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Denise Hall - Prostitute who turned down The Ripper |
Posted by: root - 24-08-2019, 05:23 PM - Forum: Persons of Interest - Yorkshire Ripper Inquiry
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<h1>Denise Hall</h1>On Friday 2nd January 1981, on what would become Peter Sutcliffe's final day on the prowl, Sheffield prostitute, Denise Hall, would make the best decision of her life.
Sutcliffe was on the prowl in his Rover, which was displaying false number plates belonging to a Skoda saloon.
Denise Hall said that the reason that she didn't get into Sutcliffe's car was that something in his eyes frightened her.
Sutcliffe was arrested later that evening by PC Robert Hydes and Sergeant Robert Ring from Hammerton Road police station.
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Peter Sutcliffe's arrest - PC Robert Hydes & Sergeant Robert Ring |
Posted by: root - 24-08-2019, 05:20 PM - Forum: Peter Sutcliffe's arrest
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<h1>Peter Sutcliffe's arrest - PC Robert Hydes & Sergeant Robert Ring</h1>On the 17th November, 1980, Jacqueline Hill was brutally murdered close to the Arndale Centre in Leeds.
Reports suggest that following this latest murder then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was furious with the investigation and, if reports are to believed, she was ready to head to Yorkshire to take control of the investigation herself.
Margaret Thatcher is quoted as saying: 'The local police had so far failed totally in their enquiries into a series of murders which constituted the most appalling kind of violence against women. It was now a question of public confidence.'
It was at this time that a new squad dubbed ‘The Ripper Super Squad’ was formed to help give the investigation a much needed push.
This squad was to be led by Jim Hobson. The rest of the squad were:
- Commander Ron Harvey - Scotland Yard's head of the criminal intelligence branch
- David Gerty - Former senior Yard detective and now Assistant Chief Constable in the West Midlands
- Andrew Sloan - National coordinator of regional crime squads
- Leslie Emment - Deputy Chief Constable of Thames Valley
- Professor Stuart Kind, one of the country’s top forensic scientists
'The Ripper Super Squad' very quickly looked at two key aspects of the case so far, the attacks on Theresa Sykes and Yvonne Mysliwiec, which were initially discounted as Ripper victims.
The squad also release a note suggesting the Yorkshire Ripper most likely:
- Lives in or near Bradford, possibly in the Manningham or Shipley area
- Selects target towns which are different from the previous two incidents
- Goes out and if unsuccessful in finding a victim in the target town, he looks for one on the way home
- It follows that the next incident is unlikely to be in Leeds and, on the principle of maximum variety, it is likely to be in Huddersfield or Manchester or, in default, Bradford
On Friday 2nd January 1981 Peter Sutcliffe left his house in Garden Lane, Heaton, telling his wife Sonia that he was going to collect the key to his sister's car which had allegedly broken down.
A few hours later saw Sutcliffe cruising around Sheffield with false number plates attached to his Rover. The number plates were earlier taken from a scrap yard in Cooper Bridge, near Mirfield, and were linked to a Skoda saloon.
Sutcliffe was unsuccessful with his first attempt at picking up a prostitute. Denise Hall was approached but declined Sutcliffe's approach as something in his eyes frightened her.
On Broomhall Street Sutcliffe managed to entice Olivia Reivers into his car. Olivia was well known to the Sheffield vice squad.
They parked in a driveway of the Light Trades House where Sutcliffe handed Olivia a £10 note. For some reason Olivia declined to get into the back seat and for 10 minutes Sutcliffe failed to have sex with Olivia in the front of the car.
PC Robert Hydes and Sergeant Robert Ring were based at Hammerton Road police station and were on duty when they spotted Sutcliffe's car parked in the driveway.
They very quickly realised that the number plates did not match the Rover, but instead had belonged to a Skoda. Sutcliffe and Reivers were both arrested on suspicion of theft.
As the two officers escorted Reivers to the police car Sutcliffe took advantage of the situation and announced that he needed to urinate. He hid his ball-peen hammer and single-bladed knife next to a storage tank. A second knife was later found in a cistern at Hammerton Road police station.
As Sergeant Ring came on duty the following night Peter Sutcliffe was still in custody being questioned. Sergeant Ring remembered that Sutcliffe had disappeared from sight the previous evening to urinate. Ring returned to the site of the arrest and began a search. Once he had located the hammer and knife he reported back to the police station. A photographer was despatched to record the evidence.
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The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, has 'just weeks to live' |
Posted by: root - 24-08-2019, 05:08 PM - Forum: Latest News and Features
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<h1>The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, has 'just weeks to live'</h1>
7/7/2019 - Reports are circulating today that the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter William Sutcliffe, has 'just weeks to live'. The 73-year-old is currently in Frankland Prison where he is serving 20 life sentences.
