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The Yorkshire Ripper Pt 2

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Hi, welcome back to give us Mark leave. I'm Megan and oh we Oh my god. When this episode comes out, we'll have seen paramore. I'm so excited. I'm so fucking excited. Yeah. No, the both of us are gonna be absolutely robbed. Robin us no rabbit. We will be like a squirrel with rabies. So I have a fuck marry kill for you. Oh fun, Okay, give it to me. Roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, or chips like fries. Fuck, marry your kill. I'm going to kill the roasties. I'm going to marry the chips. So you're

gonna fuck the mashed potato. Yeah, okay, here's one for you. Garlic potatoes, chips or fried potato Fried potatoes? Do you mean like fried slices of potato? Yeah, like like fried and a frying pan, like mmmmmm. Okay, So I'm gonna kill the fried potato. I'm gonna marry the chips. I'm gonna marry the chips because you know what chips are so

um they can't go with anything. You know why. I also married the chips because like you're having a burger chips, you're having chicken nuggets chips you know, you're having a pizza side of chips, like you have chips with everything. You're having a mental health crisis. Chips chips, And I'm gonna say chips, we mean rise but fries. So for those Americans, we mean fries. I'm gonna fuck the garlic potatoes because you only have them once

in a while anyway, but they're so damn good. Would they make you feel so bad afterwards? Like a bat one might stand? So Megan has ips, I'm an Ibbs girl, and so the creamy garlic potatoes don't tend to agree with her. I shan't be having those before the concert anyway. I'd prefer if you didn't. I feel like I'm gonna need like a nervous poo before the concert. It's like, what if they see me, I'll stand guard at the bathroom door. I'll do the same for you. I

like the emo tweenagers. Get you have, I have, I have a good one frame Megan, okay, Marie, kill Paramore, fall Up Boy or fifty cent Okay, immediately killed fifty cent immediately, because you know what, I used to love him and then we saw him live and he was so fucking bad. Me he was so you know the way at the end of a concert, you know, usually do the ola so that the band knows they want us back for an encore. The crowd was silent. The

crowd was sigh lend. You could have heard a pin drop. Everybody just left. No, we don't want It's okay, you don't have to. Yeah. So, I don't know. Between fall Up Boy and Paramore is really hard because I was raised on I've raised myself on both of them. Fall Up Boy was really really big into like in my like from fourteen to maybe seventeen. Yeah, they were like my band. But then the older I get, the more I can relate to Paramore HM. So I think

Mary Paramore and fuck follow Boy and also fucks on the Fallo point. Patrick Stump, he's my guy. He's my man ever since soul Punk came out and he was out snazzy and I remember going into HMV to buy that CD. It's the only CD I ever distinctly remember going to buy Iconic great album. If you have if you haven't listened to it, Patrick Stump a follow Boy, Soul Punk, go listen to it. But everything that he does is just touched by absolute Magic so amazing. Okay, so what are your

favorite bands? They're not going to tell you, so I don't have to put myself into that dilemma. No, because you made me do it. You made me do it. Um, my favorite bands would be Paramore, Pains of Leon. Fucking I was going to say Cold Line because in my head, Kings of Leon, Cold Line, and Cold Plate are all the same. So you're like it's one of them. Yeah, and the coronas

like those four bands are all the same to me. Yeah. Oh, Fleetwood Mac, so fuck Mary killed Fleetwood Mac, Paramore or Kings of Leon. I'm marrying Fleetwood Mac. I'm fucking Kings of Leon and Rip. I'm so sorry. I would kill for her who No, neve I would. I would kill both Kings of Leon and Paramore to go see Fleetwood Mac life. You know what I'm going to tell Haley Williams. You said that, Hayley, please forgive me. I'm texting her right now. I'm going to

