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Steve Wright - ''The Suffolk Strangler'' - Serial Killer Documentary · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: The naked bodies of five murdered women are discovered in
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: just ten days.
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  Speaker 2: Totally unexpected. What are we dealing with here? What's happening
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: in Suffolk?
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Sparking the biggest manhund the East of England has ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: That Suffolk Police went into overdrive. There was a serial
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  Speaker 3: killer on the loose Innpswich.
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  Speaker 1: For the police it became a race against time to
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  Speaker 1: stop the killer striking again.
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  Speaker 4: Who's going to be next? Is there any more girls missing?
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  Speaker 4: What's going to happen next? And what are going to
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  Speaker 4: be next now?
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  Speaker 1: Yet their most powerful clues could only be seen through
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  Speaker 1: a microscope.
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  Speaker 5: There were two strands of forensic evidence which are going
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  Speaker 5: to be pivotal to this case, fiber evidence and DNA evidence.
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  Speaker 1: This is the incredible story of how science helped crack
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: the case of the Suffolk stranger. Ipswich is a port
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  Speaker 1: town and no stranger at a prostitution, but an escalating
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: drug problem has seen an increase in the number of
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: women working the streets. It's a situation that worries DCS
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  Speaker 1: Stewart Gull.
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  Speaker 6: They were in the region of one hundred or more
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  Speaker 6: to the prostitutes working in the Ipswich area.
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  Speaker 2: A highly vulnerable and at.
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  Speaker 1: Risk Monday, the thirtieth of October two thousand and six,
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  Speaker 1: local girl Tanya Nickel fails to return home. But there's
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: something her family doesn't know. Tarnia has been leading a
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  Speaker 1: double life how much.
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  Speaker 7: The Great as it is twenty three l.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty. For the last few weeks, Tarnia has been working
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  Speaker 1: as a prostitute to support her drug habit. It's a
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  Speaker 1: scenario familiar to many of the local working girls. The
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  Speaker 1: manner of Tarnia's disappearance particularly concerns DCS Stewart Girl.
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  Speaker 6: She had literally disappeared off the face of the earth.
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  Speaker 6: Her phone records showed us a very flat line from
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  Speaker 6: the first of November, no incoming or outgoing movement of
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  Speaker 6: data at all. And again that was a real cause
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  Speaker 6: for concern.
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  Speaker 1: Just over two weeks later, another girl, twenty five year
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  Speaker 1: old Jemma Adams, has been reported missing La Tania. Jemma
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  Speaker 1: is also working the Red Light district to pay for
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  Speaker 1: her drug addiction.
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  Speaker 4: It was then that we really started worrying. Are they
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  Speaker 4: still alive in a room somewhere you know? Or have
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  Speaker 4: Tania Gemman done this to a dealer? And both of
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  Speaker 4: them are gone. You just don't really know when you're
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  Speaker 4: in fold of drugs what the true reason is.
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  Speaker 1: As part of the investigation in Titania and Jemma's disappearance,
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  Speaker 1: the police stop motorists in the areas the girls usually worked. Sir,
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  Speaker 1: you what two goes about missing?
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  Speaker 2: No, tanger nickled jem Adams being any game? No, those
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  Speaker 2: names don't mean anything to.
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  Speaker 1: Me, all right, move on. Despite stopping over five hundred
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  Speaker 1: cars and questioning two thousand people, no new information about
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  Speaker 1: the girls is found. Tanya Nichol has now been missing
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  Speaker 1: for just over a month, Jemma Adams for sixteen days.
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  Speaker 1: Hopes of finding them alive are beginning to fade. On
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  Speaker 1: the morning of the second of December, water bailiff Trevor
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  Speaker 1: Saunders is checking Belsted Brook for blockages after heavy rains
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  Speaker 1: have caused flooding.
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  Speaker 8: Notice, what I thought at first was a dummy, a mannequin,
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  Speaker 8: so got down into the war to get it out.
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  Speaker 1: On closer examination, Trevor discovers the true nature of what
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  Speaker 1: he's found.
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  Speaker 8: So I got down to get cleared the blobbridge, and
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  Speaker 8: when I got down to her, that's when I realized
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  Speaker 8: that now it won't a done me. It was a
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  Speaker 8: real body, and immediately thought to myself that I found
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  Speaker 8: one of the Miffing girls.
