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Beyond Evil - Inside the Twisted Mind of Ian Huntley

By: Nathan Yates
Narrated by: Colin Mace
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Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best True Crime Audio Book

On a summer evening in 2002, ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman took a break from playing video games and left the house to go to buy some sweets, but they never came home.

For weeks after they were declared missing, an image of these smiling young girls dressed in their matching Manchester United kit, taken just a couple of hours before they went missing, was plastered across the British press as a nationwide search began to take place. Hoards of volunteers stepped forward, the Cambridgeshire police began an exhaustive investigation and candlelight vigils were held as the local community and the rest of the country hoped for their safe return.

When the bodies were discovered in a ditch, the final ray of hope for their safe return was extinguished as it became clear that both girls had been murdered. The nation was shocked and sickened at the news and so began a national outpouring of grief for these two innocent girls who had tragically lost their lives in such a terrible way. And, in a terrible twist, Ian Huntley, a man who having given such vocal support for the search had become spokesperson for the community, was found guilty. Twenty years on, Huntley is still one of the most reviled men in the country.

Beyond Evil is an in-depth study of this shocking case as it unfolded, written by investigative journalist Nathan Yates, who witnessed the murder hunt first-hand and even interviewed Huntley and former girlfriend Maxine Carr in what is still remembered as one of the most terrible cases of abduction and murder. Murder True Crime Crime Emotionally Gripping Scary Thought-Provoking
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I enjoyed the presentation of this book. The narrator has good pacing and engaging voice

Excellent book

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It's a good listen about a nobody who is evil. A good recount of the horrible events that took the lives of 2 innocent children.

Well done.

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I’d like to hear the story told by the old bill who worked the job. Unfortunately most of the nation knows this story - and it’s the small details that makes it fly. Bit general for me. Good though and worth a listen.

Not bad.

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I have read the book and listened to this too. Such an enthralling story that keeps you gripped because of how shocking it was. The narrator was excellent.

amazing listen

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Amazingly it is 20 years since the Soham murders and Ian Huntley is in prison where he belongs, for the rest of his life. My kids were around the same age as Holly and Jessica at the time and I remember the sickening feeling when I even tried to comprehend what those poor parents went through.

This story is well told. Nothing particularly new - I remember Huntley in that famous image of him looking so grey and drawn as he tried to play the part of Concerned Citizen helping to look for the girls that he knew he had murdered

He was aided by a false alibi from his then girlfriend and my only criticism of this book is that on at least two occasions the author describes her as not very attractive and on one occasion has not bothered to apply make up. Does this matter? If she was traditionally beautiful and / or had full make up on does this change anything at all? Actually she was a fairly normal looking woman. You would not look at her and find her particularly attractive or ugly - like most people in other words. Again, does it matter that she was not a beauty in the author’s eyes? Is it a crime - or does it point to being a criminal - if a woman is “unattractive” or has chosen not to apply makeup? She was at home alone at the time and the reporters showed up unannounced at her door. Should she have rushed upstairs to apply a full face of makeup before opening the door, for fear of offending the male reporters with her naked face?

Yes she deserved prison time for that false alibi and yes she was deluded and naive at best - complicit and evil at worst - but her looks are irrelevant

Awful story well told

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