FaceTime here later. I've seen Kings of Leon four times and I would see them another four times. Really, Yeah, it was so like all I know is sex on your sex is on fire? What text is on fire? Wow, that's so good. So their album they have some of the best songs. Okay, so I don't know if they would be your vibe because they are very different to like Paramour and Folly Boy. Um, but you have like Milk four Kicks. Yeah, there's a song called Milk where

nobody Knows and you have knocked up charmer on call. True Love Way Fans Fans is so good. But it disappoints me. Well why because they wrote it about their English fans. Oh why you why you break my heart like that? I think you know what in that scenario, that's the only time it's okay to group us with the English when you're listening, we're grouped in there too. Arizona is another one of my favorites, and Revelry and is such a depressing song. But um, I will be in the shower like

belting her out. When you're crying in the shower, nobody can tell it's fine. Yeah, that's when you'll catch me. Um. They have really good songs and sex on Fire, I Needs Somebody or probably not their best and they're the two that like everybody went feral for. I know Paramore's cover of You Somebody when the reason why I would go see Kings of Leon so, like, why I've been to see them so many times and why I would go see them so many more times is because they sound like what you

listen to. They're a bit like paramount, Like what you're listening to when you're watching them live is what you're listening to when you're listening to their albums. Yeah, okay. I love that about a band when they can pull like yeah, like you're just like yes, like this. And one of

the girls, so I went to go see them last summer. That was my fourth time, and one of the girls and work happened to be going as well, and she was like, her friend just had a spare ticket and she was like, I know, like two songs, but like it's a free concert, fuck it, why not? And then she came out of the concert and she was like, oh my god. She was like they were actually so good. I love that. I love when you're not expecting something. I was the same going to Pink one year. I was

like, she's meant to be unreal, She's insane. It was some outdoor place I can't remember where we were, and fu yeah, she came out in a fucking zip line. I was a girl. Hell, but it was amazing. She's she's absolutely in life. She's got some set along sonner m hmm. Well, I'm sorry to pay more than I killed them, Okay, but you have to put it into perspective. I'm telling mother.

So that's enough rambling for you guys. That is they give us music, portion of give us more over that's probably like from forty minutes long or something. Anyway, that is enough enough tomfoolery from us. So the last week we talked about Peter Sutcliffe. It's great guy, great guy. It was plastic for you guys, it was like an hour ago for us. So

I guess I'll just jump straight. I So last week I talked about where Peter was from, and a bit about his like growing up and his siblings and how he bounced from job to job, and then we soon discovered that he has a weird obsession with death, likes to touch dead bodies and then go eat lunch. Hmmm tasty, And then we got into his first three attacks and then his first murder. So far, the police have not connected any of this. Why would they crazy? Who would they? Wow?

Wow? When they dawn Wilson joined the podcast WHOA. Some of my favorite tiktoks are compilations of him saying, Wow, I can't I hate his face though. He's a pop face to me, like absolutely, and he's not that great of an actor either, but you know, it just can't help Wow, that's crazy. So on January twentieth, nineteen seventy six, Peter pulled up the side forty two year old Emily Jackson. Emily and her husband Sydney had fallen on hard times and to try and support their family, Emily

began to work as a X worker. Peter saw outside of a pub in Leeds and asked her how much for some business. She told him five pounds and he agreed, which I'm going to just stay as I did in the previous episode. Five pounds might not sound like a lot of money to us now, but you have to remember that this is the mid seventies, so it's worth like, you know, Yeah, Emily got into Peter's care and told him to drive to a close down factory that was around the corner.

And I'm pretty sure so I was confused as to whether it was like an abandoned factory or like it was closed down, but I actually just think it was like closed, you know, it was shutting time. There was nobody working. Yeah, Peter only half to turn the key in the ignition when

it was time to leave. So they go in. He pays her his five pounds, They do their business, and then they get back into the car and he's half turning the key in the ignition and he's like, oh, my car won't start, So Peter gets out of the car and pretends to check the engine. Emily then gets out of the car and goes over and uses her lighter to try to try help Peter see because it's late at night, so she's like, here, I have a lighter. Maybe this

will help you seeing what you're doing a bit better. Yeah. Then, as she's linked in to the car trying to help Peter out, Peter takes out a hammer and hits her on the back of the head. Emily then fell to the ground and Peter hit her a second time. He then dragged Emily's body back into the factory. Peter then proceeded to stab Emily fifty two times in the torso and neck with a screwdriver. So he's moved from a knife onto a screwdriver or was it just because do you think that was what

