The Murder of Vicky Hall / Steve Wright: The Suffolk Strangler
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In February 2026, Steve Wright pleaded guilty to the murder of 17-year-old Vicky Hall, a crime he committed seven years before he became known as the Suffolk Strangler. But the night before he killed Vicky, he stalked another young woman through the streets of Felixstowe for almost an hour. She escaped. She reported it. The police dismissed her and told her to forget about it. The following night, Wright went back out. Vicky Hall never made it home…
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of sexual violence. |
| 0:14.6 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
| 0:19.3 | Listener caution is advised. |
| 0:25.3 | 25 years after a young woman was abducted and murdered, |
| 0:30.0 | a case review uncovered evidence linking her killing to a man already serving a life |
| 0:35.3 | sentence. |
| 0:37.0 | While new evidence would be hailed as securing a conviction, |
| 0:41.1 | information that was overlooked during the initial inquiry could have brought the killer to justice |
| 0:46.2 | before five more women lost their lives. He was a merchant seaman, a lorry driver and a forklift truck operator, and his crimes |
| 0:56.9 | are among the most horrific committed in this country in this century. |
| 1:01.7 | Already serving a life sentence in prison, the Suffolk Strangler, as he became known, wreaked |
| 1:06.0 | terror in the port town of Ipswich in 2006. |
| 1:09.3 | But there remain many unanswered questions in this case, |
| 1:12.1 | chief among them. Why was it that Steve Wright chose to target so many defenceless young women? |
| 1:18.0 | That is a question, the judge said, that may never be answered. |
| 1:23.0 | Welcome to Season 11, episode 10 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. |
| 1:32.3 | In Season 8, episode 43, we examined the case of Vicky Hall. |
| 1:38.1 | In this episode, we'll piece together the fragments of this tragic and shocking puzzle and provide a significant update. |
| 1:50.0 | 22-year-old Emily Docherty had spent a night out at the bandbox with her husband and some friends. |
| 1:59.0 | The popular nightclub in Felixstow, Suffolk, was often packed on weekends. |
| 2:05.8 | In the early hours of Saturday, September 18th, 1999, a crowd of revelers spilled out of the |
| 2:13.4 | bandbox doors at closing time. |
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