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Rise and Fall of the Yorkshire Ripper ： Documentary on Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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  Speaker 1: Once that's away a week?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 3: Did y?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Why no?
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  Speaker 2: One in north.
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 6: Straight one on a curly.
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  Speaker 7: One, curly one?
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  Speaker 6: What color were I you were?
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  Speaker 1: It was alb and similar color. Maureen Long survived the
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  Speaker 1: Yorkshire Ripper. The killer hit her with a hammer and
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  Speaker 1: slashed her with a knife.
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  Speaker 2: All I know is that I've got a plate in
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  Speaker 2: may and a bit of some of Miss Gould missing
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  Speaker 2: and stab wounds are up front of Miss Dummark.
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  Speaker 1: And stabbed in the bank. Missus Long was left for
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  Speaker 1: dead in nineteen seventy seven. The Yorkshire Ripper haunted the
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  Speaker 1: streets of the North of England for another five years.
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  Speaker 1: By the end, Peter Sutcliffe had murdered thirteen women.
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  Speaker 8: On the nights.
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  Speaker 9: When one wakes up sweating about cases from the past,
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  Speaker 9: it's the Subcliffe era, which even now in my sixties
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  Speaker 9: I remember most clearly in the whole of my career
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  Speaker 9: as a forensic pathologist.
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  Speaker 1: It was the biggest man hunt in British criminal history.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty years on. Detectives involved break their long silence to
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  Speaker 1: reveal how it ended for the police in humiliation and disgrace.
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  Speaker 10: Even to this day, year I was thinking of what
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  Speaker 10: might have been. What you might have done, where you
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  Speaker 10: could have gone? Could you have done things any different?
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  Speaker 6: I'll live with that the rest of my life. I'll
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  Speaker 6: live with being a party to the wrong decision.
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  Speaker 1: All along. The identity of the killer lay hidden in
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  Speaker 1: police files, interviewed nine times, lost in the system. Peter
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  Speaker 1: Sutcliffe free to kill again. October nineteen seventy five, the
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  Speaker 1: Prince Philip playing fields in Leeds. The first victim of
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  Speaker 1: the Yorkshire Ripper died within sight of the home she
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  Speaker 1: shared with her four young children. Her name was Wilma Machnn.
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  Speaker 1: She was twenty eight years old and came from Scotland.
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  Speaker 1: She had been hit over the head, her blouse pulled up,
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  Speaker 1: her trousers pulled down, and stabbed fourteen times. January nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy six. Three months later, another Leeds woman got into
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  Speaker 1: a car with a man who said he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: pay her for sex. He drove her to an industrial
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  Speaker 1: wasteland now buried beneath the Inner City Motorway. Her name
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  Speaker 1: was Emily Jackson. She was a married woman of forty
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  Speaker 1: two and a mother of three children. This time the
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  Speaker 1: killer left a single clue, a bootprint on missus Jackson's
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  Speaker 1: leg As West Yorkshire Police launched a second murder hunt,
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  Speaker 1: newspapers were already calling the killer jack the Ripper. The
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  Speaker 1: post mortem revealed Emily Jackson had been hit with a
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  Speaker 1: hammer and stabbed fifty one times with the Philip screwdriver.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Greene has just retired as Professor Forensic Pathology at
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  Speaker 1: Sheffield University. As deputy to the Home Office pathologist David
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  Speaker 1: g he was involved in the hunt for the Yorkshire
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  Speaker 1: Ripper from the outset and helped identify the weapons the
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  Speaker 1: killer used.
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  Speaker 9: Well, these are all of them ordinary tools that one
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  Speaker 9: will find around the house. But on examination of the injuries,
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  Speaker 9: at first no clear pattern emerged. Subsequently, of course, it
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  Speaker 9: became obvious that a pattern was emerging. Of two or
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  Speaker 9: three heavy blows, usually to the back of the head,
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  Speaker 9: curved lacerations through the skin, round depressed fracture underneath. It
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  Speaker 9: to produced quite severe brain damage, immediate unconsciousness and death
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  Speaker 9: will occur fairly shortly afterwards, and so the hammer rapidly
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  Speaker 9: became a trademark.
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  Speaker 1: The dead women were both prostitutes, as their confidential tellics
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  Speaker 1: made clear. West Yorkshire Police made the obvious deduction motive
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  Speaker 1: appears to be hatred of prostitutes. It meant they discounted
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  Speaker 1: assaults on women who were not prostitutes, women who had
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  Speaker 1: already given photo fit descriptions of a bearded attacker Wakefield
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two, Bradford nineteen seventy five, Keithley nineteen seventy five,
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  Speaker 1: and then Leeds nineteen seventy six, A photo fit from
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  Speaker 1: Marcella Claxton. Four months after the second murder. Marcella Claxton
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  Speaker 1: came out of a party in Leeds and got into
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  Speaker 1: her car with a stranger. She thought he was taking
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  Speaker 1: her home. Instead he brought her here to round Hay
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  Speaker 1: Park and attacked her with a hammer.
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  Speaker 11: And he hit me on my head. Don't I fowing
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  Speaker 11: myself on the grass, knocked out and no one not
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  Speaker 11: come around. That's why not. We'll call you hey, don
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  Speaker 11: dee tap me? Nickers out to wipe me head?
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  Speaker 12: What was happening?
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  Speaker 11: Only had clouds are coming out my heads? Big piece
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  Speaker 11: of clods head were breeding and there are formal squgs
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  Speaker 11: as well.
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  Speaker 4: What happened to her baby?
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  Speaker 1: A last out in pitch darkness, Marcella Claxton staggered half
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  Speaker 1: a mile to the road, clutching her nickers to her
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  Speaker 1: head to staunch the blood. She reached the phone box
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  Speaker 1: she called an ambulance, but the police never included Marcella
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  Speaker 1: Claxton in the ripper case. They discounted her photo fit
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  Speaker 1: because she wasn't a prostitute and hadn't been attacked with
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  Speaker 1: a knife. But nine months later, her bearded attacker went
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  Speaker 1: back to round Hay Park with another woman in his car.
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  Speaker 1: This time he took her behind the sports pavilion. This
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  Speaker 1: time he left clearly identifiable tire marks, and this time
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  Speaker 1: he killed her. Her name was Irene Richardson. She was
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight, recently separated from her husband and three children.
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  Speaker 1: She'd been hit on the head three times with a hammer,
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  Speaker 1: stabbed brute in the stomach, neck and throat. Police uncovered
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  Speaker 1: a macabre new twist. The killer had arranged his victim's body,
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  Speaker 1: unzipped her knee length boots and laid them carefully, neatly
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  Speaker 1: over the back of her thighs.
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  Speaker 9: These were not frenzied attacks. This was the sort of
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  Speaker 9: man who thought about what he had done, planned his
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  Speaker 9: attack carefully, and then was concerned to arrange everything about
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  Speaker 9: the body to have the maximum shock impact upon whoever
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  Speaker 9: came upon the scene first and those who came afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: Police in Leeds were now dealing with a serial killer
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  Speaker 1: who had murdered three women. The city was full of
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  Speaker 1: policemen asking questions. The killer kept one step ahead and
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  Speaker 1: moved on eight miles to Bradford.
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  Speaker 7: Age downstairs.
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  Speaker 1: The Carlisle Pub stands in one of the roughest areas
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  Speaker 1: of inner city Bradford. The Yorkshire Ripper's fourth victim went
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  Speaker 1: drinking here on the night of her death. She got
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  Speaker 1: into her killer's car outside the pub. She took him
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  Speaker 1: home to her flat. As she walked through the door,
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  Speaker 1: he attacked her with am Police found her body face down.
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  Speaker 2: On the bed.
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  Speaker 1: Her name was Patricia Atkinson. She was thirty two. Her
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  Speaker 1: killer left a bootprints on a bloodstained sheet. Forensic examination
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  Speaker 1: showed it was a size seven Wellington, like the one
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  Speaker 1: which left an imprint on Emily Jackson's thigh. Otherwise, he
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  Speaker 1: left no clues. The identity of the killer of four
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  Speaker 1: prostitutes in eighteen months remained a mystery. Then the fifth
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  Speaker 1: body was found. She died in the children's playground at
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  Speaker 1: Reginald Street in Leeds. She was not a prostitute. She
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  Speaker 1: was a shop assistant and she was only sixteen. A
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  Speaker 1: new high ranking police team stepped in to take overall
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  Speaker 1: control of Britain's biggest murder inquiry for Detective Superintendent Dick Holland,
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  Speaker 1: four years at the top of the Ripper hunt began
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  Speaker 1: here on Sunday, the twenty seventh of June nineteen seventy seven,
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  Speaker 1: when two young children found the body lying face down
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  Speaker 1: in a corner of the playground.
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  Speaker 6: The girl was laid there. She'd been attacked and obviously
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  Speaker 6: mistaken for a prostitute. She was a young, pretty girl,
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  Speaker 6: and obviously it's not a very pleasant sight. And no
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  Speaker 6: matter how accustomed to such things you become as a
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  Speaker 6: senior investigating officer, it's not pleasant and it does tell
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  Speaker 6: on you every time.
