THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER CASE

so today's video is going to be a brand new solved true crime video today we're gonna be talking about the Yorkshire Ripper who was a serial killer from Yorkshire in England just to avoid any confusion yes I have already covered this case before in my channel but it got copyright claimed and so I took it down and now I'm redoing it because I worked so hard on this video I wasn't gonna let all of that work go to waste I'm redoing the video on my own terms and I ain't gonna let no one copyright this one so if you were confused that's why I'm doing this for a second time but this time I've kind of Reece crypted it I'm really filming it this is obviously a different version to the first so hopefully it's different enough that you still enjoy watching it if you only saw the first one one thing I do kind of need to explain before we get into this video is that obviously the Yorkshire Ripper has been found and identified however not all of the murders he attempted were successful and so the Yorkshire Ripper had some survivors but obviously at the time they didn't know that they had been attacked by the Yorkshire Ripper these were just random er souls that were not connected to the option for murders until obviously he'd been caught and so all these women were being assaulted at the same time as the mergers were going on but they were never connected until afterwards however I've decided to put them into the timeline as they happen just to make it easier for you guys to understand and just so that you get a better idea of the progression of how the serial killer was going about it all but yeah just keep in mind that the women that were being assaulted and left alive didn't know that they'd been attacked by the Yorkshire Ripper until obviously he'd been caught and identified okay so before I get into this video I just want to give my usual disclaimer that I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone that I talk about in this video this is all just information that I have found on the internet and I'm compiling into one video so the timeline of the Yorkshire Ripper begins technically in 1969 obviously in Yorkshire in that's how he got his name because he committed the murders in Yorkshire specifically West Yorkshire so just for a little bit of background on the Yorkshire Ripper I'm not gonna say any names I'm not going to identify him right now I'm just gonna let you know a little bit about his life that kind of gives you an insight as to who he is and why he might have committed these murders so in 1969 before he'd assaulted a woman before I'd murdered anyone before it was the Yorkshire Ripper this man was happily married to his wife that was until she cheated on him and this seemed to trigger something inside the Yorkshire Ripper he suddenly hated women he had a hatred for all kind of women that he regarded as promiscuous are [ __ ] are [ __ ] specifically kind of sex workers and prostitutes he just had a general hatred of women because of this incident but he never once abused his life she's come out since all of this happened since he's been labeled a serial killer in the public she's come out and said he never once abused her even though she was the woman that triggered this kind of hatred of women inside the Yorkshire Ripper he never laid a finger on her he just kind of took his anger for his wife out on innocent women and so in 1969 the Yorkshire Ripper who hadn't yet killed anyone hadn't yet assaulted anyone was actually out in Bradford with one of his friends looking for a woman that had cheated him out of some money I don't know what the situation was with this woman a lot of people say she might have been a prostitute but a lot of sources says she wasn't a lot of sources said she was just a friend that owed him money but he and his friends were driving around in his friends minivan when he actually got out of the van and walked out of sight down an alley where and when he returned he was out of breath as if he'd been running so he jumped back into the minivan he was out of breath he looked like he'd just done something and he told his friend Trevor to just drive and he'd explain everything as they were driving he said he was out looking for this woman that owed him money when he actually saw a different woman a prostitute one that he didn't know he no this other woman and decided to just follow her instead and so he followed her into a nearby garage so he got into this garage with this woman that he didn't know he didn't plan on attacking this woman until he'd just seen her there on the hood she didn't know he was there and then he hit her over the head with a sock with a stone inside of it I imagine that he kind of made this weapon himself at home and then brought it out with the intention of attacking you know the woman the owed him money so he did intend on attacking someone that night just not this prostitute so he hits her over the head with this stone inside of a sock and after the first hit the stone actually flew out of the sock it ripped it at the toe and so now the rippers weapon was broken he couldn't do anything else in that situation and so he just ran off luckily the woman wasn't too injured to the point where she was like knocked out or anything she was able to get herself up and follow the Ripper to the road to the minivan where his friend was waiting and she was able to remember the registration plate of the minivan that his friend was driving and so she gave that to police however she refused to press charges sadly in those days sex workers and prostitutes and people like that weren't taken as seriously as they should have been by police police just kind of disregarded everything that a prostitute came to them with as some sort of disagreement with a client and so this prostitute knew that the police weren't gonna take her seriously and so she just decided to not go through the hassle of pressing charges luckily the woman survived with no long-term damage at all but had that socked not broken who knows how far the Yorkshire Ripper might have gone with that and the next incident wasn't until six years later in July of 1975 in Keithley in Bradford a woman named Anna Rogalski was walking home alone late at night when she was approached from behind and hit over the head with a hammer and I was knocked unconscious by this hit over the head and woke up hours later in of care in a hospital obviously because she'd been knocked out at the first hit she had no idea how badly she was injured turned out that she had severe damage to her skull and slashes from a knife all over her stomach during the attack someone that lived in a nearby house actually heard some commotion outside and came outside and disturbed the Ripper and he ran away and so luckily this neighbor could call an ER an ambulance in time to save her but again had the Yorkshire Ripper not been disturbed how far do you think he would have taken that then a month later in August of 1975 a woman named olive smelt was attacked in Halifax 15 miles away from the last assault and this attack was almost identical to the first one again she was hit over the back of the head knocked unconscious and had tons of knife slashes but this time on her lower back and once again the Yorkshire Ripper was interrupted and Oliver was left severely injured but alive at the time none of these three attacks were actually linked at all obviously the first one happened six years before the other two so that one was just completely pushed to the side and the second two I don't actually know a solid reason why they weren't linked because the injuries were obviously very similar there were only 15 miles apart yes 50 miles is quite away but for police forces it's not you'd think they would like share cases between them to see if someone's traveling 50 miles and attacking other people I don't actually know why those are the two cases of olive and an event connected had they been connected maybe this case would have been solved a lot quicker and a lot less people would have had to die and obviously like I said none of these women knew they were being attacked by a future serial killer so they