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Saunder's discovery is related to Stuart gold.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing.
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  Speaker 7: Someone's called in the body in the streamline some fisheries
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  Speaker 7: near Handleton.
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  Speaker 2: Let's keep a lid on this until we're sure of
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  Speaker 2: the facts.
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  Speaker 5: Can somebody let Tanya and Jimmy's parents know that the
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  Speaker 5: body has been found.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want them hearing about it through the news.
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  Speaker 1: What is said.
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  Speaker 6: Clearly identification wasn't known at that stage, but you will
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  Speaker 6: automatically fear for the worst, and you assume that it's
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  Speaker 6: perhaps either Tanya or Gemma.
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  Speaker 1: Or hearing where the body has been found. Forensic officer
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  Speaker 1: David Stagg realizes the magnitude of the task he's facing.
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  Speaker 5: The expectation of recovering forensic evidence from both the body
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  Speaker 5: and the scene where the body was found was actually
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  Speaker 5: quite low. Because he puts it in a naked body
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  Speaker 5: in running water, You're not going to have much forensic
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  Speaker 5: events left whatsoever. So when you we were up against
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  Speaker 5: it right from the stars.
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  Speaker 1: The body is identified as Gemma Adams. News of Jemma's
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  Speaker 1: death soon spreads.
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  Speaker 2: To hear that it was her.
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  Speaker 4: You know just well, you know destroy me even now,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I don't like thinking about it, but it
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  Speaker 4: just whips your insides up.
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  Speaker 1: The search for evidence intensifies in freezing conditions, Divers and
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  Speaker 1: forensic teams scour the area for almost a week. The
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  Speaker 1: search is about to be called off when a diver
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  Speaker 1: makes a shocking discovery. December two thousand and six, Tania
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  Speaker 1: Nicol and Jenna Adams have gone missing from the Red
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  Speaker 1: Light district of Ipswish. The naked body of Jenna has
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  Speaker 1: been recovered from a stream on the outskirts of the town. Then,
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: during a forensic sweep of the area, a diver makes
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  Speaker 1: another devastating discovery. Forensic officer David Stagg recalls hearing the news.
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  Speaker 5: I remember receiving the phone call alertingly that the second
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  Speaker 5: body had been found, when else where it was tall
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  Speaker 5: Belstead Brook. Immediately the alarm bells will.
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  Speaker 1: Bring in less than two miles downstream from where Jemma
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  Speaker 1: Adams has been recovered. There's little doubt the second body
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  Speaker 1: is that of Tanya Nicol.
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  Speaker 6: Not in my wildest dreams did I anticipate that they
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  Speaker 6: would uncover the body of Tania Nicol. We were now
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  Speaker 6: no longer dealing with too missing persons. This was a
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  Speaker 6: double murder inquiry.
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  Speaker 1: Despite the similarities, the police know they can't assume the
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  Speaker 1: deaths are linked.
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  Speaker 9: And what an SiO as signed to each of these murders.
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  Speaker 9: I don't want anybody jumping to conclusions. We still need
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  Speaker 9: to keep one open mind that it could be just coincidence.
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  Speaker 9: Understand any news about the cause of death.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing concru sir, What is there Betterhe forensics turned up anything?
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  Speaker 1: Not yet.
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  Speaker 2: It seems the bodies were washed clean, but they're still looking.
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  Speaker 1: A post mortem is conducted, but with the two bodies
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: having been immersed in water for so long, the results
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  Speaker 1: are inconclusive. Forensic scientist Ray Palmer knows retrieving any evidence
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  Speaker 1: will be near impossible.
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  Speaker 10: Because it's actually been present in flowing water for a
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  Speaker 10: number of weeks. Any prospect at recovering fibers or other
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  Speaker 10: debris from the skin or in DNA from the skin
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  Speaker 10: and that period of time was virtually zero.
