DESCRIPTION:
Five young women vanished off the streets of Ipswich during a five-week period in late 2006. Working in one of the oldest professions put the missing women at risk. The secrecy required to operate in the red light district meant there were no witnesses… (Part 1 of 2).
*** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***
This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.
Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.
Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton
Narration, audio editing assistance, additional writing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.
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MUSIC:
Hidden Beneath by Michael Briguglio
Harvester by Wicked Cinema
Dead Ends by Wicked Cinema
No Escape by Wicked Cinema
Vanished by Wicked Cinema
Mystery by Third Age
St Mary by Chelsea McGough And Stephen Keech
Introspection by Shimmer
Point of No Return by Salon Dijon
Driven to the Edge by Salon Dijon
Distances by Salon Dijon
Unexpected Turn by Moments
Things Gone Wrong by Moments
All That I Have by Moments
Mighty Hand by Stephen Keech
Constant Surveillance by JCar
Dark Hour by Falls
Strangers by Craig Allen Fravel
Etheria by Cody Martin
Unfolding by Alice In Winter
Nuclear Conception by Alice In Winter
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REFERENCES:
IPSWICH STAR
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21961925.second-ipswich-prostitute-missing/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21961758.friends-plea-search-tania/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21961851.concern-grows-missing-girls/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21962174.police-appeal-posters/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21962140.helicopter-used-search-girls/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21962787.body-discovered-thorpes-hill-brook/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21962715.body-found-possible-link-prostitute-case/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963032.tributes-flow-murdered-gemma/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963083.police-want-find-gemmas-clients/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963172.gemma-will-never-forgotten---brother/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963222.second-body-found-copdock-brook/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963088.tania-murdered-second-body-identified/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963290.tania-friend-anguish/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963128.tania-not-sexually-assaulted/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963262.third-prostitute-found-dead/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963163.third-body---significant-differences/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963256.fears-missing-paula/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963201.fifth-woman-goes-missing/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963178.neighbour-remembers-sweet-girl/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963364.anneli-killed-asphyxiation/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963394.body-dumped-daylight/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963338.memorial-fund-launched-killings/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963538.huge-boost-catch-killer/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963357.prostitutes-terror/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963495.woman-died-compression-neck/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963739.pledges-come-somebodys-daughter/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963720.annette-fifth-murder-victim/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963619.fresh-plea-tanias-parents/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963689.victims-spiral-drugs/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963601.vicky-family-anguish-killings/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963551.trimley-man-arrested-five-murders/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963891.second-arrest-murder-hunt/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937960.trial-steve-wright-begins/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937110.bodies-found-crucifix-shape---court-told/
http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938792.qc-wright-may-accomplice/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937110.bodies-found-crucifix-shape---court-told/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937119.gemma-court-hears-last-movements/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937111.wright-stopped-red-light-probe/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937115.steve-wrights-arrest/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937132.neighbour-heard-odd-noises-night/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937105.fibres-link-wright-five-victims/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937142.wright-admits-sex-four-victims/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937752.pc-prostitutes-chaotic-lives/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937769.i-didnt-know-daughter-prostitute/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937763.tom-stephens-would-women-work-one-murdered-/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937738.mum-no-idea-gemma-living/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937795.anneli-was-downward-spiral/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937725.prostitute-gives-evidence-court/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937794.boyfriends-last-moments-anneli/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937785.sex-worker-seen-two-men/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937677.annette-obsessed-cleaning/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938304.friend-last-saw-paula-red-light-district/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938295.jury-hear-cctv-dna-fibre-finds/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937220.cctv-images-victims-shown-jury/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937227.court-hears-wrights-working-life/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937235.neighbour-heard-noises-wrights-flat/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937254.experts-work-identify-car-cctv/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21939146.neighbour-i-thought-wright-lived-alone/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937259.accused-red-light-zone-warning/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937547.anneli-subtly-asphyxiated/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937562.sex-workers-were-high-drugs/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937606.paula-died-neck-compressed/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937633.wrights-prolonged-contact-three-victims/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937632