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[Music] Marilyn Moore ran away from home when she was 15 years old she married at 16
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divorced at 19 and then started sex work she worked around London and Bradford before moving to Leeds Marilyn lived in
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a town only about one mile away from the red-light district of Chapel town at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday the 14th of
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December 1977 25 year-old Marilyn was working in Chapel 10 she saw a man in a car circling the area in order to get
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noticed Marilyn walked towards him as soon as she was in his line of sight he got out
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of the car and started talking to it they agreed on the standard price of 5 pounds Marilyn jumped into the front
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passenger seat of his car before the men got in she noticed him waving to someone
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on the street once inside the men told Marilyn he knew a quiet place he started to talk about himself he said his name
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was David but that he preferred Dave Marilyn asked him who he was waving at before he got into the car and he said
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it was his girlfriend Dave then told Marilyn about two sex workers from Chapel town who it was good friends with
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Gloria and Hillary Marilyn had never met or heard of any women named Gloria or Hillary that worked in Chapel 10 they
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only drove about one and a half miles they've stopped the car behind brown's factory in bustling thought lane it was
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an abandoned lot Dave got out of the car and asked Marilyn to get in the backseat
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Marilyn agreed and opened the front door and then walked to the rear door as soon
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as Marilyn opened the rear door she was clubbed from behind she immediately fell
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to the ground [Music] Marilyn screamed and put her arms over her head to try and protect us off the
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attack continued until Marilyn was knocked unconscious a nearby dog started barking at the commotion and as thought
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this is what frightened the Ripper off he got back into his car and took off at high speed Marilyn came to and managed
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to stagger the Scott Hall Road which was nearby she approached a young couple who
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were chatting there her head was bleeding badly and she asked them to call an ambulance
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Marilyn was rushed to hospital where she was seen by a neurological surgeon the surgeon determined that Marilyn required
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immediate surgery soon after being admitted to hospital David G the forensic pathologist who had been
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working on the Ripper case since the very beginning attended to examine Oh Marilyn had eight wounds on her head one
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had sunk the sculling to the brain so deeply that the neurosurgeon had to elevate the skull bone to relieve the
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pressure all of the wounds were oval in shape Angie believed they'd been caused by a
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hammer the wounds were very similar to those found on the other Ripper victims the next day two officers went to the
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hospital to question Marilyn she was still recovering and in a very weak condition but she was able to describe
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her attacker in astonishing detail he was a white male late 20s about five feet six inches tall with a stocky build
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he had long dark curly hair a short full beard and what Marilyn referred to as a
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Jason King mustache Jason King was a fictional character from a TV crime series that aired in the UK at the time
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he had a droopy looking full moustache that ran down past the men's Marilyn also said the Ripper had brown eyes
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bushy eyebrows and a Sun tanned complexion he was wearing a yellow shirt blue jeans and a dark-colored zip-up
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lightweight coat Marilyn described him as being softly spoken furthermore she said he was good-looking
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and he seemed to know it he was driving a maroon or dark-colored car detective Jim Hobson gave those details to the
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press the Jason King description along with a photo field image of the suspect was highly publicized Hobson also added
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that the Ripper was well acquainted with the back streets of chapel town given the react he took after picking Marilyn
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up the Ripper had told Marilyn that his name was David and the police believed this might actually be his real name
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they went back through all of the index cards listing the details of people that
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had been checked out throughout the entire investigation that was over 175,000 people at this point I found
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1037 men named David that had come up in one way or another and had already been
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interviewed and eliminated they were all interviewed again and asked to provide alibis for the night Marilyn was
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attacked nothing further came out of these interviews there was more than likely Dave wasn't the attack his real
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name anyway sex workers were also questioned about Gloria and Hilary who the Ripper had told Marilyn he was
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friends with but they didn't seem to exist either so the police focused on the car
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Marilyn was able to provide a decent description Marone or dark-colored for doors with
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two interior rear view mirrors at the crime scene where Marilyn was attacked police located tire tracks which they
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made plaster casts of the tire tracks were very similar to those left at iron Richardson's murder
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scene and after further analysis and taking into account Marilyn's description police reduced the list of
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possible cars to eight five of those eight with different models of the BMC Farina Marilyn discharged herself from
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hospital ten days after her attack Christmas Eve police asked her if she could come with them in city different
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cars the so she could recognize the one she was in she didn't recognize the exact car but she was able to eliminate
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three off that list of eight a few months later a senior lecturer in psychiatry at Leeds University was
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called in to perform hypnosis on both Marilyn and Maureen long Maureen also survived the Ripper attack
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which we covered in part one they had several sessions of hypnosis Maureen was never able to remember anything more
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however Marilyn did she provided a second photo fit most of the previous features were still there but this time
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she described their Ripper as having longer hair Marilyn also recalled seeing a cardboard box on the car's dashboard
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with the letters T R or the problem was that after these hypnosis sessions Marilyn called the
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police numerous times to tell the officers that she'd seen her attacker the police actually arrested two men
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based on different sightings Marilyn reported both for similarities to the photo fit however they were eventually
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eliminated from the investigation George Oldfield and Jim Hobson now started to doubt how good her memory and
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description of the Ripper was although no attack had happened in Huddersfield which was 30 minutes away from Leeds
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Oldfield ordered officers to start a covert operation near to record registration numbers Oldfield had now
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put in place 33 different observation points there were about 100 officers in total across all the points working each
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night to record every registration plate they saw there were 14 points in Chapel
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town Leeds 12 in Manningham Bradford and an hour 7 in Huddersfield 30 minutes south of Leeds the officers would
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dictate the plates they saw onto a tape recorder the tapes were then stored and kept for three months the idea being
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that if a murder happened that would go back to that night and go through all of
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the tapes to see what registrations were out and about it was common knowledge amongst the public this was going on and
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sex workers tried to use it to their advantage telling clients that are being clocked by the police and that they had
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better return them safely Oldfield was a big believer in this operation however it was in place in
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chapel town the night marilyn was attacked it didn't help prevent her attack and it didn't help catch who did