didn't know that his intention was probably to kill them they all just seemed like random attacks possibly sexually motivated since they were all kind of young women and they were there now the last two women Anna and olives did however make police sketches once they were recovered and had the police linked those two assaults at the time they would have realized how similar those police sketches actually we're and then on the morning of October 30th 1975 two months since the last assault the first body was found this time in Leeds the victim was 28 year old mother of four Wilma McCann originally from Scotland but living in Leeds at the time she'd been struck in the back of the head twice and stabbed 15 times in her neck and tosser Wilma's Williams also showed reinsertion meaning that the killer had intentionally stabbed into the same wound multiple times possibly more than twice her body was found with her blouse pulled up and her trousers pulled down suggesting a possible sexual motive to this crime although it was gonna be hard for police to determine where the Wilma was actually sexually assaulted that night Wilmer actually worked as a prostitute at the time she was working that night when she was killed and so the tests that would be able to tell us if she was sexually assaulted they can't tell the difference between sexual assault and just consensual sex all they can tell us is whether this person had sex or not they can't tell us whether it was consensual whether it was assault this was in the 1970s and the tests were really kind of basic at the time they couldn't tell as much and so when Wilma being a prostitute she probably did have sex that night it was her job so the tests probably weren't gonna tell as much and Wilma's murder actually took place less than a hundred meters away from her own home where her four children were waiting for her to get home from work so the following morning Wilma's body still hadn't been found and her children obviously went to sleep the night before while she was still at work and so they expected to wake up the next morning and had to be there like she normally was but she wasn't the next mornin and so her children got worried and decided to actually go and search for that mother themselves my sister Sonya shook me and asked me to to get out of bed and put my my jacket on said mom hadn't come on let's go look for her this is the spot where she was and we had come within a few yards from where she was laid and look it was a cold October morning and dark so we were said that you know that terrible thing we didn't actually discover her body but that's days where she was but the kids couldn't find their mother anywhere and so they eventually decided to go home and just wait for her to return home and that was when they got a knock on the door it was a policeman who sat down Wilma's for children and said to them your mom's been taken to heaven you are never going to see her again it was actually a milkman that found Wilma McCann's body he'd been doing his rounds that morning delivering the milk when he was delivering to our house relatively close to a Plainfield when he looked over and saw what he described as a shapeless bundle on the floor so it went over to investigate this shapeless bundle and that was when he realized it was a human body the body of Wilma McCann and the hardest part about Wilma McCann's murder of the police was the fact that there was no DNA there was no kind of fingerprints no evidence no murder weapons no footprints absolutely nothing that could help them identify a murderer an investigation was obviously launched into finding Wilma's murder airport police knew that it was going to be pretty hard then three months later in January of 1976 a second body was found in the back streets of Leeds a letter inside the woman's bag identified her as 42 year old married mother of three Emily Jackson and this murder was worryingly similar to that of Wilma McCann they were both women there were both sex workers but from Leeds both had a bullet to the head both had stab wounds to the neck and tosser but this time Emily had a total of 52 stab wounds this time inflicted by a screwdriver rather than a knife and this was quite a difference from the murder of Wilma McCann however there were just so many more similarities that meant that the two murders had to be linked however in this instance police had a huge piece of evidence Emily's body was actually found behind a bakery with a huge boot print across one of her thighs along with the boot print on her thigh there was also tons of prints in the mud around her as well and as you can imagine this was the police's first kind of real clue as to who the killer was so casts were taken of these boot prints all around her body and sent off to be analyzed and there were fans have been from a men's size 7 workman's boots the Knicks gave police a possible hint as to what the murderers profession was these kind of boots were very popular among manual workers however there was always the chance that this could just be the murderers shoes this murder did happen quite late at night so the chances of it being just the murderers shoes and not their work shoes was also quite high so since police had linked to the murders of Wilma and Emily they came to the conclusion that the killer's motive was probably a hatred of prostitutes and with these two murders now bein linked the news of a possible serial killer start spreading throughout North England and the media branded him Jack the Ripper so if you don't know less than a hundred years before this case there was an unidentified serial killer who's never actually been identified based in London named Jack the Ripper who also targeted prostitutes and due to the similarities between the Yorkshire Ripper kiss and the Jack the Ripper case that was why the media began Colin the current Ripper the gotcha Ripper Jack the Ripper but then people started getting confused and so to avoid confusion between the current murderer and Jack the Ripper the media began just callin the current murderer the Ripper and then as this case started gaining more kind of nationwide attention he was then rebranded to the Yorkshire Ripper just to kind of be able to tell locations so usually when a murder happens and police don't have a suspect they'll go back through some recent assaults and see if they can make a link but since police believe the killer's motive was a hatred of prostitutes they completely discounted any assaults that went on prostitutes and obviously they didn't know at the time but they did have to recorded assaults on police sketches of the murderer but since Anna and olive weren't prostitutes they were just completely overlooked and then all of a sudden the murder seemed to stop police were expecting a third murder to come and for a year it just didn't and sir police kind of thought that the killer had just given up but it wasn't for lack of trying the Yorkshire Ripper was actually attacking women during that period of time he just wasn't killing anyone he was attempting to kill these women but for some reason or another every time had to leave them alive and so police thought he'd just given up they didn't know that he was still actively trying to kill women 20 year-old Marcella Claxton was walking home from a party alone in Leeds on men 9 1976 when she accepted a lift home from a stranger as they were driving past Round Hill Park in Leeds Marcella asked the driver if she could get out and go to the bathroom on the side of the road and as she did the driver attacked her and hit her head then I find myself on the gas knocked out and they will not come well that's all not well Holly we don't do Marcella Walker and her attacker had gone but she was bleeding so badly from her head and so she took her own to wear off and used it to stem the blood as she walked over half a mile to the nearest phone box to call police and an ambulance and the saddest part about the attack on Marcella was that she was actually four months pregnant at the time and subsequently miscarried the bit of it so obviously she called the ambulance she went to the hospital and while she was recovering she actually made a police