"Peter Sutcliffe Peter William Coonan (born Peter William Sutcliffe; 2 June 1946) is an English serial killer who was dubbed the ""Yorkshire Ripper"" by the press. In 1981 Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others. Sutcliffe had allegedly regularly used the services of prostitutes in Leeds and Bradford. When interviewed by authorities, he claimed that the voice of God had sent him on a mission to kill prostitutes. Sutcliffe carried out his murder spree over five years, during which time the public were especially shocked by the murders of women who were not prostitutes."
"those committed by the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, who murdered 13 women and attacked seven others (mostly prostitutes) between 1975 and 1981. There was some concern that the level of media coverage at the time could jeopardise a trial. The murders also sparked debates in the media over the laws surrounding prostitution. The body of a young woman was discovered in the water of Belstead Brook at Thorpe's Hill, near Hintlesham, by a member of the public on 2 December 2006. The body, later identified as 25-year-old Gemma Adams, had not been sexually assaulted. Six days later, on 8 December,"
"""Yorkshire Ripper"". Their hunt comes to an end in January 1981 when 34-year-old Bradford lorry driver Peter Sutcliffe is arrested and confesses to the crimes. He is jailed for life later that year. 5. Christopher Foster; in August 2008, the charred bodies of businessman Christopher Foster, his wife Jill and their teenage daughter Kirstie are found after a fire at their £1.2million Shropshire mansion. It is later established that Mr Foster had shot his wife and daughter dead, as well as their dogs and horses, before setting fire to their home and dying in the inferno. Further investigations that Christopher"
"Anthony Hardy Anthony John Hardy (born 31 May 1951) is an English serial killer who is known as the Camden Ripper for dismembering some of his victims. In November 2003, he was sentenced to three life terms for three murders, but he may have killed up to nine people. Born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England, Hardy had an apparently uneventful childhood and excelled in school and college. He earned an engineer's degree from Imperial College London and subsequently became a manager of a large company. Hardy married and fathered three sons and one daughter; his wife divorced him in"
"by Olly Lambert. Anthony Hardy Anthony John Hardy (born 31 May 1951) is an English serial killer who is known as the Camden Ripper for dismembering some of his victims. In November 2003, he was sentenced to three life terms for three murders, but he may have killed up to nine people. Born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England, Hardy had an apparently uneventful childhood and excelled in school and college. He earned an engineer's degree from Imperial College London and subsequently became a manager of a large company. Hardy married and fathered three sons and one daughter; his wife"
"was convicted of murdering 13 women (and wounding seven others), mainly those who worked as prostitutes, over a period of five years from 1975 to 1980 in northern England; and to ""Jack the Ripper"", the infamous Victorian serial murderer who also targeted prostitutes. As with previous serial killers dating back to Jack the Ripper, many sections of the media have attempted to coin a name for the presumed murderer, using the ""Suffolk Strangler"", and other terms to refer to the case. A reward was offered, first by local business Call Connection, who initially offered £25,000 and later raised it to"
"house (since demolished) in Headingley. Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe committed two of his 20 attacks in Headingley. He killed 20-year-old Jacqueline Hill – the last of the 13 women he killed – in the area on 17 November 1980. On 24 September that year, he had also attacked Singapore born doctor Upadhya Bandara, 34, in the area, but she survived his assault. Sutcliffe was arrested within two months of Hill's murder and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for a total of 13 murders and seven attempted murders. Celebrate Headingley is an annual series of events organised by Headingley Network, taking"
"approaching final release from prison on parole. Colin Pitchfork Colin Pitchfork (born 23 March 1960) is a British convicted murderer and rapist. He was the first person convicted of murder based on DNA fingerprinting evidence, and the first to be caught as a result of mass DNA screening. Pitchfork raped and murdered two girls in Leicestershire, the first in Narborough, in November 1983, and the second in Enderby, in July 1986. He was arrested on 19 September 1987 and sentenced to life imprisonment on 22 January 1988, after admitting both murders. Pitchfork lived in Newbold Verdon, attending school in Market"
