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TorringtonDean · 01/10/2023 10:39

Paperwork and the attitude that no decent woman would be out at night alone! Later they told women they just had to stay indoors at night. I think the Sarah Everard case shows that sadly some still have that attitude.

Fewer people had cars in general so that trapped women at home. We forget how much times have changed.

LittleMonks11 · 01/10/2023 10:41

ilovebrie8 · 01/10/2023 10:28

I’m watching the Netflix at the moment in parallel …they were swamped with paperwork guess that was how policing was then …

Can you link the documentary please?

ilovebrie8 · 01/10/2023 10:49

Sorry no idea how to do links 😜. If you have Netflix just search The Ripper that’s how I found it 🙂

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Southeastdweller · 01/10/2023 10:53

https://www.netflix.com/title/81006684

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Jbrown76 · 01/10/2023 16:08

According to Wikipedia her husband made her sex herself, not as depicted TV show where she wants to do it

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Southeastdweller · 02/10/2023 16:09

Jbrown76 · 01/10/2023 16:08

According to Wikipedia her husband made her sex herself, not as depicted TV show where she wants to do it

Who knows, but in Wicked Beyond Belief, the author implies Emily enjoyed the sex work. How he would know that I've no idea.

Second episode this evening at 9pm.

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ilovebrie8 · 02/10/2023 21:07

Aw they were mean to the nanny there …

MaudGone · 02/10/2023 21:40

All the episodes seem to have gone up on ITVX, don't know if it's a mistake...

ilovebrie8 · 02/10/2023 21:45

Oh no they’ve replaced him as the lead detective …

JenniferBooth · 02/10/2023 21:56

Running an hour behind i was in the bath

Mollypolly2610 · 02/10/2023 22:25

Who is the new lead detective I know him from something but cant place him

JenniferBooth · 02/10/2023 22:31

I recognise the police officer who took the call from Marcella
from Years and Years

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Southeastdweller · 02/10/2023 22:37

Mollypolly2610 · 02/10/2023 22:25

Who is the new lead detective I know him from something but cant place him

He was in a Ken Loach film called Sorry We Missed You and a BBc drama called Four Lives.

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JenniferBooth · 02/10/2023 22:41

A survivor given ZERO compassion

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Southeastdweller · 02/10/2023 22:59

I read that Marcella was referred to by one of the policeman as "just this side of a gorilla". Also that the police didn't publicise the photofit she gave which very accurately resembled Sutcliffe. It's just one more horrendous chapter in a horrifying case with so many victims.

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JenniferBooth · 02/10/2023 23:02

Ironic hearing Lee Inglebys characters little speech about being "sent down the wrong road" when they did exactly that after receiving the tape

x2boys · 02/10/2023 23:18

Southeastdweller · 02/10/2023 22:59

I read that Marcella was referred to by one of the policeman as "just this side of a gorilla". Also that the police didn't publicise the photofit she gave which very accurately resembled Sutcliffe. It's just one more horrendous chapter in a horrifying case with so many victims.

Yes it was awful how she wss treated they didn't believe she was attacked by Peter Sutcliffe and kept asking if it was a black man who had attacked her I assumed it was just pure racism.

Iwasafool · 02/10/2023 23:32

JenniferBooth · 02/10/2023 23:02

Ironic hearing Lee Inglebys characters little speech about being "sent down the wrong road" when they did exactly that after receiving the tape

Do you think that was what was actually said at the time or did the writer put that in to be ironic?

JenniferBooth · 02/10/2023 23:58

Could be yes

Davros · 03/10/2023 00:04

MaudGone · 02/10/2023 21:40

All the episodes seem to have gone up on ITVX, don't know if it's a mistake...

They're all there on Premium.
My sister was at uni in Sheffield in 1976/77 and often walked home in the dark across horrible areas to Broomhill

Passepartoute · 03/10/2023 00:24

longwayoff · 27/09/2023 21:54

Absolutely not. Far too recent and too many living relatives. Extremely poor taste.

40-50 years ago? We've had programmes about far more recent crimes and tragedies than that without people making a fuss.

Passepartoute · 03/10/2023 00:26

Saucery · 28/09/2023 07:42

To go against the consensus on here, I don’t remember the 1970s being that dark! We were more rural though, so perhaps not so much industrial and traffic fog.
I think it’s quite respectful so far, but David Morrissey is a bit overexposed as a senior policeman. Did he buy his own uniform and insists on only going for parts where he gets to wear it?

I agree. We were well past the big smog events by then.

Passepartoute · 03/10/2023 00:36

longwayoff · 29/09/2023 12:08

How long did he spend in Broadmoor? Rampton? Is anyone seriously suggesting he was able to fool all those psychiatric staff for so many years?

He was convicted in 1981, and was in Broadmoor between 1984 and 2016. He died in 2020.

x2boys · 03/10/2023 00:40

Have just watched the third episode it really doesn't show the police in a good light does it?
And whilst its awful what happened to Jane McDonald none of the women deserved what happened to.them

ShelleyCarpenter · 03/10/2023 04:48

@x2boys of course they didn’t. What a strange thing to say

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