.flecks-blood-found-wrights-car/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937323.forensic-scientist-changed-opinion/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937333.defence-case-due-start-today/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938318.steve-wright-expected-give-evidence/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938344.wright-convicted-theft-five-years-ago/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938447.i-didnt-know-girls-gone-missing/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938360.i-may-picked-anneli-night-disappeared/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938439.annette-fine-left-home/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938196.wright-got-sloppy-killings/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938222.tom-stephens-threatened-kill-two-women/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937420.tom-stephens-twice-arrested-police/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937395.tania-seen-encounter-wright/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937414.the-five-issues-jury-must-consider/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937377.conjecture-tom-stephens-involved/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937408.wright-could-not-restrain-himself/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937376.pattern-murder---prosecutor-claims/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937406.no-smoking-gun-prove-case/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937388.unusual-position-jury/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937396.tania-still-alive-met-wright/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937400.reasonable-possibility-someone-else-killed-women/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937443.judge-starts-final-leg-trial/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937439.nine-points-prosecutions-case/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937425.judge-sums-evidence-victims/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937469.red-light-killings-investigation/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937479.pathologists-evidence-summarised/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21937989.wright-found-guilty-five-murder-charges/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938016.killings-left-police-boss-reeling/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938020.tanias-familys-pain/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938019.circumstances-bodies-discovered/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963520.paulas-father-makes-emotional-appeal/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938053.gasps-relief-wright-found-guilty/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938002.leading-detective-gives-statement/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938021.looking-back-investigation/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938072.killed-allmonster-face-death-penalty/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21938093.wright-leaves-cries-scum/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21939780.name-change-idea-wrights-street/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21939790.desperate-life-street-workers/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21939960.pamela-quit-ipswich-good/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21963637.sadness-paulas-family/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21956390.family-prepares-say-goodbye-gemma/
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/21956714.funeral-fifth-ipswich-killings-victim/
EAST ANGLIAN DAILY TIMES
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306207.police-renew-pleas-missing-girls/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306248.search-missing-vice-girls-stepped/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306274.police-widen-hunt-missing-women/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306530.missing-girls-mother-makes-appeal/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306483.body-stream-missing-gemma/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306504.police-announce-start-murder-enquiry/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306616.positive-public-response-murder/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306581.no-sex-assault-prostitute-found-dead/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306662.search-gemmas-killer-goes/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306603.double-murder-inquiry-launched/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306681.uncle-pays-tribute-tania/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306735.expert-thinks-killer-goading-police/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306668.third-prostitute-asphyxiated/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306739.vice-girl-paula-needed-money/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306741.cctv-footage-may-hold-key-killings/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306852.prayers-five-murdered-women/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306710.britains-frenzied-serial-killer/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306835.jigsaw-information-taking-shape/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306846.suffolk-murders-man-arrested/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306840.man-quizzed-suffolk-killings/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306791.arrested-man-im-innocent/
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21292935.wright-preyed-prostitutes-court-told/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21292969.wright-killed-partner-work/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21292992.tania-accused-cruised-find-victim/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21292980.anneli-body-dumped-new-spot/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21292978.steve-wrights-arrest/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21292967.dna-matching-wright-found-three-victims/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293006.victims-dna-found-gardening-gloves/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293013.motive-may-never-known/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21292984.murder-accused-not-involved-way/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293131.prostitute-killings-jury-see-wrights-home/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294029.cctv-car-cruising-red-light-district/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293233.tragic-paula-gave-statement-police/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293232.no-comment-eight-hours-questions/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293171.photos-reveal-inside-wrights-home/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293299.gemma-died-soon-last-seen/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293261.drowning