Who is David Fuller Murderer? In the two hospital mortuaries where he worked, David Fuller, 67, sexually molested female corpses. He was accused of killing two women in 1987.
The entire jurisdiction has been stunned by a man’s ‘bizarre and horribly disgusting’ sexual activities with dead female bodies.
Around thirty years ago, David Fuller, a 67-year-old man, strangled two ladies, ages 25 and 20, in his home. Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce have been identified as the victims.
According to The Sun, the two murder cases, which occurred five months apart, had startlingly similar characteristics, leading authorities to suspect they were done by the same person.
Furthermore, Fuller murdered the victim before engaging in sexual activity on their bodies. This act of sexual perversion has unearthed a slew of other heinous truths from the perpetrator’s past.
Who is David Fuller and what did he do?
David Fuller worked in electrical maintenance in hospitals since 1989, when he was arrested for the murders of Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce he was living in Heathfield, East Sussex. He has been described as “highly dangerous”.
Ms Knell was discovered by her boyfriend dead in her bedsit, in Guildford Road, Tunbridge Wells on Tuesday 23 June 1987. She had been sexually assaulted, beaten, and strangled.
On 24 November that same year, Ms Pierce was murdered after she was abducted from outside her bedsit in Grosvenor Park, Tunbridge Wells. Her body was discovered by a farm worker on 15 December, in a remote location near Romney Marsh, more than 40 miles away.
She had also been sexually assaulted, beaten, and strangled.
Neighbours described hearing screams from Ms Pierce’s flat on the night in question before she was then reported missing, and there was no sign of her in her flat.
Fuller also kept evidence of himself visiting the Buster Browns restaurant where Ms Pierce worked and photos in SupaSnaps sleeves – the company Ms Knell was employed at when she was killed.
There were reports of “prowler activity” in the lead-up to both women’s deaths, with locals reporting a voyeur looking through their windows.
Ahead of his trial, Fuller pleaded guilty to 51 other offences, including 44 charges relating to 78 identified victims in mortuaries at firstly the now-closed Kent and Sussex Hospital, and then the Tunbridge Wells, where he was working as an electrician.
The victims included three children under the age of 18 and others older than 85 between 2008 and November 2020.
Fuller filmed himself carrying out the attacks at mortuaries.
A property in Guilford Road in Tunbridge wells where Ms Knell was found dead.
Images of dead women at the two hospital mortuaries being abused by Fuller were found at his home, where officers also discovered four hard drives with five terabytes of data storage in total attached to the back of a cupboard.
“When these hard drives were examined, they were found to contain a library of unimaginable sexual depravity”, prosecutor Duncan Atkinson QC told the court.”
The CPS said police searches of Fuller’s home in Sussex to gather evidence in the murder investigation uncovered four million images of sexual abuse.
While most of these were downloaded from the internet, they revealed Fuller had also recorded himself abusing bodies over the course of his employment at the hospitals.
In a police interview, Fuller also admitted to using Facebook to search for photos of the people he abused in the mortuary.
Caroline Pierce.
David Fuller Wikipedia Bio
Deal is where David Fuller was born. He began working as an electrician at the Kent and Sussex Hospital after moving in with his wife.
He began working at the hospital in 1989 and stayed for more than two decades. In 2010, he left the institution to work at Tunbridge Wells Hospital.
According to BBC News, Fuller utilized the access provided by his profession to visit the hospitals’ mortuaries and perform unpleasant sexual acts on female corpses.
When he was finally apprehended for the murders of Ms. Knell and Ms. Pierce, the police conducted a thorough search of his home and discovered images and films of dead bodies taken in the hospitals where he worked.
Fuller recorded himself conducting sexual actions on dead female bodies of various ages in the video clip.
After the crime, the offender admitted to looking for them on the internet. Using ledgers from the mortuaries, he had even tagged the photographs and recordings.2
What is David Fuller’s net worth?
David Fuller’s net worth in 2021 is $1.7 Million and his profession, Art department.
Who Is David Fuller Wife/Family
David Fuller’s wife was a teacher at Broomhill School in Tunbridge Wells at the time. She was employed in a school for children with special needs.
He and his wife lived in a school staff residence, where prowlers were a common complaint.
He used to live in Portsmouth. In 1973, he was accused of conducting three burglaries. As of yet, no information regarding his family members is accessible.
How was he caught?
Having evaded justice for 33 years, he was arrested for murder on 3 December last year following new analysis of decades-old DNA evidence, which linked him to the killings.
