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What Makes a Killer

S3 Ep1: Steve Wright, The Suffolk Strangler

What Makes a Killer

Audioboom Studios

Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the winter of 2006, the town of Ipswich, England was left horrified as the bodies of five missing female sex workers were found by police. The discovery launched a massive manhunt that resulted in police questioning over 2,000 men. Police raced against time to find the killer, all while women continued to risk their lives, hoping they would not become another victim of Steve Wright.

This episode is sponsored by: Daily Harvest

Original music by Ben Krejci, Kai Engel, Nctrnm, Daniel Birch, Kevin MacLeod, and Sergey Cheremisinov.

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.

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What makes a killer contains graphic details

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of sexual assault and violence

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and is not intended for all audiences?

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0:45.0

It's 2006, and the town of Ipswich is in the deep of winter

0:50.5

and paralyzed with fear.

0:53.9

The bodies of five sex workers have been found by police

0:57.6

sparking a massive manhunt in the east of England.

1:01.0

He's targeting these women because they are vulnerable

1:03.8

because they are easy for him to access

1:05.9

and easy for him to control.

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