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The Yorkshire Ripper: Peter Sutcliffe

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Thirteen women murdered across Northern England between 1975 and 1980. Peter Sutcliffe, the Bradford truck driver. The West Yorkshire Police missing the ledger fifteen times. The hoax Wearside Jack tapes that led them astray. The Byford Report. The arrest in Sheffield in January 1981. The Broadmoor life sentence. The 2020 death from COVID. The five-year investigation that changed how British police handled serial cases. — a daily series with new episodes every day.

Recent Episodes

OCT 11, 2026
The Ledger, the Tape, and the Fifteen Missed Chances
West Yorkshire Police had the right name. They had vehicle records, payroll data, a card index with Sutcliffe's details entered again and again across five years. They sat across from him nine times. And every time, they let him walk. This episode...
12 MIN
OCT 10, 2026
Thirteen Deaths, Nine Chances: The Investigation That Should Have Stopped Sutcliffe
West Yorkshire Police crossed paths with Peter Sutcliffe nine separate times before he was finally arrested in Sheffield in January 1981. In one interview, officers showed him a photograph of a boot print linked to the killer while he sat across the...
12 MIN
OCT 9, 2026
The Frame That Failed: How Police Theory Let Sutcliffe Keep Killing
West Yorkshire Police didn't just investigate Peter Sutcliffe. They built a theory about him — and then defended that theory against the very evidence that should have broken it. This episode examines the investigative frame that shaped every decision...
13 MIN
OCT 8, 2026
Before the Official Timeline: The Attacks Police Refused to Connect
The official start date of Peter Sutcliffe's murders is October 1975. It's in the court records, embedded in decades of reporting — and it's almost certainly wrong. This episode examines what happened before the official timeline began: the earlier...
12 MIN
OCT 7, 2026
Stable Enough? The Transfer Out of Broadmoor and What It Meant
In 2016, after thirty-two years inside Broadmoor Hospital, Peter Sutcliffe was assessed as clinically stable and transferred to HMP Frankland — a Category A prison in County Durham. For the legal and medical professionals involved, the move was...
12 MIN