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Helen Rica had a Jamaican mother and a Polish father she was a twin and her parents also had another set of twins
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for kids in total who were all eventually sent to foster homes the sets of twins were separated
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however Helen remained with her twin sister Rita throughout the years they lived in various different homes in that
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time at the age of 18 rita and helen moved into a flat together in Huddersfield Rita had been attending art school but
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dropped out in her second year as she could no longer afford the fees helen had been working in a sweet factory in
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another town but left her job behind to move in with Rita both started sex work around
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Huddersfield at 9:00 p.m. on the 31st of January 1978 Helen and Rita were working
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near a toilet block on Great Northern Street it was a popular place for sex workers two limousines approached them
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and the drivers negotiated a price once they agreed the drivers asked them to wait while they went to the toilet when
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they got back Rita entered one limousine and helen ends at the other at 9:25 p.m. helen was dropped
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off back at the toilet block five minutes later Rita was dropped off but she couldn't see helen anywhere soon
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after a man in a white sports car picked up Rita Rita directed him back to her and Helen's flat in the hope that helen
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had gone back there but she wasn't Rita remained in the flat hoping Helen would return but she never did two days
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later Rita decided to report Helen missing when she first made the report Rita didn't tell the police their occupation
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or that they were on Great Northern Street but later that night Rita ended up telling the police everything and
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this completely changed the way the police handled the case the report was escalated to urgent a 2:00 p.m. the
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following day a police dog handler was searching Gerard's timber yard which was only 80 meters away from the toilet
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block on Great Northern Street the timber yard was actually a common place where sex workers took clients the dog
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handle was greeted by the foreman who helped him search the yard as I walking along the reef fence the
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police dog got excited and started pulling hard at a leash the dog wanted to get a closer look at a stack of
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timber next to a shed as the officer got closer he looked at the foreman and said
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I think this is it Helen's body was found behind the stack of timber covered by a sheet of asbestos
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and pieces of timber the dog handle are radioed for assistance and taped off the
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entire timber yard while they are waiting the foreman told the dog handler that a few days prior some workers in
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the yard had found black lace panties with dried blood on them they didn't think too much of it and nailed them to
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a packing case as a joke they had also found a hand bag with a lighter which they had thrown out Helens scene became
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the most attended during the investigation so far all of the lead detectives from all jurisdictions were
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in attendance Oldfield of course along with the second in charge detective dick Holland
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detective Jim Hobson was there as well as was detective Jack Ridgeway the officer in charge from Manchester and
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detective John de Mol the officer in charge from Bradford Helens jumper had been pulled up to expose her body she
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had six wounds on her head most of which caused fractures she also had multiple stab wounds to her chest
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Helen's body had actually been well concealed by the Ripper and they had difficulty removing her from the scene G
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concluded that Helen had actually been killed somewhere else and then her body had been left at that location for some
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time the Ripper then moved Helens body to the timber yard and concealed it after that the Ripper had returned to a
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crime scene and moved a victim's body before but he had never tried to conceal a body there was after Helens murder
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that the media first referred to him as the Yorkshire Ripper Oldfield attended a
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press conference and pleaded with the public he said the Ripper is someone's neighbour and he is someone's husband or
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son someone has to know him the police focused on men who had attended the toilet block on Great Northern Street
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the night Helen was killed Oldfield made an appeal for any man who was there that night to come forward he
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insisted that he wasn't worried about anyone's morals all he wanted was to find the killer they did learn of a
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peeping tom who used to follow sex workers and watch them work from a distance in his van it turns out the
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peeping tom was there that night he followed Rita not Helen and Helen was already gone when they returned the two
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limousine drivers ended up coming forward they said that when they went to use the toilet there was a man waiting
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in there he said to the drivers they tell me you can fall into Birds down here girls on the game one of the
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drivers answered yes but those two outside a booked they're waiting for us you'll have to wait your turn until we
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come back the drivers noted there was a two-ton Ford Granada parked at the block
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and do they assume that vehicle belonged to the man police were convinced this strange man was the killer and made
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house their house inquiries around the area in one of the houses a fourteen-year-old
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girl explained that around 9:00 p.m. on the night Helen was killed she'd gone to
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buy cigarettes for her mother from a nearby store while she was here a man in a two-ton Ford Granada stopped
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next to her and said how much for a short time love to which she replied [ __ ] off the driver left but before he
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did the girl wrote down his registration number on the pack of cigarettes she had
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just bought the problem was by the time police knocked on their door her mother had already smoked them and
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burnt the pack the officers pressed them hard to try and remember the registration between mother and daughter
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that were able to come up with a series of numbers the officers ran these numbers through the police national
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computer but they didn't get a match they tried flipping the numbers and tried different combinations until they
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eventually got a hit for a two-ton Ford Granada Oldfield held a press conference
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and asked the driver to come forward the appeal appeared in afternoon papers and
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on local TV news programs the driver responded almost immediately he called in to the police
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and said on the driver of the Ford Granada you're looking for I was down there that night but I'm not the
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murderer I left when I couldn't find a woman the call was being traced then the officers did their best to keep him
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talking they were trying to convince him to come to the police station to give a
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statement but the driver was having none of it he said look I'm not the murderer
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and I'm not coming to see you you'll have to [ __ ] find me and then hung up and find him they did he was in
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Sheffield about 30 minutes south of Huddersfield they entered his house and arrested him in front of his wife who
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had no idea what was happening he was questioned extensively but eventually eliminated from the
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investigation he had a solid alibi for nights of the other murders the police was sure there's someone out
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there had to know more so they announced a 10,000 parent reward for information that led to the capture and conviction
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of the Yorkshire Ripper additional money was put forward by a local paper and other individuals and the reward was
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eventually doubled to 20 there's a large amount of calls came in once the reward was announced detective
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dick Holland was able to cover two walls with a large map of Great Northern street and Gerard's timber yard he
