Helen Rytka murdered 31st January 1978 Huddersfield. ibid.
‘Now we feel an immediate offensive is needed. Now you have heard of the Jimmy Young Show … ibid. head rozzer
Yvonne Pearson murdered 21st January 1978 Bradford. ibid. caption
Vera Millward murdered 16th May 1978 Manchester. ibid.
Josephine Whitaker murdered 4th April 1979 Halifax. ibid.
‘This is personal. It’s me he’s talking to, isn’t it. It’s me he’s taking the piss out of.’ This is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper II, Oldfield
‘We think this tape could be a crucial turning point in the investigation.’ ibid.
Barbara Leach murdered 1st September 1979 Bradford. ibid.
‘The Ripper doesn’t just kill women, he murders families.’ ibid. Oldfield
Jacqueline Hill murdered 17th November 1980, Leeds. ibid.
‘You’re bloody useless.’ ibid. mother of victim to Oldfield
A cold-blooded MO: he was attacking helpless women with a hammer before stabbed them to death with a screwdriver … One of Britain’s most evil killers. World’s Most Evil Killers s2e12: Peter Sutcliffe – The Yorkshire Ripper s/a Britain’s Most Evil Killers
For five years he evaded capture while brutally murdering 13 young women across the north of England … Sutcliffe had attacked at least 7 more women. ibid.
‘He had no personality, no charisma about him whatsoever.’ ibid. interviewing rozzer
The trial began on May 5th 1981. ibid.
We have received letters that we believe to be genuine. And we are presently analysing a tape that we also believe comes from someone that we would very much like to talk to in connection with this enquiry. Red Riding Trilogy: Nineteen Eighty (2001) starring Jim Carter & Robert Sheehan & James Weaver & Sean Harris & Charlotte James & Michelle Holmes & Tony Mooney & Andrew Garfield & James Fox & Julia Ford & Lesley Sharp et al, director James Marsh, Ripper rozzer
To me you’re like a bad angel on a mistaken journey. ibid.
We want you to head up a covert home office inquiry into the Ripper investigation. ibid. head rozzer to Hunter
Between 1975 and 1981 a series of horrific murders in the north of England would lead to the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. Over five years the killer, dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, murdered thirteen women and brutally attacked at least eight others. In the aftermath it emerged that the killer was questioned by police nine times over those five years: each time they let him go. The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story: Chapeltown, BBC 2019
Despite the police’s assumption that Wilma [McCann] was a prostitute I can’t find any clear evidence that she was. ibid.
Jayne MacDonald didn’t fit the pattern: she was a teenage girl who lived at home with her parents. ibid.
The police had decided the killer was motivated by a hatred of prostitutes. The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime II: Manhunt
In April 1979 the body of the Yorkshire Ripper’s tenth victim was found in a park in Halifax. ibid.
I’m struck by Oldfield’s total faith in the tape and letters. ibid.
1970s attitudes towards women led the police to ignore key witnesses rather than abandon their theory about the killer. The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime III: Justice
He was 34, married and worked as a lorry driver. ibid.
‘He was odd. There was something about him.’ ibid. street sex worker
Sonia, Peter Sutcliffe’s wife, never took any money from the media. ibid.
The work of the Ripper Squad was commended by the judge. ibid.
Eyewitness accounts were given little credence. ibid.
West Yorkshire, England: That night mum was going out. It was midweek and we were put to bed. I’m five, my sister she’s six. And the next memory was of Sonya waking me up. Still dark. And she told me that mum’s not come home, come on, we’ll go look for her. It was around 5 o’clock. It was cold. It was dark. We crept out through the garden, through a hole in the hedge on to the field out the back. I kept remember thinking, where the hell’s my mum. The Ripper I: Once Upon a Time in Yorkshire, Wilma’s son, Netflix 2020
This was the ultimate crime against women. And at the heart of it was a monster. By the end of five years he controlled us all. ibid. woman #1
It was the biggest crime investigation there had ever been in the United Kingdom. No police force had experienced that level of pressure. ibid. rozzer
She’d [first victim] been brutally battered about the head and had other horrifying injuries to her body. ibid.
In her own ground-floor flat in Bradford the body of 33-year-old Patricia Atkinson … She was the fourth woman to be murdered in a radius of ten miles within the last eighteen months. ibid. news
This was a man who hated prostitutes. A description that implanted in your mind that if you are not that kind of woman who had ‘many boyfriends’, then you were fine. ibid. woman #1
It’s just like, Oh no, not another, not again. ibid. rozzer
What set this one [Maureen Long] apart was that the woman had survived. She was able to talk to the police from her hospital bed. At long last this was the breakthrough they had been looking for. The Ripper II: Between Now & Dawn, Alan Whitehouse, Yorkshire Post
What followed was a classic Ripper attack. A blow to the back of the head from a blunt instrument and a knife down the front. ibid. TV reporter on scene
There were piles of paper everywhere in the Incident Room. ibid. rozzer
She [Jean Jordan] was cut in the most horrendous ways a person could cut someone. I ran to the phone box … ibid. man discovers body in Manchester allotment
There is a possibility he has been spoken to in this enquiry. ibid. rozzer
He was around 30, he had a beard and he had dark hair. The photofit of the Marilyn Moore attack was on the wall on every police station throughout this country. For the first time we had a picture of who we now believed to be the Yorkshire Ripper. ibid.
Nothing was working as it should. The filing system was so chaotic frankly they [rozzers] were floundering … No leads, no ideas. Undetectable. ibid. journalist
The murderer had been back and placed the newspaper under her arm. ibid. rozzer