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  Speaker 1: Her name was Jane McDonald. She'd been on her way
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  Speaker 1: home from a Saturday night out. All the separate murder
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  Speaker 1: hunts now came together into one incident room under Assistant
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  Speaker 1: Chief Constable George Oldfield, west Yorkshire's top detective. Five women
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  Speaker 1: were dead, but for the general public in Leeds, it
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  Speaker 1: was the death of sixteen year old Jane McDonald which
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  Speaker 1: hit the hardest.
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  Speaker 5: Beautiful, well mannered, cheerful.
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  Speaker 13: I was a smile for you and.
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  Speaker 14: What like any of the others, she want a bit
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  Speaker 14: like any of us.
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  Speaker 3: She wanted to bear cat get.
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  Speaker 15: Just shocking for a young lass light that's you're beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Before Jane McDonald, ordinary people in Leeds took false comfort
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  Speaker 1: from the River's apparent obsession with prostitutes. The teenager's death
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  Speaker 1: cast a chill over every family in West Yorkshire. Any
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  Speaker 1: woman out on her own and she might be the next.
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  Speaker 16: Eighteen nine eighteen nine.
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  Speaker 4: Five.
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  Speaker 1: Random serial killings are the hardest of all murders to
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  Speaker 1: solve one six sixteen, because nothing but bad luck links
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  Speaker 1: each victim to her killer. But within only two weeks
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  Speaker 1: of Jane McDonald's death, the police got a lucky break.
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  Speaker 1: A survivor, Maureen Long, was then forty two. She was
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  Speaker 1: a keen dancer.
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  Speaker 2: Eh are yours to love dancing? I used to go
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  Speaker 2: to Mecca at weekend and duel are dancing and well
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  Speaker 2: a yourselver drink and endure myself and and everything, and
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  Speaker 2: go around.
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  Speaker 1: With friends women friends.
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  Speaker 17: I was well wron inutil.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Long came out of the Meca ballroom one summer's
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  Speaker 1: night in nineteen seventy seven and accepted a lift from
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  Speaker 1: a stranger.
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  Speaker 17: All I remember was.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to pick myself out, grab being older grass to
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  Speaker 2: try and get up.
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  Speaker 1: And I kept falling, and I wondered what was wrong
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  Speaker 1: with me?
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  Speaker 2: And I kept falling back, And as I were trying
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  Speaker 2: to pull this pull myself, I fell again. And then
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  Speaker 2: I was screaming, and I heard this dog barking, and
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  Speaker 2: he heard someone say, oh, you're all right. And that's
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  Speaker 2: all I remember that night. And you get it overhead,
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  Speaker 2: back of head. You can't remember things.
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  Speaker 1: Police faced a classic ripper attack. He didn't rape her
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  Speaker 1: or rob her. He hit her over the head with
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  Speaker 1: a hammer and stabbed her repeatedly in the body.
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  Speaker 17: Can you remember waking up.
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  Speaker 2: Intensive care?
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  Speaker 17: You'll need.
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  Speaker 2: In a cock like a cock. And I wondered what
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  Speaker 2: I would doing doing there? And I, oh may I
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  Speaker 2: shaved off? Oh may I shaved off?
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  Speaker 1: And and.
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  Speaker 3: Did you know what had happened to you?
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  Speaker 1: Maureen Long never did remember anything about her attacker, and
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  Speaker 1: the police had no forensic evidence. When scientists examined the
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  Speaker 1: victim's clothes, they found nothing. It was the same in
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  Speaker 1: every attack. The ripper left no hair, no blood, no seamen,
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  Speaker 1: no trace. All the police had to go on with
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  Speaker 1: the perfect tire prints found in the park where Irene
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  Speaker 1: Richardson died. Officers had established a list of fifty thousand
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  Speaker 1: possible cars and spent nine months trying to track them
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  Speaker 1: all down, a huge task three quarters completed when senior
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  Speaker 1: officers made a disastrous decision to abandon it.
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  Speaker 6: It was decided that we hadn't the manpower to run.
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  Speaker 6: Two murder inquiries and a tire enquiry were with a
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  Speaker 6: diminishing return from the tire enquiry. That was an unfortunate
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  Speaker 6: decision because the Ripper's car was in fact on the
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  Speaker 6: remaining uncompleted list.
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  Speaker 1: Driving the same car fitted with the same tires, the
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  Speaker 1: Yorkshire Ripper left his usual hunting ground and ventured further
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  Speaker 1: afield for the first time. He left West Yorkshire and
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  Speaker 1: crossed the Pennines. In Manchester, he made his first mistake.
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  Speaker 1: He picked up a woman in mass Side who took
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  Speaker 1: him to the allotments near the Southern Cemetery. There he
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  Speaker 1: gave her five pounds for sex, and there he killed her.
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  Speaker 1: Her name was Jeane Jordan, twenty one years old, mother
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  Speaker 1: of two children, She lay undiscovered for ten days. During
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  Speaker 1: that time, her killer went back to the body. He
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  Speaker 1: slashed her again. He tried to cut off her head
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  Speaker 1: with her hat saw, but he never found what he
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  Speaker 1: was looking for, her handbag with the brand new five
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  Speaker 1: pound note he'd given her out of his wage packet.
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  Speaker 1: That five pound note would lead the police directly to
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  Speaker 1: the Yorkshire Ripper, yet he remained free to kill another
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  Speaker 1: seven women. Manchester Police traced the brand new five pound
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  Speaker 1: note recover when I passed by found Jean Jordan's handbag.
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  Speaker 1: The note had been delivered in a bullion van to
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  Speaker 1: the Midland Bank branch in Shipley near Branford.
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  Speaker 18: Well please turned up one day the detectives wanting us
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  Speaker 18: to help them trace this five pound note, which apparently
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  Speaker 18: the thought had come from Shipley branch connected with the ripper. Well,
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  Speaker 18: it was quite quite a big task early because obviously
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  Speaker 18: we give quite a lot of money out and trying
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  Speaker 18: to trace that one five pound note out of all
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  Speaker 18: the thousands of five pound thats had gone out was
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  Speaker 18: quite a big thing to do, really, five T fifteen
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  Speaker 18: twenty five thirty s five fifty.
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  Speaker 19: It was exciting, I suppose is the only word to you.
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  Speaker 19: I was taken out of the working environment. I was
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  Speaker 19: picked up by a police car every morning, brought back
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  Speaker 19: home by a police car. I never went back to
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  Speaker 19: work at Shipley Branch again. I worked in the police
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  Speaker 19: station with police for nearly three weeks doing the cash
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  Speaker 19: hol It was new, it was novel.
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  Speaker 1: The two clerks already knew the five pound note had
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  Speaker 1: come in a payroll consignment of twenty five thousand pounds
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  Speaker 1: straight from the Bank of England. Now they had to
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  Speaker 1: work out who got it in his pay packet. It
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  Speaker 1: took them only two weeks to narrow it down to
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  Speaker 1: thirty four local firms employing a total of eight thousand people,
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  Speaker 1: among them a lorry driver called Peter Sutkiffe, a married
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  Speaker 1: man who just bought his first house. Within weeks of
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  Speaker 1: the death of Jean Jordan. He was visited twice by
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  Speaker 1: Manchester detectives asking about the five pound note. His wife
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  Speaker 1: and his mother both gave him an alibi. They said
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  Speaker 1: the family had all been together at their housewarming party.
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  Speaker 1: MM two years into the manhunt and bank clerk Maureen
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  Speaker 1: Banham went home from work every night in fear.
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  Speaker 18: If you were on your own, you were always very
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  Speaker 18: wary watching for as anybody about or you know, an
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  Speaker 18: any men about, particularly.
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  Speaker 1: Six women had died. Every woman in the North of
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  Speaker 1: England felt the threat.
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  Speaker 18: Getting home from work was a nightmare because you were
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  Speaker 18: always frightened as somebody somebody about watching you. You didn't
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  Speaker 18: know who was there, and you knew this man was
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  Speaker 18: somewhere about or could be, and everybody was frightened at
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  Speaker 18: the time, and you were always glad when you got
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  Speaker 18: home safe.
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  Speaker 1: On a cold December night in nineteen seventy seven, twenty
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  Speaker 1: five year old Marilyn Moore got into the ripper's car.
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  Speaker 1: Marilyn Moore survived the attempted murder on rough industrial ground
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  Speaker 1: in Leeds. Her evidence should have offered vital new clues
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  Speaker 1: to Detective Superintendent Dick Holland and his team, especially about
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  Speaker 1: the car the killer was driving.
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  Speaker 6: They got out a car, presumably to get into the
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  Speaker 6: back seat, when he struck her blows on the head
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  Speaker 6: with a hammer. As she slumped at the side of
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  Speaker 6: the car. Another vehicle with a coupler came in and
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  Speaker 6: obviously disturbed his activities, so he jumped back in the
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  Speaker 6: car and sped off, turning to go towards the road
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  Speaker 6: and the exit across there. As a result, he left
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  Speaker 6: curved tire marks rather like the ones you see on
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  Speaker 6: the ground behind me.
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  Speaker 1: Three of the tire marks were identical to those found
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  Speaker 1: near the bodies of Irene Richardson and Jean Jordan. Police
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  Speaker 1: sat Marilyn Moore in all twenty two possible models of car.
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  Speaker 1: She picked out the Morris Oxford.