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divided the map into 15-minute periods from 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. with all the witnesses marked on there 20
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officers were in charge of this map and they cross-checked every response from every witness throughout every minute of
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those two hours from this they got a description of a man seen standing at the entrance of the timber yard he was
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described as 30 years old well-built five feet eight inches tall wearing dark clothes police made a public appeal for
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him to come forward when he didn't oldfield was sure he was the killer he appealed to him directly in a TV address
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he said we are getting nearer and nearer to you and it's only a matter of time before you were caught in your own
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interests in the interests of the relatives and friends of past victims in the interests of your own relatives and
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friends and in the interests of any potential future victims it is now time for you to come forward and give
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yourself up the net is closing I'm anxious that we catch you before your turn to add another DEATH to the
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appalling catalog that you've already got to your credit unknown to Oldfield and everyone else the Ripper had already
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struck again Yvonne Pearson was a 21 year old mother of two young children in 1977 she'd been arrested while working
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on the streets of Menninger Bradford it was near the 21st of January 1978 Yvonne
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was still on bail for this arrest and was due to appear in the magistrate's court in a few days that evening Yvonne
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left her children with a babysitter while she had drinks at the Flying Dutchmen pub situated on Leeds Road at
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9:30 p.m. she told a friend she was going off to earn some money everyone was never seen again and was
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reported as a missing person a neighbor reported that a1 hadn't been looking very well lately and hadn't been
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eating because she was so worried about her court appearance she suggested that maybe a Vaughn had harmed herself or run
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away others said that a Vaughn might have gone to London to work but those who knew her best said a Vaughn idolized
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their children and would never just leave them plus she hadn't taken any of her belongings with her all she had was
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a small handbag and enough money for two drinks on Easter Sunday March 26 1978 two months after her disappearance a boy
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called police after he saw a human arm sticking out of a sofa in an abandoned area of Bradford John de Mol was no
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longer in charge of Bradford that role now belonged to and real a pitch the first thing he did was call forensic
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pathologist David G to the scene alopecia had no doubt Vaughn was a ripper victim and he wanted to main
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continuity in the investigation the first thing they noticed was that Yvonne had a copy of the Daily Mirror
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newspaper under her right hand the paper was dated the 21st of February 1978 one
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month after her disappearance they believed the Ripper had returned to the scene and placed the newspaper on
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purpose one factor that they kept secret was that Yvonne had a ball of horsehair
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placed in her throat to stop her from screaming black-ish believed that was a fact that only the killer would know so
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they kept it to themselves G wrote in his report so badly damaged was the head that in order to reconstruct the actual
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pattern of the fractures we had to rebuild the skull around a large ball of modelling clay so that it could be
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photographed in roughly the form it must have been at death G didn't find any stab wounds or gross internal bleeding
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like he did with the other victims G concluded that the head injuries were so severe that they couldn't have been
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performed with a hammer but it had to be something heavier he wasn't immediately sure whether to
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classify Yvonne as a Ripper victim but the detectives working the case had no doubts whatsoever
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police searched the Von's home and found her client book they appealed for the men to come forward but not too many did
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sex workers in Bradford were interviewed one of them said she's seen a Vaughn getting into a light-colored minivan
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that noise she disappeared all vehicles registered in Bradford that fitted that description were checked and were
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eventually eliminated another sex worker said that Yvonne was very careful before
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getting into any car so what happened was strange she added we're going to get a shock when they eventually catch him
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because we're sure he's going to be somebody we know and have seen around once or twice a week by near the Ripper
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investigation had been going for two and a half years it had cost around 1.5 million pounds adjusting overtime
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payments facilities and transport also crime in general had gone up 17% because of the amount of manpower and resources
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that were dedicated to the Ripper case and it wasn't over yet Vera Millwood was born in Spain she moved to Manchester in
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her teens and soon met a man whom she had five children with Vera later left the family home and started work as a
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sex worker in my sight Manchester's red-light district she formed a new relationship and had two children with a
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new partner they live together in a flat south of Manchester Bavaria was described as quiet and reserved and was
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the evening of May 16th 1978 Vera was suffering from stomach pains she said she was going to the pub to buy
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cigarettes and then she would go to Manchester hospital to get some tablets for the pain
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when Veera hadn't returned home after 90 minutes her partner when he had to look
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for her he couldn't stay out too long though as their children were alone in the flat
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at 11:15 p.m. a man heard two screams for help and been a third scream that was cut off halfway through the man was
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taking his son to Manchester hospital to get checked out and heard the screams in
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the ground somewhere he assumed it was just a patient carrying on and he didn't think too much more of it at 8:00 a.m.
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the next morning May 17th six gardeners arrived at the private wing of Manchester Hospital one of them saw what
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he thought was a store dummy lying on the ground as he got closer he realized that was the body of a woman Veera
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Millwood Jack Ridgeway who worked the previous Manchester murder of gene Jordan was in charge of the scene the
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first thing they found were tire tracks close by to Vera's body Vera had suffered three blows to the head most
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likely from a hammer these blows were extremely severe and would have caused death the wound on her chest was very
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extensive and was from a very large weapon approximately 8 inches long Vera had said she was no longer involved in
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sex work and hadn't been for around two years prior to her death however Ridgeway had his doubts the
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place where Vera was found despite being private grounds of a hospital was actually a common place
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where sex workers took clients of annoying plaster casts were made of the tire tracks located at the scene and
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they were laid a match to the tracks found at the crime scenes of Maryland Moore and Doreen Richardson the
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Yorkshire police were still convinced - those tires belonged to a Farina style of car based on their expert studies of
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the tires and based on Marilyn's description but Manchester experts conclusively
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ruled out the Farina the tires weren't available in that size for fariñas at the time of r-n Richardson's murder
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Yorkshire police were looking for the wrong type of car a few months after Vera's murder Ridgeway went to Leeds and
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told Oldfield about this discovery Ridgeway was quoted as saying I was convinced that George Oldfield was on
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the wrong track and I told him but he would not have it at any price the only concession Oldfield made was to have the
