Wright has been speculatively linked to other crimes, including the murder of Michelle Bettles in 2002 and the disappearance of Amanda Duncan in 1993.
Criminologist Prof David Wilson, of Birmingham City University, has followed developments closely.
“I think it was always likely that Steve Wright was responsible for murders prior to the sequence of murders in Ipswich in 2006,” he told the BBC.
“He’s a serial killer. In my experience serial killers don’t start killing in their late 40s, and Steve Wright in 2006 was 48.”
Retired Metropolitan Police detective Hamish Brown also believes Wright may have committed further crimes.
“I just wonder how many [murders] he has done. Was Felixstowe the beginning?” he said.
“It is worrying what happened before that, and indeed what’s happened after, because that is quite a gap between Felixstowe and Ipswich.
“In my experience, people don’t switch on and off like that.”
On the time taken to bring Wright to justice for Victoria’s murder, he said he was not aware of any errors made by police.
“Nowadays it is more likely the assailant would have been caught by virtue of CCTV and suspect identification, and all the other things we have,” he said.
“It is important to the relatives that someone is caught. Now, it doesn’t bring them [the victim] back, but it draws a line to an extent under the case.
“I am pleased this cold case has unearthed this result.”