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  Speaker 6: She was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It was a Ford Corsair. She did make a photo
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  Speaker 1: fit which was with hindsight, astonishingly accurate, but then she
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  Speaker 1: started accusing innocent men. Police decided she was unreliable.
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  Speaker 6: Unfortunately we followed the wrong line here. We ought to
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  Speaker 6: in retrospect to a followed the fault of fit and
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  Speaker 6: not followed the car because she got it.
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  Speaker 1: Wrong, and so the lorry driver from Bradford remained free.
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  Speaker 1: Under the pressure running six to murder investigations in two years,
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  Speaker 1: the police were making mistakes, abandoning the tire inquiry, ignoring
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  Speaker 1: the potefeits. In January nineteen seventy eight, the Yorkshire Ripper
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  Speaker 1: drove his Ford Corsair to Huddersfield to the railway archers
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  Speaker 1: behind Garrard's Timberyard, where the town's prostitutes worked. Her name
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  Speaker 1: was Helen Ridker. She was eighteen years old and had
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  Speaker 1: been reported missing by her twin sister. The two teenagers
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  Speaker 1: worked here as prostitutes together. The surviving sister, Rita, was
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  Speaker 1: pictured helping George Oldfield. The public learned how the twins
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  Speaker 1: grew up together in children's homes. Information poured in. Police
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  Speaker 1: followed up every single lead.
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  Speaker 6: On the evening that she met her death, there was
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  Speaker 6: a brown van in the area. He followed Helen rick
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  Speaker 6: He's sister and watched what they did, because his kink
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  Speaker 6: in life was following prostitutes with the clients and watching
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  Speaker 6: their act if it was outdoor. Now, if he'd chosen
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  Speaker 6: the other sister only two or three minutes earlier to follow,
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  Speaker 6: he would in fact have witnessed the murder, But unfortunately
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  Speaker 6: he followed the wrong twin, just bad luck.
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  Speaker 1: Without modern computers, the deluge of information had to be
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  Speaker 1: cataloged and indexed by hand, a massive job done by
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  Speaker 1: young policewomen like Sue Neve. Five years of Sue Nives's
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  Speaker 1: working life is now held in the basement archive at
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  Speaker 1: West Yorkshire Police Headquarters.
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  Speaker 3: Initially, we worked around what we called a wheel and
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  Speaker 3: that was in the center of the desk. Four indexes
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  Speaker 3: could be sat at each corner and we could spin
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  Speaker 3: it round and pick up the cards. But when the
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  Speaker 3: wheel became full, and then we had to move to
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  Speaker 3: these wooden boxes, and they were filed in or still
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  Speaker 3: in the alphabetic order of surname in the boxes. One
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  Speaker 3: drawer here with I don't know the beaupots of a
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  Speaker 3: thousand cards in, i'd say, and we've got one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and thirty eight of these boxes, all indexed annually. An
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  Speaker 3: awful lot of work. But it was a manual system
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  Speaker 3: and it was the only one available at the time.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, everything seemed to work fine. It was just
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  Speaker 3: the quantity of the work that nearly swamps really.
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  Speaker 1: Dead. Now, there was a public appeal to help raise
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  Speaker 1: a thirty thousand pounds reward, and a television appeal directly
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: to the murderer.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: I want to appeal to you to come forward and
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: give yourself up. I mean, you may be prostitutes, but
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: we still have a life. I think you've taken enough
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: lives already.
• 27:21
  Speaker 20: I want to talk to you this evening, not as
• 27:23
  Speaker 20: a psychiatrist, because I've never met you, and because probably
• 27:28
  Speaker 20: a psychiatrist is the last kind of person you want
• 27:30
  Speaker 20: to see.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: I do want to ask you to give yourself up.
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: You have no future while you're on the run, and
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: in the end you will be caught, and the longer
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: you wait, the worse it will be.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: I want you to pick up the phone, not tomorrow,
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: not next week, but now and tell.
• 27:50
  Speaker 10: The police who you are.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: Give yourself up now.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: But he had already killed again. Another victim lay undiscovered
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: on wasteland in Bradford, a woman who died here ten
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: days before Helen Ridker. Her name was Yvonne Pearson. She
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: had gone missing from her home in Bradford in January
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight. Her decomposed body turned up under a
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: settee two months later on Easter Sunday.
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: Missus Pearson's death was the most violent of the series
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: up to that point. The skull was stove in. Whatever
• 28:34
  Speaker 9: had been used, it was not a hammer. There were
• 28:38
  Speaker 9: no stamp wounds of the chest, but on the other hand,
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: there were bruising injuries to both the chest and trunk
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: which extended internally. Could have been somebody drop kneeling on
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: the chest, could have been somebody stamping on the chest.
• 28:51
  Speaker 9: But as I say, these were serious injuries, not just
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: serious head injuries, but the full weight of the assailant
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: had been used in some way from the neck down
• 29:03
  Speaker 9: as well.
• 29:05
  Speaker 13: You know, I would have thought the prostitutes would have
• 29:07
  Speaker 13: been on the run. I would have thought they would
• 29:09
  Speaker 13: have been leaving this area in dozens and dozens. There's
• 29:12
  Speaker 13: no real evidence to support that that is. So they
• 29:15
  Speaker 13: are staying and they are still walking the streets, and
• 29:20
  Speaker 13: unfortunately they aren't being very intelligent about it.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Trevor Lepitch was the new head of Bradford's c ID.
• 29:28
  Speaker 21: The man that was involved in this series had to
• 29:31
  Speaker 21: be a complete sadist. I mean, he was picking victims
• 29:36
  Speaker 21: at random, didn't matter whether they were innocent girls, prostitutes
• 29:40
  Speaker 21: or whatever. But the things that he was doing were
• 29:43
  Speaker 21: horrific injuries. You might think in your own mind he
• 29:48
  Speaker 21: was a madman, but then of course you looked at
• 29:50
  Speaker 21: the facts and looked what sort of evidence he was
• 29:53
  Speaker 21: leaving behind, and he wasn't a bad man at all.
• 29:56
  Speaker 21: He was a cool, calculating individual that was getting a
• 30:00
  Speaker 21: great thrill in what he was doing, a sexual thrill.
• 30:04
  Speaker 21: And the real thing that bugged you was that you
• 30:06
  Speaker 21: were gained no further forward with it.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: While Yvonne Pearson's body still lay undetected, Police headquarters had
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: received an intriguing letter with the Sunderland postmark, writing personally
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: to George Oldfield. The letter said, I'm sorry I cannot
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: give my name for obvious reasons. I am the ripper
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: worn hahwes to keep off streets. Old slut next time,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I hope. But it was what he didn't say that
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: worried Trevor Lapish.
• 30:38
  Speaker 21: What disturbed me, and in fact convinced me completely that
• 30:43
  Speaker 21: if in fact the perpetrator of Yvonne Pearson was the
• 30:47
  Speaker 21: person who had done all the rest, Yvonne should have
• 30:49
  Speaker 21: been in that letter. She wasn't, and I had grave
• 30:53
  Speaker 21: doubts that in fact the perpetrator of the crimes was
• 30:57
  Speaker 21: the same person who was sending the letter to George Oldfield.
• 31:01
  Speaker 21: I'll let mister Orfield know my thoughts on the matter.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: But George Oldfield had a compelling reason to take the
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: letter from Sunderland seriously up to number eight. Now, the
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: letter said, you say seven, but remember Preston seventy five.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Joan Harrison murdered in Preston in nineteen seventy five, three
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: weeks after the first Ripper killing, the twenty six year
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: old was found battered to death at these garages. A
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: bite mark on her breast showed a gap in her
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: killer's teeth. The motive looked like sex or robbery, so
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: police had not included it in the Ripper series till now.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Over the next fifteen months, police heard four times from
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the man in Sunderland claiming to be the Ripper. No
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: finger prints, but forensic scientists got a chemical reaction to
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: saliva he had licked one of the envelopes. Further tests
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: revealed the saliva came from some one with the rare
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: blood group be SECRETA, shared by only six percent of
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: the population, including the man who left seamen in the
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: body of Joan Harrison. The link between the Ripper, the
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: letters from Sunderland, and the Preston murder seemed complete. This
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: forensic evidence helped to convince the police that the letter
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: writer and the Ripper were the same person. But when
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: much later Peter Sutcliffe's blood was tested, he had a
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: different blood type be non SECRETA, So some one else
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: wrote those letters. Some one else killed Joan Harrison, crimes
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: which have never been solved crimes which led the police
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: disastrously astray.
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: We thought the letters were genuine. He had first of
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: all mentioned Harrison. He had mentioned a number of murders,
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: and the next one would be an old bag in Manchester,
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: or words to that defect. The next one was.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: The Yorkshire Ripper did choose an older victim when he
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: crossed the Pennines again in May nineteen seventy eight. Her
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: name was Vera Millwood and she was the mother of
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: seven children. The ninth victim was a forty one year
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: old prostitute, a sick woman with only one lung. She
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: died in the grounds of Manchester Royal Infirmary, where she
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: had once been a patient. The attack was typical darkness,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: a deserted space, a hammer to the head, interference with
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: the clothes, stab wounds to the body.
• 34:06
  Speaker 9: This was not frenzied, This was methodical. The wounds were
• 34:09
  Speaker 9: inflicted in a patent fashion, and then and again this
• 34:14
  Speaker 9: emerged increasingly frequently. The instrument was inserted through the same wound.
