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Jack the Ripper Identified? Here's Who He Really Is According to a Criminologist

Discover how David Wilson identifies Aaron Kosminski as Jack the Ripper using DNA from a victim's shawl and geo-profiling of 1888 Whitechapel murders.

International Business Times UK

The Yorkshire Ripper: what did he do and when? A timeline

From 1969 to 1980, Peter Sutcliffe attacked numerous women, as recounted in current ITV drama The Long Shadow. How did he get away with it?

Evening Standard

It’s half a century since Peter Sutcliffe stalked the streets. Are women any safer?

As a TV series about the Yorkshire Ripper’s victims starts, women still suffer violence and domestic abuse

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ITV show about Peter Sutcliffe renamed after victims’ families complain about ‘disrespectul’ title

ITV show, written by George Kay, was originally titled ‘Yorkshire Ripper’

The Independent UK

The Long Shadow: the horrifying true stories behind ITV’s gritty true-crime Yorkshire Ripper drama

The shocking new series follows the police hunt for one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history – here we unpack all the grisly details of the real-life case

Evening Standard

Books of the Month: From Anne Enright’s The Wren, The Wren to Wifedom by Anna Funder

Martin Chilton reviews the biggest new books for August in our monthly column

The Independent UK

Yorkshire Ripper detective reveals how keen-eyed biologist helped to catch Wearside Jack

Detective who worked on both cases unveils how the hoaxer was found in a new three-part podcast

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Yorkshire Ripper's ashes scattered at seaside village

Peter Sutcliffe's niece has spoken about her notorious uncle for the first time

Wales Online

Yorkshire Ripper's niece says evil uncle’s ashes were scattered at beauty spot

The Yorkshire Ripper, who terrorised women in the 1970s and 1980s, was convicted of 13 murders before his death in 2020 aged 74 after getting Covid

Daily Mirror

Emmerdale's Charley Webb shares her 'mum fail' as she says she 'can't be good at everything'

The former Debbie Dingle star wasn't quite prepared for school to resume again this morning

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Emmerdale's Charley Webb reveals new hair transformation after ditching signature look

The former Debbie Dingle star has revealed a new look after ditching her signature long locks

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Wearside Jack letters among items from murder sleuth who tried to catch Yorkshire Ripper to go to auction

Photos and copy transcripts of the Wearside Jack letters will appear at an auction alongside a psychic's impression of the Yorkshire Ripper this month

Chronicle Live

What happened to Jill Dando and was her killer ever caught?

The BBC journalist and Crimewatch presenter’s death led to biggest criminal investigation since the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

Manchester Evening News

Line of Duty star's chilling resemblance to Yorkshire Ripper as he's seen playing killer

Actor Mark Stobbart bears a terrifying likeness to Peter Sutcliffe, who was convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven more between 1975 and 1980

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Briefcase with letter from Yorkshire Ripper lost on tram as £1million reward offered

Dickie Bingham, 72, chairman of British Plc, one of Scotland's oldest companies, left a briefcase containing Nobel Prize-tipped research and a Yorkshire Ripper letter on a tram

Daily Mirror

Yorkshire Ripper 'acted out' killer blows in jail during interview with author

The infamous serial killer pretended that the author of a book who was researching the killer was one of his victims in a harrowing interview while serving his prison sentence

Leeds Live

The Long Shadow Yorkshire Ripper ITV series filming underway as crews spotted filming in Wortley, Leeds

The hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper took five years and involved around 1,000 police officers

Manchester Evening News

Did the Yorkshire Ripper get away with this murder? The tragedy of Jacci-Ansell Lamb

Jacci left her digs in Whalley Range to go a party. She would never come home

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Yorkshire Ripper's favourite book and movie revealed in newly surfaced letters

The Yorkshire Ripper read The Shawshank Redemption more than 50 times and dreamed of escaping, like its hero. The book came out in 1982, a year after Sutcliffe was jailed for life

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Evil Yorkshire Ripper threatened to SUE the Mirror over 'hurtful' story

Peter Sutcliffe targeted women across Yorkshire and north-west England between 1975 and 1980 and he died aged 74 while serving a whole life term for 13 murders and the attempted murder of seven others

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Boy, 10, was Broadmoor's youngest patient and spent 77 years locked up there

William Giles, 10, from Berkshire, was the youngest patient to walk the halls of Broadmoor Hospital after he was admitted for arson in 1885 and stayed until his death

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Corrie star details horror police questioning in connection to Yorkshire Ripper murder

Corrie legend Bruce Jones, who played taxi driver Les Battersby, found one of serial killer Peter Sutcliffe's victims while working on an allotment in the late 1970s

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What happened to Peter Sutcliffe? From Yorkshire Ripper's move to HMP Frankland to Covid death

ITV documentary Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret Murders examines the murder Peter Sutcliffe wasn't charged with

Manchester Evening News

Former Corrie star Bruce Jones speaks about moment he discovered body of 'Yorkshire Ripper victim'

The Les Battersby actor features in a new series, Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret Murders, on ITV

Chronicle Live

Bruce Jones caught up in Yorkshire Ripper murder investigation after finding dead body

Former Coronation Street star Bruce Jones appears in ITV documentary Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret Murders

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