-not-ruled-out-tanias-death/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294007.annettes-hair-was-posed/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294006.haphazard-position-paulas-body/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294010.defence-asks-sexual-asphyxiation/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294017.blood-stains-found-jacket/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293394.tests-unknown-dna-not-carried-out/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293391.fibres-annette-anneli-matched-wright/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293421.defence-case-due-start-today/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294317.wright-my-relationship-sex-life/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294316.prostitutes-street-cheaper---wright/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294354.wrights-encounters-three-sex-workers/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294326.wright-recalls-night-met-gemma/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294344.wright-blames-coincidences/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294136.fibres-do-not-show-link-womens-deaths/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293664.wrights-links-case-misfortune-fact-/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293677.case-wright-doesnt-add-up/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293634.wright-incapable-skill-planning-killings/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293709.nine-points-defence-relies/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293817.overview-dna-evidence/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293829.steve-wrights-evidence-outlined/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293792.judge-sums-coincidences/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294098.jury-retires-consider-verdicts/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294093.man-haunted-finding-gemmas-body/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294437.caring-tania-got-bad-company-drugs/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306672.tributes-paid-annette-nicholls/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293822.paula-clennells-familys-statement/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293000.paula-body-hurriedly-dumped/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293848.video-pain-tanias-family/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294109.wright-die-jail-murders/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294443.wright---new-unsolved-murder-inquiries/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21306834.inquests-open-deaths-four-women/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21293823.life-serial-killer/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294320.wright-tells-court-life/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21289515.suffolk-serial-killer-breaks-silence/
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21302833.mourners-remember-anneli/
ONLINE ARTICLES
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/dec/13/suffolkmurders5
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/dec/13/suffolkmurders
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/jul/25/dead-bodies-body-parts
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/dec/13/suffolkmurders1
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/dec/13/suffolkmurders2
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/dec/13/suffolkmurders1
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/dec/17/suffolkmurders.focus1
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/feb/22/wright.sentenced
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/feb/07/ukcrime.jamessturcke1
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/jan/24/ukcrime.uknews4
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/feb/21/steve.wright.guilty
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/dec/14/suffolkmurders
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/victim-3-anneli-alderton-her-life-was-chaotic-her-death-tragic-6229547.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/victim-4-paula-clennell-it-was-the-only-way-to-fund-her-addiction-6229548.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/victim-5-annette-nicholls-overnight-she-got-into-heroin-and-it-changed-her-6229549.html
https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2008-02-10/news/suffolk-strangler-attended-school-in-malta-203489/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/ipswich-killer-will-end-his-life-in-jail-785726.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1579400/Ipswich-prostitute-murders-the-victims.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/story-behind-suffolk-strangler-steve-wright-real-jekyll-hyde/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-hunting-serial-killer-offer-amnesty-to-local-drug-dealers-tb75h5tb0jk
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/her-life-was-chaotic-her-death-tragic/28117284.html
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/1993424.ipswich-murders-miss-f-tells-of-cocaine-habit/
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/1070456.essex-heartbreak-of-victims-mother/
https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/police-confirm-fifth-victim-is-annette-nicholls-in-serial-killer-hunt-7245481.html
https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/the-exwifes-story-my-violent-life-with-the-suffolk-strangler-and-his-flirtation-on-the-qe2-with-suzy-lamplugh-7301393.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7253471.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/7256402.stm
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1623nl3lg2o
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-46567994
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/evil-killers-first-wife-holed-2198120
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/i-dont-know-angela-gone-2285297
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-517393/Grieving-father-victim-Tania-Nicol-offers-forgiveness-killer-Steve-Wright.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-517654/How-end-like-hands-Suffolk-strangler.html
NEWSBANK
Sunday Mirror, The (London, England), December 17, 2006
Birmingham Mail (England), December 18, 2006
Evening Standard (London, England), December 18, 2006
Guardian Unlimited (England), December 18, 2006
Birmingham Post, The (England), February 13, 2007
Daily Post (Liverpool, England), February 24, 2007
Yorkshire Post (England), February 24, 2007
ANCESTRY
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/8753/images/ons_m19563az-1803?treeid=&personid=&rc=&queryId=3c7d7794-be1b-4149-9808-0e50ee2f1fbf&usePUB=true&_phsrc=vdm85&_phstart=successSource&pId=30022078
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/8782/images/ons_b19471az-0365?treeid=&personid=&rc=&queryId=7ade3d45-8db5-4a39-88f5-7fd602833025&usePUB=true&_phsrc=vdm91&_phstart=successSource&pId=22559219