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No comments about MURDER IN COLD BLOOD; PETER SUTCLIFFE, JOHN GEORGE HAIGH, THE KRAY TWINS, DEREK BENTLEY.

1 comments about Deliver Us from Evil.

1. David yallop had his book researched and written and sent to his publishers after 2 years of research. Then suddenly Peter sutcliffe was arrested and he had to rewrite it after Sutcliffe's trial in the light that Sutcliffe was the Ripper.
   However Yallop had great reservations and had many question marks that were never answered.
   The No 1 suspect in his book prior to Sutcliffe's arrest was a man other than Sutcliffe and he is the real Ripper and is still free. BR>Yallop's book helped to provide many facts crucial to the case but it was written for commercial gain just after the trial and he did not know then that the police had fitted up a mentally disturbed copy cat killer who confessed to everything.

1 comments about The Streetcleaner: The Yorkshire Ripper Case on Trial.

1. 1978. Detective Chief Superintendent Lapish, Bradford C.I.D. 'We must now face the very real possibility that there is a second man preying on women". 1978. Daily Mail. "Copy-Cat Ripper at Large". 1980. Sunday Times "Insight". "Oldfield conceded to us - that there is not one Ripper, but - at least - two". 1989. R.J.P. Warren. Deputy Chairman of West Yorkshire Police Authority. "It was known in the top echelons of the police that two men were involved in the series of murders". 1983. Ian Smith. Editor of Ch. Con. Ronald Gregory's Memoirs. "I agree with your premise that Sutcliffe was not responsible for all the murders". Brian Marriner. Author of "A century of Sex Killers". "I don't think now that Sutcliffe did all the killings he Confessed to "

   It was a well established fact that at the time of Peter Sutcliffe's arrest, two killers were involved in the series of murders and assaults; the Ripper, who had been corresponding with the police, and a Copy-Cat killer.

   Peter Sutcliffe was a disturbed man whose marriage to Sonia Szurma triggered off a hatred for females which saw him embark on a series of sex attacks on respectable women less than one year into the marriage. Sutcliffe's assaults followed by masturbation at the scene coincided with a series of horrific murders of prostitutes in Leeds and Bradford Red Light areas by a cunning maniac who was dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper. Sutcliffe, who had a certain insight into such attacks, came to believe he was the Ripper. His first fatal attack was on Jean Jordan in Manchester, and there he left a £5 note clue which led the police to him for the first of twelve interviews over the next 3 years. He was eliminated each time, because his teeth pattern and blood group didn't match the Rippers. His murder of Jean Jordan was then included in the Ripper frame, on the basis of information confided to the police in 3 letters and a cassette tape, by the Ripper himself. This locked Sutcliffe, the Copy-Cat killer, into a battle of wits with the Ripper as their toll of victims mounted, until Sutcliffe's arrest and "confessions", which enabled the police to clear the slate.

   He was duly convicted on his uncontested "confession" evidence, and the police assisted victims of his assaults who remembered him, into court, in order to convince the public, he was the man. They made much of his four murders while they skimmed over the real Ripper victims, relying on his "confessions" and ignoring the forensic evidence. The goal posts were moved with Sutcliffe firmly In goal.

   The real Ripper, with the rare B blood group detected from semen and saliva on bites, was written off as a hoaxer and officially the case remains firmly closed.

   The Lancashire police, who had responsibility for one Ripper murder in Preston, wouldn't accept Sutcliffe's "confessions" to their murder and he wasn't charged with this.

   The man responsible for this Preston murder, and fourteen more mainly in the North of England is still free in the U.K. and is identified in this book as Billy Tracey, as are the police responsible for this gross criminal negligence.

   From the time of Sutcliffe's conviction all attempts to show this evidence to the police were met with indifference and indeed resentment. The official position of Sutcliffe's conviction is resolutely adhered to despite overwhelming evidence. Anything that could undermine the conviction is ignored or ridiculed by the police but the following record stands. The West Yorkshire Police proved beyond all doubt that Sutcliffe was not the Ripper

2 comments about Somebody's Husband.

1. To his family in the small town of Bingley near Bradford in the north of England, he was known as "our Pete." To the police, who had hunted him for more than six years through the tiwns and cities of Yorkshire, he was known as the Yorkshire Ripper, the sadistic killer of thirteen women. In this study of Peter Sutcliffe, the man they finally charged, Gordon Burn has given us one of the most incisive and revelatory books ever written about the life and times, the family and social milieu of a mass murderer.

   Peter Sutcliffe was tried and convicted in a sensational trial at the Old Bailey in 1981, but journalist Burn was struck by the fact that almost nothing had been brought out about the killer's background. Curious, he went north and found himself staying in Bingley lodgings for two years, getting to know Peter Sutcliffe's father, brother, sisters and close friends. We see Sutcliffe as a child literally clinging to his mother's skirts and refusing his boisterous father's attempts to make him play football, as an adolescent loner, a gravedigger, and a truck driver, courting his wife for seven years, bragging about women despite a prostitute's rebuff, and spending hours at a horrifying wax museum display. In all of this and so much more, Gordon Burn allows us to piece together the character and motivation of one of the most savage and mystifying murderers ever known.

   In telling Peter Sutcliffe's story, Burn also reveals a whole way of life -- as fascinating to outsiders as any ever reported by Margaret Meadm as rich in sharply drawn individuals as a novel by Dickens. It is a society of northern men in which aggression toward women is commonplace -- a world of drinking clubs, fast driving, millhands, petty criminals, pimps, and prostitutes, through which Sutcliffewas able to move undetected while the police -- failing to coordinate their mass of information -- struggled in vain to track him down.

   Rarely has a writer drawn so close to the inner truth about a killer and his crimes or, without sensationalism, told his story with such chilling and compulsive power.




2. There were a lot of good facts in this book. But, it was so poorly organized that it was very difficult to get any of those facts out. The chronology was very muddled, and it was very difficult to keep all the people straight. I understand that Peter Sutcliffe lived in England and the author was trying to be authentic, but there was so much English dialect in the various quotes that it was often difficult to get the gist of what someone was saying.