sketch of her attacker and once again Marcela's police sketch was so identical to the other two Anna's and olives but since Marcella wasn't a prostitute hers was just completely discounted people often wonder why the Yorkshire Ripper didn't actually kill Marcell at that time he just kind of hit her over the head with a and left he wasn't known to have been disturbed or anything like that he just didn't use a knife or a screwdriver our he didn't stab Marcella it was the rippers usual method to hit the woman over the head until they were unconscious and then stabbed them somehow but he didn't do that second bit with Marcella and a lot of people do wonder why and then a little over a year since the last body was found a third body was found this time in Brown Deer Park in Leeds on February the 5th 1977 once again a female body with the same injuries as the two before her a blood to the head and several stab wounds to her chest and neck by this point it was very clear to police that they had a serial killer on their hands two murders might have been a coincidence but three of very similar victims with almost identical injuries it was very clear that it was the same person doing this the third body was identified as 28-year old mother of three Irene Richardson he would actually been working as a prostitute to provide for her children since her husband left but this time the killer seemed to have taken more care in how he left the body and how the body was going to be found the killer knew that the police were eventually gonna find this body he never kind of made any attempt to hide the bodies of the people that he killed this time there were drag marks all over the mud where the murderer had moved Irene's body and kind of repositioned it two maybe three times just to kind of make it the most shocking that he possibly could for the person that found the body he'd also laid head boots along the back of her thighs unzipped and taken out all of the contents of her handbag and laid it all next in the body these were not frenzied attacks this was the sort of man who thought about what he had done and then was concerned to arrange everything about the body to have the maximum shock impact upon whoever came upon the scene first but this time the killer accident left a huge clue tire box in the mud that could help police identify what kind of carriage road police drew up a list of about 100 different models of car that used this specific type of tire they found that 53 thousand of these cars existed in the West Yorkshire area alone police managed to contact around 30,000 of these car owners and kind of interview them a little bit about like where they were that night but after around the 30,000 mark police decided to end that inquiry and kind of put their efforts and time and focus into other kind of leads because who knows they might have even already interviewed the killer about his car and just not found anything suspicious about it dancers there was no promise that if they do get around to interviewing the killer about his car that anything's gonna come of it it was decided that we hadn't no manpower to run to murder inquiries and a tyre enquiry with a diminishing return from the tyre enquiry that was an unfortunate decision because the ripest car was in fact on the remaining uncompleted at least it was then after these three murders were making headlines all over the country another girl came forward thinking that maybe she was a victim of the auction Ripper two months before the first murder in 1975 14 year-old Tracy Brown was assaulted she was walking home down a country road alone at night in Bradford one night when she was approached by a man Tracy never even saw the man he just came up behind her and hit her over the head with a weapon and she said she didn't even feel any pain she just fell to the floor as she was laying on the ground her attacker just continued to hit her with this weapon she didn't know what kind of weapon it was and it was then a car turn onto this kind of remote country lane with its headlights on full because it was dark and this disturbed her attacker and he ran away Tracy was rushed to the hospital and she actually required brain surgery but she made pretty much a full recovery and then was able to make another police sketch Tracy's attack was the first survivor of the auction River obviously now we know that there was some before this but Tracy was the first survivor to be linked to the murders when she heard the stories of all these murders of these women being hit over the head with a weapon and being knocked unconscious she felt that her attack really kind of resembled that and then two months after the third murder of irene richardson a fourth body was found but this time it was a little bit different to the first three the fourth victim was actually found indoors whereas all the other Yorkshire Ripper victims had been found outside and killed outside but this victim was found in her own flat in her own bed in her own flat in Bradford but other than that difference all her kind of injuries were trademark Yorkshire Ripper injuries although her head injuries were a lot more severe than the previous attacks this victim was hit in the head so many times that her skull was so severely smashed up that it was known as a bag of marbles skull that term is basically used to describe a head where if you touch the skin you would feel all these tiny little fragments of bone inside from how badly the skull was smashed up and it's referred to as a bag of marbles skull the fourth body belonged to 32 year old Patricia Atkinson who was also a prostitute she was working that night and it's believed she picked up who she thought was gonna be a client at bar but then turned out to be her killer once again the killer left a huge clue a boot print in blood on the bedsheets and this boot print actually completely matched the boot print at the second murder of Emily Jackson like I've been saying the whole time police have been very very suspicious that this was a serial killer they were pretty sure that it was a serial killer but they just needed one piece of evidence like genuine forensic evidence to be able to link at least two of the murders and this was that in a span of any two months the auction Ripper claimed for women's lives and left 13 children without a mother so as you can imagine police were absolutely overwhelmed with the public contacting them with thing that they think elites and they were trying to follow up on as many of these as it possibly could the police had made over 2300 home visits and taken over 2,000 statements yet nothing had really come from any of those but it wasn't long until the fifth body was found just two months after the last one yet this victim didn't seem to match up with the serial killers particular type 16 year old Jen McDonald's body was found by two children in a playground in leaves she wasn't a sex worker and she was actually the youngest of all the victims so far now this really terrified the public like I said up until now the believed motive had been a hatred of prostitutes whereas Jen wasn't a prostitute she was just a normal girl walking Hollow and a lot of women took a slight comfort in the fact that he was only seeming to be targeting prostitutes up until now women that weren't sex workers were thinking I will it won't be me because I'm not a prostitute but now the killer seemed to be targeting just women in general Jen McDonald was 16 years old she was a shop assistant she was nothing like the other women and who work slightly older there were sex workers he just seemed to be targeting women most beautiful well-mannered cheerful I was a smile for you I can hear the others she's not a bit like any of us you want him back a taqueria office just shocking for a young lass like that she'll beautiful and then less than two weeks after the murder of Jim McDonald the Yorkshire Ripper attacked yet another woman and she actually got away alive 42 year-old Maureen long had been out at Binger in Bradford with her friends that night when she accepted a lift home from a stranger all I know is that I've got a lady made and I bet someone is gone missing and stab wounds are