The Saturday Night Strangler (part two): Episode 139

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4.3 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We return to South Wales in 2002 as the body of Joseph Kappen is exhumed from the grave where he was buried 12 years earlier, after dying from lung cancer at age 48. Was he the serial killer who had murdered 16 year old Sandra, Pauline and Geraldine?

Reference
For this story, I am indebted to the following article by Kevin Toolis in The Guardian newspaper:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jan/18/wales.kevintoolis

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0:28.8	Hello and welcome to episode 139 of the UK True Crime weekly podcast.
0:37.7	I'm Adam.
0:38.7	Thank you so much for joining me today for the second part of a two part story from South
0:43.7	Wales.
0:44.7	So if you haven't yet listened to last week's show, please do so before you listen
0:48.8	to today's episode.
0:51.0	If you recall last week we went right back to 1973.
0:55.0	Look at the terrible murders of three 16 year old young women, Sandra Newton, Pauline
1:02.0	Floyd and Joedin Hughes.
1:04.2	Advances in DNA meant in the early 2000s, Operation Magnum identified local man Joseph
1:14.2	Kaepern as a key suspect through his son Paul's DNA.
1:18.3	Paul was a minor car thief and only seven at the time of the murders, but the fact that
1:24.3	his dad Joseph was on the whittledown list of 100 prime suspects was surely beyond coincidence.
1:31.1	But Joseph Kaepern had been dead for 12 years.
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