Peter Sutcliffe

The Full Crimes of The Yorkshire Ripper

Chris Cook

• Publisher: Pen and Sword True Crime
• eBook ISBN:
  9781036101053
• Year: 2024

This book gives the most up-to-date story of the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, AKA the Yorkshire Ripper. His confessions to police in 1981, and his later confession in 1992 to two further attacks, are gone into in greater detail than ever before, as are attacks on women that the police later felt they had enough evidence to charge him with. We also delve deep into the police investigation and highlight the many failings of the West Yorkshire Police Force and the many times Peter Sutcliffe should have been caught. Using Home Office files that the author had released under the FOI Act at the National Archives, this is the true story of the Yorkshire Ripper – and the 32 girls and women whose lives he affected forever. In researching this book, the author contacted some of the those whose lives were affected by Sutcliffe. One of those, Mo Lea, kindly agreed to write the foreword for the book having read it in full: This book is a very valuable contribution, knocking all the other books out there about Sutcliffe well off the shelf! This is a very thorough and incredibly well researched account of the murders and attacks of Peter Sutcliffe. Chris has produced a comprehensive report that is the best reference book on Peter Sutcliffe's killing spree. Aspects of the consequences of the investigation are laid bare, clearly underlining where procedures went wrong, especially relating to how the police took John Humble's hoax seriously. Chris provides insight with an intelligent overview of how the findings of the Byford and Sampson Reports show how the West Yorkshire Police mishandled the investigation. Compact, condense and a valuable read to anyone interested in his crimes. * Mo Lea, survivor of an attack by Peter Sutcliffe

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Forword
• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1 Peter William Sutcliffe
• Chapter 2 Sonia Szurma
• Chapter 3 Gloria Wood
• Chapter 4 Anna Rogulskyj
• Chapter 5 Olive Smelt
• Chapter 6 Tracy Browne
• Chapter 7 Wilma McCann
• Chapter 8 Rosemary Stead
• Chapter 9 Emily Jackson
• Chapter 10 Marcella Claxton
• Chapter 11 Maureen Hogan
• Chapter 12 Irene Richardson
• Chapter 13 Debra Schlesinger
• Chapter 14 Patricia Atkinson
• Chapter 15 Jayne MacDonald
• Chapter 16 Maureen Long
• Chapter 17 Jean Jordan
• Chapter 18 Carol Wilkinson
• Chapter 19 Marilyn Moore
• Chapter 20 Yvonne Pearson
• Chapter 21 Helen Rytka
• Chapter 22 The Letters
• Chapter 23 Vera Millward
• Chapter 24 The Students
• Chapter 25 Ann Rooney
• Chapter 26 Joan Harrison
• Chapter 27 Josephine Whitaker
• Chapter 28 The Tape
• Chapter 29 Barbara Leach
• Chapter 30 The Campaign
• Chapter 31 Yvonne Mysliwiec
• Chapter 32 Marguerite Walls
• Chapter 33 Uphadya Bandara
• Chapter 34 Mo Lea
• Chapter 35 Theresa Sykes
• Chapter 36 Jacqueline Hill
• Chapter 37 Arrest
• Chapter 38 Interviews
• Epilogue
• Bibliography