Morgue monster: Police probe link to other victims
POLICE are investigating whether twisted necrophiliac David Fuller may have killed or sexually assaulted other victims as well as carrying out the “bedsit murders” in 1987.
Father-of-four Fuller, 67, is facing a whole-life term after admitting murdering Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, and 51 other offences including 44 relating to the sexual abuse of corpses.
An investigation is looking at unsolved murders and sex attacks in areas Fuller lived or worked in since the 1970s when he was convicted of a string of burglaries.
Police revealed he defiled the bodies of least 100 dead women and girls while working as an electrician at the now-closed Kent and Sussex Hospital from 1989 until 2010, and after he moved to Tunbridgewells Hospital.
To those who knew three-times
married Fuller, he appeared a family man keen on birdwatching, cycling and photography.
But when police investigating the bedsit murders, to which he was linked through familial DNA techniques last year, searched his house they found computer hard drives, CDS and floppy discs with 14 million images of sex offences, including footage of him sexually assaulting dead bodies in two morgues. They also uncovered diaries with details of his victims, with the oldest aged 100 and the youngest aged just nine.
Det Ch Supt Paul Fotheringham said part of the police investigation “has been to try and understand what drove Fuller to commit such violent and appalling acts and clearly we have also had to consider the possibility that he could be responsible for further violent and sexual offences over the past 30 to 40 years”.
It comes as Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust said CEO Miles Scott would continue in post after relatives of those Fuller violated demanded to know how he got away with the offences for so long. It also emerged Fuller kept his job after a 2015 criminal records check revealed a string of burglary convictions he had failed to disclose.