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Sutcliffe is interviewed by police but provides an alibi placing him at a party. June A tape is sent to police by a man calling himself Jack the Ripper, who has already sent a series of hand-written letters from Sunderland.

Assistant Chief Constable Oldfield mistakenly decides that these are the work of the Ripper. Wearside Jack, as he becomes known, is pinpointed to the Castletown district of Sunderland by voice experts.

Detectives are told they can discount suspects who do not have a Wearside accent. July Police interview Sutcliffe for the fifth time. Detective Constables Andrew Laptew and Graham Greenwood are suspicious but their report is filed because his voice and handwriting do not fit the letters and tape. Officers carry out a fingertip search on an area of waste ground as part of the Ripper investigation in The probe dominated the nation's consciousness for years. Hobson downgrades the importance of the Wearside Jack tape and letters.

Police admit the killer does not have a Wearside accent. The judge recommends a minimum sentence of 30 years. He is transferred to Broadmoor secure hospital in Berkshire in April : Sutcliffe is questioned by police officers over 17 unsolved cases that bear similarities to his past crimes.

He is not being investigated over any murders and it is unknown which of the incidents police think are linked to the serial killer. May : Sutcliffe is investigated over the murders of two women in Sweden.

Detectives are said to have enquired about the murders of a year-old woman found dead in Gothenburg in August , and a year-old woman found dead in Malmo a month later.

Both bodies were found on building sites. Families of the Yorkshire Ripper's victims today say they 'won't shed a tear' and finally have 'closure' after his death aged The serial killer, who murdered at least 13 women in the s and s, has died at the University Hospital of North Durham. He began his killing spree in , battering year-old sex worker Wilma McCann to death on October 30, , which followed three non-fatal attacks on women earlier in the year.

Three months later, he murdered year-old Emily Jackson, from Leeds, battering her with a hammer and stabbing her with a screwdriver. In the same city, he struck again the following year, killing prostitute Irene Richardson, 28, on February 5, Later that year, he then killed Patricia Atkinson, 32, in his home town of Bradford, Jayne MacDonald, a year-old shop assistant which brought the case to the attention of the national press, and then year-old Jean Jordan in Manchester.

Five months later, he murdered Barbara Leach, 20, in Bradford before claiming two more victims in , Marguerite Walls, 47, from Leeds, followed by Jacqueline Hill, 20, a Leeds University student, on November Today, Neil Jackson, whose mother Emily was murdered, told of his relief that the Yorkshire Ripper was dead, adding that he should have been hanged after conviction.

A composite of 12 of the 13 victims murdered by Sutcliffe. A sex worker and mother of four, Sutcliffe battered Wilma McCann to death with a hammer and stabbed her in the neck, chest and stomach after picking her up in Leeds. He carried on life as normal with wife Sonia, and was to tell police: 'After that first time I developed and played up a hatred for prostitutes in order to justify within myself a reason why I had attacked and killed Wilma McCann. A part-time sex worker, Sutcliffe pretended his car wouldn't start when he picked her up and battered her twice with a hammer as she offered to help.

He the dragged her body into a yard and used a screwdriver to viciously stab her a total of 52 times in the neck, breasts, lower abdomen and back. Her body was found on Manor Street in Leeds. Another prostitute Sutcliffe picked up, he attacked her in Roundhay Park, Leeds, where they had stopped so she could go to the toilet.

As she crouched down, the killer delivered three heavy blows to her head with a hammer, then he tore open her jacket and blouse and began to stab and slash her with his Stanley knife. Sutcliffe's first victim in his home town of Bradford was another prostitute. He picked her up and took her to a flat in Oak Avenue, where he picked up a hammer and dealt four massive blows to the back of her head.

He also stabbed her six times in the stomach with a knife and tried to do the same to her back, before throwing bed linen over the top of her body and leaving. A shop assistant who had just left school, Jayne MacDonald was the first 'non-prostitute' victim and it was her death that saw the hunt for the killer draw national attention.

Sutcliffe spotted her in the early hours of the morning in Leeds and followed her into an adventure playground, where he struck her with a hammer on the back of the head.

After she fell down, he then dragged her, face down, into the play areas and stabbed her several times in the chest and back. A young prostitute, Jean Jordan was the Ripper's first victim in Manchester.

Police found the bag and traced the serial number on the note back to the payroll of Yorkshire hauliers T and W H Clark, who employed Peter Sutcliffe, but when questioned he provided an alibi that he was at a party.

Yvonne Pearson. A young prostitute, Sutcliffe took her to a piece of waste ground at the back of Drummond's mill in Bradford, where his father worked. There he hit her several times with a hammer. He pulled her body behind an old sofa, stuffed horsehair down her throat before kicking her in the head and jumping down on her chest.

A teenage prostitute, Helen Rytka was picked up and driven to a timber yard in Great Northern Street, Huddersfield by the killer. There he beat her with a hammer several times but she remained alive until he grabbed a knife and stabbed her multiple times through the heart and lungs.

Before leaving, he hid her body behind a stack of timber. A prostitute living in a run-down council flat in Hulme, Manchester, Vera Millward was Sutcliffe's ninth victim.

He took her Manchester Royal Infirmary where he attacked her with a hammer as soon as she got out the car. After killing her with the hammer blows, he then dragged her body to a spot by a fence and began to stab her with a knife.

