the yorkshire ripper tapes

[codface]

isnt that weird that the bloke they arrested for it is only 49! how did htey get him after all this time?

Oh cod I heard the tape on the radio this morning. Made me >shudder

I remember this sooo well, brings back horrible childhood memories

yes we used to " play" it int eh playgournd
kids eh?

Once when we were little a frind of my dads put a scary mask on and crept into the house and told my mam he was the Yorkshire ripper!

She didn't find it funny!

no scarey!

he was basically "the bogey man" in the seventies though wasn't he. the boys used to scare us by being the ripper too.

In tyhe Guardian today it sounds as though the local newspaper in Sunderland (?) have been on a bit of a crusade to identify this man. They named him three years ago.

I can almost hear that tape in my head. Grew up in Yorkshire so heard a lot about it at the time.

Is he from sunderland?

I thought he seemed very young. How old would he have been at the time?

20 odd

I always thought the Yorkshire Ripper was Peter Sutcliffe? Who's he then???

It was a chant at football grounds wasn't it? Taunting the police when they hadn't caught him. Something like 'eleven-nil'..

'Wearside Jack'

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Zippy - Wearside Jack was the hoaxer who sent letters and tapes claiming to be the ripper. Because he had a Sunderland accent police focused the enquiry around Sunderland, and some feel this allowed The Ripper (Sutcliffe) to kill 3 more women.

My dh is obsessed with serial killers, so we have loads of books on this amd have seen all of teh documenteries.

Jack the ripper is another one that intrigues us - who the hell was he?

Right - so Sutcliffe is the Yorkshire Ripper but this guy stuffed up the enquiry? Is that right?

Sorry for being dense but have missed the news!

yes, the police were so convinced it was the Ripper that they confined their inquiry to poeple from the NE. They actually arrested Sutcliffe at this stage and eliminated him from the enquiry because his accent didn't match and neither did his handwriting.
Sutcliffe was released and killed three more women before the police finally arrested him.
at the time, the tape was played over and over on the radio and tv. horrible.