What happened to James Bulger? The harrowing story of the boy murdered by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson
What happened to James Bulger? The harrowing story of the boy murdered by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson When 2-year-old James Bulger went missing in a shopping center in England in 1993, his parents were worried sick. But they felt somewhat relieved when they saw the CCTV footage of their son in the mall — because he was with two boys. Little did Bulger's parents know that those mysterious children had already abducted, tortured, and murdered their son. Though both 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, initially tried to evade suspicion, the CCTV footage of their abduction was soon plastered all over the news. On top of that, numerous passersby had seen the two children roughing the younger boy up in plain sight outside the mall. But it was an anonymous phone call to the police that ultimately did them in. The caller reported that both Thompson and Venables had been absent from school on the day that Bulger went missing. In addition, Venables was later seen with...