The Yorkshire Ripper files: a very British crime story.
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Filmmaker Liza Williams re-examines the case of serial killer Peter Sutcliffe,
and how attitudes to women in 1970s Britain affected the investigation's progress.
This episode examines the first three years of the case, and how the location
of the first two murders in Leeds' red light district misled police.
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Letters and a tape recording claiming to come from the murderer himself lead the
police to believe the killer is from the North East. Women who survived attacks
by the Ripper claim police ignored their witness statements, with promising lines
of inquiry derailed as they did not fit with senior officers' theory about the
killer.
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Charting the arrest, trial and conviction of Peter Sutcliffe, and the legacy for
the relatives of the victims and the survivors of his attacks. Filmmaker Liza
Williams explores how the trial was jeopardised when witnesses were offered money
for exclusives and how the front seats in the court were reserved for VIPs. Talking
to survivors of the atttacks and relatives of Sutcliffes victims, Williams also
finds out what it has been like to live as the child of a Ripper murder victim.
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