Earlier that day, Wright pleaded guilty to the charge of facilitating murder in the first degree for her role in Lorenzen Wright’s 2010 killing. Commercial appeal online article 10 December 2019
This is the story of a man who flew high and burned bright but no amount of money or fame could protect him from murder. At 34 Lorenzen Wright is a legend in Memphis. People Magazine Investigates s4e2: Memphis Blues, ID 2019
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Six weeks, five murders, one killer. An entire town terrorised. And a police force under media siege … The hunt for the Suffolk Strangler, the serial killer who devastated five families. Real Crime s7e7: The Suffolk Strangler, ITV 2008
October 2006 and on a few isolated backstreets in Ipswich up to 30 young women ply their trade to curb crawlers. ibid.
Killer Out of Control. ibid. Evening Standard headline
In three weeks the bodies of five women were discovered murdered in rural Suffolk. The Suffolk Strangler
The killer’s last three victims had not been dumped in water. ibid.
This DNA match which now placed Steven Wright firmly as the main suspect. ibid.
1Serial killers are responsible for many more murders than those murders that they get convicted for having committed. David Wilson, Killers Behind Bars: The Untold Story: The Suffolk Strangler, Channel 5 2012
One of the most notorious serial killer cases in British history. ibid.
He murdered five women who worked as sex workers in a ferocious killing spree that unfolded over just ten days. ibid.
I found another cluster in the nearby city of Norwich. ibid.
Steve Wright cross-dressed. ibid.
The naked bodies of five murdered women and discovered in just ten days sparking the biggest manhunt the east of England has ever seen. For the police it became a race against time to stop the killer striking again. Suffolk Strangler: Serial Killers s/a Serial Killers: Suffolk Strangler s/a Murder UK with Martin Kemp
Monday 30th October 2006: local girl Tania Nicol fails to return home. ibid.
Just over two weeks later another girl, twenty-five-year-old Gemma Adams, has been reported missing. ibid.
The media attention dramatically increases. ibid.
The DNA retrieved from the three separate bodies all link back to the same person. ibid.
Wright works locally as a forklift driver. ibid.
Steven Wright was addicted to sex workers. Some grew to like him. But years of rejection by the other women in his life, from his mother to his wives, turned the gentlemen into a killer. He claimed so many victims, bodies were turning up at a rate of one every two days. Evil Up Close s1e15: Suffolk Strangler, CI 2012
What had turned Steven Wright from an angelic little boy into a man who killed more women in the shortest time than any serial killer in British history? ibid.
I have seen too much anger and violence in my childhood to last anyone a lifetime. Steven Wright, prison letter
In 2006 a campaign of murder was carried out on the streets of Suffolk. The discovery of five bodies in ten days would leave the community stunned and authorities overwhelmed. As the clock ticked, the body count rose. Killing Spree: Suffolk Strangler, Channel 5 2014
In the town of Ipswich in the rural east of England murders are rare. But in the winter of 2006 that would change. Killers: Behind the Myth s2e1: Suffolk Strangler, 2014
All the women were last seen near the Red Light District. ibid.
Since 1990 an estimated 152 sex workers have been murdered in the UK. Women are 18 times more likely to be murdered whilst engaged in sex work. Crimes that Shook Britain s8e5: The Suffolk Strangler, captions, CI 2017
The series of murders committed by Steven Wright were crimes that shook Britain. ibid.
Autumn 2006, Ipswich, Suffolk: A DNA sample which matches a profile on the national DNA database … a 48-year-old forklift truck driver called Steven Wright. ibid.
Guilty of all five murders by unanimous verdict. ibid.
Five women abducted from the streets of Ipswich. Five bodies found in ten days … murdered by Steve Wright, a serial killer nicknamed the Suffolk Strangler. My Son the Serial Killer, Channel 5 2017
Over three hundreds police officers were drafted in from all over the country. ibid.
When the case came to trial Wright admitted knowing them all and having sex with four of them but he would claim he was not guilty. ibid.
During the winter of 2006 Ipswich in Suffolk was paralysed with fear. The bodies of five missing prostitutes had been found by police sparking the biggest ever manhunt in the east of England. World’s Most Evil Killers s2e10: Steven Wright, Pick TV 2018
In December 2006 police in Ipswich discovered five women dead in the Suffolk countryside. The last person to see them alive was ex-Cruise ship steward Steven Wright. The Killer in My Family s2e3: Steve Wright, Quest Red 2020
Steve’s mother reappeared in Ipswich, the first time he had seen her since he was eight. ibid.
Police quickly made an arrest for the murders of the women, but it was not Steve Wright. ibid.
Police had managed to recover DNA from three of the victims. ibid.
There have been 184 known sex workers killed between 1990 and December 2019. Suffolk Strangler: 30 Days of Terror, Channel 5 2020
Tania Nicol reported missing on 31st October 2006. ibid.
Gemma Adams reported missing 16 days after Tania Nicol disappears. ibid.
Suffolk constabulary alert the public about their concerns over the sudden disappearance of 25-year-old Gemma Adams. ibid.
10 December: a third body was found in woodland in the south-east of Ipswich … 24-year-old Anneli Alderton … She was three months pregnant. ibid.
Paula Clennell reported missing on 10th December, the same day Anneli’s body is found … [and] ‘a crew member on board on the helicopter spotted what appeared to be a second body a few hundred yards away from the site of the first body’ … Annette Nicholls discovered on 12th December 2006: she had been missing for a week. ibid. rozzer