So, why did Ian Huntley kill Jessica and Holly? To feel powerful. To satisfy a dark impulse. Because he was a dangerous man in the wrong place at the wrong time. None of those answers are satisfying, are they?
That’s the real mystery: sometimes there isn’t a neat reason that fits in a box. Sometimes the “why” is just a hollow echo. And that echo, that unanswered question, is what keeps us reading, thinking, and hoping we’ll never really understand the answer at all.