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	BBC Inside Out - Sunderland Jack
		The Yorkshire Ripper was the most notorious serial killer of recent decades, and launched the biggest manhunt in British history in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
		Twenty five years after the Yorkshire Ripper was caught, we're still no nearer to finding out who was behind the hoax tapes and letters sent to the Police.
		He was the Yorkshire Ripper's accomplice, and he may have even committed some of the murders.
	www.bbc.co.uk /insideout/northeast/series2/sunderlandjack_ripper_crime.shtml (922 words)

	Yorkshire Ripper claims 12th victim - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		- A killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper today claimed his 12th victim with the brutal murder of a girl student.
		He has succeeded in evading capture during a four year reign of terror, and detectives at the centre of one of Britain's biggest manhunts issued a warning that no woman was safe to be out on the street at night on her own.
		Her mutilated body was found on the fringes of the city's red light district but unlike 8 of the Ripper's other victims she had no links with vice.
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /years/1979/yorkshireripper.htm (151 words)

	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.
		On 20 October, 2005, John Humble, an unemployed alcoholic and long-time resident of the Ford Estate area of Sunderland (a mile away from Castletown), was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice in response to the sending of the hoax letters and tape, and remanded in custody.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yorkshire_Ripper (3120 words)

	Ripper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ripper is a proposed spin-off series from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, starring Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles.
		A ripper is a piece of additional heavy equipment on the rear of a bulldozer or grader to break up pavement (roads) or rocky soil.
		Rippers were a race of mutant kangaroo-human hybrids in the graphic novel/movie Tank Girl.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ripper (373 words)

	Peter Sutcliffe, Britain's famous Yorkshire Ripper, serial killer - The Crime Library
		On Friday, 2 January 1981 the Yorkshire Ripper’s five-year reign of terror came to an end.
		It was incomprehensible to them that the Peter William Sutcliffe that they knew and loved could possibly be responsible for the heinous crimes of the Yorkshire Ripper.
		As they took him home from the hospital, both parents were confidant that their son would grow to be like his father, a burly man who loved to play and watch any type of sport and an extrovert who loved a drink at the local pub.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/sutcliffe/mask_1.html (1527 words)

	Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer pleads guilty \| 24dash.com - Communities
		Ripper squad detectives wasted huge amounts of time and effort when they concentrated on the Sunderland area and searched for a man with a distinct Wearside accent after receiving the hoax letters and tapes.
		Since the real Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, was arrested in 1981, a whole range of theories have been put forward about the identity of the letter writer, but in that time the police appeared to have few, if any, solid leads until John Humble's shock arrest last year.
		West Yorkshire Police were even forced to admit the three letters sent by the mystery taunter had been destroyed by chemical processes and the tape had been lost.
	www.24dash.com /content/news/viewNews.php?navID=7&newsID=4004 (789 words)

	Yorkshire - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Yorkshire produces the best Yorkshire puddings and is populated with 'Tykes', a local variation of the human, which say things like 'S'thee', 'ecky thump' and 'By, thats a nice cuppa char' (the regional beverage consists of hot water and coal, which is the staple business, export and crop).
		Yorkshire has no formal administrative capital, and the title of 'Capital of All This Dahn Ere' is claimed by Leeds, Wakefield, Sheffield, Bradford, Rotherham, Harrogate, York, Huddersfield, Halifax, Ilkley and Doncaster.
		Yorkshire is the largest county of England, and stretches from Wales to one side, all the way to the North Sea on the other.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Yorkshire (1770 words)

	Peter Sutcliffe - Monstropedia - the largest encyclopedia about monsters
		Peter William Sutcliffe (born June 2, 1946), infamous as the "Yorkshire Ripper", was convicted in 1981 of the murders of thirteen women and attacks on seven more from 1975 to 1980.
		On 20 October, 2005, John Humble, an unemployed alcoholic and long-time resident of the Ford Estate area of Sunderland (a mile away from Castletown), was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice in response to the sending of the hoax letters and tape, and remanded in custody.
		Despite the passage of twenty-five years since the Ripper murders, Sutcliffe's visit was still the focus of front-page tabloid headlines, and also attracted the attention of the BBC, who published an articleon the matter on its website.
	www.monstropedia.org /index.php?title=Peter_Sutcliffe (2618 words)

	Peter Sutcliffe Summary
		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.
		On 20 October, 2005, John Humble, an unemployed alcoholic and long-time resident of the Ford Estate area of Sunderland (a mile away from Castletown), was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice in response to the sending of the hoax letters and tape, and remanded in custody.
	www.bookrags.com /Peter_Sutcliffe (3442 words)