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: The murderer's choice of location indicates to criminologist David Wilson
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  Speaker 1: that the police are dealing with a methodical and calculating killer.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that he had placed the bodies in water
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  Speaker 3: so as to destroy any forensic evidence suggested to me
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  Speaker 3: this was a very what criminologist would describe as an
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  Speaker 3: organized killer. By organized, I mean that he's very carefully
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  Speaker 3: thought through how he's crucially going to avoid being detected
• 10:01
  Speaker 3: from the police.
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  Speaker 1: With no evidence, the police need to find witnesses. They
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: interview other women working in ipswhich is red light area.
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  Speaker 1: One of them is fellow prostitute Paul o'clennell.
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  Speaker 6: You're well enough streets its nurse and I should disigarette
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  Speaker 6: with you, know, pretty girl?
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  Speaker 2: When did you also?
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  Speaker 1: You so about week.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe two? Can you remember exactly what daver was for
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  Speaker 2: what day time? I think it was about twelve thirty
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  Speaker 2: one and maybe would have been into October. Burlington Rooderia.
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  Speaker 1: Burlington Road is one of only a handful of streets
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  Speaker 1: that make UPS which is red light district. All the
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: areas constantly monitored by CCTV cameras to try and spot
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  Speaker 1: Tania the night she went missing. Police trawl through staggering
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  Speaker 1: sixteen thousand hours of footage. Their dedication pays off. Tarnia
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  Speaker 1: spotted the night she went missing. Getting into a dark car,
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  Speaker 1: but the image isn't clear enough to get a match
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  Speaker 1: for the car's registration played The efforts to identify the
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  Speaker 1: killer leave the police frustrated. Then the shattering news of
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  Speaker 1: another body.
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  Speaker 6: The motorists had reported finding what appeared to be the
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  Speaker 6: naked body of a young female. A totally unexpected, totally
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  Speaker 6: unbelievable mind begins to race, what are we dealing with here?
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  Speaker 2: What's happening in Suffolk?
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  Speaker 1: The discovery of yet another body less than forty eight
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  Speaker 1: hours after the start of the double murder inquiry horrifies
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  Speaker 1: David Stagg.
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  Speaker 5: After the body of Tiny Nicol had been found, nob
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  Speaker 5: did really envisaged that this spree of murders would actually continue,
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  Speaker 5: and it came as a real shock to us when
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  Speaker 5: the third body was found, not just because it was
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  Speaker 5: a third body, but the manner of deposition was entirely
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  Speaker 5: different to the first two.
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  Speaker 1: The body has been found on dry land in a
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  Speaker 1: secluded wood less than ten miles from the center of Ipswich,
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  Speaker 1: but it's the way the body's been left that disturbs Stuart.
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  Speaker 6: Goal She was naked, she's been posed, and the offender
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  Speaker 6: had clearlyken some time to lay her out.
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  Speaker 1: The killer has arranged the body in the shape of
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  Speaker 1: a cross.
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  Speaker 2: She was pristine, She looked like an angel.
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  Speaker 1: Distinctive tattoos on the body established the identity of the
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  Speaker 1: third murdered woman, as mother of one, twenty four year
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  Speaker 1: old Annelie Alderton. No one had reported her missing. Like
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  Speaker 1: the other victims, Annelie had also been working as a
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  Speaker 1: prostitute to pay for drugs. David Stag knows with a
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  Speaker 1: body on land that this is the first real chance
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  Speaker 1: to recover clues to the killer's identity.
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  Speaker 5: The body of Annelie Oldersen was deposited on dry land
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  Speaker 5: than in itself was actually, from a forensic point of view,
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  Speaker 5: a breakthrough for us, because the potential for harvest in
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  Speaker 5: forensic evidence not just from the body but from the
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  Speaker 5: scene of the deposition, was much greater.
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  Speaker 1: The pathologist is able to determine the cause of death
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  Speaker 1: as airway.
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  Speaker 11: Obstruction strangulation is a peculiarly intimate form of murder, the
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  Speaker 11: killer is expressing, through that method of murder, the ultimate
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  Speaker 11: form of power and control over the life of another individual.
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  Speaker 1: The examination also reveals another tragic aspect to the murder.
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  Speaker 1: Annalie was three months pregnant. The revelation changes everything. For
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  Speaker 1: crime reporter Josh Warwick.
