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=== Olive Smelt ===
On the 15th August 1975, just over a month after the [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Anna_Rogulskyj_-_Yorkshire_Ripper_Victim Rogulskyj] incident, Sutcliffe, after leaving his friend '''[http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Trevor_Birdsall_-_Yorkshire_Ripper Trevor Birdsall]''' in his car, attacked '''[http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Olive_Smelt_-_Yorkshire_Ripper_Victim Olive Smelt]''' with a hammer in Boothtown, Halifax. Sutcliffe inflicted serious head injuries. Using a knife he also inflicted two slash wounds to her back after first disarranging her clothing. Although the nature of the crime was very similar to the attempted murder of Anna Rogulskyj it was not specifically linked with it in police crime circulations, neither was it linked with the Ripper series until June 1978. ''' [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Detective_Superintendent_Holland_Olive_Smelt_-_Yorkshire_Ripper Detective Superintendent Holland_Yorkshire_Ripper_Victim Read more about Olive Smelt here]''' === Wilma McCann === On 30th October 1975 Peter Sutcliffe committed his first known murder. Sutcliffe murdered [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Wilma_McCann_-_Yorkshire_Ripper_Victim Wilma McCann], a known prostitute, on the Prince Philip playing fields in Leeds. In a pattern which was to become all too familiar, Peter Sutcliffe hit Wilma McCann on the head with a hammer. At least one of the Western Crime Area established an incident room at Halifax for blows penetrated the purpose full thickness of the inquiryskull. In neither On this occasion, however, unlike the tentative slashings of the bodies of these two crimes Anna Rogulskyj and Olive Smelt, Wilma McCann was any substantial evidence available about either stabbed once in the neck and 14 times in the assailants or chest and abdomen. [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Wilma_McCann_-_Yorkshire_Ripper_Victim Read more about any vehicle which might have been used.Wilma McCann here]
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