The Suffolk Strangler / Steve Wright - Part 2
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🗓️ 25 February 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 8 - EPISODE 44’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE. The bodies of five vulnerable women who went missing from the streets of Ipswich were found over a ten-day period. Suffolk Police launched the most extensive investigation in the force's history, and within a week of the last two victims being found, they had a positive DNA match — not the profile of the prime suspect, but a man who had flown under the radar despite living in the epicentre of the disappearances... (Part 2 of 2).
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of violence. |
| 0:09.3 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
| 0:13.9 | Listener caution is advised. |
| 0:20.5 | The bodies of five vulnerable women who went missing from the streets of Ipswich were found over a 10-day period. |
| 0:29.6 | Suffolk Police launched the most extensive investigation in the forces history, and within a week of the last two victims being found, they had a positive |
| 0:39.7 | DNA match, not the profile of the prime suspect, but a man who had flown under the radar |
| 0:46.4 | despite living in the epicentre of the disappearances. As darkness fell in London Road, |
| 0:53.1 | the police work continued. |
| 0:55.0 | All the indications are that investigators intend to examine their latest suspect's flat in minute detail. |
| 1:02.0 | They'll be looking to see if there's any evidence here that a violent attack has taken place. |
| 1:07.0 | Because during that, there could be blood, there could be saliva, or even any other bodily fluids which could be splattered around the wall. |
| 1:15.6 | And then irrespective of how much cleaning or even painting, that can be found. |
| 1:21.7 | Welcome to Season 8 episode 45 of They Walk Among Us, |
| 1:31.3 | a podcast dedicated to UK true crime. |
| 1:39.1 | Please listen to Season 8 episode 44 for part one of this two-part case. 48-year-old Stephen Wright's DNA was found to match samples on swaps taken during three of the victims post-mortems. |
| 1:56.0 | As a result, he was put under police surveillance, and investigators tried to learn more about |
| 2:02.2 | the outwardly average middle-aged man. |
| 2:06.2 | Stephen Wright, more commonly known as Steve, was born in Norfolk in April 1958 to parents |
| 2:13.1 | Conrad and Patricia. |
| 2:15.8 | The Wrights were married two years before their son's birth. |
| 2:20.2 | Steve Wright had three siblings and was initially raised in Erpingham. |
| 2:25.3 | Due to the nature of his father's work as an RAF police officer, the family frequently moved |
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