Cold Case Killer - How Many More?
The Trial
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Caroline and Jack have an exclusive interview with Criminologist Professor David Wilson. In 2008 he predicted that serial killer Steve Wright had murdered Vicky Hall years before. She was aged just 17 when she was kidnapped and murdered in 1999. It took Wright 18 years but yesterday at the Old Bailey he finally admitted it.
Today we chat to David about why he was so sure Steve Wright had killed before and if there might be more victims.
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| 0:00.0 | A serial killer known as the Suffolk Strangler has pleaded guilty to a sixth murder. |
| 0:11.6 | The serial killer, Steve Wright, has pleaded guilty to the murder of a 17-year-old girl in 1999, his sixth victim. |
| 0:19.2 | Steve Wright is already behind bars for a killing spree 20 years ago. |
| 0:23.6 | The Suffolk Strangler has admitted to being a killer for the first time ever. |
| 0:28.6 | In 1999, a teenager disappeared after a night out in Felixstow. |
| 0:32.6 | Five days later, she was found dead 20 miles away. |
| 0:36.6 | Victoria Hall was just 17. |
| 0:39.0 | She was studying for her A-levels. |
| 0:41.0 | For 26 years, her family never had answers. |
| 0:44.3 | Today, they learned the truth. |
| 0:46.6 | Hi, I'm Caroline Cheatham. |
| 0:48.4 | And I'm Jack Hardy. |
| 0:50.0 | Welcome to episode two. |
| 0:51.7 | How many more? |
| 0:52.8 | We'll be back in a second. So welcome to day two of Cold Case Killer, our coverage of Steve Wright and the murder |
| 1:20.7 | of Vicky Hall, which yesterday he pleaded guilty to. Today, we promised we'd have that full interview with Professor David Wilson, |
| 1:30.8 | and indeed we are going to bring you that very, very shortly, |
| 1:33.3 | because it was back in 2008 in the days after Steve Wright was convicted of the murders |
| 1:39.9 | of five women in Ipswich that David Wilson predicted that he was also the killer of 17-year-old |
| 1:47.6 | Vicky Hall. It's taken 18 years. That prediction was confirmed yesterday when Steve Wright |
| 1:54.5 | pleaded guilty to murdering Vicky Hall and kidnapping her and attempting to kidnap another woman |
| 2:00.5 | on the same night. Before we play |
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