The Murder of Victoria Hall

The Silent Evidence's Podcast

On Saturday the 18th of September 1999, 17 year old Victoria Hall and her best friend Gemma Algar went out dancing in the town of Felixstowe in the south east of England. They left the bandbox nightclub at approximately 2am and began the 2 mile walk home to nearby Trimely St Mary, talking and laughing as they strolled along.

They went their separate ways just a few hundred meters from Victoria’s home, but Victoria would not be seen alive again. A week later her naked body would be found by a dog walker along a secluded farm track some 25 miles from her home.

The police would receive over 2,000 calls from the public in the week following the discovery of Victoria’s body, and followed up dozens of leads. They would ultimately arrest a suspect – a man who had been in the bandbox nightclub at the same time as Victoria on the night she went missing, and who lived only a few hundred meters from her family home in Trimely St Mary.

But despite the police officers insistence that they had the right man, the jury at his trial seen it differently and he was acquitted of the murder.

In the years that followed, a new team re-investigated the case, and new evidence would come to light that perhaps pointed at a new suspect – a man who was convicted of several other murders in the local area, and who was sentenced to life in prison in 2008 some 9 years after Victoria’s murder.

But was this responsible for Victoria’s murder? Did it fit his Modus Operandi? Or did the police have the right man at the start? Or could it be that someone else entirely was responsible?

This is the officially unsolved murder of Victoria Hall.

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