Reports say that Sutcliffe is suffering from nightmares where he is haunted by the faces of his victims.
Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe is currently struggling with breathing difficulties, high blood pressure, diabetes and has almost gone totally blind.
The former Bradford lorry driver's health has been deteriorating for years, with reports earlier this year stating that he has lost vision in his left eye after another inmate attacked him in 1997.
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Gertie Jensen - A suspected Yorkshire Ripper Victim |
Posted by: root - 24-08-2019, 03:24 PM - Forum: Gertie Jensen
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<h1>Was Gertie Jensen A Victim Of Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper?</h1>On August 12, 1980 at seven o'clock in the morning, Gertie Jensen's naked body was found at a Gothenburg demolition site.
Gertie Jensen, 31, was a drug user and a part-time prostitute. She had been viciously hit on the back of the head with a brick.
Following the murder of Teresa Thorling at the end of August police departments from Gothenburg and Malmo started comparing notes about the killings while individually trying to solve their cases. Malmo interviewed Teresa Thorling's boyfriend and the other sex workers who saw her alive last.
Reports initially led police to investigate whether Peter Sutcliffe had ever travelled to Sweden after records listed him and his lorry on a ferry bound for Sweden.
Swedish police were contacted by DCI Dunkerley who was leading the Yorkshire Ripper cold-case review.
DCI Dunkerley said that he was absolutely certain that Sutcliffe had never been in Sweden.The telex that Operation Painthallhad originally written about described nothing more than a rumour. As far as he was concerned, the case was closed.
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Teresa Thorling - A possible Yorkshire Ripper victim |
Posted by: root - 24-08-2019, 03:15 PM - Forum: Teresa Thorling
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<h1>Was Teresa Thorling A Victim Of Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper?</h1>On 30th August 1980 Teresa Thorling, 26, was brutally murdered following a blow to the head and being strangled.
A bus ticket found in Teresa's possession showed the time of 16.45. She'd travelled into Malmo to work as a prostitute for the evening.
It was widely believed that Teresa Thorling often engaged in prostitution in order to earn the money required to fund her drugs habit.
At this time in Malmo prostitution was still legal with Kungsgatan and Exercisegatan being well known red light areas.
Sex workers reported seeing Teresa around Exercisegatan in the early evening. There were also early evening sightings of her with clients - but nobody recalled seeing her later in the evening.
Two days later, on Monday afternoon, an old man collecting bottles for cash stumbled across Teresa’s body in the stairwell of a derelict building. Her body had been covered by an old carpet.
Teresa's body was lying naked on her front. A piece of wood had been forced into her rectum.
The post-mortem showed that Teresa Thorling had been murdered on Saturday evening and the cause of death was most likely strangulation.
The doctor also noted high-levels of narcotics in her blood. Before being killed, the young woman had been hit on the back of the head with a blunt object. She had bruising on the front of her neck that could have been caused by hands, or by a thin object being pressed against her tongue bone, which had been broken. There was no evidence that she had been raped, but there was a substance found on her back that could have been semen.
A cold-case investigation called Operation Painthall was a little-publicised investigation into a number of unsolved murders and assaults that may have been committed by Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. Swedish police were contacted in August 2016.
Inquiries highlighted that Peter Sutcliffe may have travelled with a lorry on board a car ferry between the port of Limhawn (now understood to be a mis-spelling of Limhamn) in Sweden and Dradoer (a mis-spelling of Dragor) in Denmark.
The recorded travel dates were 30th August 1980 and 1st September 1980. These dates covered the date Teresa Thorling was killed.
Swedish police were subsequently contacted by DCI Dunkerley who was leading the cold-case review.
DCI Dunkerley said that he was absolutely certain that Sutcliffe had never been in Sweden.The telex that Operation Painthall had originally written about described nothing more than a rumour. As far as he was concerned, the case was closed.
Police later compared Teresa's murder with the brutal murder of Gertie Jensen , a part-time prostitute found murdered at a Gothenburg demolition site.
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Trevor Birdsall's Anonymous Letter To Police |
Posted by: root - 24-08-2019, 03:06 PM - Forum: Persons of Interest - Yorkshire Ripper Inquiry
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<h1>Trevor Birdsall's Anonymous Letter To Police</h1>On the 26th November 1980 an anonymous letter was received at the Millgarth incident room. The letter, which was one of many being received at the time, suggested that a man called Peter Sutcliffe was the "Ripper".
The claim was supported by a number of minor points about Sutcliffe’s employment and character, but particular mention was made of an incident which had occurred within the previous five years of which the author of the letter could not give details because they might lead to him being identified.