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  Speaker 12: I think when it emerged that Annalie was pregnant, it
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  Speaker 12: brought a different dimension to reporting of the ca in
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  Speaker 12: people's atity, brought a very, very human raw fear to
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  Speaker 12: the story.
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  Speaker 2: All of a sudden.
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  Speaker 1: Breakthroughs still prove elusive. A witness reports seeing annalyboarding a
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  Speaker 1: train exactly one week before her body was found. CCTV
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  Speaker 1: cameras on the train caught her as she made the journey,
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  Speaker 1: but no further information turns up. With the discovery of
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  Speaker 1: three murder victims in less than a week, all with
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  Speaker 1: such similar backgrounds, criminologist David Wilson has little doubt about
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  Speaker 1: the type of murderer the police are chasing.
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  Speaker 3: When the third body turned up, I think I was
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  Speaker 3: the first person to say there is a serial killer
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  Speaker 3: on the loose in it Swich and I think those
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: words I chose with a great deal of care because
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  Speaker 3: they were, as far as I was concerned, accurate, and
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  Speaker 3: they also should have suggested, which I think they did.
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  Speaker 3: The gravity of the circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: The grizzly discovery of three bodies brings the world's media
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  Speaker 1: to Ipswich.
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  Speaker 3: What happened almost overnight as this crisis was developing was
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  Speaker 3: that the streets became filled only with one group of people,
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  Speaker 3: and that group of people was journalists. Journalists seemed to
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  Speaker 3: be bumping into each other, desperately hoping to find a
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  Speaker 3: prostitute that they could interview.
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  Speaker 1: Despite the fact that a killer seems to be targeting prostitutes,
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  Speaker 1: most of the girls continued to work the streets as usual.
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  Speaker 4: We were all worried and obviously scared, but we all
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  Speaker 4: had to go to work anyway.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: We had drug addictions, We had addictions to feed.
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  Speaker 1: The police put out a clear warning telling the girls
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  Speaker 1: to get off the streets, but the warnings are ignored.
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  Speaker 6: Go.
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  Speaker 2: Two more girls have been reported missing, Andette Nichols ze
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  Speaker 2: Paula Clannel.
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  Speaker 1: The newly reported missing women are identified as mother of three,
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  Speaker 1: Paula Clannel, whom the police had questioned earlier about the disappearances,
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  Speaker 1: and twenty nine year old Annette Nichols. Annette's disappearance hits
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  Speaker 1: Jade Reynolds hard.
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  Speaker 4: She was my best friend, the most amazing person I've
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  Speaker 4: ever made in my life.
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  Speaker 7: You know, she changed my life for the better.
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  Speaker 1: Just six days before she'd gone missing, Paula Clammal had
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  Speaker 1: been interviewed by a local TV crew, What have you.
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  Speaker 2: Decided to come out to light because I need the money.
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  Speaker 2: I need the money, you know, despite the dangers. Well
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  Speaker 2: that has made me a bit wary about getting into cars,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but presume you will do that to life.
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  Speaker 1: Well probably Following the two new disappearances, the police organize
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  Speaker 1: a press conference. Reporter Josh Warwick is stunned by the
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  Speaker 1: turn of events, the.
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  Speaker 13: Shock and the amazement of everybody, certainly ourselves when we
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  Speaker 13: were told that these are two other women that have
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  Speaker 13: been reported missing, protesgutes, both drug addicts.
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  Speaker 7: Was it was unbelievable, really, you know, it was just incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Less than twenty four hours after the press conference, more news.
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  Speaker 5: Go defen another body were in the woods close to
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  Speaker 5: where any Aulderton's body was found.
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  Speaker 6: We're already sort of still reeling from the discovery of
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  Speaker 6: Annalie Alderton on the Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Get as many people out there as possible. I want
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  Speaker 2: the crime scene lockdown and preserved.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, I was still surprised, shocked, dismayed, and
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  Speaker 6: of course realized the severity and the magnitude of what
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  Speaker 6: we were now dealing with.
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  Speaker 1: Even though police arrived at the scene within minutes of
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  Speaker 1: the reported stunting of a body, cameras are there to
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  Speaker 1: meet them.
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  Speaker 10: I will, I will need you to go at some point,
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  Speaker 10: to go all right proper.
