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Date of upload: Sep 18, 2022 ^^
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I remember when the police asked for people to call with any ideas of who he might be, that's how desperate they were. My colleagues and I decided to call them one lunchtime as we thought because the deaths were in Yorkshire and Lancashire, that he might be a wagon driver, ie someone who could travel around without suspicion, when I told them this, to be honest, they came over quite hostile, asking me why did we think this and I felt quite intimidated. Turns out he was a Wagon Driver, who they had interviewed 9 times!!!
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I was 16 when Sutcliffe was caught, and Leeds was only a couple of mile from where I lived so it was our place for going to the cinema etc. I remember my mum sitting me down and talking about safety and she talked to me about Sutcliffe, I was fully aware as it had been going on for several years and it was always on the news and in the papers. I've always put into practice what my mum side, friends stay together, you all go out together and always go home together. The last one in the taxi rings the others to tell them they got home safe. Keep hold of your drinks. I will always be grateful for the love and understanding of my parents, they knew they had to trust me but it must have been hard for them.
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One dark January evening there was a knock at our front door. We lived in a small town in North Lincolnshire -60/70 miles away from West Yorkshire. I was about 14 years old. It was the police - and they wanted to speak with my dad. They asked where he was on a given number of nights. My dad was a truck driver, with thick shoulder length dark hair, dark moustache and beard. But he didn`t work nights - and his name wasn`t Peter Sutcliff. But it shows how wide spread the police search went. I know the police were criticised, and perhaps rightly. But the search for Sutcliff was huge.
They`d obviously contacted all the hauliers / haulage firms within perhaps a hundred mile radius of Leeds and asked for the names and addresses of each of their drivers.
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I was working for a German Petroleum Drilling company in Aberdeen when this was going on and our personnel manager was an ex cop. We employed German Drilling staff and a heap of people from Sunderland and the Isle of Skye. When the hoax tape was released, it sounded so much like one of the Sunderland guys that we checked the dates because they knew Sutcliffe was a lorry driver or at least thought it was someone who worked away. The dates fit and our personnel manager was in contact with the Ripper squad but during this Sutcliffe had been arrested and confessed. Luckily for the guy who sounded like the "I'm Jack" tape. I often wonder in hindsight if he had been investigated for the hoax because it really sounded like him.
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You could have wrapped him up in fluorescent pink paper, Green and Blue bows. Flashing lights and a voice bellowing out "I'm Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper" and the police still wouldn't have arrested him. The level of their incompetence was staggering. Time after time they had him, but they did not connect the dots.
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I was a teenager at the time and remember a huge upswing in grass roots feminism in response to the way both the media and police spoke about the various victims.
It was painfully clear how differently prostitute were valued compared to "nice girls". It was almost as if they were less than human. We felt that the victims mattered equally, regardless of their occupation.
Women campaigned, we marched and did everything we could to try to get the media and the police to value all the victims equally, with equal dignity.
Our efforts bore fruit. If, for example, you watch documentaries about the Suffolk Strangler, Steve Wright, and focus on the way the victims (who were all prostitutes) and their families are treated and spoken about - the difference is huge! It's hard to imagine how bad things were back in the 70s. We've made progress :-)
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So, when they went on their quest to question the recipients of the 5 pound note, with the matching serial number, they didn’t notice that they were actually face to face, with someone that fitted the identikit profile, given by the surviving witness!!!!
This to me, seems to be complete incompetence on behalf of the police and heads should have rolled. People were killed thereafter. What the he’ll went on!
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I can't even comprehend how difficult it would be to try to cross reference hundreds of thousands of bits of info (potential evidence) without computing power. It's impossible to do in an expedient fashion. It makes total sense that serendipity was the ultimate arbiter of suspicision of Sutcliffe rather than the actual 13 victim inquiry.
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@alexmajor7773
3 months ago
It’s crazy that they interviewed him 9 times during the investigation. If they took the surviving victims with them they would have identified him immediately
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