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...Ripper suspect controversy...
...quietly arrested the driver, whose name was Peter Sutcliffe, 35, a truck driver from the West Yorkshire mill town of Bradford. Three days later, nearly all of Britain knew of Sutcliffe: he was widely -some said recklessly-suspected of being the country's most notorious criminal, the Yorkshire Ripper, the man believed responsible for murdering 13 Yorkshire and Lancashire women since...
There is a definite, if complex, forensic weave that links the murders, and police are certain that the latest one was the work of the Yorkshire ripper. Like most earlier victims, Hill was killed by a specific pattern of multiple injuries that are the trademark of the unknown killer. Morever, this murder, like the twelve before it, occurred within the so-called triangle of terror that includes Leeds and Bradford in West Yorkshire and Manchester in adjacent Lancashire in northern England...
...Yorkshire ripper is Britain's worst mass murderer in this century. Yet, after taking some 25,000 statements, checking over 150,000 vehicles and interviewing nearly 200,000 people in the five years since the first murder, of a Leeds prostitute, in October 1975, the police are not close to an arrest. They have, however, built up a general picture of the killer; they know his blood type and shoe size and believe that he is between 30 and 50, an artisan or manual worker, powerfully built and white. Still, they cannot explain many points, including the variable intervals...
...sense, the investigators do know more about their quarry than most man hunters. The ripper has not only mailed three gloating letters to the police and press, but also sent, 17 months ago, a taunting, spine-chilling two-minute-long tape recording that promises further killings to come. But despite poster reproductions of portions of the letters and a special phone number that allows a caller to hear the tape, no one has admitted recognizing his handwriting or distinctive Sunderland accent. Now the latest killing and the lack of any breakthrough by the West Yorkshire police is prompting renewed public...