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  Peter Sutcliffe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter William Sutcliffe (born June 2, 1946), infamous as the "Yorkshire Ripper", was convicted in 1981 of the murders of thirteen women in the north of England and attacks on seven more from 1975 to 1980.
Sutcliffe was born in Bingley, West Yorkshire, the son of a mill-worker.
Sutcliffe attacked Olive Smelt (aged 46) in Halifax in August with the same MO and again was disturbed and left his victim badly injured.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Sutcliffe   (3162 words)

  
 Peter Sutcliffe, Britain's famous Yorkshire Ripper, serial killer - The Crime Library
Peter William Sutcliffe was the first-born son of John and Kathleen Sutcliffe.
Peter continued to be devoted to his mother all through his teen years and would happily run errands for her and spend a great deal of time with her.
Peter had succeeded in creating a public persona that was exemplary, described by many as hard working and quiet, a caring and loving husband who kept to himself with no outward signs of the violence and depravity he had hidden deep within him.
www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/sutcliffe/mask_1.html   (1828 words)

  
 Case File - Peter Sutcliffe
Sutcliffe was questioned and told them that his full name was Peter William Sutcliffe, and that he had got the number plates from a scrapyard in West Yorkshire.
Sutcliffe said his main reason for murdering was revenge on prostitutes because one cheated him out of 10 pounds, he was later to change his motives.
Sutcliffe told them that when he was working at Bingley Cemetery he heard gods voice emanating from a gravestone which commanded him to kill prostitutes, even though not all of his victims were prostitutes.
www.fortunecity.com /roswell/streiber/273/sutcliffe_cf.htm   (3535 words)

  
 yorkshire ripper, the interviews
Vera Millward's body was found in the grounds of the Royal Infirmary in Manchester there was blanket publicity immediately and Sonia, who was aware that Sutcliffe was a Ripper suspect, satisfied herself that he was with her at Rockafella's disco in Leeds at the crucial time of the murder, only the previous day.
Sutcliffe was being baited by the Ripper and he knew it.
It should be noted that all of Sutcliffe's murders and attacks are fully corroborated by both the known facts before his arrest and by his statements, whereas with the Ripper murders his confessions are at odds with the known facts and his statements are way off beam.
yorkshireripper.com /interviews.htm   (1760 words)

  
 The Wacky World Of Murder: Peter Sutcliffe
Sutcliffe killed her just 100 yards from her home.
Pete had actually put a piece of paper over her head as it was in a bit of messy state.
He was one of the earlier ones that I read about and always did it for me. While I personally hated the way he acted insane afterwards, I can't seem to dislike him for it.
www.users.on.net /~bundy23/wwom/sutcliffe.htm   (794 words)

  
 Dedicated to Peter Kürten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dedicated to Peter Kürten is the fourth album by Whitehouse released in 1981 by Come Organisation (later reissued by Susan Lawly).
The opening song features a chilling sample of a news man reporting on the serial killer capture Peter Sutcliffe for the "Ripper Territory" killings.
Dedicated to Peter Kürten was originally limited to 900 copies on vinyl, with the first edition consisting of 500 copies and 400 copies for the second edition on the group owned record label Come Organisation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dedicated_to_Peter_K%C3%BCrten   (252 words)

  
 The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe - Articles - ??/??/?? - Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper
Sutcliffe was interviewed by police at the time but provided what seemed like a perfectly good alibi - he and his wife had been hosting a housewarming party.
Sutcliffe had even warned his own sister of the dangers of going out alone at night and would often give her a lift.
Sutcliffe was sent to Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight, but was later transferred to Broadmoor secure hospital in Berkshire in 1984 after a fellow inmate at Parkhurst jail slashed him with a broken coffee jar.
www.bernardomahoney.com /forthcb/pdt/yrarticles/pstyr.shtml   (1884 words)

  
 ATTACKS ON PETER SUTCLIFFE
Peter Sutcliffe was cross-examined by Peter Ader, for the defence.
Peter Sutcliffe, who spent over two hours in the witness box, stated he had been a victim of a carefully planned attack carried out by Costello "in seven seconds" with a broken coffee jar which had scarred his face and neck.
Sutcliffe found one and gave it to him and that was the end of that.
www.execulink.com /~kbrannen/attackps.htm   (4852 words)

  
 Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper
Sutcliffe’s story was that he was "Peter Williams" and he was just out with his girlfriend.
When Sutcliffe was told that he was in serious trouble, he suddenly admitted that he was the Ripper, and confessed to the murders.
Sutcliffe was formerly employed as a grave digger, and claimed that gods voice emanated from a grave and ordered him to kill prostitutes.
www.fortunecity.com /roswell/hammer/73/sutcliffe.html   (1095 words)