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tire evidence re-examined I told him we were not going to pursue the Farina inquiry but the West Yorkshire team
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continued to believe the killer had probably been using a Farina style of car the problem Oldfield had was that at
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this point he was already invested heavily on the fact that the Ripper was using a Farina car they had a master
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index of all Farina vehicles registered in the area every time an officer spotted a Farina that was pulled over
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and checked the tires were examined and any man driving the car who didn't have a strong alibi for one of the Ripper
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murder dates was considered a possible suspect once a car had been checked it was crossed off the master index but the
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Manchester Police conclusively ruled out the Farina there was a lot of wasted time going into that Farina inquiry
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after Vera's murder police had linked two other attacks to the Ripper both of these attacks occurred before the first
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murder of Wilma McCann Anna Raguse Key was born in 1941 in Ireland she had three brothers and eight sisters at the
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age of 15 she left school and moved to Bradford to live with her older sister she got married when she was 16 and
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divorced when she was 32 on Friday the 4th of July 1975 Anna had a fight with her new partner Jeff
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and I left her flat in Keighley Bradford and went to a club for drinks she returned home about midnight and saw
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that Jeff had packed up his belongings and left Jeff had his own flat in Kelly's town center at 2:00 a.m. and I
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went to Jeff's flat and started banging on his door but he refused to open it and I then took off one of his shoes and
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threw it at his window at 2:20 a.m. Anna was found in an alley only 20 meters away from Jeff's flat she was lying on
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her back with severe head injuries part of her clothing was disturbed and nothing was stolen and I required
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neurosurgery but was able to recover from the attack another attack occurred only six weeks after this olives smell
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was born in Halifax West Yorkshire she lived with her mother until she married at the age of 21 olive moved only a
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short distance away to live with her husband in the town above ndon in 1975 46 year-old olive was working as a
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cleaner she enjoyed going out for drinks with friends on Friday night after work
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on Friday the 15th of August she went to a pub called the white horse from there
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they went to another pub the Royal Oak they finished there about 11:30 p.m. two friends gave Oliver lift from the
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pub they dropped her about 400 meters away from their home she walked down Woodville Road and when she turned into
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a narrow lane she noticed a man walking just behind her he spoke to her and said
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weathers letting us down isn't it olive didn't respond the man hid olive to the back of her head knocking her to
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the ground only moments later a car approached the driver saw olive lying face down with her skirt pulled up the
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Ripper was nowhere to be seen the headlights of the car had scared him off and saved olives life the driver alerted
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authorities and olive was rushed to Leeds hospital Olive suffered two depressed fractures on her skull she
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also had two stab wounds on her lower back like the other Ripper attacks there were no signs of sexual assault
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and nothing was stolen although at one point olive wasn't expected to live she did survive Anna and olives attacks were
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officially added to the Ripper investigation three years later in August 1978 for the rest of 78 and the
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early months of 79 there were no new attacks had the Ripper moved away had he been arrested on another charge
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was he dead people started to wonder if the Ripper attacks were over they weren't Josephine Whittaker was born in
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December 1959 until the age of four Josephine lived with her mother and grandparents her mother remarried and
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had two sons with a new husband however they later divorced before Josephine's mother settled with a new men and they
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moved into a place together on Ivy Street in Halifax at the age of 18 Josephine finished
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school and started working as a clerk at the head office of the Halifax Building
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Society she also had a part-time job behind the bar at a hotel Josephine was kind
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thoughtful and considerate she loved horses and dreamed of getting married and starting a family she was
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briefly engaged at one point but it didn't work out more than anything Josephine loved her grandparents and
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visited them every Sunday without fail on Wednesday evening the fourth of April 1979 19 year-old Josephine finished work
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and headed home when she arrived home she had an argument with her mother the argument was over a fishtank Josephine
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owned and of the cost of electricity to maintain ten minutes into the fire Josephine
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stormed off to her bedroom and after an hour she put on a coat and left the house to walk to her grandparents her
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grandparents place was located about one mile away when Josephine arrived only her grandfather was home they chatted
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and watched television together at 9:00 p.m. the news came on the prime minister
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at Pakistan had just been executed Josephine got sad and told her grandfather nobody deserves to die like
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that no matter what they've done no one had the right to kill someone else even if they were murderers her grandfather
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then asked her what about the Yorkshire Ripper Josephine replied not even he should be
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killed when he was caught Josephine's grandmother arrived home about 11:00 p.m. they chatted briefly before
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Josephine said she was heading home her grandparents told her she should stay with them as it was getting late
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Josephine declined their offer and promised to see them that Sunday before heading out the door at 6:30 a.m. the
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next morning a woman on her way to work was waiting for a bus in free-school lane next to several park in Halifax she
00:32:30
first saw a Brienne leather shoe then she noticed what she thought was a pile of clothes but as she walked over to
00:32:36
investigate she realized that was the body of a woman Josephine Whittaker the first officer
00:32:45
who arrived noticed drag marks going from the end of several Park to where Josephine's body was found
00:32:51
Josephine's clothing had been disarranged and her injuries led the officer to have no doubt Josephine was a
00:32:57
Ripper victim he immediately called Oldfield to alert him Oldfield sent his second in charge d :
00:33:05
and forensic pathologist David G Josephine's thirteen year old brother was out delivering newspapers that
00:33:12
morning he rode past the crime scene and recognized Josephine shoes on the ground
00:33:18
he immediately raced home to raise the alarm Josephine's mother didn't believe it and
00:33:24
raced upstairs to check if Josephine in her bed when she wasn't she frantically caught the police Josephine
00:33:34
had several fractures on her skull which again she believed were caused by a hammer Josephine had also suffered
00:33:41
multiple stab wounds G determined these woman's had been caused by a new weapon that hadn't been used before the weapon
00:33:49
had caused triangular wounds with rounded corners GFE and tiny flecks of material from the weapon in some of the
00:33:56
wounds after a microscopic examination he saw these flecks were traces of a kind of emery powder which suggests that
00:34:05
the killer might be some kind of Engineering they also found another boot print next
00:34:11
to Josephine's body an industrial-sized seven boot the print was very similar to
00:34:17
the prints found at the crime scenes of Emilie Jackson and Patricia Atkinson but
00:34:21
on this particular print the sole was worn experts were consulted and did they determined that the Ripper operated
00:34:29
machinery of some kind further investigation revealed that this particular type of boot was issued to
00:34:38
the Army Air Force and - - Josephine also had a bite mark on her breast the mark suggests that two-g that the man
00:34:47
had a 1/8 of an inch of gap in his upper front teeth we need to go back to part one here we talked about a woman named -
00:34:56
Jane Harrison she was murdered in a garage at Preston police at the time considered the possibility she was a
00:35:03
ripper victim but ruled it out as there were too many inconsistencies no stab wounds being the main one
00:35:10
well they had since reviewed that decision and had now changed their minds John Harrison was now officially listed
00:35:18
