Who Killed Suzy Lamplugh (Part 1)

On 28 July 1986, estate agent Suzy Lamplugh left her office in
Fulham, west London, for a  house viewing with a client
she recorded in her diary as 'Mr Kipper'. She never
returned.  Despite one of the largest missing-persons
investigations in UK police history, no body has ever been
recovered — and no-one has ever been charged. In Part 1 of this
story Kerry Daynes revisits the streets where 25-year-old Suzy
was last seen, examines the original investigation, and follows
the trail of a chilling lead:  just three days before
the disappearance a convicted sex offender named John Cannan was
freed from a nearby prison. Within a year he would be linked to
the abduction and murder of another young woman in Bristol. Was
he, as many detectives believe, the real Mr. Kipper?



Key psychological themes

This episode explores: opportunistic predation • the psychology
of women's safety in public-facing work • the language of
identification — Photofits, witness recall and trauma • the
recklessness of a serial offender 



Contributors featured in this episode

•     Kerry
Daynes — Forensic psychologist, presenter, and
author of Dark Side of the Mind and What Lies
Buried.


•     Richard
Lamplugh — Suzy's brother.


•     Michael
Barley — Former Detective Sergeant, Metropolitan
Police; assigned to the original Suzy Lamplugh investigation in
1986.


•     Rod
Chaytor — Veteran crime correspondent (Daily
Mirror) who covered the Lamplugh case, the Cannan investigation
and trial.


What you'll learn in this episode


•     What the 'Mr Kipper' entry in
Suzy's office diary actually said — and why every other
appointment that day checked out except this one


•     The exact movements of Suzy on
Monday 28 July 1986, and the witness who described seeing her in
Shorrolds Road, Fulham, alongside a tall, well-dressed man


•     The scale of the original police
inquiry: hundreds of officers, thousands of statements, and the
year-long search that brought back nothing


•     How a serial sexual offender named
John Cannan, released from a Wormwood Scrubs pre-release hostel
on Friday 25 July 1986, came into the frame more than a year
later


•     Kerry's psychological profile of
an offender who collects, returns to and goads — and what that
pattern suggested about the man at the centre of two of the worst
cases of the 1980s



Relevant links and further reading

•     Kerry Daynes — Dark Side of
the Mind (Endeavour, 2019)


•     Kerry Daynes — What Lies
Buried (Endeavour, 2021)


•     Faking It: Tears of a
Crime (Warner Bros. Discovery) — some interviews in this
episode were originally featured in the series. Watch
on discoveryplus.com.


•     https://www.suzylamplugh.org/suzys-story —
The Suzy Lamplugh Trust: Suzy's story, in her family's own words


•     https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66298929 —
BBC News: timeline of the Suzy Lamplugh investigation


•     Personal safety advice and
bereaved-family support — Suzy Lamplugh
Trust • Missing People
(UK) • Victim Support



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Credits

•     Presented by Kerry Daynes


•     Produced by Shearwater Media


•     Executive producers: Jeff Anderson
and Steve Anderson


•     Edited by Jeanette Smedley


•     Music by Rob Warner



Content note

This episode contains descriptions of abduction, sexual violence,
and a long-unsolved disappearance presumed to be a murder.
Listener discretion is advised. If you have been affected by the
issues raised, support is available from Victim Support (0808 168
9111), the Suzy Lamplugh Trust (020 7091 0014) and the Samaritans
(116 123)


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