  
 BBC - Crime Case Closed - The Yorkshire Ripper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sutcliffe stated in his confession that she got out, unfastened her trousers and snapped: "Come on, get it over with." "Don't worry, I will," Sutcliffe mumbled as he reached for his hidden hammer and began battering Wilma.
Sutcliffe was interviewed by police at the time but provided what seemed like a perfectly good alibi, he and his wife had been hosting a housewarming party.
Sutcliffe lost the sight in his left eye as a result of the attack.
www.bbc.co.uk /crime/caseclosed/yorkshireripper1.shtml   (1887 words)

  
 BookRags: Peter Sutcliffe Biography
By sheer chance, police arrested Sutcliffe as he was in the act of soliciting a prostitute to be his fourteenth victim.
On January 2, 1981, Sutcliffe was apprehended in Sheffield with a prostitute, and, a short time later, police found his knife and hammer near the scene.
Failing to convince a court of insanity, Sutcliffe was convicted of thirteen murders and seven attempted murders.
www.bookrags.com /biography/peter-sutcliffe-cri   (498 words)

  
 The Real Yorkshire Ripper.... Peter Sutcliffe
Peter's 1st police interview about the £5.00 note found in Jean Jordan's purse.
Trevor Birdsall, Sutcliffe's close friend who was in his car the night he assaulted Olive Smelt and saw him tip a blood-stained stone from a sock.
Then the murder of Irene Richardson in the same Roundhay Park by Tracey followed by massive publicity must have affected him greatly given that Sutcliffe's crimes received little or no publicity, particularly as Claxton was hardly mentioned until after his arrest, but Tracey would have been aware of it from the start.
www.yorkshireripper.co.uk /hyper/005.htm   (1758 words)

  
 The Biography Channel - Peter Sutcliffe Biography
Peter Sutcliffe was a quiet and shy child whose school grades were poor and he left school at the age of fifteen, drifting in and out of a number of jobs, including a three year stint as a gravedigger.
A lorry driver at the time, Sutcliffe was interviewed by the police on several occasions, before a routine check on a car registration led to his arrest in 1981.
Sutcliffe had not been allowed to attend his funeral at the time of his death.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/705:0/Peter_Sutcliffe.htm   (433 words)

  
 Peter William Sutcliffe: Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A bite mark on her breast showed that her killer had a gap in his teeth, and saliva found on the body showed that the killer was a blood group B secretor.
When Peter Sutcliffe was arrested he steadfastly denied this murder, and continues to deny it to this day.
Sutcliffe is not a blood group B secretor, although he has blood group B. Therefore, the writer had the attention of the police.
www.serialkillers.nl /peter-william-sutcliffe/wearside-jack.htm   (2413 words)

  
 BBC News | UK | What do women see in Peter Sutcliffe?
Peter Sutcliffe must appear to be the ideal pen pal to the string of women who write to him.
Twenty years ago this month, Sutcliffe was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years for brutally murdering 13 women.
Professor Clarkson says some may fantasise that a man like Sutcliffe may be the way he is because he has yet to be loved by the right person - and they may well be the one.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1318641.stm   (743 words)

  
 The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe - Articles - 20/01/05 - Home Office defends Yorkshire Ripper's day visit
Sutcliffe, who received 20 life sentences in 1981 for the murder of 13 women and the attempted murder of seven others, left the secure mental hospital to be taken to Arnside, Cumbria on Monday.
Travelling in a high-security van, Sutcliffe was accompanied by four nurses during the 540-mile round trip.
The MP for Bromsgrove, who went to school with one of Sutcliffe's victims, called Mr Clarke's decision "grossly insensitive to the many families in West Yorkshire who are still grieving over the brutal deaths of their loved ones at the hands of this animal".
www.bernardomahoney.com /forthcb/pdt/yrarticles/hodyrdv.shtml   (893 words)

  
 CrimeLibrary.com/Serial Killers/Sexual Predators/Peter Sutcliffe: Britain's Famous Yorkshire Ripper
Sutcliffe was sent to Broadmoor after being diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.
Curry told the BBC that Sutcliffe was always in the company of a man with a Wearside accent who she believes could have been his accomplice in many of the murders.
Peter Sutcliffe, the psychopath who is so expert in conning women, leads them on with phrases like "You are a breath of fresh air" and "I like this cloud nine thing with you."
www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/sutcliffe/update.html   (1203 words)

  
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Sutcliffe's first attacks on women, in July and August 1975, were unsuccessful in that both his victims managed to survive the crushing blows of hammers to their skulls, the slashes he inflicted on their torsos after they were down.
October was a better month for Peter; on the 29th he slaughtered prostitute Wilma McCann, in Leeds, and thus officially began the Ripper's reign of terror.
The latest victim's mutilations were familiar to police, but Sutcliffe also stabbed her in the eye, unsettled by the corpse's "reproachful stare." On January 2, 1981, police arrested Sutcliffe, with a prostitute, in one of several areas that had been subject to surveillance through the manhunt.
www.crimezzz.net /serialkillers/S/SUTCLIFFE_peter_william.php   (844 words)

