The Saturday Night Strangler: The True Story of the 1973 South Wales Murders and the DNA Breakthrough That Solved Them.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

Three girls vanished.

A killer walked free.

Justice waited thirty years.

In 1973, three teenage girls disappeared on ordinary nights in South Wales.

Sixteen-year-old Sandra Newton never returned home from an evening out in Briton Ferry. Weeks later, Geraldine Hughes and Pauline Floyd vanished after a night of dancing in Swansea, their bodies discovered miles apart along quiet rural roads. The murders terrified communities, overwhelmed investigators, and left families suspended in grief and unanswered questions.

Despite thousands of interviews, conflicting statements, and an unprecedented public manhunt, the investigation collapsed. The killer lived quietly among them. Evidence was boxed, shelved, and forgotten beneath a police station—sealed in cardboard and dust.

Nearly three decades later, a forensic scientist opened one of those boxes.

What followed would rewrite one of Britain’s most haunting cold cases—and reveal how a single strand of DNA finally named a killer who had escaped justice for a generation.

Judd Halvern is an investigative true crime author whose work focuses on unsolved murders, forensic breakthroughs, and the long shadows cast by silence.

For more on Judd Halvern’s work, visit JuddHalvern.com.

Thomas Loyd Publishers