Police have lengthy believed that the prolonged gaps between Wright’s recognized offending imply he could have dedicated extra murders.
Suzy Lamplugh (Picture: ENTERPRISE NEWS AND PICTURES)
Police have investigated or reviewed Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright’s potential involvement in a number of different high-profile unsolved murders and disappearances and imagine it’s “nearly sure” that he has killed extra victims because of the vital gaps between his recognized crimes.
Suzy Lamplugh (1986): Wright and property agent Suzy had beforehand been colleagues on the posh cruise liner QE2 within the early Eighties. Wright’s first spouse, Diane Cole, recalled seeing him flirting with Lamplugh throughout their time at sea.
On the day she vanished in 1986, Lamplugh wrote in her diary that she was assembly a “Mr Kipper”. Diane later advised detectives how Wright incessantly used the time period “kipper” as slang for “face”.
In 2008 following Wright’s conviction for the murders of 5 ladies in Ipswich, the Metropolitan Police investigated his doable involvement. Nevertheless, they discovered that Wright’s QE2 information positioned him on the ship on the day she disappeared, main them to explain the hyperlink as “speculative”.
Nevertheless Suzy’ brother Richard, has continued to name for police to re-interview Wright, claiming that any new info might present the household with closure over the long-running thriller.
John Cannan, a convicted assassin and rapist, stays the prime suspect within the case. Cannan died in jail in November 2024 with out ever admitting involvement.
Jeanette Kempton (1989): Jeanette, a 31-year-old mom of two from Brixton, South London, vanished on February 2, 1989, after leaving a pub. Her physique was found 16 days afterward February 18, 1989, in a ditch close to Wangford in north Suffolk.
On the time of her disappearance, Wright lived in Chislehurst, South London – roughly 10 miles from Brixton – and had familiarity with the Suffolk space.
In 2019, former Norfolk police intelligence officer and chilly case skilled Chris Clark expressed his perception that serial killer Wright was chargeable for the unsolved homicide of Jeanette.
Wright’s ex-wife, Diane Cole, has additionally expressed her perception that he was chargeable for killing Jeanette.
Michelle Bettles (Picture: PA)
Michelle Bettles (2002): Michelle, a 22-year-old intercourse employee, was final seen on 28 March 2002 in Norwich. Her physique was discovered three days later in woodland close to Dereham, roughly 20 miles from the place she was final seen.
On the time of the homicide, Wright was residing in Norwich and had beforehand been the owner of the Ferry Boat Inn, a pub positioned within the metropolis’s red-light district, the place each Bettles and one other lacking lady, Kellie Pratt, reportedly labored.
Criminologist Prof David Wilson has argued that the homicide of Bettles bears “hanging similarities” to the 2006 Ipswich killings. He featured the case within the 2012 documentary collection Killers Behind Bars: The Untold Story, suggesting Wright was the seemingly killer.
Norfolk Police at present say there may be at present no proof to formally join Wright to Michelle Bettles’ homicide, although they proceed to assessment the case. In 2022, police introduced they’d discovered new DNA profiles on objects associated to the case, resulting in a recent attraction for info.
KELLIE PRATT. (Picture: -)
Kellie Pratt (200): Intercourse employee Kellie, 28, vanished on 11 June 2000. She was final seen exterior The Rose pub on Queens Highway in Norwich at roughly 11:30 pm. She made a cell phone name 10 minutes after her final sighting, stating she was with a “punter” (consumer). Regardless of 270 witness statements and intensive searches, neither Kellie nor her cellphone has ever been discovered. Her case stays an unsolved murder. Hypothesis over Wright’s involvement have intensified after the killer pleaded responsible to the 1999 homicide of 17-year-old Victoria Corridor. This confession marks the primary time he has admitted to a homicide from that interval. This week Kellie’s son Kurtis urged Wright to offer “the peace the households deserve” and admit to the homicide of his mum.
Vicky Glass (Picture: -)
Vicky Glass (2000): Vicky was final seen alive on 24 September 2000, three days after her twenty first birthday, being dropped off by a taxi on Union Road on the junction with Eshwood Sq., Middlesbrough, at roughly 4.20am. Her physique was discovered six weeks later, in November 2000, in a stream close to the village of Danby on the North Yorkshire Moors.
On the time of her demise, she had been pressured into intercourse work to fund a heroin dependancy. Police have beforehand refused to rule out Wright’s potential involvement claiming he had recognized hyperlinks to the realm. Nevertheless they’ve been unable to construct a case and the homicide stays a thriller.
In September 2025, her household and Cleveland Police issued a renewed plea for info, utilizing the milestone to encourage anybody with a “responsible conscience” or modified loyalties to come back ahead.
Detectives are nonetheless trying to determine a white male lorry driver who was seen speaking to Vicky on CCTV hours earlier than she vanished. 4 folks have been arrested in reference to the case through the years, all have been launched with out cost.
Amanda Duncan lacking feared murdered (Picture: Suffolk Police)
Mandy Duncan (1993): Wright has been more and more linked by criminologists and investigators to the 1993 disappearance of Amanda Duncan – also referred to as Mandy Duncan.
The 26-year-old mom of two vanished on 2 July 1993 after working as a intercourse employee within the red-light district of Ipswich. She was final seen speaking to a person in a dark-coloured Ford Sierra. Her physique has by no means been discovered.
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Criminologists imagine Wright, who was 48 on the time of his 2006 killing spree, would seemingly have begun his collection of murders a lot earlier, usually focusing on weak younger ladies in red-light districts the place he lived and labored.
Mandy went lacking in Ipswich, the identical metropolis the place Wright dedicated his 5 recognized murders in 2006. Her disappearance matches Wright’s established Modus Operandi (MO) of focusing on intercourse staff in that particular area.
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