up front of my stomach and stabbed in the back luckily Maureen's attacker was disturbed by a man walking his dog in the area and he ran away so the man walking his dog was able to call an ambulance for Maureen and get some help and police knew immediately that this had to be a Ripper attack it was a woman in Bradford with all the signature injuries of blood to the head stab wounds she wasn't sexually assaulted or robbed just like the other Ripper victims and it just seemed to be for fun for the attacker remember waking up intensive care units and I wondered what I would doing doing there and I do me a hair shaved off and did you know what had happened to you and then three months later Kim the rippers sixth victim however this body wasn't found in Yorkshire it was actually found in a graveyard in Manchester the rippers sixth victim was identified as 20 year old mother of two gene Jordan again she was a sex worker with all of the usual kind of Yorkshire Ripper injuries blood to the head stab wounds and even though this woman was all the way in Manchester further away from the other murders it was still linked police believe that even though it was quite far away the injuries and the similarities between Jean Jordans murder and the other ones were just far too similar not to link them but there was something different about Dean Jordan's body it was rather decomposed meaning it had been there in that graveyard waiting to be found for quite a while but this provided quite a bit of evidence in the way of forensics because as her body was decomposed in fly eggs actually appeared in her wounds so there's two different types of flies some flies like to lay their eggs in shaded areas and some flies like to lay their eggs in direct sunlight and when police found Jean Jordan's body on the side of her body where the sunlight was directly hitting her in those wounds there were actually fly eggs that preferred shared and this told police that her body had probably been completely shaded for a few days at least and then dragged out into the sunlight and so police came to the conclusion that the killer probably returned to the body to find something that he left she wasn't route she wasn't sexually assaulted so why else would he go back to the body and move her around a week after Jean Jordan's body was found a handbag was found in a local garden close to where her body was and so that was handed into police believing that it could be jeans it was easily identified as Jean Jordans handbag that she was using that night and on a closer inspection of this handbag in a secret compartment in the bag police found a brand-new five pounder police believed it was probably genes killer that had given her that five-pound note the killer obviously went for prostitutes and would usually pay for their services but obviously never ended up using them he would kill them before they got chance - the killer never really had any intention on being a genuine client for these women he was always gonna kill them before they got round to that bit but he would always pay them in advance just so that they weren't suspicious because obviously prostitutes knew that there would be in targeted by this killer and so if he paired them up front before they actually did anything they'd be more likely to get in his car and with this five pounder being brand new this was a huge breakthrough in the case that meant that they could trace where this five pounder originated from police found that this five pounder was given out in a pair packet in one of 35 different companies in Yorkshire and this meant that the killer probably worked at one of these 35 different companies and obviously got this five pounder in his pay packet of course there's always the possibility that someone who worked for one of these 35 companies got the 5 pound in their pay packet spent it and then the 5 pound somehow ended up in the killer's hands but police were loving that wasn't the case police were loving that this was the killers five pounder over the next three months police questioned 5,000 different men that could have possibly got this five pounder in their pier packet including the Yorkshire Ripper obviously I work in the way who he was or anything but police found that his alibi for the night of Jean Jordans men and was credible and they weren't really suspicious of him even though it was the killer his alibi for the night of Jean Jordans murder was that he and his wife had just recently moved into a house and so they were having a housewarming party on the night that she was killed he even thought it through to the point where he actually gave three people three party guests a lift home that night so that three more people could definitely say that they were with him on that night and give him an alibi so the auction Ripper by day was actually a lobby driver he did like long-distance deliveries and so it wasn't unusual for him to be away from home for hours at a time and so that's an ideal excuse for him to say to his wife and his family okay I'm gonna be gone for six hours and then drive all the way over to Manchester kill a prostitute and then come home and the Yorkshire Ripper his wife actually had severe OCD and she would make him take his clothes off as soon as he came into the house and washed them so if he ever had any blood on his clothes it wouldn't be suspicious that he was washing his clothes as soon as he got home because his wife wanted him to he just seemed to have all of these perfect excuses for everything to fall into place for him to never get caught so anywhere the actual Yorkshire Ripper was around the 400th man to be interviewed about this five-pound notes that weekend and when the killer was eventually caught years later he actually said that he could have told the police anything that weekend and they would have believed him because they were so tired of interviewing all these men unfortunately none of these interviews with any of these men from any of these businesses led to anything and so that was another dead end they couldn't identify you five partner this was then two months later on December 14 1977 the Yorkshire Ripper made yet another unsuccessful murder attempt 25 year-old Maryland mob was working as a prostitute in the Leeds area when she was picked up one night by who she thought was a client but was actually in the Yorkshire Ripper so the Ripper picked her up they drove somewhere else and he parked his car presumably said that the two of them could go somewhere else and when she got out of the car he actually attacked her he hit her over the head from behind with a hammer just as he always did and Marilyn fell to the floor and that was when another car came into the area where they were parked and the killer panicked and jumped back in his car and sped away leaving Marilyn there on the floor injured but once again the Yorkshire Ripper left some huge evidence tire tracks in the mud and these could be confirmed to be a match to those at the body of Irene Richardson confirming the assault on Marilyn Martin by the auction Ripper and so Marilyn was the first big kind of breakthrough in this case Marilyn saw the auction rivers fairs and caocao Marilyn made a police sketch of her attacker and also picked out what she thought was her attackers car from a lineup of possible models that used those tires however the card that she picked out was wrong and obviously they didn't know that at the time but this really hindered the investigation because they've really looked into that specific car and then Madeline began accusing innocent men of being the auction Ripper she was telling police I saw him I saw his face I saw his car that is him but all of these men were innocent and proven to be and so because she lied about things police felt like she couldn't be classed as a credible witness anymore and saw all of her evidence the model of car she picked out a police sketch all of that was just written off which is really unfortunate that she had to go and do that because she could have been the biggest piece of evidence in this whole case she could have helped to identify the option Ripper but even though she was doing all these things accusing innocent