Suffolk: Closing In on the Strangler's Reign
Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast
Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins
4.5 β’ 992 Ratings
ποΈ 2 March 2022
β±οΈ 24 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | In this third and final episode of the Suffolk Strangler, we will learn more about Steve |
| 0:58.4 | Wright. We will go through his trial and we will mention some other potential victims. |
| 1:04.8 | During Wright's time in London, he began to visit massage parlors for sex, a habit he retained |
| 1:11.3 | when he eventually moved back to Suffolk. By the mid-1990s, his constant gambling had taken its toll |
| 1:18.5 | and unable to see his way out of his spiraling debts, he tried to commit suicide by guessing |
| 1:24.1 | himself in his car. He was found lying in an alley in Hava Hill Suffolk and taken hospital. |
| 1:32.0 | Wightly received a suicide note from her former boyfriend around this time. She said, quote, |
| 1:38.7 | he said he missed his daughter, he didn't want to be a part-time dad and he had lost everything. |
| 1:46.4 | It was the first of two suicide attempts which his step-brother Keith said were bought on by debts |
| 1:52.3 | a recurring problem. He was recently declared bankrupt after running up 30,000 pounds in |
| 1:58.7 | unsecured loans. Keith, a tug driver, said the incident had a profound effect on Wright. |
| 2:06.1 | Quote, he went a bit quiet, before that he used to be quiet outgoing. He would go for a beer |
| 2:13.0 | and a laugh and a joke but then it was hard to get much out of him. End quote. His second suicide |
| 2:20.0 | attempt came in 2000, with an overdose of pills after he returned from a 10-week trip to Thailand |
| 2:26.5 | where again he had ended up in debt after quote. Some girls scammed him for everything he had. |
| 2:34.7 | End quote. According to Keith, he had sold all his possessions including his car and furniture |
| 2:40.9 | to fund the trip during which he had once again enjoyed the services of foreign prostitutes. |
| 2:50.1 | Wright moved back in with his father and stepmother in Felix Doe for a while, where he met Pamela Wright, |
| 2:56.0 | his current partner. Their shared surname is a coincidence. |
| 3:00.7 | They moved in together in 2001. He was a member of Seckford Golf Club near Woodbridge Suffolk |
| 3:07.8 | and of the brigands, the Brook Residence International Golf and Notable Delinquents Society Club, |
| 3:14.4 | based at the hotel, where he worked for a few months as a publican and was remembered as a |
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