  
 The Biography Channel in Canada :: Peter+Sutcliffe
The sordid story of England's Peter Sutcliffe, who murdered 12 women, often with a hammer.
While a teenager, he discovered that his mother had an affair with a policeman, an event that may have fueled his anger toward women.
But when he was finally caught, Sutcliffe told police that his motive was retaliation against a prostitute who had cheated him out of 10 pounds.
www.thebiographychannel.ca /tv/?Peter+Sutcliffe   (88 words)

  
 MURDER IN THE UK  -  YORKSHIRE RIPPER - PETER SUTCLIFFE
Between 1975 and 1984 Sutcliffe was known as the "Yorkshire Ripper" as he terrorized prostitutes around Northern England with his hammer and other instruments of torture.
On March 10, 1997 Sutcliffe was stabbed in both eyes by a fellow inmate during a fight at the Broadmoor Hospital.
It is believed that Sutcliffe was in his room in Henley Ward when he was attacked.
www.murderuk.com /serialkillers/petersutcliffe.htm   (420 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Relief of Ripper victims' families
Relatives of those killed by the real Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, have spoken about the effect Humble's actions had on them.
The tapes, made 27 years ago, still live in the memory of Richard McCann, whose mother Wilma was the first woman to be killed by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe.
Beryl Leach, whose daughter Barbara was killed by Sutcliffe, described Humble as a criminal and said she was happy someone had been held responsible for the hoax.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4826076.stm   (396 words)

  
 TIME.com: "How Say You?" -- May 11, 1981 -- Page 1
The attraction for curiosity seekers was Peter Sutcliffe, 34, a softspoken, bearded truck driver from the West Yorkshire mill town of Bradford, who seemed an unlikely focus for the notoriety surrounding the "Yorkshire Ripper" murder cases.
Despite Sutcliffe's admission of guilt on the seven charges of attempted murder and 13 of manslaughter, his trial was far from over.
Whether Sutcliffe goes to prison or to a prison hospital, it is certain he will not have to face execution.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,949128,00.html   (495 words)

  
 The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutchiffe
Peter would not grow to be a mans man like his father.
Peter, her life would never be the same after that night.
Peter had dropped hit the ground; he told her it was his wallet.
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 Peter Sutcliffe (The Yorkshire Ripper). (Page 5)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
She had been partially undressed, struck twice in the head, and suffered 14 post-mordem stab wounds.
In addition to these murders, two separate deaths are now being attributed to him: Marguerite Walls and Upahhya Bandara, both in 1980.
Peter Sutcliffe was found guilty, sane, and sentenced to life in prison.
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 Sutcliffe Family Crest
Sutcliffe is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the family once having lived in the area known as Sutcliffe which had three locations in the county of Yorkshire.The surname Sutcliffe is a habitation name that was originally derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads.
In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
In the Sutcliffe coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/sutcliffe-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224   (623 words)

  
 THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER WEBSITE
Olive Curry's appeal for information from anyone who may have seen Peter Sutcliffe with a Sunderland man during the summer of 1978.
"Since my childhood I have often wondered how the other families, who were affected by the actions of Peter Sutcliffe, had coped with their own loss but that was as far as it went.
In recent years I have become involved in the organisation SAMM (Support after Murder and Manslaughter) and have recently discovered how priceless the support, friendship and understanding can be, whilst speaking to someone who has suffered a loss in the same way.
www.execulink.com /~kbrannen   (384 words)

  
 Peter Sutcliffe - DeathList Forum
Sutcliffe, whom had worked as a gravedigger, had claimed that 'voices' emanating from the gravestone of a deceased Polish woman had ordered him to kill prostitutes.
Further, Sutcliffe told the hushed court that the voice he had heard was that of God.
All hail the mighty Peter Sutcliffe....the prince of English murder, get well soon..there are people thinking of youxx
www.deathlist.net /forums/index.php?showtopic=1503   (655 words)

  
 Peter Sutcliffe
The police did find it, and he was interviewed regarding it, along with other employees in the same company, but he was not under suspicion.
Sutcliffe was finally caught, whilst he was in the company of another prostitute, probably destined to be his next victim - Olive Reivers.
Police driving past decided his number plates looked dodgy, and they came up as stolen.
web.ukonline.co.uk /ruth.buddell/sutcliffe.htm   (243 words)

  
 Ripping Into Pieces (Peter Sutcliffe) by Church of Misery: Song Music Downloads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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