The chilling shadow of the Suffolk Strangler, Steve Wright, looms once more as new revelations emerge about his past crimes. Recently, Wright offered a shocking confession to the murder of 17-year-old Victoria Hall in 1999, alongside an attempted abduction that occurred just a day prior. This admission, delivered on the opening day of his trial at the Old Bailey, adds another grim chapter to his history of violence.

Wright, already serving a whole life sentence for the brutal slayings of five women in Ipswich in 2006, now has a sixth confirmed victim. However, many experts suspect that the true tally of his crimes could be even higher. His distinct modus operandi has led authorities to consider his potential connection to other unsolved cases, including the mysterious disappearance of Kellie Pratt.

Pratt’s son, Kurtis, now 30, lives with the haunting uncertainty about his mother’s fate. He fears she may have been another victim of this notorious killer. With this in mind, Kurtis has made a heartfelt appeal to Wright, urging him to reveal the truth about what happened to his mother.

Kellie Pratt, who was 28 years old and working as a sex worker at the time of her disappearance, vanished after receiving a client’s call outside The Rose pub in Norwich on the night of June 11, 2000. Her unaccounted absence has left a void and a mystery that only Wright might be able to resolve. As the investigation into his crimes continues, there is hope that answers will finally come to light for families like Kurtis’s, who have long sought closure.

Her 30-year-old son Kurtis shares the same fears and has issued a desperate plea to Wright to come clean over her disappearance. 

The 28-year-old sex worker vanished after taking a call from a client outside The Rose pub in Norwich at around 11.30pm on June 11, 2000.

Kellie was later reported missing by friends after she failed to meet them for a pre-arranged lift. Despite a major police investigation, neither she, or her mobile phone have ever been found, while no potential sightings have been reported. 

Police have previously said they have been unable to link Wright, who lived in nearby Ipswich, to Kellie’s disappearance. 

Steve Wright, the Suffolk Strangler, admitted to the 1999 murder of 17-year-old Victoria Hall and the attempted abduction of a woman 24 hours earlier on the first day of his Old Bailey trial on Monday

Ms Hall vanished on her way home from a nightclub in September 1999

There are fears Wright was likely to have killed others, with his ‘modus operandi’ supposedly linking him to the unsolved disappearance of Kellie Pratt (pictured)

Kurtis told the Mirror: ‘It’s now 26 years later and I have been given the opportunity to come forward for the first time in my life to appeal on behalf of my mum, my family and on behalf of other potential victims.

‘I want to reach out to Steve Wright directly and ask that if Steve himself wanted to rectify – even a little bit of damage he caused to his victims – it would be really important. 

‘I think now is the time to come forward to give the victims’ families and friends the peace they deserve.’

Wright’s ex-wife, Diane Cole, has also urged police to quiz the killer about other unsolved cases in the Norfolk and Suffolk area, saying: ‘I think this is just the beginning. I suspect he has killed quite a few other women.

Criminologist David Wilson believes there are many similarities between Wright’s six murders and the disappearances of Ms Pratt as well as Mandy Duncan in Ipswich. 

Mr Wilson, a professor of criminology at Birmingham City University, told the Mail’s The Trial podcast: ‘His modus operandi fits with a number of young women who died in the early 1990s. 

‘If he had been arrested for what was happening at that time, then clearly we wouldn’t be talking today about what he is.

‘Mandy Duncan, whose body has never been recovered, disappears and is murdered in 1993, then Vicky Hall in 1999 and Kellie Pratt in 2000. They never found the bodies of Kellie Pratt or Mandy Duncan. Both of them, therefore, for me are still likely to have been victims of Steve Wright.

‘Having admitted to the murder of Vicky Hall, I hope this means he might be willing to talk about Kellie Pratt, Mandy Duncan, and about suspicions that exist about other young women that he may have murdered.’

Gemma Adams, then 25, pictured, was one of the victims of Wright’s murder spree in Ipswich’s red-light district in 2006

Anneli Alderton, pictured left, and Tania Nicol, right, were sex workers also killed in the attacks

In a six-week frenzy in 2006, former QE2 steward Wright went on the rampage, also killing Annette Nicholls, pictured left, and Paula Clennell, right

Former forklift driver and QE2 cruise ship waiter Wright, 67, snatched Victoria Hall off the street in Felixstowe as she walked home from a nightclub on September 19, 1999, before dumping her body in a ditch.

But police failed to capture the killer for seven years until he went on a rampage in Ipswich’s red-light district, murdering Gemma Adams, 25, Tania Nicol, 19, Anneli Alderton, 24, Paula Clennell, 24 and Annette Nicholls, 29, over a six-week period in 2006.

Ever since he was sentenced to a whole life tariff for the five murders in 2008, there have been questions about other unsolved cases. 

He was previously being linked to high-profile cases including the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh with whom he had previously worked on the QE2.