as a Ripper victim and she had suffered a very similar bite mark on her breast she tried to discover the different
00:35:27
weapon that had been used in Josephine's murder he visited many different towns in West Yorkshire and collected
00:35:34
different types of tools from small engineering factories and from slaughterhouses the closest he got to
00:35:41
reproducing the stab wounds was with an engineer's scraper but not even that was
00:35:46
an exact match witnesses started to come forward with information about Josephine's murder one man said he'd
00:35:53
been out walking his dog shortly before midnight he saw a woman walking in the direction of civil Road with a man by
00:36:00
her side men hadn't shaven for four or five days and had stubble on his chin police believed this was the Ripper
00:36:09
another witness said he heard an unusual voice that night either a laugh or wail
00:36:15
the type of noise that makes your hair stand on end he followed this noise and looked over to where Josephine's body
00:36:22
was later found he saw a figure or figures 30 seconds later he heard the sound again the figure was still there
00:36:30
but the witness eventually decided not to make anything of it and went home to bed a woman came forward who was walking
00:36:39
to a bus stop in the city centre about 9:00 p.m. a man pulled up next to her out of nowhere driving a Ford Escort he
00:36:46
offered her a lift but quickly drove away when he saw a reaction the woman provided the following description of
00:36:54
the man aged around 30 greasy collar length hair cold at the ends with a square face and jaw and most importantly
00:37:02
she said he had a droopy Jason King style mustache the exact same description Marilyn Moore gave after her
00:37:09
attack police began searching for the Ford Escort but at the same time Oldfield was
00:37:16
downplaying the description at a press conference he said don't jump to the conclusion that this is the river there
00:37:24
was a lot more information that came in from the public as well 1000 calls offering information were registered
00:37:29
within the first few days this was a significant change from most of the other attacks Oldfield held another
00:37:37
press conference and gave the following profile of the river he said he was white between 30 to
00:37:43
35 years of age at least average to above average height a manual worker either skilled or semi schooled with an
00:37:52
engineering or mechanical connection possibly a skilled machine tool fitter electrical or maintenance engineer he
00:38:00
lives or works in West Yorkshire or in close proximity to that area and in all probability lives alone or with the aged
00:38:08
parents and he has some connections with the Northeast apart from giving out this
00:38:16
description detectives started contacting engineering companies in Yorkshire and the Northeast wanting to
00:38:22
know of any employees who were in Sunderland two hours north of Leeds on specific dates the 7th 8th 12th and 13th
00:38:31
of March 1978 and the 22nd and 23rd of March 1979 the reason they wanted to know these specific dates was because a
00:38:44
man claiming to be the Ripper had been sending letters this was a fact that hadn't been made public yet the police
00:38:51
decided to keep the information very guarded the letters were sent from Sunderland the first one was addressed
00:38:58
to George Oldfield at Red Deer sir I'm sorry I cannot give you my name for obvious reasons
00:39:06
I am the Ripper I've been dubbed a maniac by the press but not by you you call me clever and I am you and your
00:39:15
mates haven't a clue the letter went on to say that his sole purpose was to rid the streets of who he called [ __ ] and
00:39:23
that his only regret was 16 year old Jane MacDonald since he changed his routine that night he also teased the
00:39:31
Oldfield saying that they had forgotten to include Preston 75 which was referencing John Harrison's murder
00:39:37
he told Oldfield not to bother to look for him in Sunderland because that was where that letter was postmarked he
00:39:44
wasn't that stupid and he wouldn't send the letter from where he was he finished
00:39:49
with the last paragraph that read worn [ __ ] to keep off streets because I feel it coming on again sorry about
00:39:56
young lassie he always respectfully Jack the Ripper the second letter was sent a
00:40:04
few days later to the Daily Mirror newspaper and it was addressed to the editor in essence that said more or less
00:40:11
the same things and I'm using words that he used in his letter here he said he had already written to Oldfield and
00:40:18
warned him to tell the [ __ ] to get off the streets he also mentioned how [ __ ]
00:40:23
never learned and is still out there even after all the murders and since there were so many young girls he might
00:40:29
go for an older one next time perhaps in Manchester or Liverpool after these letters Oldfield was interested in two
00:40:37
references one made in each in the first letter it was the reference to Jane Harrison's murder since he was positive
00:40:45
that nobody had publicly linked to Joan to the Ripper murders in the second letter it was the reference of killing
00:40:52
an older victim in Manchester or Liverpool the letters were sent in early March 1978 and the next victim murdered
00:41:00
after these letters was 40 year old Vera Millwood in Manchester still even though
00:41:07
Oldfield considered these references important he didn't see many other clues at the time so he put them aside and no
00:41:14
one ever made public it wasn't until the third letter sent a year later in late March 79 that Oldfield decided to get to
00:41:23
the bottom of them the third letter arrived 12 days before Josephine's murder and it was again addressed to
00:41:30
Oldfield it was also sent from Sunderland the writer of the letter said that when he mentioned he'd striking
00:41:37
Manchester next and kill an older woman they should have listened he also said that before he killed Vera she mentioned
00:41:46
to him that she had previously been treated at the Manchester hospital this line was what struck a chord with
00:41:53
Oldfield he believed only the killer could have known that Vera had medical treatment at the hospital where she was
00:42:00
killed and Oldfield also thought back to the ref of John Harrison in the first letter
00:42:06
these two things combined with the fact that the author of the letter predicted a killing in Manchester of an older
00:42:13
woman led Oldfield to believe the letters were actually authentic and sent from the Yorkshire Ripper the envelope
00:42:23
was sent for forensic testing and traces of saliva showed that the envelope had been licked by a man who was blood group
00:42:30
B blood group B was found at the crime scene of John Harrison the letter also said he would strike again soon
00:42:38
and the Josephine Whitaker was murdered only 12 days later a bite mark was found
00:42:43
on her body that was very similar to a bite mark found on John Harrison this was all Oldfield needed he was now
00:42:50
convinced the letters were authentic and were sent by the Yorkshire Ripper in May
00:42:56
79 Oldfield announced they were close to catching him when Sunderland police heard that Oldfield now believed that
00:43:04
the Ripper had been in Sunderland because of the letters they sent detectives to West Yorkshire to be
00:43:09
briefed Oldfield explained to them the discoveries they had made with the blood group and the predictions that appeared
00:43:16
in the letters Sunderland officers were given the task of checking local firms for employees based in Yorkshire who
00:43:23
were in Sunderland when the letters were posted for each employee that was traced
00:43:28
a handwriting sample had to be obtained the sample was then sent off for analysis to be compared to the letters
00:43:34
received by the river in a matter of weeks 200 employees had been traced about one third of them provided a
00:43:42
statement and an alibi Sunderland police tried their best to pinpoint the exact location in
00:43:48
Sunderland where the letters were posted but this proved to be an impossible task
00:43:53
Oldfield steered the Ripper investigation full-swing into the letters and it wasn't long before he got
00:44:00
another package in mid June 1979 a tape arrived and was signed Jack the Ripper I'm Jack I see look at him
00:44:13
I have the greatest respect for you George with the Lord the one one neighbor touching me now I'm four years
00:44:23
ago when I started I reckon your bones are letting you down George they can't be much good and the the only
00:44:31
time they came near touching me was a few months back in seventh and when I was disturbed I want you in March that I
00:44:40
started the interview sorry it wasn't record I'm not quite sure when I strike again pudding will be definitely now
00:44:50
this year I'm not sure well maybe Manchester I like that there's plenty of them nothing about me you never learn do
00:45:01
there George I bet you've warned them would be never listen well it'd be nice chatting George does Chuck know about
00:45:11
him the tape had also been sent from Sunderland and the handwriting on the envelope was a match to the letters the
00:45:20
envelope had again been licked by a B group secrete off one curious detail found on the tape was that it had faint
00:45:29
scratches on the outer plastic surface which indicated the label had been scraped off the cassette had a small
00:45:36
hole on one edge and on the inside of this hole there were more scratches which indicated the cassette was opened
00:45:41
and reassembled there were gaps of silence during the talking and further analysis showed these gaps were because
00:45:48
the tape had been stopped and started on many occasions there was a chance that it had been produced on more than one
00:45:55
tape recorder at the very end of the recording there was a song for George Oldfield called thank you for being a
00:46:01
friend by Andrew gold on the 26th of June 1979 a press conference was held Oldfield played the tape for everyone in
00:46:12
the room and after it he announced this was the breakthrough they'd been looking
00:46:16
for he was so confident the tape was from the Ripper that he said I hope he sends his photograph next time with his
00:46:23
address on the back reporters commented that the me the tape had a Geordie sounding accent
00:46:30
that evening the tape was played across the country on radio and TV and a free phone number allowed people to call in
00:46:36
and hear it again in less than 24 hours 700 people had called hotlines in Halifax Leeds and Sunderland claiming
00:46:46
they knew who the voice belonged to and as time went on the number of people that caught in only grew this took up a
00:46:56
large amount of police time as every person that was named had to be checked out police - in local pubs offices
00:47:05
factories and social clubs playing the tape in the hope someone would recognise the voice Oldfield also released brief
00:47:13
extracts from the letters in the hope someone would recognize the handwriting the tape and letters worth played and
00:47:20
displayed all over the north of England when the letters were released detectives a christen from Sunderland