men ensures the wrong car by accident her police sketch was actually very very accurate to what the luxury pen genuinely did look like and so had the police followed that lead rather than the model of car they probably would have come closer to finding the akshay Ripper sooner but they went with the model of the car instead so the auction rippers next victim was 18 year old Helen Ryker from Huddersfield she's been reported missing by her twin sister Rita the two of them both worked as prostitutes in the same red-light district area and they were both working one night Rita saw her sister Helen get into a car with a client as she did every single day and then after that Rita never saw her sister again on the evening of Helens murder there was actually a brown van seem to have been lurking in that general area of the red-light district and so police looked into that lead but it wasn't at all what they were expecting so like I said that night Rita and Helen was working together Helen got into a car with a client and left and then two or three minutes later Rita got into a car with a separate client and they also left and the man in this brown van decided to follow Rita and her client and follow them to their destination and watch whatever they did to this man in the brown van told police that that was just kind of his thing that was what he did that was how he got sexual gratification he would follow prostitutes and their clients and watch what they did but just think had he set off a couple of minutes earlier and followed Helen and her client rather than Rita and her client he would have witnessed the murder and seen the auction River Helens body was found three days after she was reported missing she suffered five blows to the head and stab wounds all over her chest and neck her clothes from the waist down were removed and her jumper and bra were pulled up however again there was no kind of evidence of sexual assault on the body a week after Helens body was found an eighth body was found but this one was terribly decomposed and when police looked into it they found that it was probably there since before Helen had even died so this 8th body that was found was technically the seventh murder of the akshay River it just hadn't been found until way later 21 year old mother of two vom Pearson's body was actually found underneath a sofa in a scrap yard two months after her actual murder and avons death seemed to be the most brutal of all the Yorkshire Ripper killings so far she had those blows to the head very severe blows to the head yet she didn't have any of the signature stab wounds to the chest and neck the killer had hit her head so many times that her skull was in almost a hundred different pieces instead of stabbing Yvonne Pearson as he usually did he actually used all of his body where to injure her he actually jumped onto a chest on his knees creating internal bruising and a lot more broken bones she was also found with horsehair from the lining of the sofa that she was found under stuffed into her mouth and years later when the killer was found he actually told police why he did that another car came over close to where he was killing Yvonne Pearson and she wasn't dead yet she was still making noises and so he took the lining out of the surfer and shoved it into her mouth she couldn't make noise but before Yvonne's body would even move police received a letter and it had a sundaland stamp on it and Sunderland is 200 miles northeast of Yorkshire and the letters were actually addressed to the lead investigator of the option Ripper case himself George Oldfield the letter said I'm sorry I cannot give my name for obvious reasons I am the Ripper worn hard to keep off the streets old slips next time I hope so obviously at this point the killer will have known that the death toll was now eight because he will have known that he killed a vampire sir however the official death toll in the media was seven because Yvonne's body hadn't been found until two months after a murder and after this letter was sent but the letter said nothing about Yvonne Pearson all that murder at all the letter did actually say the death toll was 8 but for a different reason the letter said up to number 8 now you say 7 but remember Preston 75 so the writer of this letter is saying the death toll is officially 7 in the papers but it's actually 8 because he killed someone years before this in 1975 in Preston so yes the writer of the letter is saying that the death toll is 8 but he's not saying anything about a von Pearson 26-year old John Harrison was beaten and violently ripped to death in Preston just three weeks after the first Ripper murder and due to the sexual aspect of the crime and the fact that it was all the way impressed and police never linked John Harrison's murder toward the Yorkshire Ripper killings none of the Yorkshire Ripper victims ever seem to have been sexually assaulted and so that wasn't a feature of his killings his killings seem to have just been done out of just hatred and anger and a need to kill rather than a sexual motive so the writer of the letter is saying that the death toll is 8 but only because of John Harrison whereas the real murderer if this was the real murderer and they would have said that the death toll was 9 because of a von Pearson police couldn't get any form of fingerprints from these letters but they did manage to get a tiny saliva sample from the envelope so tests revealed that the letter sender actually had a very rare blood type to be secreted the only six percent of the population have and this actually matched the blood type of the person that left semen at the site of John Harrison's murder so police were convinced that the person that had wrote the letter had killed John Harrison and still been linked it to the auction River killings at the time however that wasn't true maybe the letter writer did kill John Harrison but he didn't kill anyone else he was at the auction River newsletter when the auction River was actually found he said that he didn't kill John Harrison and he actually had a different blood type to the person that both sent the letters and left semen in the body of John Harrison anyway the Yorkshire Ripper snipe victim came two months later in May of 1978 this time it was 41 year old mother of seven verum Elwood cervera worked as a prostitute and that night she actually had plans to be with a specific client that she knew and she'd been with before however that client didn't cancel on her but he also just didn't show up at all and very needed money so she decided to just go out and find a client at the red-light district so she found a client got into his car and they drove two miles to the Manchester Royal Infirmary car park where they were gonna do that business and it was there in that car park the next morning where Vera's body was found with all of the signature Yorkshire Ripper injuries close to the head and stab wound so severe that actually this time Vera's insides were spilling out of her body again the killer had positioned her body unzipped her boots led them along the back of her thighs he'd actually placed a piece of paper over her head and again her clothes were rearranged to suggest sexual assault in this crime but again it was suspected that there was never a sexual element to any of his murders the thing is with a lot of murderers that murder just for the sake of killing someone not for any particular reason like robbery or sexual assault they often want to humiliate their victims and degrade their victims which is often why bodies are found naked but with no evidence of sexual assault because a lot of it for killers the kill people just for the sake of it just out of hatred a lot of it is about power they want to feel power of their victim which is often why they want to humiliate them they want to feel more powerful and scary which is again and I'm going a little bit off-topic but a lot of murderers that kill just for the sake of killing you hear that they're prolong the murder as long as they can and yes it is because they enjoy it to a certain degree because their minds are messed up but it's also because they enjoy instilling fear into their victim they