	Yorkshire Ripper,Peter Sutcliffe, Aftermath
		The Ripper keeps his distance from the author because he knows he would be shot on sight.
		When Sutcliffe was ordered to remove his clothes in the police station that night of his arrest and was revealed to be wearing no underpants, only this pair of leggings with his crotch open I am sure the police who witnessed him must have broken down laughing at the lunatic in front of them.
		Ron Warren former Deputy Chairman of the West Yorkshire police authority who supports Noel O'Gara and reaffirms on Yorkshire Television on 30th October 2006 that he and the other members were well aware from police briefings that there were two killers involved in the Ripper frame prior to the arrest of Peter Sutcliffe.
	www.yorkshireripper.com /aftermath.htm (1034 words)

	Case File - Peter Sutcliffe
		It was no doubt the Yorkshire Ripper - a size seven wellington boot print had been left on one of the bed sheets, the same as the one left at the crime scene of Emily Jacksons murder.
		Helen Rytka probably thought the chance that he would be the Ripper would be one in a billion, so she climbed into his Ford and he drove to a timber yard near a railway line.
		The police called the Ripper Squad and found out that he was a possible suspect and when they told them that they had Sutcliffe in custody, Detective Boyle of the Ripper squad decided to travel to Dewsbury to Question him.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/streiber/273/sutcliffe_cf.htm (3517 words)

	Sky News - 'I Am Wearside Jack'
		Police hunting for the Ripper in the late 1970s received a tape and three letters from a man claiming to be the killer.
		In the late 1970s and 1980 the Ripper murders brought terror across the north of England and there was huge pressure on the West Yorkshire Police murder team, headed by Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield.
		The veteran detective said he was sure it was the voice of the Ripper and a huge police effort was directed to the Sunderland area, with a linguistics expert pinpointing the former pit village of Castletown.
	news.sky.com /skynews/article/0,,70131-1213242,00.html?f=rss (382 words)

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		POLICE have arrested a suspect in the hunt for the hoaxer behind the notorious letters and tape from "Wearside Jack" claiming to be the Yorkshire Ripper.
		Last night a West Yorkshire Police spokesman said in a short statement: "Officers from West Yorkshire this afternoon travelled to the Sunderland area where they arrested a 49-year-old local man on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
		A huge publicity campaign was launched, in the belief the man was the Ripper, urging people to study handwriting in the letters and to listen to the tape on a special telephone number.
	www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk /ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1224974 (1075 words)

	Observer - Hua Hin and Cha-am Stories and articles.
		This is an odd note from anyone, but this man turned out to be the infamous ‘Yorkshire Ripper'; a maniac who murdered and horribly mutilated thirteen women and grievously injured seven others in his five-year reign of terror in the county of Yorkshire in northern England.
		The murders began in October 1975 with the killing of Wilma McCann, a 28-year-old night cruiser whose corpse, battered by hammer blows to the head and her eyes pierced by stab wounds made by a sharpened screwdriver, was discovered in a playing field in Leeds.
		Families of the Ripper's victims were deeply offended by her actions and attempted to bring out injunctions against publication of such newspaper disclosures as, ‘Sun Exclusive: My life with The Yorkshire Ripper by Sonia Sutcliffe'.
	www.observergroup.net /ob124back/stories.htm (4275 words)

	CrimeLibrary.com/Serial Killers/Sexual Predators/Peter Sutcliffe: Britain's Famous Yorkshire Ripper
		The task force responsible for the investigation into the Yorkshire Ripper murders was not aware of Trevor Birdsall's letter or his report.
		His statement that, although the Yorkshire Ripper probably had a Geordie accent, police should not eliminate a possible suspect on those grounds was to prove a vital influence on the arrest of Peter Sutcliffe in January 1981.
		The officers were familiar with the five points of reference for the elimination of suspects in the Yorkshire Ripper case but were not fazed by the lack of Geordie accent.
	crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/sutcliffe/unmasked_12.html (2676 words)

	Wicked Beyond Belief: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper Book at Shop Ireland
		He backs all of this up with detail of Yorkshire life and policing, and portraits of the officers involved in the case to provide a thorough study of how events unfolded.
		The real Ripper who had diverted the hunt on to his copy cat by his letters and tape recorded message to George Oldfield achieved his objective because he alone knew how corrupt people like Holland were and how they were simply interested in getting a conviction at all costs.
		He remains free and lives in the UK today while the public believe that the Ripper is in jail rather than a disturbed copycat killer who was actually driven to commit murder in order to prove to the police that he was the Ripper.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/0007169639 (1673 words)

	Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper
		The reign of terror by the man who became known as the Yorkshire Ripper began on 29 October 1975, with the murder of Wilma McCann, and ended on 2 January 1981, when Peter Sutcliffe was arrested in Sheffield with a prostitute who was almost certainly intended as his Fourteenth murder victim.
		The Ripper claimed a few more girls in the on going months when on the 1 October he encountered a twenty-year-old Scots girl, Jean Jordan, and took her to the Southern Cemetery.
		The Ripper decided to move to Huddersfield to find his next victim, he felt that police activity in Leeds was becoming too intensive.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/hammer/73/sutcliffe.html (1077 words)