• 34:18
  Speaker 9: It was being pushed through the skin wound partially withdrawn,
• 34:22
  Speaker 9: so you had tracks going from the same hole but
• 34:26
  Speaker 9: in different directions. On the inside. There was method all
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: the way through this concentration thought and care, the nettish clothing.
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: I am anxious that we catch you before your time
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: to add another death to the appalling catalog you've already
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: got to your credit.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: George Oldfield now sent hundreds of police onto the streets
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: a top secret operation to track down the ripper among
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: all the men who went looking for prostitutes. Undercover police
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: tracked half a million car movements through six northern cities
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: looking for men who went looking for prostitutes in more
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: than one red light district. Officers used the primitive new
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Police National Computer, not a database, just a long, long
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: list of car numbers and their owners.
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: It was spewing out numbers literally by the thousands, and
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: they were in no order other than the time order
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: of appearing in the prostitute areas. So if we wanted
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: to check up and get the information about the movements
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: of one particular vehicle, we had a huge role. Rather
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: like a long fifteen inch wide toilet roll to roll
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: out literally the whole of the way across the Millgarth
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: Incident room floor and people on their hands and knees
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: searching for one particular vehicle, we were utterly amazed, as
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: the figures have shown, with the number of vehicles of
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: men who were punting in prostitute areas. With each one
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: of those we had a potential divorce. Some men were
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: even taking the wive's car to go and seek prostitutes,
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: and so the wife was the first person we had
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: to see to find out who was driving. When we
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: were briefing the troops who were doing this enquiry, we
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: stressed throughout our favorite phrase was softly, softly catchy. Monkey.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Detectives tried to be taxed as they made house calls
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: to follow up the sightings of cars in the prostitute areas.
• 37:06
  Speaker 10: Some of the people that we went to see the
• 37:08
  Speaker 10: male occupants of that house, namely the husband, associated with prostitutes,
• 37:14
  Speaker 10: so we had to be very very sensitive to that issue,
• 37:17
  Speaker 10: had to be very diplomatic. We would have always preferred
• 37:21
  Speaker 10: to talk to the gentleman of the house away from
• 37:23
  Speaker 10: his wife for obvious reasons. We would say, excuse me,
• 37:29
  Speaker 10: I'm a bit thirsty. Do you think you could get
• 37:31
  Speaker 10: me some water? And nine times out of ten would
• 37:34
  Speaker 10: get a cup of tea, which obviously would take some
• 37:37
  Speaker 10: preparation out of that room. In the kitchen and then
• 37:41
  Speaker 10: we could talk quickly to the husband about his association
• 37:44
  Speaker 10: with prostitutes. But if it was quite apparent that the
• 37:50
  Speaker 10: man was not involved with prostitutes, we used to use
• 37:53
  Speaker 10: different tactics. For example, we used to say to the wife,
• 37:58
  Speaker 10: now's your chance to get rid of your husb if
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: you want, and that was like a nice breaker. The
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: reactions in some houses were different. Had been thrown out
• 38:08
  Speaker 10: of a house for that in a comic way. In
• 38:10
  Speaker 10: some houses we know for the fact that it was
• 38:13
  Speaker 10: the husband who was fingered by the wife who wanted
• 38:17
  Speaker 10: to get rid of the husband, not because he was
• 38:19
  Speaker 10: a murderer, but because they were going through a difficult marriage.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Police followed up thousands of sightings, among them a red
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Ford Corsair registration number pH E three five five g
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: its owner mister Peter Sutcliffe of six Garden Lane, Heaton, Bradford.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Sutcliffe was interviewed for the third time in August nineteen
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: seventy eight. His car had been seen seven times in
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: the red light areas of Leeds in Bradford. He told
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: the police he was on his way to work and
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: his wife said they rarely went out at night. That
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: information was duly recorded and filed in the index. The
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: following spring, a building Society Clark was walking home from
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: her grandmother's late at night across Sable Park in Halifax.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: She was the tenth victim. Her name was Josephine Whittaker.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: She was nineteen. She had been bitten by a man
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: with a gap in his teeth. The internal police report
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: made their feelings clear. The dead girl was not a prostitute,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: nor was her moral character questionable.
• 39:56
  Speaker 21: There is no difference in the eyes of a senior
• 39:59
  Speaker 21: investigator officer either she's a prostitute or a completely innocent
• 40:03
  Speaker 21: victim like Josephine. The job is exactly the same, but
• 40:07
  Speaker 21: the feelings are deeper.
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: The worrying thing now is that he's bulled out of
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: the red light areas where he's operated in the past,
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: which makes it now that any woman.
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: Is it risk.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: I was working at Millgard Street Police station then and
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: I spoke to my mother on the phone, who lived
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: at Halifax, and she said, Hey, a body's being found
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: on the moor in Halifax, a Building Society girl. So
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: that hit me more because I'd worked at Halifax Building
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: Society prior to joining the police, and when I realized
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: where she had been found. It was considered the best
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: area in how Halifax, and I thought that someone walking
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: alone on that more could be murdered. I just wouldn't
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: have believed it. So it really brought it home to me,
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: just that this man just struck anywhere, on anybody.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: The murder of Josephine Whitteger meant once again all police
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: leave was canceled and morale was high as Detective Superintendent
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Dick Holland was called back from holiday to take charge,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: and there were.
• 41:29
  Speaker 10: These approximately one hundred and fifty officers all assembled waiting
• 41:34
  Speaker 10: for Dick Holland to come in brief as on this
• 41:37
  Speaker 10: new inquiry. Dick Collen came through the door, and I
• 41:44
  Speaker 10: could not believe the rapturous applause and adulation that man
• 41:49
  Speaker 10: myself included as he entered that chamber. It was remarkable.
• 41:55
  Speaker 10: The only thing I can like in it to was
• 41:57
  Speaker 10: like the Roman cavalry returning from defeating the barbarians and
• 42:02
  Speaker 10: the Roman soldiers banging the sails with the swords. It
• 42:06
  Speaker 10: might sound a corner analogy, but that's how I saw it,
• 42:12
  Speaker 10: Like a great leader returning to lady's troops.
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: Any murder inquiry is not pleasant. Ten is ten times worse.
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: But you just have to keep your nose to the ground, grindstone.
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: You've got to keep the troops at it and try
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: and show the same enthusiasm when you're dealing with number
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: ten as you had when you first came into number one.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: The killer of Josephine Whittaker left behind some excellent clues
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: another set of size seven bootprints, this time clearly showing
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: the right boot more worn than the left, and forensic
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: scientists identified globules of engineering oil in the blood from
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: some of her twenty five stab wounds. A man with
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: size seven boots and a gap in his teeth, a
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: man with oil on his hands and one boot more
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: warm than the other, an engineer, a factory worker, a
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: lorry driver. No woman in the North of England now
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: went out alone at night if she could avoid it.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: When we went across to the car park, Yes, we
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: always went two or three of you together. We knew
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: we could be the next victimsation as anyone else. We
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: knew that one mustn't go anywhere on our own.
• 43:56
  Speaker 22: Yeah.
• 43:57
  Speaker 23: I think one of the things we did discuss as
• 43:59
  Speaker 23: well is that it would have been really a feather
• 44:02
  Speaker 23: in his cap if he had managed to get one
• 44:04
  Speaker 23: of us from the incident room. And that's something we
• 44:07
  Speaker 23: discussed quite often, the fact that we were working in Millgarth.
• 44:11
  Speaker 23: The car part was directly opposite from an observation point
• 44:15
  Speaker 23: of view. He could have seen straight in, he could
• 44:18
  Speaker 23: have followed any of us to our cars, and we
• 44:21
  Speaker 23: often said, what a feather in his cap if he
• 44:24
  Speaker 23: just happened to get one of us on our own.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: And then a final envelope arrived from the letter writer
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: in Sunderland. At Millgarth Police Station in Leeds, Sergeant Meghan
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Winterbourne was working in the incident room.
• 44:42
  Speaker 23: Mister Oatfield came in and just shouted, Meg, can you
• 44:47
  Speaker 23: come over here please now. It went across to the
• 44:49
  Speaker 23: door and said I want you in my office now please.
• 44:54
  Speaker 23: Now for mister Oatfield to say please, I knew there
• 44:58
  Speaker 23: was something a little bit miss because it was your
• 45:00
  Speaker 23: like quite a gruff man and yeah, either didn't use
• 45:03
  Speaker 23: your name at all, or he would just say you
• 45:07
  Speaker 23: now my office and it actually said please. I knew
• 45:10
  Speaker 23: something significant had happened. I remember following him into his
• 45:15
  Speaker 23: office and it had a tape recorder on the desk,
• 45:19
  Speaker 23: and it just said, I want you to listen to this.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: I'm Jack. I see you are still having no loop
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: catching me. I have the greatest respect for you, George.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: Good lord. No, I know on need you're catching me now.
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: And four years ago when I started.
• 45:42
  Speaker 23: I sat with a manual typewriter in a little room
• 45:45
  Speaker 23: and type the transcription. It was the most peculiar feeling
• 45:49
  Speaker 23: in that room. It was like you were sick to
• 45:52
  Speaker 23: the pit of your stomach. There was this tape that
• 45:56
  Speaker 23: allegedly has come from the Ripper, and just the the
• 46:00
  Speaker 23: thought that it might actually be this man's voice. Instead
• 46:04
  Speaker 23: of being elated, it made mister mcchurn.
