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Murder of James Bulger

1993 child murder in Liverpool, England


Murder of James Bulger
Murder of James Bulger

On 12 February 1993 in Merseyside, England, two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, abducted, tortured, and murdered a two-year-old boy, James Patrick Bulger. Thompson and Venables led Bulger away from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, where Bulger was visiting shops with his mother. His mutilated body was found on a railway line two and a half miles away in Walton, Liverpool, two days later.

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