What was the name of the infamous 'The Yorkshire Ripper'?
"This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper is a British television crime drama miniseries, first shown on ITV from 26 January to 2 February 2000. The series is a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield (Alun Armstrong) who led the enquiry. The series also starred Richard Ridings and James Laurenson as DSI Dick Holland and Chief Constable Ronald Gregory, respectively. Although broadcast over"
"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 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."
"Wearside Jack Wearside Jack is the nickname given to John Samuel Humble (born 8 January 1956), an Englishman who pretended to be the Yorkshire Ripper in a number of hoax letters and an audio communication in 1978–79. Humble sent three letters, taunting the authorities for failing to catch him, as well as an audio-message spoken in a Wearside accent. This caused the investigation to be moved away from the West Yorkshire area, home of the real killer Peter Sutcliffe, and thereby helped to prolong his attacks on women and hindered his potential arrest by two years. Some 25 years after"
"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 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"""
"""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"
"Yorkshire Ripper, against ""Private Eye"", which alleged that she had sold her life story to the ""Daily Mail"". She was initially awarded then-record damages of £600,000 (reduced to £60,000 on appeal). Ian Hislop, editor of ""Private Eye"", said on the steps of the court after losing the case: ""If that's justice, then I'm a banana."" In 1990, he also presided over the libel case brought by Lord Aldington against Count Nikolai Tolstoy, in relation to allegations of bad faith in returning Cossacks to Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union and Slavs to Marshal Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslavia in 1945, at the end"
"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"
"is no waxwork figure of Jack the Ripper at Madame Tussauds' Chamber of Horrors, unlike murderers of lesser fame, in accordance with their policy of not modelling persons whose likeness is unknown. He is instead depicted as a shadow. In 2006, ""BBC History"" magazine and its readers selected Jack the Ripper as the worst Briton in history. Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper is the best-known name for an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. In both the criminal case files and"
"include ""Yorkshire Ripper"" Peter Sutcliffe, convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women and attacking seven others in the north of England, Roy Whiting, who murdered a seven-year-old girl in West Sussex in 2000, and Ian Huntley, a Cambridgeshire school caretaker who killed two 10-year-old girls in 2002. A November 2009 television survey showed that 70% favoured reinstating the death penalty for at least one of the following crimes: armed robbery, rape, crimes related to paedophilia, terrorism, adult murder, child murder, child rape, treason, child abuse or kidnapping. However, respondents only favoured capital punishment for adult murder, the polling question asked"
"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"
"one newspaper contacted the police (falsely) claiming he was the Black Panther, the armed robber and murderer. Ryan used numerous aliases, showing an ability with accents, when he gave stories to the press, including Major Travis, Peter Bernstein, David Oppenheimer, and Rocco Salvatore. The last name, supposedly a businessman, was used to dupe ""The Daily Telegraph"" into believing the contact was involved in a military coup in the Seychelles. Other stories concocted by Ryan included claims that the kidnapped racehorse Shergar was alive and well and living in Jersey, and that the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, was being allowed out"
"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"
"Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper is the best-known name for an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. In both the criminal case files and contemporary journalistic accounts, the killer was called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron. Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved female prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of the East End of London whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led"
"was causing criminal damage to people"". On 21 March 2006, Humble was sentenced to eight years in jail. In July 2006, he launched an appeal against his sentence, which was rejected in October of the same year. On 5 September 2009 the ""Daily Mail Online"" ran a story ""Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer Wearside Jack to be freed from prison next month"". In an article published in July 2013, Humble was confirmed to be out of prison and gave his first interview. Wearside Jack Wearside Jack is the nickname given to John Samuel Humble (born 8 January 1956), an Englishman who pretended"
"he prematurely retired in 1913 due to illness, Macnaghten claimed to journalists that he knew the exact identity of Jack the Ripper, the nickname of the unknown serial killer of poor prostitutes in London's impoverished East End during the late Victorian era. The police chief called the killer ""that remarkable man"", but refused to name him or divulge details that might identify him, except to reveal that he had taken his own life at the end of 1888. Macnaghten further claimed that he had destroyed the relevant papers to keep forever secret the deceased killer's identity. Since 1965 the public"
"throat had been severed down to the spine. In four of the cases the bodies were mutilated after death. The similarities between the crimes led to the supposition that they were committed by the same assailant, who was given the nickname ""Jack the Ripper"". Despite an extensive police investigation into the five murders, the Ripper was never identified and the crimes remain unsolved. Shortly after Kelly's murder, stories that the Ripper had drowned in the Thames began to circulate. In February 1891, the MP for West Dorset, Henry Richard Farquharson, announced that Jack the Ripper was ""the son of a"
"1974 to 1983, including the Yorkshire Ripper killings, the books and films follow several recurring fictional characters through a bleak and violent world of multi-layered police corruption and organised crime. Although there are allusions to real-life crimes, the plot is fictional rather than a documentary or factual account of events. Both the books and films mix elements of fact, fiction, and conspiracy theory – a confection dubbed ""Yorkshire Noir"" by some critics – and are notable for a chronologically fractured narrative and for defying neat or trite endings and resolutions. The name of the series is a reference to the"
