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

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a b Thornton, Lucy (6 April 2017). "Yorkshire Ripper killed EIGHT more women, claims the ex-cop who interviewed him more than 30 times". Mirror Online. Archived from the original on 12 June 2017 . Retrieved 19 January 2020.

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Around the time of Wilkinson's murder it was widely reported that Professor David Gee, the Home Office pathologist who conducted all the post-mortem examinations on the Ripper victims, noted similarities between the Wilkinson murder and the killing of Ripper victim Yvonne Pearson three months later. [97] Like Wilkinson, Pearson was bludgeoned with a heavy stone and was not stabbed, and was initially ruled out as a "Ripper" victim. [93] Pearson's murder was re-classified as a Ripper killing in 1979, while Wilkinson's murder was not reviewed. [97] [96] Sutcliffe did not confess to Wilkinson's murder at his trial, although Steel was already serving time for the murder. During his imprisonment, Sutcliffe was noted to show "particular anxiety" at mentions of Wilkinson due to the possible unsoundness of Steel's conviction. [10] In November 2021, American heavy metal band Slipknot released a song titled " The Chapeltown Rag", which is inspired by media reporting on the murders. [172] Murder of Rosina Hilliard - a Freedom of Information request to Leicestershire Constabulary". WhatDoTheyKnow. July 2013. Archived from the original on 31 December 2019 . Retrieved 31 December 2019. The Inspector of Constabulary Lawrence Byford's 1981 report of an official inquiry into the Ripper case [87] was not released by the Home Office until 1 June 2006. The sections "Description of suspects, photofits and other assaults" and parts of the section on Sutcliffe's "immediate associates" were not disclosed by the Home Office. [88] The Byford Report's major findings were contained in a summary published by the Home Secretary, William Whitelaw, showing the first time precise details of the bungled police investigation had been disclosed. Byford described delays in following up vital tip-offs from Trevor Birdsall, who on 25 November 1980, sent an anonymous letter to police, the text of which ran as follows:The authors make a decent case that Sutcliffe was in the vicinity for many unsolved murders of the 1960s and 1970s, something which elements in the police establishment want hushed up. Hence the case files being kept secret for 65 years.

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a b c d e f g Byford, Lawrence, Sir (December 1981). Report into the Police Handling of the Yorkshire Ripper Case (Report). London: Home Office. {{ cite report}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) (multiple files) a b Oppenheim, Maya (13 November 2020). "Families of Yorkshire Ripper victims receive police apology for language used during investigation". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022 . Retrieved 14 November 2020. Joan Smith wrote in Misogynies, that "even Sutcliffe, at his trial, did not go quite this far; he did at least claim he was demented at the time". [45] Macfarlane, Jenna (13 November 2020). "Yorkshire Ripper: Who were serial killer Peter Sutcliffe's victims? When did he get caught? And how did he die?". The Yorkshire Post . Retrieved 25 June 2021.Love, Catherine (5 August 2019). "The Incident Room review – Yorkshire Ripper retelling puts police in the spotlight". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 1 January 2020. Brannen, Keith (ed.). "The Trial: Week Two". Execulink.com/~kbrannen. Trial of Peter Sutcliffe. [ self-published source?] Birdsall's letter was marked "Priority No. 1". 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. But "for some inexplicable reason", said the Byford Report, the papers remained in a filing tray in the incident room until Sutcliffe's arrest on 2 January 1981, the following year. [87]

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a b Ch 5, documentary "Born to Kill", broadcast 12.05am 21 September 2022: a profile of the serial killer. Brannen, Keith (ed.). "Trial: Week1". Execulink.com/~kbrannen . Retrieved 18 June 2011. [ self-published source?] 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 as crimes he had committed but that had not been seen or treated as "a Ripper killing". [173] Brannen, Keith (ed.). "Arrest and confession". Execulink.com/~kbrannen . Retrieved 18 June 2011. [ self-published source?] McCann, Richard (2005). Just a Boy: The true story of a stolen childhood. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-189822-9.Brannen, Keith, ed. (26 June 1977). "Victim 11: Jayne MacDonald". Execulink.com/~kbrannen . Retrieved 18 June 2011. [ self-published source?] I was a teenager/early 20s and living in Leeds at the time that the Ripper carried out his horrendous crimes and remember the fear that every woman felt, and the relief on hearing he had been caught. At that time no one knew of the mistakes the police made, and the fact that the police and government will still not release the findings of the two inquiries until 2045 beggars belief.

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Judith Roberts, 14, was murdered on 7 June 1972, after leaving home to ride her bike in Wigginton, Staffordshire. She was found partially hidden beneath hedge clippings and plastic fertiliser bags face down later that day after going missing in a field north of Tamworth, Staffordshire; she had nineteen head wounds and had been battered to death. [122] 17-year-old Andrew Evans was wrongfully convicted and served 25 years in jail after confessing to the murder but had his conviction quashed in 1997. [123] [124] On the evening of Roberts’s death, Sutcliffe was driving to visit his fiancée, Sonia, at a hospital in Bexleyheath. [102] He would then have had to return to Bingley, West Yorkshire, where he worked nightshifts, which would have taken Sutcliffe within a short distance of the crime scene, Comberford Lane. [125] [126] Sutcliffe also drove a grey Ford Escort which is identical to a vehicle that four eyewitnesses observed trailing Judith as she made her way to local shops at the time of her disappearance. [122] Sutcliffe pleaded guilty to seven charges of attempted murder. The prosecution intended to accept his 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's reasoning. After a two-hour representation by the Attorney-General Sir Michael Havers, a ninety-minute lunch break, and another forty minutes of legal discussion, the judge rejected the diminished responsibility plea and the expert testimonies of the psychiatrists, insisting that the case should be dealt with by a jury. The trial proper was set to commence on 5 May 1981. [68] [69]Smith, Joan (30 May 2017). "The Yorkshire Ripper was not a 'prostitute killer' – now his forgotten victims need justice". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 13 January 2018. Tim Tate, a journalist, and Chris Clark, a former police officer, have done a remarkably in-depth study of Peter Sutcliffe's other crimes(the ones that he was not charged with) and in this most readable of books it is difficult to fathom out why the police investigators at the time did not come up with all the facts that the two authors have now brought before the public. Perhaps it is not quite true to use the words 'come up with' for some of the evidence now brought forth was discovered at the time and was for some unaccountable reason chosen to be ignored. If acted upon, as the authors quite clearly state on numerous occasions, a number of lives could possibly have been saved. Smith, Joan (1993). "Final chapter – There's only one Yorkshire Ripper". Misogynies. Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-16807-8. Twenty-year-old Jacqueline Hill, a student at Leeds University, was murdered on the night of 17 November 1980. [60] She was returning home to her students' hall of residence in Headingley, Leeds when Sutcliffe delivered a blow to her head before removing her clothes and stabbing her repeatedly in the chest and once in the eye with a screwdriver.