17 June 1990(1990-06-17) (aged 48)[1][better source needed][2][non-primary source needed]
Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot, Wales, UK
Other names
The Saturday Night Strangler
Spouse
Christine Powell
(m. 1964; div. 1980)
Motive
Rape, possible rage
Conviction(s)
Not convicted
Details
Victims
3–4+
Span of crimes
July 1973 –
September 1973 (confirmed)
February 1976 (suspected)
Country
United Kingdom
Date apprehended
Not apprehended
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.
Kappen's confirmed victims were all 16-year-old girls whom he lured into his car on Saturday evenings in Briton Ferry and Swansea respectively. All three were driven to rural locations where they were subsequently raped, then killed by strangulation. Kappen was never arrested for his crimes and died of lung cancer in 1990.[3]
Kappen is notable for being the first person ever to be posthumously identified as a serial killer via familial DNA profiling.[4] He was also the first documented serial killer in Welsh history.
^"Joseph William Kappen". FamilySearch. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
^Probate – England and Wales – April 1991
^"Llandarcy Murders Solved: Now the Search for More Kappen Victims Widens". The Free Library. 7 June 2002. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
^"Dead Man Named as Triple Murderer after DNA Tests". The Telegraph. 7 June 2002. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
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