00:47:28
read a newspaper report where the journalist claimed these letters from the Yorkshire Ripper copied the style
00:47:34
and wording of the Jack the Ripper letters from the late 1800s Zack resan arranged to get copies of the
00:47:42
Jack the Ripper letters and upon studying them he realized the journalist was on to something so Zack erson did a
00:47:49
little more digging meanwhile a specialist team of 15 officers with training in handwriting analysis
00:47:56
screamed more than 100,000 written applications for local council houses and 7,500 letters from men on probation
00:48:04
if any writing was considered suspect then the samples were sent away for more expert analysis other officers were
00:48:13
placed in the main postal sorting offices of Sunderland they had to check every letter in case they found a new
00:48:19
Ripper letter this way they would be able to catch it before it was sent so they would be able to determine where
00:48:25
exactly it had been posted from they would end up checking a total of around 15 million letters Sunderland police and
00:48:35
West Yorkshire Police were taking different approaches during this phase of the investigation West Yorkshire
00:48:40
completely eliminated suspects from the investigation on the grounds that their voice and handwriting didn't match where
00:48:48
Sunderland police didn't eliminate them completely from the investigation they had the view that just because
00:48:55
somebody's handwriting didn't match the letters or the voice on the tape didn't mean that person wasn't the Ripper
00:49:02
Sunderland police weren't convinced the letters or the tape were authentic especially when they discovered the
00:49:09
similarities to the Jack the Ripper letters from the 1800s Oldfield though was certain and he continued full steam
00:49:17
ahead eliminating people based solely on the letters and tape Oldfield sought the
00:49:23
help of stanley Ellis who worked for the mi5 British security service he was an expert in phonetics and dialect
00:49:31
he toured the north of England with two tape recorders one he used to play people the Ripper tape the other he used
00:49:39
to record different dialects they went through small towns and villages until they reached two particular towns where
00:49:46
the residents recognized the dialect on the tape as their own these towns were Southwick and to castle town about 1
00:49:53
hour and 40 minutes north of Leeds Sunderland police began making house they house inquiries in those two towns
00:50:03
boyars Eckerson had done some more digging into the letters he found too alarming pieces of information the first
00:50:11
were numerous newspaper reports that had published the fact veeram Elwood had previously had an operation at
00:50:17
Manchester hospital where she was killed this was a fact that Oldfield believed only the killer could know but it was
00:50:25
actually common knowledge Zach resan also founded newspaper reports that had publicly discussed the
00:50:32
possibility of John Harrison being a victim of the river these reports were published one year before the letters
00:50:38
were sent again this was a piece of information that Oldfield said hadn't been made public yet and only the killer
00:50:46
could know and finally the Zach resan realized something that Oldfield and Dick Holland
00:50:52
and everybody else on their team had missed the first letter was sent in early March 78 it teased Oldfield saying
00:51:01
that he was wrong about there being seven Ripper murders they were actually eight because they had forgotten press
00:51:06
than 75 john harrison well what had been missed by everyone up to this point was
00:51:12
that if you included Jane Harrison's murder then there were actually nine von Pearson was killed in January 78 but her
00:51:21
body wasn't found until two months later after the first two letters had already
00:51:26
been sent if the letter Ryder really was the Ripper he would have known about it
00:51:32
Vaughn's murder and he would have included her murder on to his tally but he didn't mention it at all
00:51:38
proving he had no knowledge of Avon's murder until she was found Zach erson couldn't believe what he had found the
00:51:49
letters the tape they were hoaxes the problem was that Zach resan wasn't sure what to do with this information
00:51:56
he didn't want to make Oldfield or West Yorkshire police seem like fools they had made the letters and tape the
00:52:03
primary focus of the investigation at this point he ended up deciding to write a report
00:52:08
for his bosses and leave it up to them to decide what to do other Sunderland officers were convinced as a person was
00:52:16
right they started having friendly informal chats with their colleagues from West Yorkshire in the hope they
00:52:23
could make them see what was glaringly obvious and that it would in turn filter back to Oldfield they preferred this
00:52:30
approach than coming out publicly and humiliating Oldfield [Music] sundaland police had by now searched
00:52:38
around 5,000 homes in the area where they believed the dialect on the tape came from around 130,000 names had been
00:52:46
checked on birth registers and school registers with all these names they ran further checks to say any of those men
00:52:54
had later moved to Yorkshire and all that work had been for nothing it was based on a hoax in late August 79
00:53:04
George Oldfield suffered a heart attack and had to be hospitalized the investigation was wearing on him he
00:53:13
survived but two weeks later another victim was dead Barbara leach was born in Northampton she Barbara was a
00:53:24
dedicated student who strived to earn the best grade she could to qualify her for a good university she ended up being
00:53:31
accepted to Bradford University where she studied humanities and economics she also had a job she worked on weekends
00:53:38
and through uni holidays she enjoyed horse riding dancing and having fun with her close circle of friends on Saturday
00:53:47
night the 1st of September 1979 20 year-old Barbara went to the Manville arms parlor with a group of friends it
00:53:55
was located only around the corner from where she lived they finished up at the pub around
00:54:00
12:40 a.m. it started raining outside and one of Barbara's friends offered her a ride home
00:54:07
Barbara thanked her but said she felt like walking her friends waved goodbye and promised to catch up again soon
00:54:15
Barbara never made it home and was reported missing the next afternoon at 3:55 p.m. on Monday the 3rd of September
00:54:24
a police officer who was searching an open yard behind a house opposite Bradford University found a Barbara's
00:54:31
body under an old carpet covered by stones she'd been deliberately hidden by the
00:54:36
river the alarm was raised and when David G arrived he had difficulty moving Barbara's body due to the way she had
00:54:44
been hidden her clothes and bra had been pulled up and her jeans had been undone
00:54:49
like the other victims Barbara suffered fractures to her head and multiple stab wounds
00:54:54
she found black material in some of Barbara's wounds which he believed was grease she concluded that Barbara had
00:55:02
been hit in the head from behind with a hammer after that she was stabbed and then dragged to the place where her body
00:55:08
was found as oldfield was still recovering from his heart attack dick Holland now became the man in
00:55:15
charge another senior detective was brought in to assist Holland Peter Gill reign from Wakefield Gil reign believes
00:55:23
that someone must have seen the killer either approaching or leaving the area and he wanted to concentrate on
00:55:29
identifying witnesses and encouraging them to come forward the main witness for this murder reported seeing a man
00:55:37
putting some kind of bundle into a green Hillman Avenger that was parked near the
00:55:41
crime scene he was described as white in his early 30s with an athletic build short dark hair and a thin dark mustache
00:55:50
Barbara is investigation then went down the same path as the others police concentrated on the car but had no luck
00:55:57
identifying it they made numerous house-to-house visits interviewed a lot of people took a lot of statements and
00:56:04
it all led nowhere people started to doubt if the Yorkshire Ripper would ever be caught newspapers
00:56:11
started a campaign to have Scotland Yard called in to take over the investigation
00:56:16
Scotland Yard being the Metropolitan Police Service one of the largest police forces in the english-speaking world and
00:56:22
of the police force that covers most of London 1 Yorkshire detective replied to this campaign saying
00:56:29
Scotland Yard having caught Jack the Ripper yet what makes you think they will come up here and catch our
00:56:35
Yorkshire Ripper another newspaper donated a further five thousand pounds to the reward for the capture of the
00:56:42
Ripper the total reward now being 25 thousand pounds self-defence classes for women when they are taking off many
00:56:51
carried knives and other weapons for protection and many businesses made arrangements to transport female workers
00:56:57
at night people were terrified the Ripper was no longer solely targeting sex workers the
00:57:05
worrying thing now is that he's pulled out of the red-light areas where is operating in the past which makes it now
00:57:17
that any woman at risk dick Holland released the report to all police forces in England it included
00:57:27
detailed information on all Ripper attacks which now totaled 16 the report focused heavily on the tire tracks the
00:57:35
letters and the tape recording Yorkshire Police were still running with the theory that the letters in tape were
00:57:42
authentic the report also gave clear instructions as the winner suspect could be eliminated if he wasn't born between
00:57:50
the years 1924-1930 9 if his shoe size was 9 or higher if his blood group wasn't B if he didn't have a northern
00:58:00
accent or if his handwriting didn't match the Ripper letters many police disagreed with dick Holland and
00:58:08
considered it a disaster as tactic to eliminate people just because their handwriting didn't match or because they
00:58:15
didn't have the right accent especially considering what had been uncovered by Zack resan and it was only the day after
00:58:22
Holland released this report that the tape and the letters would finally fall apart once and for all a man with the
00:58:30
same voice as the one on the tape called Sunderland police and said tell him it's
00:58:35
a fake when he was asked what's a fake he replied the tape recording the call was then ended
00:58:43
and it was at this time that Zack resan completed his 9 page report titled commentary on the Ripper letters and
00:58:49
tape and it was also at this time that forensic officers 100% ruled out John Harrison as being a victim of the
00:58:57
Yorkshire Ripper so the evidence found at her crime scene from her killer that identified him as being blood group B
00:59:06
was no longer relevant to the Ripper she had a different killer after all this detective Gill rain acted fast in issued
