UK UK - Suzy Lamplugh, 25, Fulham, 28 Jul 1986 #8

[Rookie D]

Very good read by the excellent Nick Davies, here:

Dangerous, in prison - but free to rape

At 2.30pm on May 14 1993, a 23-year-old woman from Leicestershire drove her mother's car into the centre of Nottingham and parked on the ground floor of a multi-storey car park. For a few moments, she sat sorting through her handbag.

www.theguardian.com

Various police forces totally botched their investigations into his crimes, and if we assume West Midlands Police weren’t much better then we can assume the HFS rapes in / around Birmingham will never be solved, sadly.

Oddly, the HFS rapist who operated in and around the West Midlands, appears to have committed all of his known offenses all within 1 calendar year; 1979/1980.

For some reason, he appears to just stop.

Which means he either moved area to reoffend elsewhere, was incarcerated for something else entirely, or died.

 

[Lady Stoddart-West]

SL and Steve Wright (a steward) DID know each other, because his girlfriend; Diane Cole on the QE2 worked as a window dressed for the shop next to the beauty salon in which SL worked as a beautician.

Wright and Cole ended up getting married.

Cole stated that she sometimes saw Wright talking with SL and that she believed that Wright was attracted to her; but got the impression that there was no reciprocation on SL's part, and that it was a one-sided thing.

It is Cole who provides us the key evidence that at the very least, SL and Wright were on speaking terms.

Cole also stated that she once witnessed SL and Wright talking face to face outside of a staff cabin (likely SL's cabin)

So with SL we have her abducted and murdered, but not necessarily by the serial killer who she knew from her time on the QE2.

That is alarmingly unlucky for her.

It is virtually certain that Wright killed during his time working as a ship Steward. He was said to enjoy going to strip bars when the ship docked in ports.

When the ship had occasional overnight stays in port, there's a viable chance that Wright had various victims who he has never been connected with, because just a few hours later, he would be back on the ship and sailing away to another country.

A transient opportunist is likely how he began his macabre career as a serial killer and/or predator.

Could he have been at the QE2 couple’s wedding on 28th June (?) along with JH & SL, I wonder?

 

[WestLondoner]

Oddly, the HFS rapist who operated in and around the West Midlands, appears to have committed all of his known offenses all within 1 calendar year; 1979/1980.

For some reason, he appears to just stop.

Which means he either moved area to reoffend elsewhere, was incarcerated for something else entirely, or died.

I am fairly sure this has been part of the insinuation that the HFSR was Cannan because Cannan was indeed jailed in 1980 IIRC. Unfortunately the case that this was Cannan collapses when you consider the age, height, and facial appearance of the offender.

 

[Kasparthecat1]

SL and Steve Wright (a steward) DID know each other, because his girlfriend; Diane Cole on the QE2 worked as a window dressed for the shop next to the beauty salon in which SL worked as a beautician.

Wright and Cole ended up getting married.

Cole stated that she sometimes saw Wright talking with SL and that she believed that Wright was attracted to her; but got the impression that there was no reciprocation on SL's part, and that it was a one-sided thing.

It is Cole who provides us the key evidence that at the very least, SL and Wright were on speaking terms.

Cole also stated that she once witnessed SL and Wright talking face to face outside of a staff cabin (likely SL's cabin)

So with SL we have her abducted and murdered, but not necessarily by the serial killer who she knew from her time on the QE2.

That is alarmingly unlucky for her.

It is virtually certain that Wright killed during his time working as a ship Steward. He was said to enjoy going to strip bars when the ship docked in ports.

When the ship had occasional overnight stays in port, there's a viable chance that Wright had various victims who he has never been connected with, because just a few hours later, he would be back on the ship and sailing away to another country.

A transient opportunist is likely how he began his macabre career as a serial killer and/or predator.

Police investigate 'link' between Wright and Suzy Lamplugh

Detectives investigate possible connections between 1986 disappearance of estate agent and Suffolk serial killer Steve Wright

www.theguardian.com

Article from 2008 re: Steve Wright and SJL connection.