was available to him. I think it's just because that's what it was available to him. Think it's because he didn't have a knife on him, because he doesn't really use it again like he I think he does use it like one or two more times. But again I think it's just it's what he had. It was a weapon of availability. But also the difference and strength that it takes from using a knife to prepare to a screw driver is insane. The next morning, Emily's body was found by a man taking a short

cut to work. At first he thought it was a mannequin with the legs sticking out. So he had tried to cover her body with like rubble that was round, and he could just see like legs sticking out of the rubble, and at first he thought it was just like a mannequin's legs and didn't pay too close attention, and then he realized, no, that's not a mannequin, that's a human. God, that horrible realization. I can imagine

your brain piecing that together and then having that very sudden realization. It must be horrific. Police quickly arrived on scene, and it didn't take them long to connect Emily's murder to Wilma's murder because the emo was just exactly the same. Police questioned everyone at the pub that night, and one person remembered seeing Emily get into a land Rover, which is not what Peter drove, so

that is false information, okay. They also claimed that it was a man that looked to be in his fifties, which again, Peter was not in his fifties. At the factory, police found a footprint that was a size

seven Wellies and a similar print on Emily's tie. Police discovered seemen on Emily's clothes and proof of sexual intercourse because however, she because she was a sex worker, it was hard to determine if it was consensual or not, which I'm pretty sure you can determine, but yeah, usually they can tell by like tears and stuff. A month later, the police released a statement connecting

the murders. They said, quote, the man we are looking for seems to have a pathological hatred towards sex workers and good time girls, and it's the type who could kill again. He's a sadistic killer and may well be a sexual pervert. I cannot stress in strongly enough how vital it is that we catch this brutal killer before he brings tragedy to another family. Okay, so do it then. That was the statement from the head of police or

the head of the investigation. On May ninth, nineteen seventy six, Peter was sitting in his car in the dark in Leads. He saw twenty year old Marcella Claxton, who was walking home from a parody. Peter offered her a ride home, and she accepted. Peter then pulled over the side a feel and offered Marcella five pounds for sex in the grass. Marcella was not a sex worker and declined his offer. She then told him that she needed

to pee and got out of the car and went behind the bush. Marcella was hoping that if she took long enough that Peter would just get fed up of waiting on her and drive off. She came out from behind the bush to find Peter waiting. To find Peter walking towards her, She then heard something drop and joked, quote, I hope that's not a knife. Peter told her it was his wallet and then proceeded to grab her and he hit her he hit her in the head with a hammer. Peter hit Marcella up

to eight times with the hammer. Marcella fell to the ground and pretended to be unconscious. She said that Peter stood over her and masturbated. Then when he was done, he put five pounds in her hand. After she thought Peter left, Marcella crawled to a phone booth and called herself an ambulance. Marcella then hid in the phone booth while Peter drove up and down looking for her. So, oh, my god, walked away from her towards her car, towards his car. Sorry, And then she took the opportunity and

like crawled to a phone booth nearby. And then from what I gathered, Peter was like going to the car to like get a knife or something, and when he turned back around, she was gone. And so then he was driving up and down the area to see if he could spot her, and she was just in the phone booth waiting on the ambulance to come to her after being hit in the head eight times with a hammer. Oh my god, that's making my step go her go Marcella, you fucking badass bitch.

That is so cool, Like were cool? She Marcella was four months pregnant, and she sadly lost her baby. Sella was able to give police a clear description of Peter. Police, however, do not link her attack to the murders. It wasn't until Peter was arrested later on and he admits to the attack that Peter realized that police realized that he was responsible for this. On February fifth, nineteen seventy seven, Peter saw twenty eight year old

Irene Richardson, who was a sex worker. I'm just nothing that matters. But he accuses a lot of women of being sex workers when they're not, and they're like, no, he's just using it as an excuse now that he has like the best moral judgment, when in reality, he just hates women and he just wants to inflict as much pain as he possibly can, so he's going to be like, oh, you're a sex worker, so you're worthless, even though it's absolutely not true, but that's just his reasoning.