want to drag it out as long as they can because they feed off of that fear they want to feel powerful they want to feel scary because they don't often have that kind of control in their normal lives sorry I went off topic a little bit there but that is very consistent with the auction River so following various men and police decided to step up the investigation once again and they decided to observe cars that frequented different red-light districts in that general area in the north of England so police would note down any registration place of cars that they see in the red-light districts of the north of England and if the same car was seen up two or more of these red-light districts they would pull him over and interview him because it's understandable if someone does use prostitute services they will go to the one closest to the house and so for some men to be going to different locations for prostitutes that looks slightly more suspicious obviously there is going to be a reason for a lot of men that do that but they were thinking that the auction would probably be doing that as well and a few names just kept cropping up to police including the murderers but obviously they didn't know it was the auction Ripper at the time the killer and many other men were interviewed because of this because they were seen in multiple red-light districts and the killer said that the reason he was seen in the bradford one so much was because he actually drives through that on his way to and from work but police weren't fully satisfied with that as an explanation he was seen several times they're like parked or driving really slow through their looking at the women just not the way that you would normally drive home from work if you were just driving home from work you wouldn't be driving you wouldn't stop on the side of the road and speak to the women you wouldn't drive really slowly and so police schedule the second interview with the Yorkshire Ripper who they obviously didn't know was the Yorkshire Ripper at the time but before this interview could even happen it was cancelled because a 10th body was found almost a year since the last med and 19 year old Josephine Whittaker was killed as she was walking home from a grandmother's house once again Josephine wasn't a prostitute and this kind of worried police they thought that maybe the killer noticed that they were properly looking into the prostitute lead obviously they had officers at every single red light district clocking on the cars and so the killer might have seen this and known that he was possibly going to get caught if he carries I'm going for prostitutes and so the police worried that maybe they'd pushed him into going fern just other women that weren't prostitutes once again Josephine had all the trademark Yorkshire with her injuries blows to the head and 25 stab wounds to her chest and a neck from a screwdriver however this time she'd actually been bitten on the breast by someone with a gap in their teeth and as you can imagine this was a huge clue for police it was most likely the murderer that had bitten and that night and so police now knew that they were probably looking for a man with a gap in his teeth once again the killer left behind the size 7 boot prints in the mud however the right foot seemed to be slightly more worn down than the left boot and this happens a lot with long-distance drivers obviously because their foot is pressed against the pedal for so many hours a day the right boot seems to wear down a lot quicker than their left and so police thought that maybe that was the killer's profession a long-distance driver there was also engineering oil found in Josephine's wounds meaning that the killer probably had engineering oil on his hands Lincoln again - a long-distance driver profession and then out of nowhere the head of the Yorkshire Ripper investigation George Oldfield received contact from the Yorkshire Ripper himself mr. altfield came in and just shouted Meg can you come over here please they had tape recorder on the desk and I just said I want you to listen to this I'm Jack I see you're still having no no cutting me I have the greatest respect for you good lord you are not nearly touching me now and four years ago when I started the matter of the tape seemed to have a northeastern accent specifically we aside which linguists actually that road all the way down to castle town in Sunderland and this was a huge spanner in the works for police because up until now police had been believing that the option Ripper was from Leeds or Bradford and had a Lisa Bradford accent but now they were receiving tips from a man with a northeastern accent so did he live in the Northeast in castle town in Sunderland and travel all the way every time he did these murders or did he now live in the Yorkshire area and was committing these murders however that would make him stick out like a sore thumb having a completely different accent to everyone else and so now police have to make a decision did they follow these tips as a lead or not because they could obviously be a hoax did they believe them and put all their time and energy into them and police decided that they were going to follow these tips they believed that they were genuinely from the Yorkshire Ripper and so they went public with them and these tapes were played everywhere on every news station every radio they were even played in nightclubs they were played just everywhere just everybody that would normally have a radio or anything like that they would play these tips in hopes that someone might recognize the voice and come forward and so police began a bunch of follow-up interviews with all the men that they'd interviewed before but this time they were gonna focus more on the accent to see if they were kind of putting on an accent or just if they had in a subtle upset that they didn't notice before the Yorkshire Ripper was in fact one of those men that was really questioned and somehow he came out of the interview looking more suspicious than when he went in he was given very kind of shot answers he seemed very snappy and agitated and police just kind of put it down to the fact that he'd been interviewed five times about the auction Reaper at this point he was obviously going to be quite federal obviously they were still suspicious of him but they thought if that is the case that he's just sick of being interviewed they could understand why he was being so snappy but one of the police officers PT laps you felt that there was more to it than that this man that they were interviewing looked exactly like the police sketches that they had of the Yorkshire Ripper and he also had size seven feet he had a gap in his teeth the company that he worked for was one of them included in the five pounder inquiry and this police officer just felt like there was so much evidence for this man be in the Yorkshire Ripper and everyone else was just kind of overlooking it he felt like he was the only one that could see it and so he went back to the police station and he brought up a report on this man that he believed could be the Yorkshire Ripper and he gave it to his boss who just completely dismissed it because this man didn't have a northeast accent but the officer was actually right in his report he had identified the Yorkshire Ripper correctly that was the Yorkshire Ripper on that report obviously his higher-ups didn't think it was meanwhile police were really putting like 90% of their effort into these tips they really believed that it was the auction Ripper on that tear so they sent police officers up to castle town in Sunderland they set up a kind of police caravan on the side of the road and they would play these tips but everyone that walked past hoping that someone might recognize it on the side of this caravan that they'd set up as a kind of standing police station they actually had speakers on the side that were constantly pumping out this tear tape was played continually to people phoning up asking him to listen to it and it was playing all the time in your background when you whatever you were doing photostat in filing indexing writing it was there playing in the background it was you know he didn't