Yorkshire Ripper - The Secret Murders: The True Story of Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe's Reign of Terror

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The failure to take advantage of Birdsall's anonymous letter and his visit to the police station was yet again a stark illustration of the progressive decline in the overall efficiency of the major incident room. Sutcliffe hit Whitaker from behind with his ball-peen hammer and had hit her again as she lay on the ground. As a result, the families of at least twenty-two murdered women have been cheated of their right to know how and why their loved ones died: the pain of living with that may diminish over time, but it never fades away completely. Yorkshire Ripper killed EIGHT more women, claims the ex-cop who interviewed him more than 30 times". Around the time of Wilkinson's murder it was widely reported that Professor David Gee, the Home Office pathologist who conducted all the post-mortem examinations on the Ripper victims, noted similarities between the Wilkinson murder and the killing of Ripper victim Yvonne Pearson three months later.

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possible exaggeration perhaps, not sure the Stasi had anywhere as much paperwork to chase round as the Yorkshire police! The report said that it was clear Sutcliffe had on at least one occasion attacked a Bradford prostitute with a cosh. On 5 February, Sutcliffe attacked 28-year-old Irene Richardson, a Chapeltown prostitute, in Roundhay Park. The song "Night Shift" by English post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees on their 1981 album Juju is about Sutcliffe.Her body was found three days later beneath railway arches in Garrards timber-yard, to which he had driven her. In November 2021, American heavy metal band Slipknot released a song titled " The Chapeltown Rag", which is inspired by media reporting on the murders. Owing to the sensational nature of the case, the police handled an exceptional amount of information, some of it misleading including hoax correspondence purporting to be from the "Ripper".

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Maureen "Mo" Lea, 21, an art student at Leeds University, was attacked by Sutcliffe on 25 October 1980. In December 2017, West Yorkshire Police, in response to a Freedom of Information request, neither confirmed nor denied that Operation Painthall existed. Browne later said that she had been charmed by Sutcliffe at first: "We had walked together for almost a mile – for about 30 minutes and I never once felt intimidated or in danger. After she died, Sutcliffe dragged her body against a fence, and began to stab her repeatedly with a knife.Sutcliffe lost his balance whilst delivering a blow to Moore with a hammer allowing Moore to escape with severe head injuries but still alive. In appendices at the back of the book the authors list the suspected attacks and killings and the confirmed attacks and killings and there were 30 of the former and 20 of the latter, From the evidence presented in the book, they could, arguably, all have been listed under one heading, 'confirmed'. At Dewsbury, Sutcliffe was questioned in relation to the Ripper case as he matched many of the known physical characteristics.

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Families of Yorkshire Ripper victims receive police apology for language used during investigation". In response to the police reaction to the murders, the Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group organised a number of ' Reclaim the Night' marches. But keeping records and facts away from the public is an offence and a rude,cruel slap in the face to the poor victims and there families who need to know the facts and have closure to what happen to there loved ones. She missed the last bus home and went back to her friend's house to wait for his sister to bring her home. I was also surprised on how many attacks and murders that are he didn't own up about, was probably done by him.

The main theme/underlying theme is the shambles of a police investigation which meant the ripper was not caught soon enough. And he had more killings over a longer period of time, a larger force chasing him, and as much paperwork involved as the Stasi had in Berlin when the wall fell!