing the scale of the search, Halliwell panicked and
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returned to the murder scene at night.
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Halliwell immediately escaped.
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Drives back to Savanach Forest and moves her body, not
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all that far away, but a good distance away, in
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an effort, clearly, to conceal his crime.
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Halliwell drove Sian's body another 20 miles away to Uffington
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in Oxfordshire, where he.
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Dumped her in a ditch.
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But unbeknownst to Halliwell, CCTV had captured his taxi, seen
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circling Swindon at the time Sian left the nightclub. The
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suspect had also crossed paths with a patrolling police car,
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and records showed this had automatically captured the license plate.
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The net was closing in on the killer.
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So the first thing we found out about the person
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suspected of kidnappers it was then of kidnapping Sharno Callaghan
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was that they were a taxi driver or a private
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hire driver. Wiltshire Police had put out an appeal asking
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for anyone with information about a green Toyota Avensis, which
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had been seen driving between Swindon and the Savanac Forest,
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where Sharno Callaghan's mobile phone last pinged.
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Once they ran the number plate a few times, they
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saw that he'd moved several times. He'd gone out to Huffington.
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It was a bit of telephony and a bit of AMPR,
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which is automated number plate recognition, cameras that managed, I think,
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to get him on the suspect list.
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Within three days of Sian's disappearance, police now had their
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prime suspect, taxi driver Christopher Halliwell. They started watching his
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every move.
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Once Halliwell was placed under surveillance, he was doing some
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rather interesting things, which just confirmed for the police... that
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they had their man. They just needed to collect the evidence.
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Halliwell attempted to keep up the appearance of being a
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concerned citizen.
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In the days following Sian's murder, Halliwell is just going
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through the motions. He's acting very much as normal, but
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he's adapting his behavior to that heightened sense of fear
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in his local community. So he's putting up missing posters
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of Sian in his own taxi. He's also... basically trying
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to get rid of evidence. He's burning items from his
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car out in the countryside in the middle of the night.
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He's removing seat covers. And he's being very systematic and
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very methodical. These are not the actions of an innocent man.
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He's trying to look like, you know, a concerned member
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of the public who's trying to help the appeal, even
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though he knows full well where Sian is.
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On March 24th, five days after Sian's disappearance, Halliwell was
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seen buying a huge overdose quantity of pills. As the
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surveillance operation hadn't led police to Sian, they had to
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act now before it was too late.
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Just after 11 o'clock in the morning, the police pounce
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on Halliwell. They have the number plate, they have the surveillance,
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and they have Halliwell now.
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Arrested on suspicion.
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Halliwell was apprehended in broad daylight in a soup car
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park by a team led by Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher.
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Because Detective Superintendent Fulcher believes that Sean might possibly be alive,
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he offers Halliwell a deal. I won't take you to
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the police station if you will show me where she is.
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And they have this nine-minute face-off where Steve Faulkner is
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pleading with Halliwell to tell me where Sian is, tell
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me where Sian is, and tries to plead to his humanity, really,
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to say, look, you know, you know where Sian is,
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you're the only person who knows where Sian is, please
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tell us.
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The game was finally up for Halliwell. But he still
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had the police under his power. Only he knew where
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Sian was. Now he had to decide... whether to reveal
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his sinister secret. Serial killer Christopher Halliwell's cover story as
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the friendly local cabbie was unraveling. When Detective Superintendent Stephen
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Fulcher begged Halliwell to reveal Sian's whereabouts, he finally broke
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and admitted to her murder.
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Fulcher and Halliwell drive to Huffington, to the White Horse.
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In the end, Fulcher persuades Halliwell to show him where
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Sean's body is. The poor young woman is found naked
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from the waist down and face down in the undergrowth.
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D.S.
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Fulcher had gone against procedure. He hadn't taken Halliwell to
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the police station to see a solicitor or read him
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his rights. The killer, though, had revealed his darkest secret.