"to the murder of Joan Harrison. The actual Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, was never charged with this crime. It would remain unsolved until 2011, when DNA evidence from the crime scene was matched to a man named Christopher Smith. On 17 June 1979, Humble sent a cassette to Assistant Chief Constable Oldfield, where he introduced himself only under the Christian name ""Jack"" and claimed responsibility for the Ripper murders to that point. The cassette ended with a segment from the 1978 single ""Thank You for Being a Friend"" by Andrew Gold. Despite George Oldfield and other senior officers being informed"
"of sex workers during the same time period due to the post-mortem mutilations that occurred, and it is for that reason that other murders of prostitutes are not usually attributed to the Ripper, or are disputed. Peter Sutcliffe (aka the Yorkshire Ripper) murdered 13 women, some of whom were sex workers, from 1975-1980 in Northern England. Gary Ridgway (aka the Green River Killer), confessed to killing 48 sex workers from 1982 to 1998, making him one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history. Robert Hansen murdered between 15 and 21 sex workers, near Anchorage, Alaska, between 1980 and"
"After two days of intensive questioning, on the afternoon of 4 January 1981 Sutcliffe suddenly declared he was the Ripper. Over the next day, Sutcliffe calmly described his many attacks. Weeks later he claimed God had told him to murder the women. He displayed emotion only when telling of the killing of his youngest victim, Jayne MacDonald, and when questioned about the murder of Joan Harrison, which he vehemently denied committing. Harrison's murder had been linked to the Ripper killings by the ""Wearside Jack"" claim, and in 2011, DNA evidence proved it had been committed by convicted sex offender Christopher"
"Yorkshire Police launched Operation Painthall to determine if Sutcliffe was guilty of unsolved crimes dating back to 1964. This inquiry also looked at the killings of two sex workers in southern Sweden in 1980. As Sutcliffe was a lorry driver, it was theorised that he had been in Denmark and Sweden, making use of the ferry across the Oresund Strait. West Yorkshire Police later stated that they were ""absolutely certain"" that Sutcliffe had never been in Sweden. Peter Sutcliffe Peter William Coonan (born Peter William Sutcliffe; 2 June 1946) is an English serial killer who was dubbed the ""Yorkshire Ripper"""
"the type of youth gang grime (often drink or drug fuelled) which has resulted in serious crimes like the death of her husband, and is later elevated to the House of Lords, as well as being appointed Victim's Commissioner by the Conservative government. 4. The Yorkshire Ripper; between 1975 and 1981, 13 women are killed and seven others injured in attacks across the county of Yorkshire (and one victim in Manchester). After the first few attacks, police are convinced that they are dealing with the crimes of one man, a mystery individual who is labelled by the media as the"
"wife and four children in Rainhill near St. Helens, Lancashire, in 1891. His crimes went undiscovered and later that year he emigrated to Australia with his second wife, whom he then also murdered. Her body was found buried under their house, and the subsequent investigation led to the discovery of the other bodies in England. He was arrested, sent to trial, and found guilty. He wrote in a book, and later boasted in jail that he was Jack the Ripper, but he was either imprisoned or in South Africa at the time of the Ripper murders. The police denied any"
"Colin Pitchfork Colin Pitchfork (born 23 March 1960) is a British convicted murderer and rapist. He was the first person convicted of murder based on DNA fingerprinting evidence, and the first to be caught as a result of mass DNA screening. Pitchfork raped and murdered two girls in Leicestershire, the first in Narborough, in November 1983, and the second in Enderby, in July 1986. He was arrested on 19 September 1987 and sentenced to life imprisonment on 22 January 1988, after admitting both murders. Pitchfork lived in Newbold Verdon, attending school in Market Bosworth and Desford, until his marriage in"
"new attacks were linked with the same inquiry, Oldfield confirmed that the police believed they were being committed by the same man. From the fact that the murderer attacked and mutilated women, some of whom were associated with prostitution, the nickname ""Yorkshire Ripper"" came to be applied to him. Oldfield devoted himself to investigating the crimes, working long hours and taking little leave. In June 1979, Oldfield publicised a tape recording received by the police in which a man claiming to be the murderer taunted Oldfield personally for being unable to catch him. Oldfield was convinced that the tape came"
"Peter Manuel Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel (13 March 1927 – 11 July 1958) was an American-Scottish serial killer who was convicted of murdering a total of seven people across Lanarkshire and southern Scotland between 1956 and his arrest in January 1958, and is believed to have murdered two more, nine in all. Prior to his arrest, the media nicknamed the unidentified killer ""the Beast of Birkenshaw"". Manuel was hanged at Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison; he was the second to last prisoner to die on the Barlinnie gallows. Manuel was born to Scottish parents in New York City; the family moved to"