have a radio or anything we just listened to the Ripper tape day-in day-out these police in Castletown went round different shops and pubs and restaurants just on the street playing this tip for thousands and thousands of people in the area where that accent was believed to have originated from but not a single one of these thousands of people in Castletown in Sunderland actually recognized the voice on the tips the tip was also played to Tracey Brown who was a known survivor of the Yorkshire Ripper and Tracey heard this tip and she just told officers that is not the Yorkshire Ripper that is not the man that attacked her she told police that the man that attacked her had a very strong Yorkshire accent she never heard this man on the Thames voice in a life but police just kind of dismissed her because she wasn't saying what they wanted to hear meanwhile the car registration logs were still going on in all these different red-light districts and unknown to police that actually logged the Yorkshire Ripper twice in Leeds once in Manchester and 36 times in Bradford frequent visitors of the different red-light districts were still being questioned even though police were putting most of their efforts into the tips they were still doing this back in Yorkshire and so after these stats came in the Yorkshire Ripper was seen 36 times in Bradford he was questioned once again by the man that had actually made the first report on him the thing that struck me more than anything was the uncanny resemblance to the Madeline ma photofit had bad feelings about the man but this officer just felt like this had to be the Yorkshire Ripper there was way too much evidence to wanting me in the auction River for it not to be like I said he looked identical to the police sketches he had a gap in his teeth size seven feet he was a lorry driver everything pointed towards this man being this aerial killer and so that same officer made a second report on this man he believed that it had to be the Yorkshire Ripper and he was not going to take no for an answer from his higher-ups and so this officer looked into the man's previous criminal history and he was told by the records office that he had a previous conviction for going equipped for theft meaning that he'd gone out in ten should steal something and took a weapon with him however what the records office didn't tell him was what that weapon was it turned out to be a hammer the signature weapon of the auction River and obviously had the records office told him that at the time told him that his weapon of choice was a hammer it would have just concreted that this man was the ultra river then five months after the last murder and eleventh body was found twenty-year-old University student Barbara leach had been out with friends one night when she decided to walk the short distance back home she was murdered just meters away from her front doorstep in the exact same way that all those women had before her blows to the head and this time eight stab wounds in the neck and chest the body plays under the steps in the corner with rubbish and old carpet piled around it she was slumped in a sitting position with a clothing disturbed and blood running down from there again Barbara wasn't a prostitute she was just a woman in the wrong place at the wrong time that the Yorkshire Ripper saw and decided to make his next victim dead in 12 days after Barbara's murder police in Sunderland received a phone call from a man that they believe could have been the same man as the one of the tears I was in the office by myself and then the phone went for the millionth time so I picked up your pen and there was a pint by the phone picked it up police instant room Sundin can I help you and then this voice came on and I thought well [ __ ] this is the Ripper this is the man and and in the hairs in the back my head stood up and it's just saying tell him it's a hoax the tape to hopes it was at this point the lead investigator of the case George Oldfield suffered a stress-induced heart attack he'd been working on this case for years at this point every single day he had barely any breaks he was getting barely any sleep barely any rest and he was just horrific ly rundown and so after his heart attack he and his higher-ups came to the decision that it was probably best for him to step away from the auction Ripper case and this whole time it had been George Oldfield that was pushing these tips he genuinely believed that it was the Yorkshire Ripper on those tips and so that's why they spent so much time and effort looking into it and so now in the absence of George Oldfield the other officers decided that they were just gonna drop that as a lead they aren't have really held on to it because of George George was in charge of that case and if he said they were looking into the tips they had to look into the tips but now that he was gone they decided to just regard it as a hoax and so now a lot of the officers on these kids didn't really have anything to do anymore then spent months looking into these tips and now that was just taken away from them saying that it was a hook so what do they do now so a certain group of officers decided to go back and look into that 5-pound not inquiry again from the sixth body and now they were able to narrow down the amount of workers that could have possibly received that five pounder in their pay packet from 8,000 workers down to 241 workers including the Yorkshire Ripper so they looked into every single one of these 241 men that could have possibly received this buy pounder including the option Ripper yeah they found nothing they got no leads and although the Yorkshire Ripper had now been interviewed another three times making his chart online interviews by police they were still no closer to realizing that he was the Yorkshire Ripper then in April of 1918 the Yorkshire Ripper was arrested for drunk driving the officer that actually arrested him for drunk driving thought that he looked quite similar to the these sketches and so we got in contact with the people actually on the Yorkshire Ripper case but the people that were working on the Yorkshire Ripper case said that the man that this officer had the actual Yorkshire Ripper had actually been eliminated from their suspect list and just four months later the Yorkshire Ripper went on to kill his twelfth victim 47 year-old Marguerite walls was killed in Leeds once again with all of the signature Yorkshire Ripper injuries in November of 1980 the Yorkshire Ripper attempted yet another murder this time in hood is filled on 16 year old mother of one Teresa Sykes I got to lamp post up there and then once got on don't like I look round and he was the aim man and I looked to him and he looked at me and it was her like a couple of seconds and he walked off down the path and then obvious left up yeah it's all right it's gone and they've carried on walking and I walking down here and I got like just past the second light and no it's the shadow on the flower didn't hear anything just the shadow so I knew it was still there but I still got the feeling that there was somebody behind me and when I saw shadow that's what really frightened me I couldn't run couldn't do a fad things that you always think yeah you can do and I couldn't do it so I grabbed all the gear and that is when he hit my stats screaming remember screaming in thank you remember stealing footsteps shown in and then next I never came out you know two in else and I still didn't realize how we really hair until after that in himself blood how close to home we in homes that I can see it from a year police were on the scene within minutes they brought sniffer dogs they brought forensics and just tried to get as much evidence as they possibly could while it was still fresh he ran down here and somehow Gotti we don't know exactly his route into the back alley but the dogs big Dibble big dogs scent in the back alley twelve days after his attack on Teresa the Yorkshire Ripper committed what would be his final murder on November 17th 1980 around 20% 9:00 that night 20-year old student jaclyn hill got off her bus in the middle of leaves and was unknowingly being followed by the Yorkshire Ripper and she