Killer Christopher Halliwell may have been ‘more prolific’, says former detective
Written by News on 27/06/2017
A former detective who investigated Christopher Halliwell has said he fears the killer could have been behind six other murders.
Former Wiltshire Police detective superintendent Steve Fulcher said the 52-year-old taxi driver might have been "far more prolific than even I had feared".
Christopher Halliwell is serving a life sentence for the murders of 20-year-old Becky Godden and 22-year-old Sian O’Callaghan.
Halliwell led detectives to where he had buried Miss O’Callaghan, who he abducted in his taxi as she made her way home from a nightclub in Swindon in March 2011.
He then confessed to another murder, taking police to the location of 20-year-old prostitute Miss Godden, who disappeared in 2003.
Halliwell had picked up Miss Godden in Swindon, had sex with her and then strangled her before leaving her naked body in a field in Eastleach, Gloucestershire.
But the detective who was at the centre of the investigation into Halliwell fears there may be more victims.
Detective Fulcher wrote in his new book, Catching A Serial Killer: "At the bottom of a pond that was 8ft deep they found Sian O’Callaghan’s distinctive boot.
"Yet that wasn’t all. Halliwell had been busy. Buried around the pond were more items of women’s clothing.
"I wondered, did they belong to the six other victims I suspected Halliwell of killing? But I had my maths wrong.
"Around the pond were not six other items of women’s clothing. There were 60. Halliwell might have been far more prolific than even I had feared," he wrote.
During the trial, the court heard that it was not possible to determine the cause of Miss Godden’s death as her remains had become "completely skeletonised".
At the time of the trial, Detective Superintendent Sean Memory said he couldn’t rule out that Halliwell didn’t commit any more murders in the eight years between the deaths of Miss Godden and Miss O’Callaghan.
Detective Memory said: "He talked candidly in 1985 about wanting to be a serial killer and I genuinely believe that’s a distinct possibility."
Police began searching Halliwell’s former home in February this year based on intelligence officers had received, but said nothing of significant interest was found.
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