"24 May and subsequently charged with killing the three women. After being found guilty, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order. Stephen Shaun Griffiths (born 24 December 1969 in Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire) was arrested and in May 2010 he appeared in the magistrates' court giving his name as the Crossbow Cannibal. At a crown court appearance that afternoon he was remanded in custody until his next court appearance. He made a second appearance at crown court on 7 June via a video link from Wakefield Prison where a trial date of 16 November 2010"
"Dennis Nilsen Dennis Andrew Nilsen (23 November 1945 – 12 May 2018) was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile, who murdered at least 12 young men in a series of killings committed between 1978 and 1983 in London, England. Convicted, at the Old Bailey, of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder, Nilsen was sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 November 1983, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 25 years. In his later years, he was incarcerated at Full Sutton maximum security prison. Nilsen committed the murders at two North London addresses. He lured his"
"a lesbian in 1977 when she was 15. When she was 17 Bindel moved to Leeds and joined the Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group, which was campaigning against pornography. Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, was still on the loose; from 1975 to 1980 he attacked at least 20 women, several working as prostitutes, and murdered 13 of them, in Leeds, Bradford and the surrounding area. Bindel describes being followed home one night in November 1980 by a man with a dark beard and wiry hair. She ran into a pub to get away from him and reported what had happened to"
"limit, which has led to speculation that he will never be released. Mark Rowntree Mark Rowntree is a British spree killer who was committed to a mental hospital after he admitted killing four people at random in the town of Bingley, West Yorkshire, during late 1975 and early 1976. Due to the timing of his spree, some of his victims were erroneously assumed to have been killed by the Yorkshire Ripper, which distracted police enquiries at the time. On 31December 1975, 19-year-old Rowntree stabbed widow Grace Adamson to death, then celebrated with a beer at the local pub. Four days"
"Anthony Arkwright Anthony Arkwright is a convicted British spree killer, who, over the course of 56 hours in August 1988, murdered three people in Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire. Arkwright is also suspected of murdering a fourth person during his killing spree, the charge of which Arkwright's trial judge ordered to be laid on his file. Arkwright was 21 years old at the time of the killings and was 22 when he was convicted. He is currently serving a whole life tariff. Anthony Arkwright was born in the mining community of Wath-upon-Dearne in what was the historic county of West Riding. He"
"John Cooper (serial killer) John William Cooper (born 3 September 1944) is a serial killer and diagnosed psychopath from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. On 26 May 2011 he was given four life sentences for the 1985 double murder of brother and sister Richard and Helen Thomas, and the 1989 double murder of Peter and Gwenda Dixon. Cooper was also sentenced for the rape of a 16-year-old girl and a sexual assault on a 15-year-old girl, both carried out at gunpoint, in March 1996, in woodland behind the Mount Estate, Milford Haven. Cooper had a history of crime, including 30 robberies and"
"although the injunction that had been granted at trial against the cricket club was overturned on appeal. Chadwin, who was married with four children, died in 2006. His obituary in ""The Times"" described him in this way: James Chadwin James Armstrong Chadwin QC (7 June 1930 – 16 January 2006) was a prominent British barrister, whose cases included defending Peter Sutcliffe, the ""Yorkshire Ripper"". Chadwin was born in Glasgow and educated at the High School of Glasgow, Glasgow University (where he read modern languages and met the woman he was to marry) and Jesus College, Oxford. Whilst at Oxford, he"
"the Hunt for 'Jack the Stripper""' (2016), in which Kirby referred to him only as ""the Cop"". In their book ""The Survivor"" (2002), Jimmy Evans and Martin Short allege the culprit was Superintendent Tommy Butler of the Metropolitan Police's Flying Squad. Butler died in 1970. The Crime & Investigation channel's ""Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook"" put forward the theory that the killer could have been Harold Jones, a convicted murderer from Wales. Jones killed two girls in 1921 in the Welsh town of Abertillery. Because he was 15 at the time, he was not liable for the death penalty, instead receiving"