He offered her money and she accepted. Peter drove her to a park. Irene told Peter she needed to go to the back room, and she got out of the car and went behind a bush. While there, with her back towards the car. Peter snuck up behind her and hit her on the head with a hammer. Peter hit Irene on the head so hard that her skull broke into her brain. He then proceeded to stab her. The next morning, a man was out for a jog when he saw Irene lying

in the middle of the park. He thought that maybe she had passed out and needed help, but he seemed discovered that she wasn't cut dead. The man called the police and they immediately connected Irene's murder to the other murders. Police found tire marks at the scene. However, they matched up to one hundred thousand vehicles in the Yorkshire area over a five month period. Police check eighty thousand cars to the tire marks, like they question eighty thousand owners.

They have twenty thousand cars left to check and police decide that this is taking up too much time. They're going to stop doing that. In the twenty thou names that they had left to question was Peter Sutcliffe. Ah, you were so close, guys, you were so close. This is like an ongoing peam in the investigation. The lead detective on the cars, James Hobson, believed that the murders and the attacks were committed by the same man. He was like, look, listen, the murders are women who were hit

in the head with a hammer and then stabbed to death. The attacks are women who are hit on the head with a hammer and then someone's interrupted him stabbing them to death. I think they're the same. That's pretty much what the rest of the police force say. They're like, you're talking about your ass. Fuck out of here. Make it make sense. I can't.

Sex workers in the area were at we're on edge, but sadly they had families to support, and they had bills to pay and kids to feed and clothed, and so they had no other option but to just continue to work. On April twenty third, nineteen seventy seven, Peter was driving around when he saw thirty two year old Patricia Tina Atkinson. Patricia was a sex worker trying to make ends neat Peter watched Patricia's stagger up the road as she had

been drinking. He offered her a lift and she accepted. Patricia then offered Peter sex work and he accepted, and they went to her apartment. While Patricia closed the curtains. Peter hung up his coat and took out the hammer he had been hiding. Patricia sat on her bed to take off her coat, and the second she turned her back to him, Peter hid her over the head with the hammer. Patricia fell to the floor and Peter hit her on the head and in the face four times. He then picked Patricia up

off the floor and placed her on the bed. He then stabbed Patricia six times in the stomach with a chisel before throwing the blankets over her and leaving the apartment. A chisel, Yeah, that's like even more of kind more flat wide surface. Yeah, it'd be even like more so a flat white surface than the screw driver. So he's like, it's like he's getting angrier,

he's more rage as this is going on. Yeah. At six thirty the next evening, Patricia's friend went to her apartment to hang out, and when she didn't answer the door, he opened the door like he got at like the spare key. Because they were best friends, he knew where she hid it. He opened the door to quote, a chilling silence is what he said. He then found Patricia lying on her bed in a pool of blood. There was also a pool of blood in the floor. He then

yelled for the building manager to call the police. It was determined that Patricia was not sexually assaulted, and police also found a size seven bootprint on her bed, which was what they found at Emily Jackson's crime scene, which led them to link the murders, But they weren't originally going to link them because

up until this point he's been killing them in a field. M Yeah, and this time he's gone into her home yeah and done it there and done it there get twenty Yeah, And Patricia thought that, like she would be safer because she was going to her home and she normally only saw like specific clients, like she didn't really go see, like she wouldn't just pick up

like just anyone. But I believe it's her. I believe that one of her regular clients she was supposed to go see he canceled, and so then she went out drinking and then and then Peter offered her right home, and she was kind of like, oh, well, I'm down money, so I might as well try and make some and yeah. On June twenty sixth, nineteen seventy seven, Peter had viewed a house with Sonia and they decided that it was their dream home. He then dropped Sonya off at work and