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00:31:24.059 --> 00:31:27.049
Now he had another one to offer that he knew
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police couldn't refuse.
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Christopher Halliwell is quite enjoying being in control, and I
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00:31:34.450 --> 00:31:37.009
think he wants to maintain that sense of power, that
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00:31:37.089 --> 00:31:40.319
sense of control. And he's also concerned for himself at
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this point in time. And he would quite like a cigarette.
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So he says to DS Vulture, would you like another one?
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I'm going to trade some information about the whereabouts of
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a body for a cigarette.
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00:31:53.009 --> 00:31:55.420
He says, give me another cigarette and I'll give you
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another body. The coldness, callousness of that.
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Is truly shocking.
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Steve Fulcher late said, had him talking, I needed to
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keep him talking. Here was potentially a murder that we
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knew nothing about and he was going to give.
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It to me on a plate. I've got to take it.
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00:32:15.809 --> 00:32:21.559
And Fulcher makes another mistake, compounds the first and drives
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Halliwell to the site in which Halliwell has buried Becky's body,
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some 20, 25 miles away.
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DS Fulcher had uncovered another murder, but once again, he'd
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ignored procedure by failing to read Halliwell his rights. He
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finally took his suspect back to the police station. Halliwell
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00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:49.759
seemed to enjoy his newfound notoriety.
533
00:32:50.579 --> 00:32:53.930
So here's somebody who is not growing a conscience, feeling
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00:32:53.990 --> 00:32:56.990
bad about the victim's family. He's enjoying the sense of power.
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00:32:57.349 --> 00:33:01.490
and that being in control of this whole circus, this drama,
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and he doesn't want that to end.
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Even if they don't feel guilty, a part of people
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00:33:05.910 --> 00:33:09.500
feel burdened by the holding of a secret, by all
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00:33:09.539 --> 00:33:12.700
the tension that's around holding the secret. And so there's
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an element of release to confession that doesn't have to
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do with salvation or God or repentance. It has to
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do with just being free of the tension of the
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secret itself.
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The town of Swindon was devastated. Now they'd learnt two
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young women had been brutally slaughtered in their midst.
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After Sian's body was discovered, the outpouring of grief across
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00:33:38.109 --> 00:33:41.130
Swindon was absolutely huge. I remember she was referred to
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00:33:41.150 --> 00:33:44.150
as Swindon's angel, and there were murals painted across the
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00:33:44.210 --> 00:33:47.430
city with that on them. And I also have very
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vivid memories of the blanket of scented candles... Even for
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00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:56.799
people who didn't know Sian, they would just stand there
552
00:33:57.119 --> 00:34:00.119
and look at all these tributes because they felt so
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00:34:00.259 --> 00:34:03.000
touched by her story and affected by her death.
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Becky's mother, Karen, had started a campaign to find her.
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Now she'd learned the awful truth.
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Here was her daughter, who she assumed or hoped was
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still alive. Even though she hadn't seen her for more
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than eight years, her hope had gone. Becky was never
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going to walk back through the door again.
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On March 28th, 2011, Halliwell finally appeared in court, charged
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with Sian O'Callaghan's murder.
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When Christopher Halliwell first came to court, he was brought
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before Swindon Magistrates Court, charged with Sian O'Callaghan's murder. And
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I remember very clearly there was a huge mob of
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people that had turned out. And as the police van
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containing Halliwell was brought in, they attacked it and shouted
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abuse at it. And when he got into the magistrate's court, again,
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00:34:59.070 --> 00:35:02.489
there was more abuse from the public gallery. And as
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the police van drove away from that courtroom, people tried
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to chase the van down the street. I think that
571
00:35:09.530 --> 00:35:13.030
illustrates the level of feeling that people had about what
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Halliwell had done to Sian and to Becky as well.
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Throughout the following court hearings, Halliwell maintained his innocence. But
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when the case eventually reached Bristol Crown Court on October 19th, 2012,
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he decided to plead guilty. Halliwell seemed to relish his
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time on the stand, trying to blame Sian's death on
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his victim.