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  Speaker 1: A police helicopter is scrambled to assist the search. It's
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  Speaker 1: confirmed a body has been found in Woodland, just six
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  Speaker 1: yards from the edge of the road. The helicopter observation
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  Speaker 1: team relay images back to police headquarters.
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  Speaker 6: I can remember looking at the screen and saying what
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  Speaker 6: clearly appeared to be the dumped and crumpled body of
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  Speaker 6: a naked female.
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  Speaker 1: But Stewart Garlis soon to see yet another even more
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  Speaker 1: harrowing image. Winter two thousand and six. In just six weeks,
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  Speaker 1: five women have disappeared from Ipswich's Red Light district. The
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  Speaker 1: bodies of three women have been recovered, A fourth body
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  Speaker 1: has just been found in Woodland and from the air,
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  Speaker 1: the police continue to search the area. For helicopter observer
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  Speaker 1: Maggie Williams, it's a search that will take a devastating term.
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  Speaker 14: I put the camera onto the first body, I mean
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  Speaker 14: just sided as as a crew that we should really
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  Speaker 14: search the rest of the wood and as I swung
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  Speaker 14: the come around pan the come around and came into
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  Speaker 14: view on the screen was another body. And that was
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  Speaker 14: the realization of grizzen discovery that yes, there were the
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  Speaker 14: two bodies there in the same location, fairly close to
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  Speaker 14: each other.
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  Speaker 1: Images from the helicopter's camera. I relayed to the Suffolk
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  Speaker 1: Police headquarters.
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  Speaker 6: It probably took a few moments for the pennies to drop,
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  Speaker 6: but it then dawned on me.
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  Speaker 2: Now had a fourth and fifth victor. That was a
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  Speaker 2: particularly difficult time.
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  Speaker 1: The police soon confirmed the bodies of those of Paula
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  Speaker 1: Clennel and Anett Nichols.
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  Speaker 4: As one that hit me the worst and still does
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  Speaker 4: till this day, isn't it? Commustead commusic gone, really don't
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  Speaker 4: want to believe it, but I have, do you?
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  Speaker 1: The post mortem shows Paula Clennel died following compression to
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  Speaker 1: the neck, but Annette's death remains a mystery. Tragically, all
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  Speaker 1: five of the missing women have been found dead. Stuart
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  Speaker 1: Gull reluctantly announces the police are looking for a serial killer.
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  Speaker 6: Whilst we only had a cause of death for two,
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  Speaker 6: in all probability, all had died as a result of
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: some form of interference with the airway. So you put
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  Speaker 6: all of that together and I think quite.
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  Speaker 2: Rightly we drew the conclusion that we were looking for
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  Speaker 2: just one or more persons who were involved together in
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  Speaker 2: the abduction and murder of all five women.
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  Speaker 1: Six hundred officers and staff from within Suffolk and are
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  Speaker 1: assisted by a further five hundred from around the country.
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  Speaker 1: It's the biggest police manhunt the East of England has
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  Speaker 1: ever seen. With the announcement that a serial killer is
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  Speaker 1: at large, the media attention dramatically increases.
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  Speaker 9: I think you'll agree there's a little doubt that the
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  Speaker 9: murders of the work of one person or person's working together.
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  Speaker 6: We had a number of people of interest, a small
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  Speaker 6: number at that stage, but it's a very methodical, very
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  Speaker 6: sort of scientific process that you need to go through.
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  Speaker 6: You can't declare everybody a suspect, otherwise you make no
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  Speaker 6: progress at all.
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  Speaker 1: One name seems to offer itself up following an interview
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  Speaker 1: with a newspaper which he admits to knowing the five victims.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty seven year old supermarket worker Tom Stevens is taken
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  Speaker 1: into custody.
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  Speaker 2: In custody and helping police with their inquiries.
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  Speaker 6: The man who lived here is being held by police
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  Speaker 6: hunting the Suffolk serial killer.
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  Speaker 3: The police had to arrest Tom Stevens on that occasion
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  Speaker 3: because if any fact, he said, I knew all of
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  Speaker 3: these five women, they've all been.
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  Speaker 2: Back to my house.