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: I reckon, your boys are letting you down, George. It
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: can't be much good.
• 46:16
  Speaker 23: And I had to play it over and over again
• 46:21
  Speaker 23: to be able to write the shorthand and then to
• 46:23
  Speaker 23: transcribe it. But yes, first reaction was, this is a
• 46:27
  Speaker 23: man who knows what's happened. It's the Ripper.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: They went public with the taping letters from Sunderland on
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: the twenty sixth of June nineteen seventy nine. Reporters from
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: all over Britain were there to listen.
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: Happening and I'm going I should be in the Google records.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: I think it's eleventh up.
• 46:50
  Speaker 22: And nosing it.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: Where I keep on going. Not quite a while yet.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: Public response was an almost fifty thousand calls.
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: I can't see himself being nicked just yet.
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: We've got or were chaundre of detectives out now falling
• 47:09
  Speaker 6: up leaves, obviously far too early to say what's coming
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: from any of them. I thought it was taunting us.
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: I thought it was a genuine tape from the ripper,
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: taunting us for not having caught him. The actions in
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: fact of a psychopath, in that he enjoys the chase
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: and enjoys taunting the investigators, a.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Killer taunting the police, or a hoaxer wasting their time,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: desperate for a positive lead and in feigning health. George
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Oldfield got it wrong for him and Dick Holland. This
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: was the voice of the killer.
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: Obviously, I'll live with that for the rest of my life.
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: I'll live with being a party to the wrong decision.
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: But if we hadn't gone down and it had been correct,
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: that would have been even worse to live with.
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: I warned you in March that I'd stray again.
• 48:11
  Speaker 8: Well before we've been looking for a man and there
• 48:16
  Speaker 8: are literally millions, and we didn't know where he came from.
• 48:20
  Speaker 8: Now that we can localize, the idea of the field
• 48:22
  Speaker 8: has not appreciably, as I'm sure you mustn't agree.
• 48:25
  Speaker 21: I always remember the image seen him on television having
• 48:29
  Speaker 21: received the tapes from the man who claimed to be
• 48:32
  Speaker 21: the perpetrator, goading him and have George hunched over the
• 48:36
  Speaker 21: tape recorder listening to it with Dick Colin at his side,
• 48:40
  Speaker 21: and I thought, then this had get him personal.
• 48:46
  Speaker 24: Well, it's been nice Channing and George, as there.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Could be only one victor in this personal battle, not
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: the detective from Yorkshire, not the voice from Samplan, but
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: an invisible man, a man with a Bradford accent. Peter
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Sutcliffe won eighteen more months of freedom and three more
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: women died. Four years in to the hunt for the
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Yorkshire River. The police were no close sort of catching
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: the killer, and inside the files of the forensic pathologist
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: lay post modern reports on ten murdered women. People in
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: West Yorkshire began to lose faith in the police.
• 50:27
  Speaker 23: Before the cliff was caught. That I think the majority
• 50:31
  Speaker 23: of people thought the West Yorkshire Police were a load
• 50:34
  Speaker 23: of rubbish.
• 50:35
  Speaker 12: The Ripper case was the largest, the most significant, the
• 50:41
  Speaker 12: most demanded terms in manpower, that had ever happened in
• 50:45
  Speaker 12: this country. I don't think the police service were geared
• 50:50
  Speaker 12: to take in on such a long, hard, difficult inquiry
• 50:56
  Speaker 12: that affected the health and well being.
• 50:58
  Speaker 25: As so many officers.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Three more women were to die, three women whose brutal
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: deaths might have been prevented but for fatal mistakes made
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: by the police during the biggest man hunting British criminal history.
• 51:21
  Speaker 15: As I was walking down, I felt somebody behind me
• 51:24
  Speaker 15: and then I noticed a shadow and then you hit
• 51:29
  Speaker 15: me from behind and I went down.
• 51:42
  Speaker 20: I'm Jack, I see you or still having no look
• 51:47
  Speaker 20: catching me. I have the greatest respect for you, George,
• 51:53
  Speaker 20: but the Lord you are known near of catching me
• 51:57
  Speaker 20: now I'm four years ago when I started in.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: The summer of nineteen seventy nine. The man hadn't moved
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: northeast to the banks of the River Weir. A man
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: with a Sunderland accent had sent a tape claiming to
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: be the Ripper. Police called in Stanley ellis, an expert
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: on regional dialects, to pinpoint the origin of the voice.
• 52:21
  Speaker 17: Well, you see north of the.
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: River distinguishes itself because although it's not Jordy, it's still wearside.
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: There are some jawdy elements beginning to creep in September
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: October that was a bit more of a neoclast of
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: kind than October you'd expect to get in Sunderland. It
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: was all, as I said, impressionistic, but it did seem
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: to me that this area, Castletown was the one that
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: I had the best match.
• 52:52
  Speaker 24: I warned you in March that I'd strained in. Sorry,
• 52:57
  Speaker 24: it wasn't good thing I did from so that.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: The pit village of Castletown found itself suspected of harboring
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Britain's most wanted killer.
• 53:08
  Speaker 24: I'm not quite sure when I was dragging again, though
• 53:12
  Speaker 24: it would be doubly.
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: Maybe September for.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: The Northumbria Police arrived in force.
• 53:23
  Speaker 26: We set up in what was on the main street,
• 53:26
  Speaker 26: just playing the tape, walking around with clipbolls, talking to
• 53:29
  Speaker 26: everyone and anyone, trying to attract the crown. I listened
• 53:36
  Speaker 26: to it the Castletown. We played it everybody we met,
• 53:39
  Speaker 26: We invited people to come in. It was on the
• 53:41
  Speaker 26: loud hailers all the time from the port cabin. When
• 53:45
  Speaker 26: I went to the instant room, which I was there
• 53:47
  Speaker 26: for over a year. The tape was played continually to
• 53:50
  Speaker 26: people phoning up asking him to listen to it. And
• 53:54
  Speaker 26: it was playing all the time in your background when
• 53:56
  Speaker 26: you were whatever you were doing folk the stating filing,
• 53:58
  Speaker 26: indexing right, it was there playing in the background. It
• 54:02
  Speaker 26: was you know, we didn't have a radio or anything.
• 54:04
  Speaker 26: We just listened to the Ripper tape day in day.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Out in Castletown Working Men's Club. To this day the
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: bar is strictly segregated. Women are only permitted in one
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: corner for men and women. Here the Ripper connection, so
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: suspicion and fear. Police questioned everyone.
• 54:39
  Speaker 14: Every time you answer the question it's yes. For example,
• 54:43
  Speaker 14: they said to me do you travel away? And I
• 54:45
  Speaker 14: said yes, from the time to time. Do you go
• 54:46
  Speaker 14: to Yorkshire?
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 54:48
  Speaker 24: Do you drive a Ford?
• 54:49
  Speaker 10: Yes?
• 54:50
  Speaker 14: And everything? And by this time you're thinking, hang on
• 54:52
  Speaker 14: is it made? And of course with police all over
• 54:55
  Speaker 14: the village, it was a frightening town for everybody.
• 54:58
  Speaker 8: I mean, you.
• 55:01
  Speaker 7: Could you use to the point I couldn't remember where
• 55:03
  Speaker 7: I was that particularly, I mean I was in Broadford.
• 55:06
  Speaker 14: Does it haven't if they had said you're the river.
• 55:09
  Speaker 6: How would you prove you're not river?
• 55:11
  Speaker 17: It was horrible way you have them knocking at your door,
• 55:14
  Speaker 17: and it's questioning you will spend.
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: And he used to be terrified thing he could it
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: be him? Could it be him?
• 55:20
  Speaker 7: Or he used to suspect everybody.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, if it was supposed to be somebody writing
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: these letters in castle Down? Was he in castle Down
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: walking about it?
• 55:27
  Speaker 23: I've been major frightened to go out on tonight.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: Only five thousand people lived in Castletown, Yet nobody recognized
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: the voice.
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: I'm Jack. I see you still have no touching me.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Nobody identified the man who sent the letters and the tape.
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: You are no need touching me?
• 55:54
  Speaker 6: No.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Four years ago, the Vailure came as a great prize
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: for the dialect expert Stanley Ellis and his Needs University
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: colleague Jack Winsor Lewis.
• 56:10
  Speaker 7: We were quite sure that its dialect characteristics and its
• 56:14
  Speaker 7: personal characters were such that he would be instantly recognized,
• 56:18
  Speaker 7: and therefore were he would be found. We were amazed
• 56:21
  Speaker 7: when he wasn't found.
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: Even if you do get near, I'd probably top myself first.
• 56:28
  Speaker 7: It could be that it was a member of your
• 56:29
  Speaker 7: family and you didn't want a grass on them, that
• 56:32
  Speaker 7: sort of thing.
• 56:33
  Speaker 17: And you've also got to remember that this whole community
• 56:37
  Speaker 17: did not want the murderers to be from them, and
• 56:40
  Speaker 17: they couldn't believe that all these murders that were carrying
• 56:43
  Speaker 17: on in Yorkshire had anything to do with the northeast
• 56:47
  Speaker 17: of England.
