Killer in a Small Town: The Ipswich Murders (2009)

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Brilliant UK documentary that examines the lives of five ordinary women from an ordinary English town whose lives descended into drugs and prostitution, making them easy prey to Steve Wright, a.k.a. “The Suffolk Strangler“, one of Britain’s most prolific serial killers…

The first to go missing was 19-year-old Tania Nicol. Her mother called the police, but they failed to track her down. Then, two weeks later, 25-year-old Gemma Adams was reported missing by her boyfriend. It was only then that her parents realised she was working the streets…. With two women missing from the same red light district, the police investigation began to escalate. When the bodies were found, both washed clean of DNA evidence but bearing signs of strangulation, it became clear that a serial killer was at work. It would take three more deaths before he was stopped… channel4

 

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