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  Speaker 3: I do not have an alibi for the Knights that
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  Speaker 3: they went missing, and those circumstances, the police would have
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  Speaker 3: been bonkers not to have arrested somebody who's openly saying that.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Without solid evidence, the police know they'll soon have to
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: let Stephens go. Then the forensic team take an extraordinary
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: step forward. Tiny amounts of DNA are retrieved from the
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: bodies of Annalie Olderton, an Ethnicols and Paula Clemmel, the
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: three women found on dry land.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: My initial feeling was one of surprise, bearing in mind
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: the very hostile environment that these young women had been founded.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: I wasn't over optimistic that we'd recover forensic material as quickly.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: As we did. The forensic team's objective is to see
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: if this DNA is that of the killer. But there's
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: a problem. There may not be enough DNA to examine
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: accurately to be able to identify the DNA's genetic fingerprint.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: The team need a certain amount of DNA. By using
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: technique known as polimerase chain reaction, the strands of DNA
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: retrieved from the bodies are copied over and over again,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: providing the team with enough genetic material to analyze the findings. Stunned,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: David Stagg.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: I remember when I was notified that we had a
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: DNA hit that linked firstly two of the bodies and
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: then subsequently all three of the land deposited bodies. And
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: initially it was a feeling of disbelief.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: It's a one in a billion result. The DNA retrieved
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: from the three separate bodies all link back to the
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: same person. But who the samples are checked against the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: National DNA database.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: For is it's means to put some DNA off one
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: of the bodies.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: They match with the DNA. Yeah, they are Toms Deevens.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: No local member. The name is Stephen Wright.
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: Steve Wright wasn't on our radar at that particular time.
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: He was already in the system. He'd actually been stopped
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: on an anniversary road check in respect of the disappearance
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: of Tangy Nickel.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: All right, move on, it's quickly established that Wright works
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: locally as a forkliff driver and lives on London Road,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: one of the streets that make up if S, which
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: is Red Light District.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Under twenty four hours of hours see what turns.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Out The Suffolk Police no rights arrest has to be
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: handled carefully. Right is placed under twenty four hour observation.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: Once this suspect had been identified as Steve Wright, there
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: was an incredible amount of planning went into the arrest face.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: From our perspective, the real detail around it was how
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: are we going to deal forensically with his house, with
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: his car with him when he comes into custody.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: By giving the forensic team time to prepare for Right's arrest,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Stewart Gull knew he was taking a calculated risk.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: Having deferred the arrest of Steve Wright for twenty four hours,
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: I effectively put a ring of steel around him.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I couldn't afford for him to be at large.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: With the forensic team's preparation complete, the police arrived at
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: seventy nine London Road in the early hours of the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: nineteenth of December.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Stephen Wright. Yes, Stephen Wright, I'm arresting your suspicion of the.
• 29:03
  Speaker 9: Murders of Tania Nichol, Annelie Orderton, Jemma Adams, Paula Clanel
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: and Annette Nichols.
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: The forty eight year old man was arrested at his
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: home addressative Switch at approximately five am this morning, Tuesday,
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: the nineteenth of December.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: You do not have to say anything, so you may
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: army of defense if you failed to mention something that
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: you later rely on in court.
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: He has been arrested on suspicion of murdering all five women.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: The police conduct a background check of the man they
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: believe capable of killing five young women. Born in Norfolk
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty eight, as one of four children, Wright
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: was to lead an unhappy childhood, with his mother leaving
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: home soon after his eighth birthday. With no qualification, Wright
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: drifted from job to job before working as a steward
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: on the q E two for six years. In nineteen
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: eighty eight, Wright set himself up as a pub landlord,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: but with little success. With two failed marriages and a
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: mounting gambling debt, Wright found work as a barman at
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the Brook Hotel. After he was caught stealing eighty pounds
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: from the hill. His DNA was entered into the national database.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: A few weeks before Tanya Nicol went missing, Wright was
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: to move into seventy nine London Road, at the heart
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: of Ipswich's Red Light district.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: What's intriguing by serial killers is not the fact that
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: they are the epitome of evil, but rather they are
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: the banality of evil. It's their ordinariness that sticks out.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: And when I first got to know more about the
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: background of Steve Wright, what struck me was again that
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: sense of the everyday nature of who serial.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Killers are, right is questioned by the Suffolk Police.