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: Well, it's been nice channing you, George. It was Chap
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: the Rebaham.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: George Oldfield, Assistant Chief Constable, taunted personally by the voice,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: was still sure the tape in letters had to have
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: come from the ripper. He was wrong. With tragic consequences,
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty officers had now spent a full
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: year checking cars in the red light districts. A black
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: Sunbeam rapier was seen twice in Leeds, once in Manchester,
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: and thirty six times in Bradford. The Police National Computer
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: revealed the name of its registered keeper and mister Peter Sutliffe.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: In July nineteen seventy nine. Detective Sergeant Andrew Leaptube was
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: still a constable. He was sent on a routine assignment
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: to interview the driver.
• 57:55
  Speaker 10: We were always told that it come by the next door,
• 57:57
  Speaker 10: you knock, upon the next phone call, you get so
• 58:00
  Speaker 10: you went to that house with an open mind.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: The next door DC Lap two knocked on was number
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: six Garden Lane Heating in Bradford, home of Peter Sutcliffe,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: a man at thirty three with a Bradford accent, and
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: his wife Sonya.
• 58:18
  Speaker 10: It seemed an odd couple. He was a lorry driver,
• 58:21
  Speaker 10: she was a teacher. He was very quiet, she was
• 58:25
  Speaker 10: quite vociferous. The thing that struck me more than anything
• 58:31
  Speaker 10: was the uncanny resemblance to the Marilyn More photo fit
• 58:35
  Speaker 10: the victim who survived. There was an uncanny resemblance. I
• 58:40
  Speaker 10: had bad feelings about the man. He had too many
• 58:48
  Speaker 10: uncanny links with what we knew. There was a gap
• 58:52
  Speaker 10: in his teeth, his shoe size fitted the suspect shoe size.
• 59:02
  Speaker 10: Both my colleague and myself and we left the house
• 59:06
  Speaker 10: looked at each other and said, we're not happy with
• 59:08
  Speaker 10: this man. There was something sinister about in, something weird.
• 59:15
  Speaker 10: And there's always your own particular, irrational gut feeling if
• 59:20
  Speaker 10: you like about a person.
• 59:26
  Speaker 8: Well.
• 59:26
  Speaker 10: I submitted a report about our suspicions, got the report
• 59:32
  Speaker 10: typed up, and we got it forwarded to the incident room,
• 59:35
  Speaker 10: and we brought it to the attention of the senior
• 59:38
  Speaker 10: investigating officer.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: The senior investigating officer was Detective Superintendent Dick Holland.
• 59:47
  Speaker 6: I don't specifically remember the lap Due report. It passed
• 59:53
  Speaker 6: through me along with many many others, hundreds of thousands
• 59:59
  Speaker 6: of others, and unfortunately I filed it.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: Peter Sutcliffe had the wrong accent and the wrong handwriting.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 6: It's something I will have to live with for the
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 6: rest of my life. It shouldn't have been filed. I
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 6: wish I hadn't done it, but you can't turn the
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 6: clock back. It was one of those things. But I
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 6: must say that at that time nobody, no one has
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 6: seen all the information on Sutcliffe coordinated into one file.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 6: We were using a manual system. There were no computers
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 6: of the type there are today. We live in a
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 6: computer age, and everything about Sutliffe would be on one file.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 6: It never was.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: Sutcliffe had now been interviewed five times. Crucial information about
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: his earlier record lay scattered indifferently. Information DC LAPTU did
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: not know.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 10: The things I didn't know about Peter's Suckliff when we
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 10: knocked on his door was that he had a conviction
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 10: for going equipped for theft. When I made an inquiry
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 10: with the records office, all I got was a note
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 10: saying he had a conviction go and equit for theft.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 10: It did not say that the conviction was going equit
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 10: for theft with a hammer.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: That conviction was in nineteen sixty nine, So the police
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: took the smugshot six years before the first murder. In
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: the weeks after DC Laptu put in his report, the
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: killer used his hammer again in Bradford. The ripper had
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: given up on red light districts now he prowled anywhere
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: young women could be found out alone after dark.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 19: I know.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: His eleventh victim was a student. She had a night
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: out with friends in a pub close to the university.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: She walked home two hundred yards up the main street.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: He killed her yards from her own back door. Her
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: name was Barbara Leitch. She was twenty years old and
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: came from Northamptonshire. He hit her over the head with
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: a hammer and stabbed her eight times. Eleven murders in
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: four years. Once again, Detective Superintendent Dick Holland was summoned
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: back from a family holiday.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 6: I came into the office still in my holiday clothes
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 6: and came to the scene here to get the picture
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 6: as early as possible from the discovery of the body.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 6: She'd obviously been attacked and the body placed under the
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 6: steps in the corner with rubbish and old carpet piled
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 6: around her. She was slumped in a sitting position, with
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 6: a clothing disturbed and blood running down from the head injuries.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: Police faced mounting criticism. For the first time the ripper
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: had killed a university student, a clever girl, a middle
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: class girl. Women took to the streets in protest at
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: four years of terror.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 15: Person.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 23: I took the criticism very badly. Anybody mentioned to me
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 23: if anybody didn't know I was a police officer and said, oh,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 23: about time they court this ripper. What do the police
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 23: think they're doing. I used to jump down the throats.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 23: I was really I could be quite nasty about it,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 23: but at the end of the day, the people doing
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 23: this inquiry were human beings with human feelings, the human frailties,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 23: their own vulnerabilities. But on top of all this, they
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 23: had a job to do and to be criticized and
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 23: kicked in the teeth for it as well.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 17: It was hard to take.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, overwork and hard drinking had already ruined the health
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: of George Oldfield.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 6: It was a man of few words, and it could
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 6: be a very harsh boss who would keep you going
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 6: all night. So sometimes will four or four thirty in
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 6: the morning and expect you're back on briefing at nine
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 6: o'clock the same morning. But he drove himself just as
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 6: hard and stuck at it the same. I suppose you
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 6: can say that in retrospect it told on his health
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: and I think eventually killed him.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: George Oldfield recovered from his first heart attack, but his
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: time in charge of Britain's biggest man hunt was over
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: one hundred miles northeast of Leeds. One police officer began
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: to have doubts about whether the Sunderland letters and tape
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: really came from the Ripper. David Zacherson was then a
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: detective inspector in the Northumbrian Force.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 16: I began to have doubts when I looked at the
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 16: feet letters before me. There was nothing in those letters
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 16: which immediately shot out you know that this fellow has
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 16: to be the killer.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: The unpublished full text of the letters had been circulated
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: confidentially inside the police. Detective inspector Zachersen examined the wording
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: and found clear similarities with an earlier case, the still
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: unsolved White Chapel murders. The original Jack the Ripper killed
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: five women in the East End of London in eighteen
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: eighty eight. In that case, too, the police received letters
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: eighteen eighty eight that joke about the leather apron gave
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: me fits. Nineteen seventy nine that photo in the paper
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: gave me fits.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 16: We were left with the fact that the ripper had
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 16: no real originality. He was reading app on a man
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 16: who was operating almost a century beforehand. Does some psychopath
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 16: who gets gratification through murders really need that sort of thing?
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 16: Does he need to pour in the phraseology?
