Cold Case Killer - 20 Years On, A Sixth Victim Confirmed
The Trial
The Crime Desk
4.2 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Caroline and Jack bring you the dramatic first day of the trial of serial killer Steve Wright, also known as the Suffolk Strangler, for a cold case murder in 1999. Wright was convicted of murdering five women in Ipswich in 2006 and today he pleaded guilty to the kidnap and murder of 17-year-old Victoria Wood and the attempted kidnap of another woman seven years earlier. It is the first time he has ever admitted to any of his killings. The episode features all the latest from court as well as the questions the case raises about how many other victims Wright may have killed.
The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript.
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| 0:00.0 | The Crime Desk, arresting podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | The bodies of five women, all prostitutes, have been found dumped naked in the Suffolk countryside, and whoever's responsible is still out there. |
| 0:17.5 | During the winter of 2006, five women in Suffolk who worked as prostitutes went missing. |
| 0:23.6 | Over the next six weeks, their bodies were found. They'd been murdered. |
| 0:27.6 | Inquiry, Suffolk police have ever had to deal with involving hundreds of officers. |
| 0:31.6 | It was a terrifying time, as it became clear detectives were hunting for a serial killer. |
| 0:38.1 | It can't get any more serious. |
| 0:41.3 | For Suffolk Police, the investigation was unprecedented. |
| 0:45.1 | Five separate incident rooms were set up and around 3,000 people a day were calling in with information. |
| 0:52.6 | Officers knocked on around 1,500 doors, |
| 0:55.7 | and they trawled through 11,000 hours of CCTV. |
| 1:00.6 | The breakthrough in the case came when forensic teams match DNA evidence |
| 1:05.1 | taken from three of the girls to a DNA profile belonging to Steve Wright. |
| 1:10.9 | Then in December, a truck driver called Stephen Wright was arrested and charged. |
| 1:16.2 | He was 48. |
| 1:17.4 | Has been charged with the murder. |
| 1:19.8 | Following a trial lasting for six weeks in January 2008, he was convicted of all five murders. |
| 1:27.4 | He left court today knowing an automatic life sentence awaits him. |
| 1:31.3 | But Steve Wright may still... |
| 1:32.3 | Now Stephen Wright is back in court at the Old Bailey to face an allegation that he killed years before. |
| 1:39.3 | 17-year-old Vicki Hall disappeared after a night out in feet. |
| 1:42.3 | His alleged victim was 17-year-old Victoria |
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