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After allowing Sutcliffe to go to the toilet behind a nearby building, the police sent him to Dewsbury to be interviewed. His parents were John William Sutcliffe and his wife Kathleen Frances (ne Coonan), a native of Connemara. Sutcliffe initially attacked women and girls in residential areas, but appears to have shifted his focus to red-light districts because he was attracted by the vulnerability of prostitutes and the perceived ambivalent attitude, at the time, of police to prostitutes' safety. [13] Her photofit bore a strong resemblance to Sutcliffe, like other survivors, and she provided a good description of his car, which had been seen in red-light districts. [102][92], Following his conviction and incarceration, Sutcliffe chose to use the name Coonan, his mother's maiden name. [32] Sutcliffe hit her on the head with a hammer, dragged her body into a rubbish-strewn yard, then used a sharpened screwdriver to stab her in the neck, chest and abdomen. [92][102] Links were also made between Sutcliffe and the murder of 38-year-old Mary Gregson in Shipley in August 1977, but Sutcliffe was able to be ruled out with DNA after a profile of the killer was extracted in 1999, and in 2000 another man was convicted of the killing. [2]:107, Ten days later, he killed Helen Rytka, an 18-year-old prostitute from Huddersfield. [86] He fitted Sutcliffe's description, being described as 5feet 8inches (1.73m) tall with black hair and a beard, and hit her with a hammer. Sutcliffe said he had heard voices that ordered him to kill prostitutes while working as a gravedigger, which he claimed originated from the headstone of a Polish man, Bronisaw Zapolski,[47] and that the voices were that of God. He also attacked three other women, who survived: Uphadya Bandara in Leeds on 24 September 1980; Maureen Lea (known as Mo),[42] an art student attacked in the grounds of Leeds University on 25 October 1980; and 16-year-old Theresa Sykes, attacked in Huddersfield on the night of 5 November 1980. The 5 note, hidden in a secret compartment in Jordan's handbag, was traced to branches of the Midland Bank in Shipley and Bingley. Two local police officers on the night shift chanced upon the couple parked in this . On 1 September, Sutcliffe murdered 20-year-old Barbara Leach, a Bradford University student. At Dewsbury, he was questioned in relation to the Yorkshire Ripper case as he matched many of the known physical characteristics. [75] Pearson's murder was re-classified as a Ripper killing in 1979, while Wilkinson's murder was not reviewed. The police then decided to do a . He went on a killing spree and was even a suspect of the cops, but by the time they put 2 and 2. For some time the 1970 murder of hitch-hiker Barbara Mayo was listed as a possible Sutcliffe attack by investigators, but this was conclusively disproved by DNA in 1997. At his trial he pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of diminished responsibility, but he was convicted of murder on a majority verdict. Humble was remanded in custody and on 21 March 2006 was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison. "[38], On 4 April 1979, Sutcliffe killed Josephine Whitaker, a 19-year-old building society clerk whom he attacked on Savile Park Moor in Halifax as she was walking home. [84] It alleged that, between 1966 and 1980, Peter Sutcliffe was responsible for at least 22 more murders than he was convicted of. [27], On 5 February, Sutcliffe attacked Irene Richardson, a Chapeltown prostitute, in Roundhay Park. He struck Rytka on the head five times as she exited his vehicle, before stripping most of the clothes from her body (although her bra and polo-neck jumper were positioned above her breasts) and repeatedly stabbing her in the chest. After an attack with a pen by fellow inmate Ian Kay on 10 March 1997, Sutcliffe lost the vision in his left eye, and his right eye was severely damaged. [84] As part of the research for the book, Clark and Tate claimed to have found evidence that pointed to the wrong man having been convicted for the Sewell murder, having unearthed a pathology report which allegedly indicated that the originally convicted Stephen Downing could not have committed the crime. The Yorkshire Ripper case is one of those stories that you eventually just absorb if you're a true crime follower like me. Aside from difficulties in storing and accessing the paperwork (the floor of the incident room was reinforced with concrete pillars to cope with the weight of the paper), it was difficult for officers to overcome the information overload of such a large manual system. The hoaxer case was re-opened in 2005, and DNA taken from envelopes was entered into the national database, in which it matched that of John Samuel Humble, an unemployed alcoholic and long-time resident of the Ford Estate in Sunderland a few miles from Castletown whose DNA had been taken following a drunk and disorderly offence in 2001. [13] Because of this occupation, he developed a macabre sense of humour. [34]:190[35] Sutcliffe seriously assaulted Maureen Long in Bradford in July. In total, Sutcliffe had been questioned by the police on nine separate occasions in connection with the Ripper enquiry before his eventual arrest and conviction. He then disarranged her clothing and slashed her lower back with a knife. Anna's life. [37], On 14 December, Sutcliffe attacked Marilyn Moore, another