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: Another clue, police knew Vera Millwood had been a patient
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: in the hospital where she was murdered. Funny, said the
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: letter writer. The lady mentioned something about being in hospital
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: before I stopped her hoaring ways.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 16: We'd been told this was something which only the killer
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 16: would know. When we were searching our newspaper articles, Bang,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 16: there's the Daily Mail, obviously published before the letter was sent,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 16: detailing fully that Vera Millward had been the same hospital
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 16: for some sort of operation. So we'd lost what really
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 16: was the vital inchpin. I want to make a distinction
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 16: here that it was quite right to publish the letters
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 16: and tapes. Quite right. That was a line of inquiry.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 16: It should never have been a point of elimination, and
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 16: that to me was fatal.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: Language expert Stanley Ellis and Jack Windsor Lewis also began
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: to have doubts.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 17: At the end of September nineteen seventy nine, I wrote
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 17: to the c I D In Bradford, and I sent
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 17: a letter headed the Ripper Tape and Letters, and in
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 17: that I said, for the past few days I've been
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 17: troubled by the thought that we may be hunting a
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 17: writer recorder who is not, in fact the Ripper murderer.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 17: And I continued to believe that, and was very troubled
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 17: that the letters were always than the tape. All was
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 17: taken into account as if they must be from.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 7: The murderer for instant. One time they had a bulletin
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 7: circulated or Policeman which said, don't waste time on anybody
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 7: who hasn't got a joor the accent, and that was
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 7: ridiculous as far as we were concerned. The accent was
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 7: a red herring as far as we were concerned.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 16: Watch your front, watch and react.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: That nothing could convince West Yorkshire that the letters and
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: tape came from a hook, sir, not even what happened
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: twelve days after the death of Barbara Leach to PC
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: Keith Mount in Sunderland.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 26: I was prime wash with that voice, prime it. I
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 26: knew it better on my own voice. I was in
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 26: the office by myself, and then the phone went for
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 26: the millionth time, so I picked up my pen and
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 26: there was a pad by the phone, picked it up
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 26: a place, instant room, sundon, can I help you? And
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 26: then this voice came on and I thought, well, shit,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 26: this is the river, this is the man, and the
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 26: hairs in the back of the head stood up and
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 26: it's just saying tell him it's a hoax, that tapes
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 26: a hoax.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: The hoax had disappeared. He's never been caught yet. West
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: Yorkshire Police stuck to their belief that the killer had
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: a Northeastern accent. Frustrated detectives began to re examine old leads.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: Two years earlier, when Jeane Jordan was killed in Manchester,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: police had found a brand new five pound note in
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: her handbag, they failed to trace who had given it
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: to her. Manchester Police now tried again and made a
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: crucial breakthrough. They managed to narrow down the list of
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: workers whose paypacket could have included that note from eight
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: thousand people to just two hundred and forty one. After
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: four and a half years, the Hunters had their quarry
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: within reach because lorry driver Peter Sutcliffe was employee number
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: seventy six on that list. Manchester Police asked West Yorkshire
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: to check all two hundred and forty one names in
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: their files.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 12: When the list of two hundred and forty one went
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 12: to the Matenance of Room, it came back in so
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 12: far as Sutliffe was concerned, no trace. Now, when we
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 12: looked at this as a review team, what did our
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 12: best to identify what had gone wrong? It was impossible
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 12: to ustain accuratealty what had gone wrong.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 24: It had either.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 12: Been mistaken searched and Sutcliffe had been missed even those
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 12: in the indices. But probably probably his papers were out
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 12: of the manual system without a card been in the
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 12: manual system to say that his papers were out.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: A simple clerical error uncovered much later when Sir Lawrence
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: Byford officially investigated what went wrong. Massive card indexes were
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: the only source of information on eleven unsolved murders, and
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: Peter Sutcliff's details were mistakenly split up on four different
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: index cards. In the first few weeks of the new
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: year nineteen eighty, Peter Sutcliffe was interviewed for the seventh,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: eighth and ninth times that summer. He was stopped for
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: speeding and arrested for being drunk in charge. The arresting
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: officer checked with a Ripper incident room and was informed
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: that Peter Sutcliffe had been eliminated from the inquiry. He
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: killed again in August. The body of the twelfth victim
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: was found in a garden in a leafy suburb of Leeds.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: Her name was Marguerite Walls. She was forty seven years
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: old and a civil servant. On Bonfire Night nineteen eighty, five,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: years after the first murder, the Ripper went back to Huddersfield.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: He'd killed there before. The eighteen year old prostitute Helen
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: Ritker murdered in the Red Light district. This time, he
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: chose an ordinary housing state. His victim, a teenage mother.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: She'd walked a hundred yards to the shops for a
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: packet of cigarettes and was on her way home to
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: her baby and her boyfriend. Her name was Teresa Sykes.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: She was sixteen years old and she survived.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 15: When you're sixteen and you don't even think about it,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 15: which I appreciate.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 23: I didn't.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 15: It's like it can never happen to me. I mean,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 15: even when I knew that it was about it was
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 15: what happened to me just before I got to a
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 15: lampost up there. And then once I got on that light,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 15: I looked round and he was behind me, and that
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 15: looked at him, and I looked at me, and it
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 15: was sort of like a couple of seconds, and they
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 15: walked off down the path. And then obviously I thought, yeah,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 15: it's all right, it's gone, and I carried on walking
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 15: and walking down there. I got like just past the
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 15: second light, I noticed the shadow on the floor. Didn't
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 15: hear anything, just the shadow, so I knew it was
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 15: still there. But I still got the feeling that there
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 15: was somebody behind me. And when I saw the shadow,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 15: that's what really frightened me. Couldn't run, I couldn't do
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 15: half the things that you always think, yeah, you can do,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 15: and I couldn't do it, so I grabbed older the
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 15: gate and that is when you hit me. I started screaming.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: I remember screaming, and.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 15: I can remember the staying footsteps running, and then the
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 15: next time ever came out. Mom took me in an
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 15: house and I still didn't realize.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: How I really hurt until I actually got in and
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: saw blood.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 15: How close to home, I'm sir, I can see it
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 15: from here.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: Detective Superintendent Dick Holland lived only a mile and a
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: half away.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 6: We were only minutes behind him with dogs on the scene.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 6: Pretty quickly he ran down here and somehow got it.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 6: We don't know exactly. He's rout into the back alley,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 6: but the dogs picked him up, picked up scent in
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 6: the back alley. And in fact, my daughter at that
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 6: time was living there next to the passage, right on
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 6: the scene. So incidents like that do we have a
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 6: personal touch. It's frustrating every time you get near to
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 6: a criminal and just missed them. All the luck run
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 6: on his side right up to when he was finally court.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 6: That was the first piece of the first time the
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 6: carts fell our way.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: The Yorkshire Ripper disappeared through the warren of terraced houses
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: in five and a half years. This was the closest
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: Dick Holland ever came to his quarry. Twelve days after
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: his attack on Teresa Sykes, Peter Sutcliffe killed. For the
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: last time he was in Leeds. He bought a fast
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: food supper in Headingley. Around twenty past nine, a bus
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: from the city center brought a young student home from
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: an evening class. Sutcliffe followed her. Her name was Jacqueline Hill.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: She was twenty years old and hoped to become a
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: probation officer.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 8: I have always held the view that this man will
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 8: continue to kill ntonist. No woman is safe whilst he's
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 8: at Lerch.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: George Oldfield was back at work after his heart attack.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: Jacqueline Hill, the thirteenth victim, was buried in her home
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: village of Ormsby, near Middlesbrough. The Prime Minister was furious.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: Missus Thatcher had a daughter who had been a student.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: Colleagues had to restrain her from going to Leeds her
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: to take personal charge of the investigation. Chief Constable Ronald
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: Gregory bowed to the inevitable. He accepted help from outside
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: his own force.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 6: Well, I think the time had come and you might
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 6: say the time had come a few murders ago, but
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 6: it's certainly come for a rethink about the whole investigation.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 12: I won't see mister Gregory following the Jacqueline Hill murder,
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 12: and I suggested to him that the time it came, I've,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 12: in regard to his overloaded police officers who are doing
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 12: the Ripper case, to bring in a think tank comprising
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 12: some of the best brains I could think of who
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 12: have been involved in serious murder investigations nor Scotland, Yard
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 12: and elsewhere. And he agreed to that, and between us
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 12: we in fact selected the team.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: A fortnight after the death of Jacqueline Hill Byford's super
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: squad arrived in Leeds to spend seventeen days reviewing the case.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: There were one scientist and a group of senior policemen,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: including the future Chief Constable of Strathclyde Andrew Sloane.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 27: It's easy to be dramatic, and the terms like shell
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 27: shocked easily come to mind, But people who I knew
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 27: from the past, who have been good, diligent detectives, who
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 27: worked very hard on the very skillfully, they had this
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 27: sort of hear about them that they were almost punch
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 27: drunk by banging their heads against the wall of this inquiry.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: Another member of the Super Squad was one of Britain's
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: top forensic scientists, Professor Stewart Kind. His scientific expertise allowed
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: the Super Squad to tell West Yorkshire Police almost exactly
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: where the ripper lived.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 22: So what I did was this, I drew a grave
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 22: rather like this, and on this axis. I started at
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 22: six pm.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: Using skills learned in the war as an RAF navigator,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: Professor Kind plotted the location, the time of night, and
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: the time of year of each ripper attack.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 22: I did find that, when making allowance for the variation
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 22: in the length of day, that the late flyers in
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 22: each case were in the Leeds and Bradford AIA. I
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 22: came up with a theory that the ripper probably lived
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 22: in the in Bradford AIA, possibly in Manningham or Shipley.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: Manningham and Shipley are only three miles apart. Peter Sutcliffe's
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: home stood between them. A force of five thousand police
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: officers had worked two million man hours. Swamped by work,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: the police effort was now hopelessly compromised by mistakes. The
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: nine interviews which failed to identify the killer the criminal records,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: which didn't mention a hammer, the belief that the Ripper
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: had a Northeastern accent. In five and a half years,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: the killer had made only one mistake, when he left
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: a traceable five pound note in a victim's handbag. Then,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: in December nineteen eighty Peter Sutcliffe went to a breaker's
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: yard in Huddersfield. Here he made his second and critical mistake.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: He stole a set of number plates and fitted them
