Killer in a Small Town: The Ipswich Murders
FebruaryIn the winter of 2006, prostitutes working the streets around Ipswich Town's football stadium began inexplicably to disappear. At first the story was hardly reported in the local media, swept aside by the town's pre-Christmas festivities – that is until the bodies of five murdered women began to turn up, abandoned in the brooks and woodland of the surrounding countryside.
With each gruesome discovery, the streets of Ipswich emptied; the town becoming ringed by police cars, cameras and the media. It soon became clear that one of the largest police operations in recent history was hunting for a serial killer.
This documentary examines how the fastest serial killings in British criminal history had a profound and lasting impact on everyone involved: the surviving sex workers, the small Suffolk Constabulary and the community of a town under siege.
The film explores the lives of each of the murdered women, with the victims' families speaking candidly about the events, and examines in detail how they came to be victims of the Suffolk Strangler. The film also questions why the women's initial disappearances were largely ignored and whether they were failed by society at large.
Contacts
Press Contact
Justine Bower
jbower@channel4.co.uk
Picture Publicist
Jamie Fry
jfry@channel4.co.uk
Production Company
Darlow Smithson
Commissioning Editor
Meredith Chambers
Justine Bower
jbower@channel4.co.uk
Picture Publicist
Jamie Fry
jfry@channel4.co.uk
Production Company
Darlow Smithson
Commissioning Editor
Meredith Chambers