The author of this letter has since been identified as Trevor Birdsall a close friend of Peter Sutcliffe.
Birdsall’s girl friend, who had urged him to write the letter, later advised him that its contents were insufficient to enable the police to act and persuaded him to report to the police personally. Birdsall accepted this advice and visited Bradford Police Station late on 26th November 1980.
He repeated the suspicions which he had voiced in his letter to Constable Butler and added that he had been to Halifax with Sutcliffe in August 1975 and suspected that Sutcliffe had assaulted a woman on that occasion. Constable Butler submitted a report on Birdsall’s visit to the Millgarth incident room.
By this time the incident room was suffering a progressive collapse because of the weight of information being put into the system and because the number of actions which were generated by new and existing information could not be accommodated by the officers who were available to deal with them. There is little doubt that Constable Butler's report was received in the incident room but efforts to trace it proved were unsuccessful.
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April 1978 - Internal Review of the Yorkshire Ripper Inquiry |
Posted by: root - 24-08-2019, 01:11 PM - Forum: Inquiries within the Yorkshire Ripper Inquiry
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<h1>April 1978 - Internal Review of the Yorkshire Ripper Inquiry</h1>On the 25th April, 1978, following increasing concern within the West Yorkshire force that the administration of the series inquiry was being overwhelmed by the amount of information being recorded and the number of actions required to clear it, a special inquiry team under Detective Chief Superintendent Domaille was appointed to conduct an internal review of the investigation.
The team was asked to establish the lines of inquiry that had been undertaken in connection with each case in the series and to report whether each inquiry had been completed as far as possible and if not to give the current position. At the time 9 murders and 4 attempted murders were regarded as being connected in the series but before the team was able to report a further three murders had occurred.
The team, first under the command of Detective Chief Superintendent Domaille and later under Detective Superintendent Slater, comprised two detective inspectors, four detective sergeants and four detective constables. Their report, which was submitted to the Chief Constable in December 1979, was more in the nature of an index of what had and had not been done in the past than a suggested blueprint for further action.
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Rewards offered during the Yorkshire Ripper Inquiry |
Posted by: root - 24-08-2019, 12:53 PM - Forum: Newspapers & Media
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<h1>Rewards offered during the Yorkshire Ripper Inquiry</h1>The following rewards were offered during the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper,Peter Sutcliffe:
<h3>March 1978</h3><hr>
In March 1978 the West Yorkshire Police Authority offered a reward of £10,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible for the crimes.
<h3>November 1978</h3><hr>On the 28th November 1978 the West Yorkshire Police Authority increased the reward being offered for information leading to the killer to £20,000.
<h3>November 1980</h3><hr>
In response to brutal murder of Jacqueline Hill a number of newspaper offices in the area agreed to add £30,000 to the reward being offered by the Police Authority for information, bringing the total amount to £50,000.
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Peter Sutcliffe's Trial |
Posted by: root - 24-08-2019, 12:12 PM - Forum: Peter Sutcliffe's trial
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<h1>Peter Sutcliffe's Trial</h1>On Friday, 22nd May, 1981, Peter William Sutcliffe was convicted at the Central Criminal Court of 13 cases of murder and 7 cases of attempted murder and sentenced to 20 concurrent terms of life imprisonment, with a recommendation that he should serve a minimum of 30 years.
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Peter Sutcliffe's arrest |
Posted by: root - 24-08-2019, 12:09 PM - Forum: Peter Sutcliffe's arrest
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<h1>Peter Sutcliffe's arrest</h1>On 2nd January, 1981, Peter Sutcliffe was seen by the police whilst in the company of a prostitute in the "red light" area of Sheffield.
Peter Sutcliffe was arrested for theft of car number plates. The number plates on his car did not match those on the Police National Computer.
During his arrest Peter Sutcliffe was allowed to leave the immediate presence of the police officers to urinate. Whilst away from the officers Sutcliffe hid a hammer and a knife.
Some 24 hours after his arrest the arresting officer, who had been advised that Sutcliffe might be the murderer they were seeking, returned to the scene of the arrest and recovered a hammer and knife which Sutcliffe had disposed of whilst allegedly urinating nearby.
An additional knife was later recovered from the cistern of a toilet in Hammerton Road Police Station where Sutcliffe had hidden it following his arrest.
From that point onwards, although on the basis of his record card in the Millgarth incident room it might still have been possible for him to have been eliminated on accent and handwriting grounds, the finding of the hammer and the two knives prompted members of the West Yorkshire inquiry team into thinking that Sutcliffe was the man they were looking for.
Thereafter he soon began to admit the crimes with which he was subsequently charged and gave a detailed statement to the interviewing officers.
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