was the final woman to receive those trademark injuries blows to the head stab wound to the body by now the Ripper had claimed 13 victims but still police really weren't that close to finding out who he was still on January 2nd 1981 police were still doing those routine checks of red-light districts in the north of England on this particular day in the Sheffield red-light district police checked the registration players of a certain car when they put it into their database however they found that the registration plates on that car didn't actually match the model of the car or the driver of the car and so the officer asked the driver of this car to step out for a second so that he could arrest him obviously for having wrong place on his car and for a second the officer turned his back before he'd actually arrested him and this man slipped away so the officer noticed that this man had run away and he shouted to him and that was when the man re-emerged and said I'm sorry I was just wanting to go to the toilet but I'll wear until they get to the police station so immediately due to his lies about the car the fact that he had wrong registration players and the fact that he tried to run away from police officers police were really suspicious of him and they began to think that maybe they finally had the Yorkshire Ripper and so they kept him at the police station overnight and then got the Ripper team in the next morning to interviewing police were very aware that this man's appearance really matched up with the police sketches he had size 7 feet he had a gap in his teeth everything was just too perfect but this interview didn't quite go as well as they were hoping they didn't really get any kind of leads our evidence are any more suspicions from this man it was just an interview and so without any real evidence that this was the Yorkshire Ripper they just had to let him go that same day that they let him go the police officer that actually arrested him remembered that he slipped away for a couple of seconds and so we decided to go back to the scene where he arrested him and searched that area and he found a hammer there was a bit of conversation as to who it could belong to he was saying that it could belong to the handyman because there was an oil tank at the side of where he was and that's when I stood on the wall and shown the torch down and said well the hammer might belong to him that holds the knife belong to and after that we knew that the person we'd arrested was the man who was coming and as the Yorkshire Ripper they found both of the Yorkshire rivers usual weapons that would inflict those signature injuries on every single one of those 13 women and so at this point they knew they had the Yorkshire Ripper so they reacted this man took him to the police station and police told him exactly what they'd found and he just straight-up confessed that he was the auction Ripper his name was Peter Williams so cliff he was 35 years old from Bradford in West Yorkshire in England his home was subsequently searched and they found even more evidence that he was the killer the first thing I saw was a wooden block with kitchen knives and it was obvious that the second largest knife of the set was the one I had covered in clear polythene in man the one that have been found behind the oil tank at Sheffield one of the interrogating team that came out to the interview room and said boss he's just told us that he went back to Manchester with a hacksaw and tried to cut the head off Jordan but the hacksaw wasn't big enough I said I know I've got the ax at the police station so cliff was asked to remove his clothes so that they could be taken and used for evidence and when he did the motive for the murders became clear underneath his trousers Peter Sutcliffe actually had an upside-down v-neck jumper so the part that you would normally put over your arms he'd put over his legs and the body part of the jumper was on his body it was designed to protect his knees cover his knees however his genital area was exposed it was believed that instead of actually sexually assault in his victims and leaving DNA evidence at the crime he would just masturbate elsewhere and so now police knew that his motive for all of these murders was actually sexual which is completely different to what they'd believed this whole time however Peter mentioned that his motives for the killing was not sexual at all he was actually carrying out God's wishes Peter said that he had an experience in a graveyard once he was looking at this one particular head Stern and he was mesmerized by it as he was looking at this headstone of this Polish man he said he heard God's voice coming from it giving him a mission to eradicate the world of prostitutes and he was to do this by murdering as many as he could anyway a crowd of 2,000 people gathered for Peter subclips trial every single day of the trial where he pled not guilty he did however plead guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility because he believed he was carrying out God's wishes he wasn't responsible for these murders yes he did them but God told him to do them but as you can imagine that didn't hold up at all and the jury finally came back and said that he was guilty of all 13 counts of murder and he was given 20 life sentences and a whole life tariff after his trial Peter so cliff was actually diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and any attempts to kind of put him into a psychiatric unit were blocked so as you can imagine a man that has murdered and assaulted several women coming upon 20 women altogether is gonna have quite a hard time in prison he was first attacked by a 35 year old inmate named castella who had several different assault charges he stopped so cliff in the left side of his face twice with a smashed up coffee jar leaving him needing 30 stitches so cliff was then finally sent to Broadmoor Hospital which is the psychiatric unit that had been trying to get him in for ages and when he finally got there within his first week he was attacked by another inmate who actually tried to strangle him with a headphone cable he was attacked again that year by another inmate with a pen who actually completely blinded him in his left eye and severely damaged his right eye and later when this other inmate was asked he was saying that he was trying to kill Peter sub-clip ten years later in 2007 Peter was attacked by yet another inmate with a knife saying that he was trying to blind him in his other eye however he missed and just got him in the cheek Peter so cliff is now age 72 his wife is actually divorced and changed and they're moved completely understandably she wants absolutely nothing to do with her husband that she didn't know was a serial killer and Peter is still serving on his whole life tariff meaning that he will never be out of prison okay so technically that's the end of the case but I'm just gonna give you a couple of little updates on some different things that happened throughout that timeline that might seem quite unsolved right now so the man who sent those herbes tips that sent the police on that huge Cheers looking for him for years was finally identified in 2005 his name was John humble he was from Sunderland he was unemployed and didn't seem to have much of a life and there's actually full documentaries on this man if you want to find them on YouTube he served eight years in prison for perverting the course of justice but he's out now and I don't actually know what he's doing so if you remember in those hooks letters the person was talking about John Harrison a woman that was murdered in 1975 well her killer was actually never identified and wasn't the person that wrote the letter either but in 2011 DNA evidence revealed that her killer was actually known sex and Christopher Smith who actually died three years before they found out that he killed John Harrison and so he never faced any prison time for it but yeah that completes this case thank you so so much for watching this long especially if you caught my first 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Length: 67min 26sec (4046 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 24 2018