prostitute from Leeds. [110] On 23 February 1996, he was attacked in his room in Broadmoor's Henley Ward. [94][95][92] The murder of Hila McAuley could also be definitively proven not to have been committed by Sutcliffe as on the same night she was killed he murdered Jean Jordan in Manchester. [128][129], In 2017, West Yorkshire Police launched Operation Painthall to determine if Sutcliffe was guilty of unsolved crimes dating back to 1964. [127] In August 2016, a medical tribunal ruled that he no longer required clinical treatment for his mental condition, and could be returned to prison. Claxton survived and testified against Sutcliffe at his trial. [106] One supposedly "unsolved" murder linked to Sutcliffe in The Secret Murders, that of Marion Spence in Leeds, in 1979, had in fact already been solved in January 1980 when a man was convicted of her murder. [23][133][19][134] A private funeral ceremony was held, and Sutcliffe's body was cremated. The Yorkshire Ripper's ashes were scattered at a seaside beauty spot, his niece has said as she revealed the terrible impact he had on her life. [86][88][87] Twelve of these occurred within West Yorkshire, while the others took place in other parts of the country. Tyre tracks found at the scene matched those from an earlier attack. [90] The other male listed as a possible Sutcliffe victim was John Tomey, who was attacked by a hammer by a man who matched his description in his taxi in 1967. [90] One of these was Fred Craven, a bookkeeper murdered with a hammer on the same street Sutcliffe lived on in Bingley in 1966, and whose daughter Sutcliffe was known to have approached and been rejected by. [2]:36. [113], Sutcliffe's father died in 2004 and was cremated. All except two of Sutcliffe's murders took place in West Yorkshire; the others were in Manchester.. [94][92] In 2007 a man was tried for the murder of Elizabeth McCabe after a 1 in 40 million DNA match was found between his DNA and samples found on the victim's clothing, but he was found not guilty by a majority verdict at the conclusion of the trial. In that episode, Sutcliffe is played by Joseph Mawle. The hoaxer, dubbed "Wearside Jack", sent two letters to police and the Daily Mirror in March 1978 boasting of his crimes. The BBC reports he refused treatment for COVID-19, and died in hospital in November 2020 as a result. [86], Hellawell also included six unsolved murder cases in Scotland on his list of potential Sutcliffe victims, and Sutcliffe was reportedly interviewed in prison about a number of murders in Scotland. [40] The hoaxer appeared to know details of the murders which had not been released to the press, but which in fact he had acquired from pub gossip and his local newspaper. [86] Although a hammer was not used, Sutcliffe also often used a knife to stab his victims. [119][120] Mr Justice Mitting stated: This was a campaign of murder which terrorised the population of a large part of Yorkshire for several years. Peter Sutcliffe, the convicted serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper, refused to be shielded in prison in the months before he died from the coronavirus, an inquest has heard. [105] The Home Office confirmed that it was, indicating that Sutcliffe can be ruled out of unsolved murder cases in which there is existing DNA evidence such as in the Mayo, Stratford and Weedon cases. Peter Sutcliffe died in hospital aged 74 in . Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, who murdered 13 women and attacked seven others between 1975 and 1980 across West Yorkshire, plus two in Greater Manchester. [12], Sutcliffe met Sonia Szurma on 14 February 1967; they married on 10 August 1974. Sutcliffe's wife obtained a separation from him around 1989 and a divorce in July 1994. An index card was created on the basis of the letter and a policewoman found Sutcliffe already had three existing index cards in the records. According to his statement, Sutcliffe said, "I got out of the car, went across the road and hit her. The urge inside me to kill girls was now practically uncontrollable. The sleeves had been pulled over his legs and the V-neck exposed his genital area. On 10 January 1983, he followed Sutcliffe into the recess of F2, the hospital wing at Parkhurst, and plunged a broken coffee jar twice into the left side of Sutcliffe's face, creating four wounds requiring thirty stitches. [91] Sinclair also happens to be the prime suspect in the murders of Kenny, McAuley and Cooney, but detectives felt they did not have enough evidence to charge him before his death in prison in 2019. [104] The Home Office responded by stating that it would send any new evidence to the police. [137], The 13 May 2013 episode of Crimes That Shook Britain focused on the case. Namibia and Iceland caught in jaws of fish scandal. [58] He found wanting Oldfield's focus on the hoax confessional tape[59]:8687 that seemed to indicate a perpetrator with a Wearside background,[60] and his ignoring advice from survivors of Sutcliffe's attacks and several eminent specialists, including from the FBI in the United States, along with dialect analysts[61] such as Stanley Ellis and Jack Windsor Lewis,[59]:88 whom he had also consulted throughout the manhunt, that "Wearside Jack" was a hoaxer. The murder of a woman who was not a prostitute again alarmed the public and prompted an expensive publicity campaign emphasising the Wearside connection. He soon admitted he