Sutcliffe was born on June 2, 1946, in Bingley, West Yorkshire, England, to John and Kathleen Sutcliffe. Biography and associated logos are trademarks of A+E Networksprotected in the US and other countries around the globe. While it should have been the effective nerve centre of the whole police operation, the backlog of unprocessed information resulted in the failure to connect vital pieces of related information. Web292 Peter Sutcliffe Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO All Sports Entertainment News Archival Browse 292 peter sutcliffe Given that Sutcliffe was a lorry driver, it was theorised that he had been in Denmark and Sweden, making use of the ferry across the Oresund Strait. View our online Press Pack. [81] Furthermore, earlier on the day as Wilkinson's murder, Sutcliffe had gone back to mutilate Jordan's body before returning to Bradford, showing he had already gone out to attack victims that day and would have been in Bradford to attack Wilkinson after he returned from mutilating Jordan. Read our Yorkshire Ripper live blog for the latest news & updates. [63], In response to the police reaction to the murders, the Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group organised a number of 'Reclaim the Night' marches. [131][132], Sutcliffe died at University Hospital of North Durham aged 74 on 13 November 2020, after having previously returned to HMP Frankland following treatment for a suspected heart attack at the same hospital two weeks prior. [86] At the time detectives did not believe Schlessinger's murder was a Ripper killing as she was not a prostitute. I went back to the car and got in it".[24]. [25] Disturbed by a neighbour, he left without killing her. Wearing red trousers, a beige coat and cap, the monster looked a world away from the smirking killer who slaughtered 13 in a murderous rampage. According to one police detective, "mass hysteria" ensued because more women felt threatened; Whittaker, who'd been killed while walking home, was seen as a "respectable" woman. On 6 April 1991, Sutcliffe's father, John Sutcliffe, talked about his son on the television discussion programme After Dark. [123] The hearing for Sutcliffe's appeal against the ruling began on 30 November 2010 at the Court of Appeal. An independent report into the death of serial killer Peter Sutcliffe has concluded he caught Covid-19 in hospital rather than in prison. Only days after Sutcliffe's conviction in 1981, crime writer David Yallop asserted that he may have been responsible for the murder of Carol Wilkinson, who was randomly bludgeoned over the head with a stone in Bradford on 10 October 1977, nine days after his killing of Jean Jordan. The serial killer, who was not handcuffed, looked carefree as he shared a joke with security guards. The police obtained a search warrant for his home in Heaton and brought his wife in for questioning. Following Sutcliffe's conviction, the government ordered a review of the investigation, conducted by the Inspector of Constabulary Lawrence Byford, known as the "Byford Report". Read our Yorkshire Ripper live blog for the latest news & updates. Sutcliffe was interviewed nine times,[56] but all information the police had about the case was stored in paper form, making cross-referencing difficult, compounded by television appeals for information which generated thousands more documents. In 1977, Sutcliffe took the lives of four women: 28-year-old Irene Richardson in February; 32-year-old Patricia Atkinson in April; 16-year-old Jayne MacDonald in June; and 21-year-old Jean Jordan in October. It resulted in Sutcliffe being at liberty for more than a month when he might conceivably have been in custody. Harrison's murder had been linked to the Ripper killings by the "Wearside Jack" claim, but in 2011 DNA evidence revealed the crime had actually been committed by convicted sex offender Christopher Smith, who had died in 2008. [75], Yallop highlighted that Steel had always protested his innocence and been convicted on weak evidence. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. At Dewsbury, Sutcliffe was questioned in relation to the Ripper case as he matched many of the known physical characteristics. He then disarranged her clothing and slashed her lower back with a knife. Following his conviction, Sutcliffe began using his mother's maiden name of Coonan. [92] Sutcliffe was also linked to the 1975 murder of Lesley Molseed after a man was found to have been wrongly imprisoned for the crime in 1992, but Ronald Castree was convicted of her murder after a DNA match in 2007. 28 Serial Killer Crime Scene Photos From Famous On 16 July 2010, the High Court issued Sutcliffe with a whole life tariff, meaning he was never to be released. He also attacked three other women, who survived: Uphadya Bandara in Leeds on 24 September 1980; Maureen Lea (known as Mo),[42] an art student attacked in the grounds of Leeds University on 25 October 1980; and 16-year-old Theresa Sykes, attacked in Huddersfield on the night of 5 November 1980. Peter Sutcliffe has died from coronavirus in hospital; The son of one victim said whod have thought coronavirus had a happy ending How cops missed NINE chances to stop the serial killer; The Ripper never apologised for his gruesome crimes; The monster was last seen in 2015 getting an eye op The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has died at the age of 74. The serial killer was serving a whole life term for murdering 13 women across Yorkshire and north-west England. His first victim's son, who was five when his mother was killed in 1975, said Sutcliffe's death would bring "some kind of closure". She survived and provided police with a description of her attacker. This included interviews with some of the victims, their family, police and journalists who covered the case. In addition, police believed that the women Sutcliffe targeted had engaged in behavior such as sex work, being out late at night or drinking alone that had attracted his attention, and counseled women to either stay home at night or only go out with a trusted male escort. In 1984, a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia saw Sutcliffe removed from prison and sent to Broadmoor Hospital, a secure psychiatric facility. At the end of October Sutcliffe had been treated for a suspected heart attack at the same hospital where he later died.