The naked bodies of five murdered women and discovered in just ten days sparking the biggest manhunt the east of England has ever seen. For the police it became a race against time to stop the killer striking again. Suffolk Strangler: Serial Killers s/a Serial Killers: Suffolk Strangler s/a Murder UK with Martin Kemp
Monday 30th October 2006: local girl Tania Nicol fails to return home. ibid.
Just over two weeks later another girl, twenty-five-year-old Gemma Adams, has been reported missing. ibid.
The media attention dramatically increases. ibid.
The DNA retrieved from the three separate bodies all link back to the same person. ibid.
Wright works locally as a forklift driver. ibid.
Steven Wright was addicted to sex workers. Some grew to like him. But years of rejection by the other women in his life, from his mother to his wives, turned the gentlemen into a killer. He claimed so many victims, bodies were turning up at a rate of one every two days. Evil Up Close s1e15: Suffolk Strangler, CI 2012
What had turned Steven Wright from an angelic little boy into a man who killed more women in the shortest time than any serial killer in British history? ibid.
I have seen too much anger and violence in my childhood to last anyone a lifetime. Steven Wright, prison letter
In 2006 a campaign of murder was carried out on the streets of Suffolk. The discovery of five bodies in ten days would leave the community stunned and authorities overwhelmed. As the clock ticked, the body count rose. Killing Spree: Suffolk Strangler, Channel 5 2014
In the town of Ipswich in the rural east of England murders are rare. But in the winter of 2006 that would change. Killers: Behind the Myth s2e1: Suffolk Strangler, 2014
All the women were last seen near the Red Light District. ibid.
Since 1990 an estimated 152 sex workers have been murdered in the UK. Women are 18 times more likely to be murdered whilst engaged in sex work. Crimes that Shook Britain s8e5: The Suffolk Strangler, captions, CI 2017
The series of murders committed by Steven Wright were crimes that shook Britain. ibid.
Autumn 2006, Ipswich, Suffolk: A DNA sample which matches a profile on the national DNA database … a 48-year-old forklift truck driver called Steven Wright. ibid.
Guilty of all five murders by unanimous verdict. ibid.
Five women abducted from the streets of Ipswich. Five bodies found in ten days … murdered by Steve Wright, a serial killer nicknamed the Suffolk Strangler. My Son the Serial Killer, Channel 5 2017
Over three hundreds police officers were drafted in from all over the country. ibid.
When the case came to trial Wright admitted knowing them all and having sex with four of them but he would claim he was not guilty. ibid.
During the winter of 2006 Ipswich in Suffolk was paralysed with fear. The bodies of five missing prostitutes had been found by police sparking the biggest ever manhunt in the east of England. World’s Most Evil Killers s2e10: Steven Wright, Pick TV 2018
In December 2006 police in Ipswich discovered five women dead in the Suffolk countryside. The last person to see them alive was ex-Cruise ship steward Steven Wright. The Killer in My Family s2e3: Steve Wright, Quest Red 2020
Steve’s mother reappeared in Ipswich, the first time he had seen her since he was eight. ibid.
Police quickly made an arrest for the murders of the women, but it was not Steve Wright. ibid.
Police had managed to recover DNA from three of the victims. ibid.
There have been 184 known sex workers killed between 1990 and December 2019. Suffolk Strangler: 30 Days of Terror, Channel 5 2020
Tania Nicol reported missing on 31st October 2006. ibid.
Gemma Adams reported missing 16 days after Tania Nicol disappears. ibid.
Suffolk constabulary alert the public about their concerns over the sudden disappearance of 25-year-old Gemma Adams. ibid.
10 December: a third body was found in woodland in the south-east of Ipswich … 24-year-old Anneli Alderton … She was three months pregnant. ibid.
Paula Clennell reported missing on 10th December, the same day Anneli’s body is found … [and] ‘a crew member on board on the helicopter spotted what appeared to be a second body a few hundred yards away from the site of the first body’ … Annette Nicholls discovered on 12th December 2006: she had been missing for a week. ibid. rozzer
There were no apparent witnesses to any of the five disappearances from the streets. So detectives turned to the town’s CCTV cameras … The same car was picked up on CCTV cruising the red-light district. ibid.
2006, Ipswich, Suffolk: Police receive a missing-person’s report. Gemma Adams, a 25 year old, was last seen in the city centre at 1 a.m. the previous night and has not returned home. The Murderer & Me: Steve Wright, Sky Crime 2021
Ipswich police are looking for a double murderer who is still at large on their streets. Police cannot be sure that these two deaths are an isolated incident. And within days their worst fears are realised. ibid.
The database flags an alternative suspect: a local man living in the heart of Ipswich’s red-light district. ibid.
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In December 2014 vulnerable Angela Wrightson was beaten to death in Hartlepool by two teenage girls who inflicted over a 100 injuries. When Kids Kill s2e6: No Name Killers, Channel 5 2016
Who do these anonymity orders benefit? ibid.
Angela was a vulnerable alcoholic. ibid.
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A case unique in criminal history that would create global fascination. Six men shot in cold blood. A brutal killer stalks the state of Florida. Highway hooker turns serial killer. Serial Killers – Angel of Death s/c Crimes that Shook the World s2e5, Discovery 2009
1st December 1989: Police recover an abandoned vehicle ... The owner is missing ... [Richard] Mallory was on his way to Daytona when he was shot and robbed but for items of little value. ibid.
The trail for Wuornos leads them to a notorious biker bar, The Last Resort. ibid.
Aileen Wuornos insists she is sane. ibid.