was the Yorkshire Ripper and spent 15 hours. [90] Witnesses saw a man running from the scene wearing a Donovan hat, and Sutcliffe was known to have owned one, but police never interviewed him at the time. He attacked Anna Rogulskyj, who was walking alone, striking her unconscious with a hammer and slashing her stomach with a knife. [99][92], Other forces across Britain also investigated links between Sutcliffe and unsolved murders in their force area. Peter Sutcliffe, during his time as a serial killer, managed to kill at least 13 women and attempted to kill seven more, making a name for himself as the Yorkshire Ripper. When she got out of the car to urinate, he hit her from behind with a hammer. Cosmopolitan, Part of the Hearst UK Fashion & Beauty Network. The murderer continued, going untraced over the next five years despite murdering 12 more women and attempting to kill seven others. He reportedly refused treatment. The sexual implications of this outfit were considered obvious but it was not known to the public until published in 2003. During his imprisonment, Sutcliffe was noted to show "particular anxiety" at mentions of Wilkinson due to the possible unsoundness of Steel's conviction. Based on the recorded message, police began searching for a man with a Wearside accent, which linguists narrowed down to the Castletown area of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. [76][75] Police eventually admitted in 1979 that the Yorkshire Ripper did not only attack prostitutes, but by this time a local man, Anthony Steel, had already been convicted of Wilkinson's murder. On 17 June 1979, Humble sent a cassette to Assistant Chief Constable Oldfield, where he introduced himself only under the name "Jack" and claimed responsibility for the Ripper murders to that point. She was suffering from hypothermia when found and was in hospital for nine weeks. Over the next day, he calmly described his many attacks. Peter William Sutcliffe (2June 1946 13November 2020), also known as Peter Coonan and dubbed in press reports as the Yorkshire Ripper (an allusion to Jack the Ripper) was an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980. [100] After his conviction in 1981, South Yorkshire Police interviewed Sutcliffe on the murder of 29-year-old Doncaster prostitute Barbara Young, who had been hit over the head by a "tall, dark haired man" in an alleyway on the evening of 22 March 1977. I have the greatest respect for you George, but Lord! The police found that the alibi given for Sutcliffe's whereabouts was credible; he had indeed spent much of the evening of the killing at a family party. [80] Sutcliffe was familiar with the estate where she was murdered and was known to have regularly frequented the area; in February 1977, only months before the murder, he was reported to police for acting suspiciously on the street Wilkinson lived. Owing to the sensational nature of the case, the police handled an exceptional amount of information, some of it misleading (including hoax correspondence purporting to be from the "Ripper"). [25] Disturbed by a neighbour, he left without killing her. [54], West Yorkshire Police was criticised for being inadequately prepared for an investigation on this scale. He often used the services of sex workers in Leeds and Bradford and targeted them. When Sutcliffe returned, he was out of breath, as if he had been running; he told Birdsall to drive off quickly. The Yorkshire Post reports a second knife had been hidden in a police station toilet before he was searched. While awaiting trial, he killed two more women. [77] Steel had confessed to the murder under intense questioning, having been told that he would be allowed to see a solicitor if he did so. Sutcliffe's first and last murders also occurred in Leeds. That month, Sutcliffe killed again. By the mid-1970s Wilma, 28, was bringing up four kids on her own in a house with no carpets or heating. [34]:188, The trial judge said Sutcliffe was beyond redemption, and hoped he would never leave prison. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead [78], In 1982, West Yorkshire Police appointed detective Keith Hellawell to lead a secret investigation into possible additional murdered committed by Sutcliffe. [92] Barbara Mayo was already ruled out as a Peter Sutcliffe victim by police in 1997, and the DNA sample in her murder case has not been linked by police to that of Weedon or Stratford, showing the murders were committed by different people. Police spent five years pursuing the elusive killer - but Peter Sutcliffe was actually caught on a trivial pretext. [111] Kay admitted trying to kill Sutcliffe and was ordered to be detained in a secure mental hospital without limit of time. The Ripper was originally jailed for 20 years in 1981, with the sentence converted to a whole-life order in 2010. How They Were Caught: The Yorkshire Ripper - YouTube How They Were Caught: The Yorkshire Ripper BuzzFeed Unsolved Network 5.37M subscribers 187K views 1 year ago The story behind the capture. "Everybody wanted him caught . [11] In his late adolescence, Sutcliffe developed a growing obsession with voyeurism, and spent much time spying on prostitutes and the men seeking their services. It was on . He was interviewed by police nine times, his car was spotted 60 times in red light districts where the Ripper prowled for victims. [146], In February 2022, Channel 5 released a 60-minute documentary entitled The Ripper Speaks: The Lost Tapes, which recounts interviews and Sutcliffe speaking about life in prison and in Broadmoor Hospital, as well the crimes he had committed but which had not been seen or treated as "a Ripper killing".