	New Statesman - The night of the hunter. Should the Yorkshire Ripper really be in Broadmoor? Or was he not mad at all, ...
		Wilkinson's injuries initially caused police to think that she was the sixth victim of the Yorkshire Ripper.
		But George Oldfield, then head of the Ripper Squad, changed his mind and, deprived of manpower by the hunt for the murderer, the Wilkinson inquiry was delegated to two inexperienced detectives.
		Further public doubts about the West Yorkshire Police and their investigation into the Ripper case were not assuaged, either, by Home Office insistence that the Byford report remain an unpublished and classified document.
	www.newstatesman.com /200303240036 (2426 words)

	Yorkshire Ripper hoax suspect arrested after 25 years \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		West Yorkshire police have several times officially announced they had abandoned their hunt for the hoax perpetrator.
		He said that 40,000 people had been interviewed in an attempt to identify the tape; speech experts from Glasgow University had detected a hidden stammer, and a mispronunciation of the letter 's', but were very surprised that no one recognised the voice and came forward.
		A West Yorkshire investigation in 1987 found no evidence to support repeated allegations the hoaxer was a disgruntled police officer.
	www.guardian.co.uk /crime/article/0,2763,1595546,00.html?=rss (616 words)

	Yorkshire Ripper British Police Files
		The Yorkshire Ripper case was one of the largest police investigations in the history of England.
		In what was to become a standard Ripper trademark, McCann's clothing had been disturbed so that before the stab wounds were inflicted the whole of her torso was displayed.
		The opinion of the pathologist was that the victim had been struck with the hammer whilst in a standing position and that the subsequent injuries were inflicted as she lay disabled and unconscious on the ground.
	paperlessarchives.com /yorksire_ripper.html (1778 words)

	Ripper may have attacked more - World - smh.com.au
		The serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper probably committed more attacks than were officially attributed to him, a secret report on Peter Sutcliffe's criminal activity says.
		Sutcliffe's killings of prostitutes and unaccompanied women in the Yorkshire and Greater Manchester area prompted widespread fear among the female population until his arrest in January 1981.
		Sutcliffe attacked her with a hammer and left her for dead and the attack was not linked to the Ripper murders until 1978.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/ripper-may-have-attacked-more/2006/06/02/1148956547934.html (466 words)

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		A favorite outing for the would-be ripper was a local wax museum, where he lingered by the hour over torsos that depicted the results of gross venereal disease.
		Her murder put the Ripper on a different plane, immediately serving notice that no girl or woman in the northern counties was considered safe.
		In the middle of their manhunt, homicide investigators were bedeviled by a mocking tape and several letters from "the Ripper." Later, with their man in custody, they learned that all were hoaxes, perpetrated by another twisted mind that found vicarious release in toying with detectives.
	www.crimezzz.net /serialkillers/S/SUTCLIFFE_peter_william.php (844 words)

	The Real Yorkshire Ripper
		When I read the Sunday Telegraph article about the Ripper in November 1979, the article that was to awaken me to Tracey's secret, I knew nothing of an Irish suspect in 1976 and 1977.
		The Ripper's motive of winding up the police was always known to them but they never admitted this but rather suggested that the Ripper was a man who hated prostitutes.
		A man who also wrote to the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire and who used a hammer on his nephew's head before going into the mental home voluntarily only days before Peter Sutcliffe was charged with all the Ripper murders but one.
	www.yorkshireripper.co.uk /hyper/013.htm (1774 words)

	West Yorkshire Police: Ripper Hoaxer John Humble: Background Briefing
		The man responsible for sending hoax letters and a tape to West Yorkshire Police during the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper was today (Tues March 21) sentenced to eight years in prison by a Judge at Leeds Crown Court.
		Working from locations across West Yorkshire, HMET investigates the most serious of crimes and has been heavily involved in the West Yorkshire part of the investigation into the July 7th suicide bombings in London.
		The success with the Ripper hoaxer is the latest “cold case” success for the team.
	www.westyorkshire.police.uk /section-item.asp?sid=12&iid=2214 (580 words)

	Murder in the UK
		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.
		The ripper is also suspected of having killed and maimed several other women in France and Sweden during his travels abroad.
		In no uncertain terms, Kay told the court he had meant to attack The Yorkshire Ripper with a razor embedded in a toothbrush handle.
	www.murderuk.com /serial_peter_sutcliffe.html (407 words)

	Terror on our streets \| Suffolk murders \| Guardian Unlimited
		Five years after the Ripper's first murder, the only solution the police had come up with was to impose a curfew on women.
		Just as in the days of the Yorkshire Ripper, there are suggestions that regulated brothels are the answer, so that women do not have to walk the streets.
		The echo of the Yorkshire Ripper will continue to surface as long as women such as Adams, Nicol and Alderton are seen as easy prey by the men who want to kill a woman and choose - simply because it is easiest - to pick on a street prostitute.
	www.guardian.co.uk /suffolkmurders/story/0,,1970938,00.html (1287 words)

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