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Christopher Halliwell's account was... that Sian had been very drunk,
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she'd been aggressive. It was extraordinary because this was a
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man who'd pleaded guilty to murder and it sounded like
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00:35:47.170 --> 00:35:50.429
he was giving a self-defense argument. And what was very
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00:35:50.510 --> 00:35:54.250
striking about Christopher Halliwell is that he tried to maintain
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eye contact with members of the press. So I remember
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00:35:57.699 --> 00:36:00.539
very clearly him looking directly into my eyes as he
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00:36:00.619 --> 00:36:04.079
sat there during this hearing. I found that very chilling
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00:36:04.139 --> 00:36:07.519
and I've covered many very disturbing cases. It was a
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very striking.
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Moment Christopher Halliwell finally received a 25-year sentence for the
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00:36:14.510 --> 00:36:18.739
murder of Sian O'Callaghan. But the result for investigators and
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00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:20.619
the public was bittersweet.
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As D.S.
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Fulcher had failed to follow Police and Criminal Evidence Act procedure,
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Halliwell's confession to Becky's killing had been ruled inadmissible, so
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there was no justice for his first victim.
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I think many people in the town felt that sense
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of injustice and were incredulous.
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I remember Becky's mother, Karen, came outside Bristol Crown Court
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and stood on the steps and gave a very passionate
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00:36:45.530 --> 00:36:48.409
plea to the media to help secure justice for her
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little girl, for Becky.
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Our family's fight for justice for Becky has only just begun.
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I would like to thank everyone for their.
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Continued support in striving for justice for Becky.
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The failure of justice for Becky caused ructions. DS Stephen
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Fulcher faced disciplinary proceedings and later resigned in 2014. Meanwhile,
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00:37:22.869 --> 00:37:25.869
his force had to go back to the drawing board
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to find more evidence linking Halliwell to the killing.
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The police do not give up hope on pinning Becky's
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00:37:33.880 --> 00:37:38.300
murder on Halliwell. In particular, they search... his house, and
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00:37:38.380 --> 00:37:43.159
find soil on a shovel that puts him close, very,
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00:37:43.260 --> 00:37:47.119
very close, to Becky's body, which he'd buried in a
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00:37:47.139 --> 00:37:47.780
shallow grave.
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00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:52.880
Forensic soil scientist Professor Lorna Dawson was brought in to
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00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:57.739
put the Earth particles found on Halliwell's tools under the microscope.
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00:37:58.980 --> 00:38:02.920
These tools were examined, and any soil that was on
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00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:07.590
them was carefully recovered. It was an interesting case because
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00:38:07.750 --> 00:38:10.730
the samples were very small, so it was very challenging.
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Lorna's work helped confirm police suspicions.
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Soil information showed that there was a high degree of
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comparability between the soil on a couple of items found
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in the garden shed and the soil where Becky was
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recovered from.
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Police found further evidence to make their case against Halliwell watertight.
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A call to a roadside rescue service placed him close
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to the murder scene.
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On the night Halliwell murdered Becky, he ran out of
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fuel just maybe six miles away from the field where
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he'd left her remains. And later that day, he went
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to his doctor with a hand injury, which he said
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had been sustained during a fight with a customer. When
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police went back through his work logs, they found that
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Christopher Halliwell had not been working that day, so his
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story about a fight with a customer did not add up.
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Killer Christopher Halliwell finally faced trial for Becky's murder a
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00:39:11.099 --> 00:39:16.219
second time on September 5th, 2016, at Bristol Crown Court.
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This time, he pleaded not guilty, and he had another
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00:39:20.630 --> 00:39:22.030
surprise in store.
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00:39:23.690 --> 00:39:28.090
Halliwell sacked his defense team and set about representing himself,
639
00:39:28.349 --> 00:39:31.500
and there's an old saying that goes, anybody who represents
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00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:34.400
himself has a fall for a client. But I'd say
641
00:39:34.420 --> 00:39:38.489
in this case, they've got a narcissistic egomaniac for a client.
