S03E02 - "The Sunderland Strangler" Steven Grieveson

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In the second episode of British Murders Season 3, I tell the story of Steven Grieveson aka The Sunderland Strangler.

Grieveson murdered four teenage boys by way of strangulation in Sunderland between May 26, 1990 - February 25, 1994.

He then set the bodies on fire in derelict allotments and guest houses.

He was handed three life sentences on February 28, 1996, for the first three murders and a further life sentence on October 24, 2013, after the fourth murder came to light.

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References:
Foster, J. (1994, October 4). School struggles to make sense of boys’ murders: Jonathan Foster reports from Sunderland on the mood of neighbours and friends as police hunt serial strangler of three youths. Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/school-struggles-to-make-sense-of-boys-murders-jonathan-foster-reports-from-sunderland-on-the-mood-of-neighbours-and-friends-as-police-hunt-serial-strangler-of-three-youths-1440927.html

Man held over three strangled teenagers. (1994, November 4). Evening Standard, 142. Retrieved from Newspapers.com.

Man charged with murdering three youths found after fires. (1994, November 7). The Guardian, 3. Retrieved from Newspapers.com.

Wainwright, M. (1996, January 31). Man “killed youths to keep gay secret.” The Guardian, 4. Retrieved from Newspapers.com.

Gay “confessed killing” to cellmate. (1996, February 17). The Guardian, 6. Retrieved from Newspapers.com.

Wainwright, M. (1996, February 29). Three life terms for “macho” gay who killed boys. The Guardian, 7. Retrieved from Newspapers.com.

Serial killer’s father died in fire - inquest. (2000, August 26). The Northern Echo.

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0:00.0	Welcome to British murders, a true crime podcast with a focus on British murder cases.
0:17.7	My name's Stuart Blues, and I'm excited for you to join me on this journey of
0:21.1	morbid discovery. I'm by no means an expert on the subjects of homicide and serial killers.
0:26.8	However, I have always had a sick fascination with them. Together, we will learn about some of the
0:31.9	lesser-known British murderers, as well as glimpsing occasionally at some of the more notorious
0:36.3	ones. The bite-sized presentation of this podcast is intentional,
0:40.8	as we look to cover an overview of the respective timelines of each case succinctly.
0:51.8	Hello and welcome back to British murders. This is the second episode of season three,
0:57.5	the second one to be fully filmed on YouTube. I hope you enjoyed last week if you managed to check it out.
1:02.3	If not, check this one out. You might as well. This week's episode of British Murders
1:06.6	takes us to the Port City of Sunderland, which is located in the northeast county of Tyne and Weir.
1:14.0	Many people don't realise that Sunderland is actually located by the seaside.
1:18.3	It's not somewhere you would think of in England.
1:20.6	If you think of, let's go to the seaside, you'd more likely think of Blackpool or Filey or Whitby, especially up north.
1:29.2	But it often gets lumped in with neighbouring county boroughs of Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Shields and South Shields. Those are
1:35.8	the five boroughs that make up Tyne and Weir. Sunderland does have an enormous theatre, which
1:41.5	holds 2,000 people. The theatre is called the Sunderland Empire and it is in fact the largest theatre between Manchester
1:48.1	in the north-west of England and Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland.
1:52.4	The Empire is apparently ridiculously haunted though and loads of celebrities refused to even play
1:57.5	there.
1:58.2	Actor Sid James, who appeared in 19 Carry-On films, actually died on stage at the
2:03.8	Sundland Empire in 1976 after suffering a heart attack.
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