Peter Sutcliffe worked in a factory for several years and was also a gravedigger. Eventually he became a truck driver. His first victim was Anna Rogulsky. Sutcliffe attacked her with a hammer and cut her stomach open with a knife. The woman survived. In 1975, he attacked four more women, including fourteen-year-old Tracy Browne. However, the attacked were unable to provide an exact description of the perpetrator. Wilma McCann was his first fatality. The 28-year-old’s body was found near her home. A five-year investigation began, involving several hundred policemen.
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Misleading leads and more crimes. Police officers questioned the “Yorkshire Ripper” nine times
Meanwhile, Peter Sutcliffe attacked more victims. He chose women for companionship, and the tools of crime were a hammer, a screwdriver or a knife. Detectives also began receiving letters from a person claiming to be a wanted serial. As the police investigated evidence and leads multiplied, Sutcliffe continued to attack and kill. We managed to confirm the killer’s blood type. The investigator, George Oldfield, also received more letters. Although the police did not believe them at first, they became suspicious when one of them mentioned an undisclosed detail of the crime. However, the messages turned out to be fake.
More women were dying, not just companions. Over five years, police officers questioned Peter Sutcliffe nine times. Although he matched the description given by the witnesses and was on a wide list of suspects, each time his wife, Sonia Szurma, provided an undisputed alibi.
The Yorkshire Ripper was arrested by accident. He was sentenced to life imprisonment
On January 2, 1981, the Yorkshire Ripper accidentally fell into the hands of the police. The attention of the police, who were patrolling the area of a desolate road, caught the attention of a car with license plates attached with tape. They turned out to be fake. Sutcliffe took advantage of the momentary inattention of the officers and hid the hammer and knife in the nearby bushes. He was taken to the police station, where a blood sample was taken from him. The next day, the murder weapons were found.
Sutcliffe calmly admitted that he was the Yorkshire Ripper. A wave of allegations of inefficiency and poor conduct of the investigation poured out on the officers. In May 1981, the Yorkshire Ripper was sentenced to twenty life sentences for the murders of 13 women, the sentence was commuted to life without parole in 2010. Over the years, he received dozens of letters from fans. in 2020 in prison, he was suffering from COVID-19 before his death. In the same year, the documentary series “The Yorkshire Ripper” debuted on the platform, telling about the victims and crimes of the murderer.
Source: Gazeta
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