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00:39:39.050 --> 00:39:41.530
At the beginning, he dressed smartly. He wanted to look
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00:39:41.829 --> 00:39:44.670
the part. But he began to get more and more
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00:39:44.730 --> 00:39:47.469
disheveled throughout the week. His shirt became untucked. His sleeves
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00:39:47.510 --> 00:39:50.449
rolled up. It was a performance, really. The family said
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00:39:50.489 --> 00:39:52.230
that they felt like it was a show. He was
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00:39:52.250 --> 00:39:53.670
trying to manipulate them from the dock.
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00:39:53.730 --> 00:39:55.170
He was trying to get into their heads, that sort
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00:39:55.190 --> 00:39:55.429
of thing.
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00:39:55.469 --> 00:39:57.630
So that's what it was, really.
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It was.
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Almost a show trial for him, for his own ego.
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As Halliwell reveled in this performance, he even got to
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cross-examine his nemesis, the man who tracked him down, D.S.
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Stephen Fulcher.
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It was a.
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Gripping exchange between these two men. the police detective who
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00:40:18.409 --> 00:40:21.829
had caught Halliwell but effectively lost his career in the process,
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00:40:22.309 --> 00:40:25.150
and Halliwell who was now standing here accused of a
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00:40:25.190 --> 00:40:28.989
second murder with evidence that Stephen Fulcher had helped secure
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00:40:29.030 --> 00:40:34.619
against him. The exchanges between the two men were fascinating
662
00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:39.000
to watch. Stephen Fulcher at one point made reference to
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the fact he believed Christopher Halliwell had killed other women,
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whereas at the end of his evidence, Christopher Halliwell had
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to have the last word, and he told Stephen Fulcher,
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it was a pleasure ruining your career, you corrupt bastard.
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Two weeks into the trial, Halliwell was found guilty of
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Becky's murder, to the relief of Swindon and his victim's families.
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he was sentenced by Sir John Griffith Williams to a
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whole life term in prison.
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Halliwell's response?
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He laughed at Becky's relatives from the dock before being
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led away.
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Halliwell will never see freedom again, and I have to say,
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I think the world is a much safer place without
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him in it. If anyone deserved a whole life term,
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00:41:31.909 --> 00:41:32.969
it was certainly Halliwell.
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00:41:34.050 --> 00:41:37.300
Christopher Halliwell is a deeply controlling man who's shown no
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remorse or regret for his actions. The prosecution said that
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00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:43.010
the lies just dripped off his tongue, and that's certainly
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00:41:43.030 --> 00:41:45.730
the impression that stayed with me. He came across as
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00:41:45.769 --> 00:41:47.769
a remarkably cold and calculating man.
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Although Halliwell's never been charged for any other murders, former
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detective superintendent Stephen Fulcher.
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Suspects he has more victims.
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A pond connected to the killer was searched by police
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00:42:02.489 --> 00:42:08.960
in 2014. They uncovered Sian's boots and Becky's cardigan, but
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00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:13.320
also found other clothes belonging to unidentified women.
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No-one can explain.
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The eight-year gap between Becky and Sian's killings.
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Eight years passed before Halliwell killed again. Do I really
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believe that?
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No.
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I believe that Halliwell committed other murders of other women
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in the intervening years between 2003 and 2011. I do
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not believe for one moment that Halliwell became a changed
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00:42:41.780 --> 00:42:47.110
man I think he nurtured his hatred of women like
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a flame.
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The town of Swindon was rocked by the cold-blooded murders
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of two young women with their whole lives ahead of them.
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They were sickened by the senseless brutality of the killings
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00:43:01.260 --> 00:43:04.460
and how, through them, the man who ended their lives
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00:43:04.860 --> 00:43:05.860
enjoyed his.
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15 minutes of fame.
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This is what makes Christopher Halliwell one of the world's
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most evil killers.
