WICKED BEYOND BELIEF EB

Michael Bilton

• Publisher: William Collins
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780007450732
• eBook ISBN: 9780007388813
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: History

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'A masterpiece that reads like a thriller' Time Out

A gripping and probing account of the biggest criminal manhunt in British history.

It is over 40 years since Peter Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attacking 7 more. Still, he remains a killer of almost mythical proportions; his surviving victims, and their families, forever attached to his infamy.

Michael Bilton's acclaimed account is a powerful indictment of the calamitous investigation that logged over 2 million man-hours of police work – the biggest criminal manhunt in British history. With exclusive access to the detectives involved, the pathologist's archives and declassified documents, this account reads like the most gripping of thrillers.

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Table of contents

• COVER
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT
• PRAISE
• DEDICATION
• DRAMATIS PERSONAE
• CHRONOLOGY
• MAP
• PREFACE
• 1. Contact and Exchange
• 2. The Diabetic Detective
• 3. ‘A Man with a Beard’
• 4. Tracks in the Grass
• 5. Impressions in Blood
• 6. A Fresh Start
• 7. Punter’s Money
• 8. ‘The Job Is Life; Life Is the Job’
• 9. A Miserable Place to Die
• 10. Chinese Walls
• 11. The Wrong Track
• 12. Going Covert
• 13. ‘He Comes from Sunderland’
• 14. Bad Feelings
• 15. Swamped by Paper
• 16. ‘He Lives Somewhere, He Works for Someone’
• 17. ‘The Beast I Am’
• 18. Mad or Bad?
• 19. DNA, DNA, DNA
• 20. A Suitable Case for Treatment?
• 21. UNMASKED: Leeds, West Yorkshire, 2006
• 22. Crime and Punishment in 2011
• THE FINAL CHAPTER
• NOTE ON SOURCES
• TEXT NOTES AND REFERENCES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• AUTHOR’S NOTE ON THE APPENDICES
• APPENDIX A: Statement of Peter William Sutcliffe to West Yorkshire Police, 4 January 1981
• APPENDIX B: Subsequent Police Statements, January–February 1981
• INDEX
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• ABOUT THE PUBLISHER