[147]. While it should have been the effective nerve centre of the whole police operation, the backlog of unprocessed information resulted in the failure to connect vital pieces of related information. Sutcliffe murdered 47-year-old Marguerite Walls on the night of 20 August 1980, and 20-year-old Jacqueline Hill, a student at Leeds University, on the night of 17 November 1980. [81] Furthermore, earlier on the day as Wilkinson's murder, Sutcliffe had gone back to mutilate Jordan's body before returning to Bradford, showing he had already gone out to attack victims that day and would have been in Bradford to attack Wilkinson after he come back from mutilating Jordan. [72][69] The report said that it was clear Sutcliffe had on at least one occasion attacked a Bradford prostitute with a cosh. Birth Country: England. [29] An extensive inquiry, involving 150 officers of the West Yorkshire Police and 11,000 interviews, failed to find the culprit. Despite the false lead, Sutcliffe was interviewed on at least two other occasions in 1979. I hasten to add that I feel sure that the senior police officers in the areas concerned are also mindful of this possibility but, in order to ensure full account is taken of all the information available, I have arranged for an effective liaison to take place.[69]. [92] Clark and Tate claimed that Sutcliffe could have been in Essex and still had enough time to drive back to Bradford to kill Leach six and a half hours later. Many people do. The group and other feminists had criticised the police for victim-blaming, especially for the suggestion that women should remain indoors at night. But how did they finally discover who he was, after so many years falling under the radar? The next day police returned to the scene of the arrest and discovered a knife, hammer, and rope he had discarded when he briefly slipped away from the police after telling them he was "bursting for a pee". [84] Due to the popularity of the book it was in 2022 turned into a two-part prime-time ITV documentary series of the same name, which featured both Clark and Tate. The prosecution intended to accept Sutcliffe's plea after four psychiatrists diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia, but the trial judge, Justice Sir Leslie Boreham, demanded an unusually detailed explanation of the prosecution reasoning. Cosmopolitan UK's current issue is out now and you can SUBSCRIBE HERE. In 1981, Yorkshire lorry driver Paul Sutcliffe was convicted of murder. You have made your point. Two months after that, on 26 June, he murdered 16-year-old Jayne MacDonald in Chapeltown. 2,164. The "Wearside Jack" hoaxer was given unusual credibility when analysis of saliva on the envelopes he sent showed he had the same blood group as that which Sutcliffe had left at crime scenes, a type shared by only 6% of the population. [33] The police described her as the first "innocent" victim. Police analysis of bank operations allowed them to narrow their field of inquiry to 8,000 employees who could have received it in their wage packet. I went back to the car and got in it".[24]. [100] Ripper detective Jim Hobson duly visited the site of the murder in Bristol, but there were a number of differences in the murder to Sutcliffe's known killings. He ran off when he saw the lights of a passing car, leaving his victim requiring brain surgery. [34], The Attorney General, Sir Michael Havers QC, at the trial in 1981 said of Sutcliffe's victims in his opening statement: "Some were prostitutes, but perhaps the saddest part of the case is that some were not. Give yourself up before another innocent woman dies". In December 2020, Netflix released a four-part documentary entitled The Ripper, which recounts the police investigation into the murders with interviews from living victims, family members of victims and police officers involved in the investigation. [69], Amongst other things, Byford's report asserted that there was a high likelihood of Sutcliffe having claimed more victims both during and before his known killing spree. [78], One murder that was linked to Sutcliffe in the book, that of Alison Morris in Ramsey, Essex, on 1 September 1979, took place only six and a half hours before his known killing of Barbara Leach in Bradford, over 200mi (320km) away. He stamped on her thigh, leaving behind an impression of his boot. Cosmopolitan participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. [18] The following is a summary of Sutcliffe's confirmed crimes: Sutcliffe's thirteen known murder victims were Wilma McCann (Leeds 1975), Emily Jackson (Leeds 1976), Irene Richardson (Leeds 1977), Patricia "Tina" Atkinson (Bradford 1977), Jayne MacDonald (Leeds 1977), Jean Jordan (Manchester 1977), Yvonne Pearson (Bradford 1978), Helen Rytka (Huddersfield 1978), Vera Millward (Manchester 1978), Josephine Whitaker (Halifax 1979), Barbara Leach (Bradford 1979), Marguerite Walls (Leeds 1980) and Jacqueline Hill (Leeds 1980). But "for some inexplicable reason", said the Byford Report, the papers remained in a filing tray in the incident room until the murderer's arrest on 2 January [1981], the following year.[69].
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