A teenage building society clerk, Josephine Whitaker was approached by Sutcliffe in Savile Park, Halifax where they got chatting. He hit her from behind with a hammer and again as she lay on the ground before dragging her into the darkness after hearing voices.

He then stabbed her 21 times with a screwdriver in the chest and stomach as well as in the leg. Her skull had been fractured from ear to ear. Barbara Leach was a university student, about to start her third and final year in social psychology. He spotted her while driving in Bradford and opened the car door to get out as she was walking towards him. He attacked her with a hammer and dragged her into a back yard, before stabbing her with the same screwdriver that he had used on Josephine Whitaker.

He then placed her body in a distorted jack-knife position behind a low wall into an area where dustbins were usually kept, covering her body with an old piece of carpet and some stones.

A civil servant who worked at the Department of Education and Science office in Pudsey, Marguerite Walls was the Ripper's twelfth victim. After spotting her in Leeds, he attacked her with a hammer blow, yelling 'filthy prostitute'.

He then looped rope around her neck and dragged her into a garden when he would strangle her and strip her of all her clothing except her tights.

He partially covered the body with grass cuttings and leaves before making his escape. An English student at Leeds University, Jacqueline Hill had taken the bus home from a meeting with probation service workers where she had applied to become a volunteer. Sutcliffe spotted and followed her before delivering a blow to her head as she was passing an opening.

Her body was discovered on a stretch of wasteland yards from where she lived. She suffered four skull fractures and cuts to her head, a stab wound to her left breast and a stab wound to her right eye. It a great relief. The sooner the better. In fact I think of her every day. I have photos of my mum up all over the house.

Marcella Claxton, who was attacked by Sutcliffe and left needing more than stitches after being over the head with a hammer added that she was 'happy' the Yorkshire Ripper had died.

Ms Claxton, whose family had moved to Leeds from the West Indies when she was 10, was attacked by the killer after she had left a late-night house party.

Although she survived, she lost the baby she was four months pregnant with. And she has stubbornly clung to the gloomy, pebble-dashed property in her hometown of Bradford despite its link to the killings. A year later they were engaged. They married on August 10, After apparently beginning a new life by marrying hairdresser Michael Woodward in , Sonia moved into his first-floor flat in nearby Shipley. But, according to neighbours, she frequently returned to the house she shared with the serial killer to tend the garden.

Now she is thought to divide her time between the two. Neighbours in Garden Lane say Sonia is regularly at the house. I saw her a few weeks back picking brambles from the patch of wasteland between her house and the cricket ground. Pictured: Sonia visiting him in Broadmoor in Former lorry driver Sutcliffe, who was serving a whole-life term for murdering 13 women across Yorkshire and north-west England, died in hospital where he is said to have refused treatment for Covid He also had other health problems.

Five days later, he committed his sixth murder. Every time he killed, Sutcliffe crept back home in the early hours to wash his blood-soaked clothes in the kitchen where Sonia prepared their meals. In the wooden-framed single garage, he kept his grisly arsenal of hammers, knives and screwdrivers. In the garden, he burned incriminating evidence.

Four decades on, the kitchen, garage and garden remain largely unaltered. Dull, greying net curtains remain permanently closed at the windows. Neighbours see Sonia regularly at the house, though she never exchanges even the smallest pleasantries.

All of her original neighbours have long since moved on in the four decades since the Ripper murders. When she and Sutcliffe moved in, the area was an overwhelmingly white and solidly working-class area. Peter Sutcliffe family had a blow after another as Sonia experienced three miscarriages. It is also said that Peter claimed that his wife was nagging. She was also obsessed with cleanliness. Peter started committing the murders barely a year after he got married to Sonia.

However, his assaults on women are said to have begun as early as Reports indicate that Sonia did not know that her husband was a serial killer.

He is said to have only told her about what he had done at the police station after his apprehension. Reportedly, the Yorkshire Ripper's wife Sonia was shocked to learn that and questioned her husband on his reason for killing people. Regardless of her shock, Sonia still supported her husband during his trial. She also did not divorce him until , which was thirteen years since Peter was sentenced. Peter received a sentence of a minimum of thirty years in prison. He used to destroy all the evidence in the garden.

Four decades later, the kitchen, garage and garden remained largely unchanged. Dull, grizzled mesh curtains remained permanently closed at the windows.

When she and Sutcliffe moved in, the neighborhood was an extremely white and solidly working-class neighborhood. Multiculturalism changed this demographics with Sonia one of the few white residents. Neighbors in Garden Lane said Sonia is regularly at the house. This may be partly due to the elevated position of the house and partly due to the notoriety the house had gained, but locals and visitors alike swear there was a noticeable chill in the immediate vicinity of the property.

The memories that the house has to keep for her cannot be so good. When Sutcliffe was finally unmasked, Sonia chose to stand by his side. Facing him at Dewsbury Police Station after his arrest in , she asked what was going on.

I killed all these women. Later that year, after being sentenced to 20 concurrent life sentences, Sonia quietly returned to the house they shared together and lived as a virtual recluse.

Sutcliffe would remain obsessed with his ex-wife until his last day, even naming her as his next of kin. Remarkably, despite her final divorce in , Sonia was expected to be the one to organize the funeral.