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: Come on, Steve, you're telling me you've never even been
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: tempted to go with a prostitute.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: No comments.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: When he was arrested, he said, no comment during the
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: first eight hours of interviews.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: You need to speak to us, Steve. You need to
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: tell us what was going through your mind at the time.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: No comment.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: He's not going to engage with you.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: He's not going to engage with me and help resolve
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: the puzzle, the puzzle of why he committed the crimes.
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: I've got the last girl to go missing with your
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: DNA before, with your DNA both on their naked bodies,
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: and how can that be?
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: No comment. Even without a confession, the DNA recovered from
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the bodies is proof enough for Stuart Gull to announce
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: that Wright has been charged with the murder of all
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: five women and Tom Stephens is to be released. Wright's
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: trial is set for January two thousand and eight. The
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: pressure is now on the forensic teams to find conclusive
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: evidence linking Right to the five murdered women. The police
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: impound rights car.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: It's part of old forensic strategy identified Steve Wright's car
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: as a key exhibit that needed to be examined in
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: fine detail, not just for fiber evidence, but evidence of
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: any other transfers.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: But there's a potential problem. Neighbors report seeing Right obsessively
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: cleaning his car at all times of the day and night.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Undeterred by Wright's efforts, the forensic team set about the
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: painstaking task of lifting fibers from the car in the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: hope they'll be able to match them with fibers found
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: on the bodies. Their efforts finally payoff.
• 33:49
  Speaker 10: The first significant finding that we came up with related
• 33:52
  Speaker 10: to the tapings that had been taken from Annette Nichols.
• 33:57
  Speaker 10: What we found on these tapings was a fake for
• 34:00
  Speaker 10: our fiber. When we came to look at Steve Wright's vehicle,
• 34:06
  Speaker 10: we found two of these fibers inside the footwell which
• 34:10
  Speaker 10: matched the fake for a fiber from Annette's tapings exactly.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: The fiber analysis team then makes another critical discovery.
• 34:23
  Speaker 10: What we found on tapings from the rear seat were
• 34:27
  Speaker 10: a number of very very tiny flakes of blood, completely
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: unexpected finding, but nevertheless highly significant.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: By recombining the individual flakes of blood into a single droplet,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: enough DNA is recovered to allow a match. The blood
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: belongs to polar Planning, and when Wright's fluorescent jacket is
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: subjected to microscopic examination, more of Paula's blood as well
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: as that of Annett Nichols, is found.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: I did a totally new complexion to the frantic evidence
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: against Steve Wright, because whereby with earlier had evidence that
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: could be explained away by general contact with these people,
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: innocent contact as perhaps a customer, the transfer of blood
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: was something that potentially was far more sinister.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: With Right's make of car a'm now known. The CCTV
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: footage is re examined, his MONDEO is spotted leaving Ipswich.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: The Knight Gemma Adams failed to meet her boyfriend. The
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: model also matches the car Tanya Nichol was seen climbing into.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: The police now have compelling evidence linking Right to Annaline Alderton,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Paula Klemnel and Annette Nichols, but a positive link Titania
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Nicholas and Gemma Adams, who were found in running water,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: still remains elusive. Without baddening the entire case against Wright
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: could be In Jepary, forty eight year old Steve Wright
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: has been arrested on suspicion of murdering five women. Forensic
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: evidence has linked Right to Annlie Olderton, Paula Klemnel and
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Annette Nichols, the three victims found on land, but recovering
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: clues from the first two bodies has so far proved impossible.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: It was vital that we actually linked Stave Wright to
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: the murders of Tunny Nicole and Jemer Adams. We knew
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: that there would be very little chance of getting any
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: DNA transfers to the bodies because they've been deposited in water,
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: but fibers could be trapped in their hair, and that
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: was the target area that we decided was going to
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: give us the best potential forensic evidence.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: To try and establish a link between Write and the
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: first two murders. The forensic team set about collecting everything
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: caught in Tania and Jerma's hair. They extract over two
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: kilograms of debris sifting through the material, The team then
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: spend weeks microscopically examining every tiny particle. Against all the odds,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: they find what they're looking for, colored fibers trapped deep
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: in Jerma's hair.