"aged 67. He had spent 35 years in prison and was one of the longest-serving prisoners in England and Wales. Trevor Hardy Trevor Joseph Hardy (11 June 1945 – 25 September 2012), also known as the Beast of Manchester, was a convicted English serial killer who murdered three teenage girls in the Manchester area between December 1974 and March 1976. In 1977, he was found guilty on three charges of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment, remaining in prison until his death 35 years later. Lesley Janet Stewart, 15, was stabbed to death on New Year's Eve 1974 and"
"Arthur Hutchinson (murderer) Arthur Hutchinson (born 19 February 1941) is an English convicted triple murderer. Born in Hartlepool, County Durham he attained notoriety in 1984 when he was convicted of three murders committed in Dore, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, on 23 October 1983. He has remained in prison ever since, and since 2008 has made a number of legal challenges to overturn a ruling by the Home Office that his life sentence should mean life and that he should never be paroled. Hutchinson had already spent more than five years in prison for the attempted murder of his brother-in-law. On the"
"After his arrest for driving with false number plates in January 1981, the police questioned him about the killings and he confessed to being the perpetrator. At his trial in 1981, he pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of diminished responsibility after a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia but his defence was rejected by a majority of the jury. He is serving 20 concurrent sentences of life imprisonment. Following his conviction, Sutcliffe began using his mother's maiden name and became known as Peter William Coonan. West Yorkshire Police were criticised for the time taken in apprehending Sutcliffe despite interviewing him"
"survived Mashiane's attention. Johannes Mashiane Johannes Mashiane AKA ""The Beast of Atteridgeville"" is a South African rapist and serial killer who accounted for 13 victims before committing suicide in 1989. Mashiane was being chased by police in the Pretoria suburb of Marabastad when he jumped underneath a bus. Mashiane started his murderous activity circa 1977 by killing his girlfriend. He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and was released in 1982. After being released, he immediately started his spate of murder and sodomy accounting for the deaths of at least 12 young boys by strangulation or stoning. One victim is"
"Pembrokeshire-based serial killer and rapist John Cooper was found guilty of the murder of the Dixons in May 2011. The police were unable to establish what Moody had been doing since his return to England, nor who had arranged a council flat for him. His flat was only traced three weeks after his death, by which time it had been completely emptied. Jimmy Moody James Alfred ""Jimmy"" Moody (27 February 1941 – 1 June 1993) was an English gangster and hitman whose career spanned more than four decades and included run-ins with Jack Spot, Billy Hill, ""Mad"" Frankie Fraser, the"
"Richard Cottingham Richard Francis Cottingham (born November 25, 1946) is an American serial killer from New Jersey who operated in New York City between 1967 and 1980. Cottingham was given several nicknames including the Butcher of Times Square, the Torso Killer, the New York Ripper, and the Times Square Torso Ripper, due to how he dismembered his victims and only left their torsos behind. He targeted prostitutes in Times Square. He was convicted of murder in 1981 after being caught fleeing an attempted murder and between 1981 and 1984 was convicted of five murders. Cottingham is officially known to have"
"was tasked with interviewing Cooper. On 12 July 2018, a documentary about Cooper named 'The Gameshow Serial Killer: Police Tapes' aired on ITV as part of the channel's 'Crime and Punishment' season. John Cooper (serial killer) John William Cooper (born 3 September 1944) is a serial killer and diagnosed psychopath from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. On 26 May 2011 he was given four life sentences for the 1985 double murder of brother and sister Richard and Helen Thomas, and the 1989 double murder of Peter and Gwenda Dixon. Cooper was also sentenced for the rape of a 16-year-old girl and a"
"correspondence with a number of high-profile serial killers and child killers, including ""Yorkshire Ripper"" Peter Sutcliffe, Roy Whiting (who murdered seven-year-old Sarah Payne in West Sussex in 2000) and Ian Huntley (the school caretaker who murdered two 10-year-old girls in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in 2002). It also tells of how he gained a written confession from Richard Blenkey for the murder of seven-year-old Paul Pearson at Marske, Cleveland, in 1991, and how he employed the same tactic when writing to Shaun Armstrong after he was charged with the murder of Hartlepool toddler Rosie Palmer three years later. In both instances, the"