"Joseph Vacher Joseph Vacher (November 16, 1869 – December 31, 1898) was a French serial killer, sometimes known as ""The French Ripper"" or ""L'éventreur du Sud-Est"" (""The South-East Ripper"") owing to comparisons to the more famous Jack the Ripper murderer of London, England, in 1888. His scarred face, accordion, and plain, white, handmade rabbit-fur hat composed his trademark appearance. He killed 11 to 27 people, many of whom were adolescent farm workers, between 1894 and 1897. The son of an illiterate farmer, young Joseph was sent to a very strict Catholic school where he was taught to obey and to"
"noted. Traditionally, five murders (known as the ""canonical five"") are attributed to the notorious serial killer ""Jack the Ripper"", who terrorised Whitechapel in the East End of London between August and November 1888. Authorities are not agreed on the exact number of the Ripper's victims, and at least eleven Whitechapel murders between April 1888 and February 1891 were included in the same extensive police investigation. All the crimes remain unsolved. Claims that Bury could have been the Ripper began to appear in newspapers shortly after Bury's arrest. Like Bury, the Ripper had inflicted abdominal wounds on his victims immediately after"
"Jack the Ripper in fiction Jack the Ripper, the notorious serial killer who terrorized Whitechapel in 1888, features in works of fiction ranging from gothic novels published at the time of the murders to modern motion pictures, televised dramas and video games. Important influences on the depiction of the Ripper include Marie Belloc Lowndes' 1913 novel ""The Lodger"", which has been adapted for the stage and film, and Stephen Knight's 1976 work """", which expanded on a conspiracy theory involving freemasons and royalty. The literature of the late Victorian era, including Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes stories and Robert"
"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 was active as an actor and director in university theatre and also joined the Oxford University Air Squadron. He then spent six years in the Royal Air Force as an education officer at RAF Sandwich, his eyesight"
"the arrest and execution of Jack Sheppard, a petty thief and burglar who had won the public's affection as a lovable rogue. However, Wild's duplicity was becoming known, and his men began to give evidence against him. After a suicide attempt, he was hanged at Tyburn before a massive crowd. He was featured in novels, poems, and plays, some of them noting parallels between Wild and the contemporaneous Prime Minister Walpole, known as """"The Great Corrupter"""". Though his exact birth date is unknown, Jonathan Wild was born in Wolverhampton in either 1682 or 1683 – although he was also alleged"
"the event, a fragment from one of Humble's envelopes was traced to him through DNA, and in 2006 Humble was sentenced to eight years in prison for perverting the course of justice. Over the course of a year between March 1978 and March 1979, Humble sent three letters claiming to be the Yorkshire Ripper. Postmarked from Sunderland, two were addressed to Assistant Chief Constable, George Oldfield a member of the West Yorkshire Police who was heading the Ripper inquiry, and one to the ""Daily Mirror"". First letter: 8 March 1978 Written to Detective George Oldfield ""Preston '75"" was a reference"
"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"
"Chapman killed acquaintances, and although Chapman did live in Whitechapel it was not particularly near the scene of the murders. Chapman's story was dramatised twice by Towers of London. Firstly in 1949 in ""Secrets of Scotland Yard"" as ""George Chapman... Poisoner, Publican and Lady Killer"" and then again in a 1951 episode of ""The Black Museum"" entitled ""The Straight Razor"". Both conclude with a brief argument for Chapman's identity as Jack the Ripper. George Chapman (murderer) George Chapman (14 December 1865 – 7 April 1903), born as Seweryn Antonowicz Kłosowski, was a Polish serial killer known as the Borough Poisoner."
"the region, as the two tongues sound very similar in pronunciation and diction. The dialect also has several variations between different areas of the City, as demonstrated when the hoax tapes purporting to be of the Yorkshire Ripper were analysed. The tapes were made by a man who came to be known as Wearside Jack, and were thought by linguistic experts to be made by someone specifically from the Castletown area of Sunderland. When the perpetrator, John Humble was eventually caught he confirmed that he did indeed attend school in the Castletown area of Sunderland in his childhood. Lewis Carroll"
"2011 an independent minor league baseball team in London, Ontario announced that it would be known as the London Rippers, with a logo featuring ""Jack Diamond"", their mascot, wearing a top hat and black cape reminiscent of the appearance of Jack the Ripper in the popular imagination. The choice drew criticism from the mayor and a local women's shelter. Jack the Ripper in fiction Jack the Ripper, the notorious serial killer who terrorized Whitechapel in 1888, features in works of fiction ranging from gothic novels published at the time of the murders to modern motion pictures, televised dramas and video"
"the Ripper"", the Ripper's daughter (played by Angharad Rees) grows up to become a murderess after she sees her father kill her mother. In ""Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde"", Dr. Henry Jekyll transforms into the evil predatory woman Sister Hyde and is also responsible for the Ripper murders. In ""Terror in the Wax Museum"" (1973), a murderer disguises himself as a waxwork of the Ripper. ""The Veil"" episode ""Jack the Ripper"" (1958) is a made-for-television film introduced by Boris Karloff, in which a clairvoyant identifies the Ripper as a respectable surgeon whose death has been faked to cover his incarceration"
"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"
"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"
"Robert James Lees Robert James Lees (born 12 August 1849 in Hinckley, Leicestershire – died 11 January 1931 in Leicester) was a British spiritualist, medium, preacher, writer and healer of the late Victorian era and early twentieth century known today for claims that he knew the identity of Jack the Ripper, responsible for the Whitechapel murders of 1888. The son of William Lingham Lees (1818–1880) and Elizabeth (née Patch) (1819–1883), Robert Lees was born in Hinckley and spent his early years in Birmingham. It is claimed that, following the death of Prince Albert in 1861 the 13-year-old Lees went into"