• 37:54
  Speaker 10: In particularly, found blue polyester microfibers which matched Steve Wright's
• 37:59
  Speaker 10: track bottoms. We found red acrylic fiber which were present
• 38:04
  Speaker 10: in Steve Wright's car and on his sofa in his
• 38:08
  Speaker 10: living room.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: But it's to be a single fiber extracted from Tania's
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: here that will provide the final link in the forensic chain.
• 38:22
  Speaker 10: Well, in case of this fiber here, we recovered this
• 38:25
  Speaker 10: from the here debris of Tanya Nickel, which is a
• 38:29
  Speaker 10: black nylon fiber with a very distinctive cross section. And
• 38:34
  Speaker 10: this type of fiber is very commonly used in the
• 38:36
  Speaker 10: construction of carpets.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: But where did the black fiber come from? Once again,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: writes Mondeo provides the answer. The fiber matches those in
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: the car's carpet.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: That was crucial to us because he put Tanya to
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: his car.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: But it begs the question, how on earth as carpet fire.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Has got in her hair.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: There was only one conclusion that we could come to,
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: and that if her head had been enforceable contact with
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: the footwells of that car, that could either have been
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: during the strangulation process or as the body was actually
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: transported to the point of deposition.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: The forensic team now have good evidence linking right to
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: all five victims. On the fourteenth of January two thousand
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: and eight, the trial of Steve Wright begins.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: We were under intense pressure and scrutiny.
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: We felt the weight of expectation, but of course until
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: the evidence is delivered before the jury, you really don't
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: know which way the case is going to go.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Wright pleads not guilty to all five charges of murder.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: For fifteen days, the prosecution layout the forensic and CCTV
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: evidence against Wright. On the seventh of February, Steve Wright
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: takes the stand in his own defense. He tries to
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: offer a plausible explanation why his DNA may have been
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: found on the murdered women.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Had sex with Gemer Adams in the back of my car.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Wright also admits to picking up Tanya Nickel, but insists
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: she was only in his car for a brief period.
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: When she got in the car, she had actly on
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: her face and it put me off quite a bit.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Really, I thought Steve Wright was particularly cruel in his
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: description of Tanya Nickel. Seem to me to be a
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: revealing insight into the psychological process that he had gone
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: through to objectify those young women.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Thus making it easier for him to kill them.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: But Wright's explanations soon start to fall apart.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Under the barrage of questions that came towards him. He
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: literally could not maintain any control as the horrible, dreadful
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: truth seeped out, to the extent that he started to
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: say no, I did not I can answer that.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: I couldn't say. You might say that I don't know
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: where the blood came from.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: The trial lasts for over a month. On Thursday, the
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: twenty first of February, after just six hours of deliberation,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: the jury returns to deliver their verdict.
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: Maham was right, and I was shaking. I tried to
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: pour myself on water but was unable to do so.
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: It was just extremely tense extremely nervous. Weight of expectation
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: was pretty immense.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Right is found guilty on all five counts of murder.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: When the guilty verdict came in, there was a tremendous
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: amount of relief for the start, but also a tremendous
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: amount of pride, particularly from the forensic side, because we
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: knew we played such an important part in the investigation.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: The judge hands Right a whole life sentence. Steve Wright
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: will die in prison.
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: This was about bringing a serial murder to justice and
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: justice saying to be done. But more than anything, relief
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: for the families that they can now bring some closure
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: to a very difficult period during their lives.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Today, gipswitches, red light District has all but disappeared, helping
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: you raise the memory of those ten days in December.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: But for some, the emotional scars left by the death
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: of five young women still run as deeply today.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: People want to see me cry. They can see me cry,
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: you know, because this is real, This is what happens.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: You know, these people I know, and I'm not going
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: to not cry because of it.
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: You know, they were my friends, that's mine. And Gemestry,
• 43:46
  Speaker 8: no matter what her what her job was, what she'd done,
• 43:50
  Speaker 8: she was still a human being, and a young one
• 43:52
  Speaker 8: at that, so hopefully every year that will be in
• 43:56
  Speaker 8: full color, just to bring a roadius back to her
• 44:00
  Speaker 8: cheeks wherever she is then