Word: killers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Killer in a triangle of terror...
...known locally as "the moor." Not far away was a single brown stack-heeled shoe. Coming closer, the woman discovered Josephine's body; she had died only 300 yards away from her parents' front door. The bruised, bloodstained corpse bore distinctive wounds, convincing police that a sadistic killer known as the "Yorkshire Ripper" had claimed another victim. Declared George Oldfield, assistant chief constable of the West Yorkshire police: "Clearly, we have a homicidal maniac at large...
...been nearly a year since the Ripper last struck. Nine of his ten previous targets were prostitutes working the red-light districts of such grimy North England industrial towns as Leeds, Huddersfield and Bradford. The murder of Josephine Whitaker, an entirely respectable clerk, set off fears that the unknown killer might attack any woman in "a triangle of terror" in West Yorkshire and Lancashire. "The whores in the red-light area of Leeds are so jumpy that some gulp tranquilizers before going out to work," reports TIME Correspondent Art White after a visit to Yorkshire last week. "Some are carrying...
Police will not discuss the Ripper's trademark murder technique, because they fear that lurid revelations might inspire other killers to imitate his grisly methods. Some details, however, came out at an inquest on Jean Jordan, the Ripper's seventh victim. At that proceeding, a pathologist reported that the victim had been slashed and mutilated in a style reminiscent of the original Jack the Ripper. In 1888 a rapacious killer whose identity has never been established savagely murdered five prostitutes in London's East...
...currently assigned full time to the investigation, which has already cost more than $5 million. Police are mystified by the gaps between the Ripper's murderous outbursts; more than a year elapsed between his third and fourth attacks. Psychologists have put together a profile suggesting that the killer is a powerfully built single white male, between 30 and 50 years old, who probably lives in West Yorkshire, alone or with his aged mother. An obvious psychopath, he may have developed a hatred for prostitutes because of a perceived sexual inadequacy or because a female relative once worked the streets...