00:59:16
instructions their suspects now could no longer be eliminated because of their accent or the fact they weren't blood
00:59:21
group B or because their handwriting didn't match but the damage had already been done it was a complete disaster and
00:59:29
unbelievably Ronald Gregory the Chief Constable of the West Yorkshire Police Oldfield's boss remained at the forum he
00:59:38
launched a massive publicity campaign which cost around 1 million pounds the campaign ran across newspapers TV and
00:59:46
radio and focused heavily on the letters and tape during this campaign that ran until the end of 79 300 newspapers rent
00:59:56
stories featuring the letters 5500 billboards were displayed featuring the writing on the letters and - the tape
01:00:03
was played nilly on a continuous cycle on radio and TV Gregory even organized their own
01:00:10
full-page newspaper to be printed featuring the information on the tape and letters two million copies of the
01:00:15
paper were distributed all over the north of England and of course all this new publicity created a massive response
01:00:23
from the public over 19,000 calls were registered in total and the information from all those calls had to be checked
01:00:30
out all this while other police were still trying to track down cars others were still out recording registrations
01:00:36
others were participating in the thousands of house-to-house door knocks and checking birth records and running
01:00:42
other checks the different police jurisdictions were eliminating suspects based on different criteria
01:00:48
was it the Bible to forensic scientists who had assisted in most of the murders up to this point
01:00:57
we're trying to help centralize the investigation again and get it back on track they put a chart up on the wall in
01:01:03
the main incident room the chart had two columns the first was titled what we know about the Ripper
01:01:11
the second was titled what we think we know about the Ripper in the first column there was nothing in the second
01:01:19
column there was very little at different times detectives would walk in see the chart on the wall and say bloody
01:01:28
hell you're right after he's failed publicity campaign with the letters and tape
01:01:34
Ronald Gregory went to Scotland Yard in London and met with the Metropolitan Police Commissioner the Commissioner
01:01:40
offered to send two of his top detectives to Leeds to give an objective opinion on the investigation the first
01:01:48
thing the to Scotland Yard detectives pointed out was that everyone was dealing with too much paperwork that had
01:01:54
been a direction of Oldfield when he first took charge of the investigation Scotland Yard recommended to streamline
01:02:00
the whole paperwork process they said detectives needed to be focused on the case not filing paperwork they also said
01:02:08
that suspects definitely should not be eliminated from the investigation just because their handwriting didn't match
01:02:13
the letters or their voice didn't match the tape finally they recommended that Oldfield be removed from the case
01:02:20
completely removing Oldfield was the only recommendation the Yorkshire Police took on board they still continued to
01:02:29
eliminate suspects because their handwriting or voice didn't match Peter Gill rain who had been called in to
01:02:36
assist dick Holland while Oldfield was in hospital was now put in overall command of the investigation
01:02:42
Oldfield returned to his assistant chief constables office in the New Year 1980 he no longer had anything to do with the
01:02:50
Ripper investigation his only hope being that he would see the Ripper court before he retired
01:02:57
meanwhile back in Manchester detective Jack Ridgeway was still investigating the Manchester murders he was still of
01:03:05
the belief that the best way to catch the Ripper was to follow the new five-pound note that was found at Jean
01:03:11
Jordans crime scene there were six thousand people that could have potentially been in possession of this
01:03:16
new note Ridgeway appealed to Kilrain to provide manpower to help him interview these people but Gil rein had no men
01:03:23
left the offer he told Ridgeway that if he could narrow down the list from 6,000 to something
01:03:30
more manageable than he might be able to help Ridgeway had a meeting with a senior
01:03:36
official from the Bank of England he wanted to understand the process through which the money was produced and then
01:03:42
distributed he had been able to work out that 25,000 pounds was distributed to the Midland Bank in Shipley and it was
01:03:50
from that 25,000 pound that the killer got the five pound note left that June Jordans murder that 25,000 pounds was
01:03:59
then sent to various businesses which was used for payroll but Ridgeway could only narrow it down to six thousand
01:04:05
employees from over a hundred companies who could have possibly been in possession of the note so seeing your
01:04:12
bank officials agreed to do something extraordinary to help the investigation they did an exact reprinting of the
01:04:19
bundle of five-pound notes that were sent to Midland Bank and Shipley two years prior
01:04:24
this would allow Ridgeway to follow the money from the very beginning Ridgeway met up with the chief cashier
01:04:31
of the Midland Bank at Shipley the cashier explained the process of how money in the bank was handled Ridgeway
01:04:38
then spent weeks working in secret from 5:00 p.m. until 11 p.m. every night reproducing the movements every cashier
01:04:45
in the bank made with the money when they got to the point where the reprint of jean jordan's five-pound note came
01:04:51
out of the bank Ridgeway followed the note and his plan paid off he was able to narrow the list
01:04:57
down from six thousand people to two hundred and forty-one a new line of inquiry was set up to
01:05:04
interview these two hundred and forty-one people Garre now agreed to provide manpower in the Manchester
01:05:10
detectives worked in pairs with West Yorkshire detectives Ridgeway instructed that houses garages and vehicles had to
01:05:19
be thoroughly searched and if anyone didn't satisfy them they could take them in for questioning people could only be
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eliminated if they had a verifiable alibi and Ridgeway was very clear on the fact that no suspect could be eliminated
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on the basis of handwriting or accent there was a promising lead Ridgeway had high hopes that would pay
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off but nothing came of it and the Ripper struck again Margaret walls was born in 1943 in Lincolnshire a few years
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later she moved with her family to Northern Ireland after school she had a few jobs before joining the woman's
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royal army courts she reached the rank of sergeant and left after five years at 25 she joined the civil service in
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Northern Ireland and Dement transferred to London from London she moved to Leicester she was in a long-term
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relationship with a man but never married from Leicester marguerite moved to putzie a town located between Leeds
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and Bradford on Wednesday the 20th of August 1980 47 year-old marguerite stayed back late at work she didn't
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leave her office until 10:45 p.m. Margaret's home was a 1 and a half mile walk away from her office but she never
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made it at 9:00 a.m. the next morning a couple in charge of the Clermont gardens
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in new street putzie entered the grounds 10 meters from the entrance they found a
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pair of women's shoes scattered throughout the grounds they also found a torn skirt a leather shopping bag and a
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checkbook alarmed the couple called the police the police found Marguerite next to a
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garage she was lying face down and virtually naked with more clothes lying by her side she also had a leg
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- marker around her neck Marguerite had bruising on her knuckles from punching her attacker
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she suffered two wounds to the head and three of her ribs were fractured but there were no stab wounds Marguerite had
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been strangled as a result of this murder a decision was made to abandon the covert operations that were still
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running in chapel town and Manning him the Ripper was clearly no longer looking for victims there much like the other
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murders the police came up empty and one month later the Ripper struck again open
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J Bend era was a doctor from Singapore that was attending lead to University for a postgraduate course in Health
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Service studies after she won a scholarship from the World Health Organisation have you at 11:00 p.m. on
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the 24th of September 1980 34 year-old a pager left her friend's house to make the walk back home as she was turning
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into Chapel lane she heard footsteps behind her she moved over to let the person walk by and as she was doing so
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she got a glance of a man with a beard suddenly she felt a thick rope around her neck and then lost consciousness
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when she woke up there was a policeman bending over her the headlights from the officers car had scared the Ripper off
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and save a Paget's life although the officer never actually saw the attack or the Ripper as he was too far away her
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pages head was bleeding and the cardigan she was wearing had been pulled up around her head she was taken to Leeds
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Hospital there was an arc shaped laceration to the back of the head caused by a hammer injuries to her face
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and bruising around her neck police came up empty and five weeks later the Ripper
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struck again an 8 p.m. on the 5th of November 1980 16 year old Teresa Sykes left her house to buy cigarettes at a
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store close to her home in Huddersfield as she was walking past the police station she noticed the men in a