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: on his car. Christmas nineteen eighty thirteen women were dead.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: Rumors that the killer would strike again kept many women
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: off the wintry streets, so the Yorkshire Ripper left West
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: Yorkshire and drove south. It was January the two, nineteen
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: eighty one, and two officers from the South Yorkshire Police
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: were on routine night patrol.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 25: I was a probationer at the time and out on
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 25: patrol with Sergeant Ring. He'd asked me if I was
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 25: if I'd done a prostitute file process one for court
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 25: and I told him no, So he says, well, we'll
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 25: go and see if you can find one. He drove
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 25: on to Melbourne Avenue, which is this road, and as
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 25: we're approaching Light Trades house.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 10: He said, there's one there, just pointed.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 25: We drove straight up the driveway port directly in front
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 25: of the Rover car that they were in. I got
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 25: out of the car, approached the driver, asked him his
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 25: name and address. He actually gave me false details. Sergeant
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 25: Ring approached the female occupant of the cars, had a
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 25: conversation with them with then did a PNC check on
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 25: the vehicle. The number plates that were displayed that came
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 25: back as a Scolder Corps and obviously the one that
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 25: they were in was a Rover. I then arrested the
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 25: driver of the vehicle, who I later found out was
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 25: when we got back to the station, was Peter William Suckcliffe.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: Sutcliffe said he needed to urinate, so the two Sheffield
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: policemen let him go in a corner and then they
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: took him back to the police station under arrest for
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: stealing number plates.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 10: He was.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 25: Very agitated and apprehensive, even when you were talking about.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 10: The simplest of things.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 25: I got the impression that he wanted to get out
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 25: of the police station as quickly as possible. On and off,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 25: I spent about eight hours with him in this room.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 25: There was a fortfeit of the Yorkshire rippert on the
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 25: filing cabinet in here, which depicted a man with black hair, beard,
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 25: mustache very much like Peter Sutcliffe.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 10: Actually very good photo fit.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: They had a suspect who wore size seven boots and
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: had a gap in his teeth, but they had no
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: real evidence. Next day, the two Sheffield policemen went back
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: to the place where they'd made the arrest. They looked
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: behind the oil tank where they'd let their suspect urinate,
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: and there one of them found what they'd missed before,
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: a hammer.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 25: There was a bit of conversation as to who it
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 25: could belong to. He was saying that it could belong
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 25: to the handyman because there was an oil tank at
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 25: the side of where it was. And that's when I
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 25: stood on the wall and shone the torch down and said,
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 25: well the hammer might belong to him, that orders the
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 25: knife belonged to And after that we knew that the
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 25: person we'd arrested was the man who was common known
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 25: as the Orchard Ripper.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: Confronted with the evidence, Peter Sutcliffe now confessed to killing
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: thirteen women. The next policeman to visit the house and
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: garden lane was Detective Superintendent Dick Holland.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 6: I decided to go and see Missus Sutcliffe and to
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 6: Hammel the Crown his house. The first thing I saw
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 6: was a wooden block with kitchen knives in the type
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 6: of block was slopped through. It was obvious that the
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 6: second largest knife for the set was the one I
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 6: had covered in clear polythene in my hand, the one
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 6: that had been found behind the oil tank at Sheffield.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 6: I wanted a search of the area where I would
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 6: find tools, and I searched a garage. This peculiar type
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 6: of hackso was hanging just inside the garage door. When
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 6: I got back to the police station with the hacksaw
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 6: in a polythene bag to preserve the scientific evidence, one
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 6: of the interrogating team came out of the interview room
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 6: and said, Boss, he's just told us that he went
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 6: back to Manchester with a hack saw and tried to
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 6: cut the head off Jordan, but the hacksaw wasn't big enough.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 6: I said, I know, I've got the axo now. The
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 6: detective Chief Inspector, who had not been privy to this
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 6: information of the hacks so. We were looking at looked
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 6: in amazement and said, fucking hell, boss, you kept that dark.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: The use of the hacksaw on Jean Jordan was a
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: gruesome detail that only the most senior officers knew from
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: the Chief Constable at West Yorkshire.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 17: Congratulations, it was common knowledge.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 25: I think that mister Gregory said that whichever officer arrested
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 25: Peter Sutcliffe would be promoted, no matter what rank. But
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 25: obviously I'm not in the West Yorkshire Police. I'm in
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 25: the South Yorkshire Police. I hadn't passed my exam. I
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 25: was still a probationer, so it never happened.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 13: A man in card with a ripper murder.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: The Chief Constable could not conceal his relief. Ronald Gregory
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: announced the arrest of the world's press, with George Oldfield
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: at his side.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 6: We are absolutely delighted with developments at this stage, absolutely delighted.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 10: You can imagine how I felt. I was absolutely stunned.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 10: I was totally gutted because I remembered interviewing the man.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 10: I remembered miss suspicions, my colleague suspicions and what we've
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 10: written about him, and I thought what might have been well,
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 10: things could have been so different, not for my own
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 10: personal satisfaction, but for the relatives of those victims.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: A crowd of two thousand people greeted Peter Sadki's first
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: court appearance. The accused was the oldest of six children
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: in a millworker's family from Bingley in West Yorkshire. His
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: childhood was unremarkable and he left school at fifteen. He
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: was twenty three at the time of his arrest for
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: going equipped for theft with a hammer. The young Sutcliffe
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: worked for a year as a grave digger at the
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: Victorian Cemetery in Bingley. In later conversations with defense psychiatrists,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: he claimed that his killing career was inspired here when
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: he heard the voice of God instructing him to rid
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: the streets of prostitutes. The Old Bailey jury did not
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: believe him. On the twenty second of May nineteen eighty one,
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: the jury delivered its majority verdict the ripper was bad,
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: not mad, guilty of thirteen murders and seven attempted murders.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: Sonya Sutcliffe's husband received twenty life sentences, and the recriminations began.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 12: My inquiry was not there to produce scapegoats so much
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 12: as to produce the lessons for the future.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: Sir Lawrence Byford was instructed by the government to investigate
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: what had gone wrong. He found the officers and their
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: filing system were hopelessly overwhelmed. The Byford team asked for
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: all seventy seven thirds to fits provided by victims and
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: witnesses to be collected together in one room.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 27: We walked in through the door and all the pictures
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 27: are up on the wall, and it was like a
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 27: blow and the stomach hommerce to recognize immediately that there
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 27: was Peter Sutcliffe looking at us from these assembled pictures.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 21: We were aware, of course, we had.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 27: The admense advantage of hindsight, and that they had been
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 27: put up like that for the first time. But they
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 27: also included quite a number of the assaults in which
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 27: Sutcliffe was suspected. But even without that knowledge, it was
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 27: obvious that there was a dark haired, bearded man appearing
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 27: again and again.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: Their conclusion the deaths of Barbara Leach, Marguerite Walls, and
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: Jacqueline Hill could have been prevented.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 27: That hits very hard professionally and makes me feel very
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 27: very sad. And there also they made us absolutely determine
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 27: that there should be no repetition of the sort of thing.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: Today. The Ripper Incident Room in Leeds is home to
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: two current murder investigations.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 21: And I don't know when they've lifted anything off it,
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 21: but that nobody's done anything with the inside of.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: The officers all over britten work according to principles laid
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: down by the Byford Report, Better Training for Senior Officers,
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: standardized filing systems and computers.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 12: I'm no computer expert, but I said to the experts, Look,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 12: I want you to think of the Ripper inquiry where
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 12: they were in excess of six hundred thousand statements manually
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 12: indexcouts and so on and so forth. And I want
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 12: to be able to put my finger on a computer terminal,
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 12: an indoor six hundred thousand to come out on the
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 12: terminal as a print out any mention of a man
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 12: with the dog.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 21: Can you do that for me?
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 8: And the answer was yes, we.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 10: Think we can d og.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 6: Dog.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: The National Computer System arrived in nineteen eighty six. It
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: runs a powerful database named after Sherlock Holmes. Detective Sergeant
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: Andrew Leaptu became the resident Holmes expert at his station
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: in Bradford.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 10: They often can once say which button tells me who's
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 10: done it. Well, it won't do that, but it will
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 10: point you in the right direction, and it's a valuable
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 10: tool in any major inquirer.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 12: A serial killer only becomes a serial killer because it's
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 12: cute enough to avoid detection early by the police. But
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 12: I like to think that with the advent of the
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 12: home system, with the new procedures and the compatibility of
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 12: major incident rooms one force with another, chances of the
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 12: silculer getting away with it have been considerably lessened since
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 12: the Ripper investigation.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: Peter Sutcliffe is now fifty three. He's locked away in
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: broad More secure hospital where another inmate attacked him with
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: a screwdriver and blinded him in one eye. But Sutcliffe
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: was not the only man to be punished as a
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: result of the Yorkshire Ripper case.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 6: We didn't anticipate the degree of criticism that we got.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 6: They published their reports and SEENI in officers were criticized.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 6: As a result of that, I and other officers were
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 6: banished into uniform to different parts of the force. We
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 6: were moved, it was said at the time in my
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 6: case for career development. Career development were twenty months to
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 6: go to pension. Obviously that was an excuse for what
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 6: was a political move with a small pe. Mister Ophield
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 6: was moved to become acc support services. Nothing of a
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 6: job really. They controlled things like horses and dogs and
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 6: the trivia of the police force. I felt sorry for
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 6: him because he had worked to the stage of injury
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 6: in his health and then just got kicked outsideways as
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 6: a result.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: Four years later George Oldfield died. Chief Constable Ronald Gregory
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: retired in nineteen eighty three and now lives in Portugal.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: He sold his story to a newspaper for reported forty
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: five pounds and admitted personal responsibility for going public with
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: the hoax letters and tape. The teenage mother, Teresa Psykes
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: slowly recovered from the three hammer blows to her head.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: Almost twenty years on, She's rebuilt her life and lives
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: quietly in West Yorkshire with her youngest son.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 15: You sculpted a bedroom of a knight, put wardrobe behind dar,
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 15: put dressing table behind her. I'd sleep with a knife
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 15: under pillar, which my mum used to go buy me about.
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 15: But that only thing that started like maybe felt that
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 15: bit safer. It took away my freedom, It took away
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 15: a lot of my life the night that he tapped
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 15: me and that I never get back. I'll never ever
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 15: get it back.
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 12: Tolow me is to allow