Forensic clues were recovered from both crime scenes; however, DNA profiling was in its infancy and despite forensic samples being taken from multiple men in the local area, no matches were found.
The murders remained undetected for more than three decades, but throughout this period cold case teams were confident that one day there would be a breakthrough. In 1999, advances in forensic science meant detectives were able to gain a full DNA profile of the suspect for Ms Knell’s murder.
This was added to the National DNA Database, but again no matches were made.
Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate continued to explore possible leads and in 2019 examinations were carried out on evidence relating to Ms Knell. Scientists were able to recover DNA that for the first time linked both murders forensically.
It led to a review of the National DNA database looking at profiles that could have familial links to the suspect.
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A show print was found on a blouse in Ms Knell’s home, photos in Fuller’s home showed him wearing the same style of trainers.
A list of 1,000 names was compiled of those most closely linked genetically. Of these, police then identified around 90 individuals.
The breakthrough came after voluntary samples had been taken from the first 20 on the list. One of these had been provided from a person who during previous Kent Police reviews had not been on the National DNA database.
Through this person, a relative was identified – David Fuller.
Samples Fuller left on Ms Knell’s duvet made Fuller one billion times more likely to be the killer.
During the original investigation, work was also done around a shoe print found on a blouse in Ms Knell’s home.
It was found, at the time in 1987, that the print most likely matched a Clarks Sportstrek trainer. Following Fuller’s arrest, a number of photos were found in his home which appeared to have been taken in the 1980s and showed him wearing the same style of distinctive trainers.
Cells on Ms Pierce’s tights made Fuller 160,000 times closer a match for her killer than any other person.
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Wendy Knell.
What has been said about his crimes?
In a statement after Fuller pled guilty, Ms Knell’s family said: “Although the guilty plea won’t change anything deep down as the pain and loss will always be there, it’s good knowing he will not be in a position to hurt or cause any more pain.
“Not just for our family.
“But for Caroline’s family and friends who’ve been on this same journey with us over all those years and all the other families this man’s affected, we feel deep sadness for all of you.”
Senior Investigating Officer, Detective Superintendent Ivan Beasley of Kent Police said: “Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce had their whole lives ahead of them before they were both brutally murdered more than 30 years ago.
“The evidence we have now been able to present has proved without a shred of doubt that David Fuller carried out these appalling and depraved crimes.
“The families of these two young women have endured immeasurable horror, pain and utter despair, caused by a man who has shown little, if any, capacity for remorse or sorrow.”
Libby Clark, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said no British court had ever seen “abuse on this scale against the dead before”, she said: “David Fuller’s deeply distressing crimes are unlike any other I have encountered in my career and unprecedented in British legal history.
“This highly dangerous man has inflicted unimaginable suffering on countless families and he has only admitted his long-held secrets when confronted with overwhelming evidence.”
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson’s “thoughts and sympathies” are with all those affected by David Fuller’s crimes, Downing Street has said.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid said his thoughts were with the family and friends of the victims of “these horrific acts” and that he had asked the health sector to take three key actions following the case.
“First, the NHS has written to all trusts asking for mortuary access and post-mortem activities to be reviewed against current guidance. Second, an independently chaired review is already underway into exactly what occurred at the trust, which will report into me. Finally, I have asked the Human Tissue Authority for advice on whether changes are required to our existing regulations.”
David Fuller who has pleaded guilty to murdering Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, in two separate attacks in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1987.
Have all the victims abused by Fuller been identified?
Police say they have evidence of 100 victims abused by Fuller in mortuaries, and have been able to formally identify 81 of those. However, they have said that it could be the case that not all of the victims will be able to be identified.
Detective Chief Superintendent Paul Fotheringham of Kent Police said: “This has been an incredibly complex and difficult investigation. It has been extremely important that the investigation remained impartial and independent, that respect was given to victims and their families, and information only released when appropriate to do so.
“We know this is an extremely distressing time for anyone who feels that this may impact upon their loved ones who should have received the dignity they deserved in death.
“We have narrowed down the potential identification of some of the outstanding victims and our officers will make further enquiries in a sensitive and private manner to families whose loved ones were in the mortuary during the time period we have established they were there so that we can try and determine who they are.
“Sadly it is likely to be the case that some of the victims will never be identified. In these cases, there is such limited information available to help us with establishing their identities, and there are no lines of inquiry outside of the investigation that can assist us.”