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telephone box who wasn't using the phone she found it odd but didn't make too much more of it
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she bought the cigarettes and on her way back home she heard someone walking behind her when she turned around she
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saw it was the man she'd sing in the telephone box they men quickly veered onto a different path and walked off
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when he noticed the razor looking at him Theresa kept heading for home but it wasn't long until she noticed the shadow
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creeping up behind her Theresa was only just outside her house when she was struck in the head from behind Theresa's
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boyfriend James actually saw the attack he was looking out of the window at fireworks he ran out of the house and
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screamed Theresa the Ripper ran off but James gave chase when they reached the junction of streets James you're dear
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I'll [ __ ] kill you but he lost him not long after that meanwhile a neighbor heard the screams and walked outside to
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see what was going on when they found Theresa they picked her up and carried her inside the police were then called
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Theresa's head was covered in blood she was rushed to hospital and required brain surgery she remained in hospital
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for five weeks but survived deep Holland went to the scene and together with local officers and a police dog they
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conducted a search they picked up a bit of a scent but found nothing useful they
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refused to link to raise his attack to the ripper at that time detective stating it was a local incident and a
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local man was involved and all the talk that Theresa was attacked by the Ripper was just making it more difficult to
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catch her assailant but other detectives on the Ripper investigation had no doubt
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it was the work of the river they even told Teresa's parents this but told them not to go to the media with the
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information and 12 days later the Ripper struck again Jacqueline Hill was from Middlesbrough
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one hour and 20 minutes north of Leeds she was a Sunday school teacher and was interested in pursuing a career in
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social work she was engaged to be married to an RAF technician and was thought of as kind-hearted someone who
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thought the best of everyone and had nothing but love to give on Monday the 17th of November 1980 20 year-old
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Jacqueline was returning home from a seminar she was on the number 1 bus which left her outside the Arndale
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Centre in Headingley close by de where she lived but she never made it home at 10 p.m. that night a man fee under
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Jacqueline's handbag inside was some money and Jacqueline's university card the student tried to hand her handbag
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into the University Office but no one was there so he took it home with him when he got home he had another look
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inside the bag and this time he found a blood he immediately called the police the call was logged at 12:03 a.m. the
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sergeant on duty made a comment this will be the Ripper's 13th victim at 12:12 a.m. - officers inspected the area
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where Jacqueline's handbag had been found they didn't find anything and at 12:30 a.m. they were called away to
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another job at 10:00 a.m. later that morning a shop manager who was entering the car park
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behind at the shopping complex at the Arndale Centre found Jacqueline lying on her back with the jeans pulled down and
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a coat covering her when David G arrived at the crime scene he saw her bra had been pulled up and a silver heart-shaped
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locket was in her hair if he owned several lacerations to her head made with a hammer and in numerous stab
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wounds believed to be either from a chisel or a screwdriver G believed the actual place she was killed was 30
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metres away the Ripper had been dragged her into the car park the sergeant on duty who answered the call that night
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was right Jacqueline was the Ripper's 13th murder victim witnesses came board and police chased more leads this time
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looking for a square-shaped car and a man wearing a black jacket with a mustache but nothing ever came of those
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leads the media heavily criticized the police with this one the place where the two officers were searching where
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Jacqueline's handbag was found was very close to where her body was later found the public joined in on the criticism
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and there were actually protests begging Scotland Yard to take over the case Ronald Gregory came out and said these
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protests were only undermining the morale of the force Doreen Hill Jacqueline's mother made a
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television appeal she said I want to ask everyone not just in Leeds or around Leeds but all over the country to help
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us find the person who killed my daughter please think perhaps he lives in your house he could live in a mansion in a
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block of flats or down the street he lives somewhere he works for someone please think the biggest reaction to
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this appeal came from Margaret Thatcher England's Prime Minister she called the Home Secretary and offered to go to
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Leeds and take over the investigation because it was clean nobody else cared about these murders the Home Secretary
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is a senior member of government responsible for crime he tried to calm me down and ended up making some calls as a
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result there was another change detective Jim Hobson who had been in charge much earlier on in the
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investigation was now officially back in charge four of the best detectives in England were hand-picked and sent to
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Leeds to assist Hobson along with the leading forensic scientists in England this new team were referred to as the
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best brains in the Police Service Hobson also consulted with Scotland Yard again and this time he took on board
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their recommendations information was prioritized and the dedication the paperwork collecting was cut back the
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first thing the new team of detectives did was to officially declare the letters and the tape a hoax but because
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the letters and the voice were so deeply ingrained into people it was actually hard to convince them that it was a hoax
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they had to try and work out a way to convince people to stop looking for that voice the next thing they did was a tour
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through all of the crime scenes from this they came to the conclusion that the Ripper was from Bradford they
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believed Barbara leaches murder was an opportunistic attack while he was standing at the scene one of the
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detectives said the Ripper lives in Bradford and he did it going home the forensic scientists then drew up a
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map which he believed show geographically the river was from Bradford Bradford was at the center of
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all of the attacks what they referred to as the centre of gravity at that time that wasn't a common tool used by
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investigators but today it is widely used it's something the police did back in the Frankston serial killing case we
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covered the idea is that killers use a certain distance to move from one killing to another and that the more
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they kill the closer to home they tend to get their house tends to be at the center of gravity right in the middle
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another thing they noticed was that the attacks that happened near Bradford were
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done later at night whereas the attacks that happened further away were committed earlier establishing that the
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Ripper did them earlier because he knew he needed the time to return home in order not to raise any suspicions
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the team presented this theory to Ronald Gregory just before Christmas December 1980 they also made 14 other key
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recommendations for the entire investigation they were right the Ripper was from Bradford but would Gregory
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listen would the Ripper be stopped before he had a chance to kill again well I think the time had come you might
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say the time had come a few murders ago but it's certainly come for a rethink about the whole investigation and
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