Modern-day Jack the Ripper admits to killing another girl years before Ipswich attacks The Ipswich serial killer confesses to an unsolved murder committed seven years before 2006 killing spreeA man once called the modern-day Jack the Ripper has admitted to the murder of another teenage girl before he went on a killing spree that terrorised Ipswich. The confession established that Wright murdered seven years before the Ipswich killings that left five women dead and a town gripped by fear. Ipswich, like many English county towns, was considered safe until late 2006, when women began disappearing from its streets. In 2001, another man was charged with her murder but later acquitted, leaving the case open for more than two decades. For Ipswich, it reopens memories of a period when a town lived in fear of a man before he was caught.

Source: The Telegraph February 02, 2026 18:16 UTC