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Joseph William Kappen (30 October 1941 – 17 June 1990), also known as the Saturday Night Strangler, was a Welsh serial killer who committed the rape and murder of three teenage girls in Llandarcy and Tonmawr, near his home town of Port Talbot, in 1973. Kappen is also suspected of committing a fourth murder in February 1976.
Jun 6, 2023 · Joseph Kappen raped and murdered three teenage girls – Sandra Newton on 14 July, and Geraldine Hughes and Pauline Floyd just over two months later on 16 September. All three...
May 15, 2023 · Joe Kappen was found to have brutally murdered three teenage girls in south Wales following a 30-year hunt for their killer. Three 16-year-old girls strangled, a country's biggest murder hunt and...
May 15, 2023 · A new four-part BBC drama tells the story of how serial killer Joseph Kappen got away with the chilling murders of three teenage girls in Port Talbot for almost three decades.
May 15, 2023 · Joseph Kappen was a serial killer who raped and murdered three teenage girls in Port Talbot, Wales, in 1973. The new BBC show Steeltown Murders tells the story of how he was identified and convicted in 2002 using DNA evidence.
Aug 19, 2018 · Among the 147 not checked was suspect number 200, a night club bouncer from Port Talbot called Joseph Kappen, who'd initially been quizzed at the time of the deaths but somehow slid under the...
Jan 21, 2022 · In June 2002, a match was made on the South Wales police DNA database that would end a twenty-nine year search for answers. Investigators of the Llandarcy team had finally unmasked a potential suspect as the Saturday Night Strangler, a local man who was suspected of committing the rapes and murders of three young women.