he went out drinking. At about two am, Peter was driving around when he saw sixteen year old Jane McDonald walking alone. Jane had been out dancing with her friends when she and a boy that she liked broke off from the group to get some food after the nightclub. They had been talking for so long that she ended up missing the last bus home, and her friend told her to come with him that his sister would be able to drop her home, that if they walked to his house that then the sister could drop her

home. But when they got to his house, the sister wasn't there, and they waited for like an hour or so and there was still no sign of the sister. So she was like, look like I have to get home, so I'll just start walking like I'll be fine, yeah, and that is when Peter saw her. Peter watched her for a few minutes before parking his car at a hotel. He took his hammer and a kitchen knife and he followed Jane on foot. Peter snook up behind her and hit her

over the head with a hammer. Jane immediately fell to the ground. He dragged her into the nearby park and then proceeded to stab her several times in the same wound in her chest. Assuming that Jane was dead, he left her. Jane was still alive and would lay there helpless, alone and dying. Thank God. At about nine forty five am the next morning, two kids found Jane's body by the wall on their way to play in the park.

The children, that would just affect you for life again. And there's a lot of kids because the milkman had a ten year old brother as well. Yeah, Jane's murder gained global news coverage as she was only sixteen,

and up until this point he had been quote murdering sex workers. He will He does later go on to say that he just assumed that Jane was a sex worker because she was walking in a known spot and he didn't realize he didn't realize until he was quote already attacking her well, that she was not a sex sex Yeah, so he's claiming that she was walking in a known area where sex workers worked, that they would walk along this road all night

to pick up clients. So when he saw her, he just assumed she was a sex worker, And it wasn't until he'd already begun attacking her that he copped that she was young. But he went ahead and he killed her anyway, So right, Yeah, Jane's father had to identify her body, which I can only imagine as heartbreaking. The murder of Jane became international news, and she was mentioned as an innocent victim because she wasn't a sex worker. All of these women, first of all, were innocent, but she

was. She didn't she she hadn't even been given a chance yet, she was only sixteen. The public also began to get angry that the police still had no leads in this case. The police then decided that they were going to start a task force of three hundred and four officers. Oh talk about overcompensation. Oh if this is not the only task force, it gets out of hand, and this is why they don't solve it. So what they

end up doing is they started up this original task force. It's like three hundred and four officers that are like, yeah, we're going to solve this crime. And then like say in like leads, right, I can't remember where this is, but I'm just and then he goes knee tax in Bradford. So then they set up a task force in Bradford, and then he goes and knee attacks in like Manchester, and then they go and they set up a task force in Manchester. And then they go and they set up

another task force, and then they set up another task force. And then none of these task forces are communicating with one and it's just gonna ask, yeah, no, of course not no, they don't. They don't tell each other anything, and you're like, maybe just have one task force for the entire thing, but just you know, like if it's a Yorkshire ripper case, then it just immediately goes to this one task force and it has

nothing to do with areas. I mean, y'all want to be united so badly, I don't you fucking unite in your own country and stopped trying to unite others. The police then got a profile of the killer and it was nothing like Peter. The police were looking for a land Rover car which Peter did not drive, and the lead detective had refused to publicly link Jane's murder with the rest as she wasn't a sex worker. So the officers are like, no, this is clearly a Yorkshire ripper murder, and the like lead

investigator is like, no, but she's not a sex worker. She's only sixteen. Mm, couldn't be it. So sorry, we never see a change in demo ever, never ever, And they're like but it's clearly and he's like no, no, no, no, not me. Before I go any further, going to take a quick little ad break and I'm just

gonna go toilet. So the families of the other victims actually get quite upset Yane being referred to as an innocent victim because they're like, well, like my wife or my sister or my mother, like was innocent too, Like what and like they understand that she's young and she's sixteen or whatever, but they're like, but like my family member was also innocent, Like yeah, because it's not enough that you lose your family member, you have to watch

their legacy be absolutely like like secured again and again in the paper and the media. In the media, they're not talking about like how much of a loving mother Wilma was. It's like, oh, no, she had alcoholism and was a sex worker. Yeah, they're not. They're completely stripping them of any sort of human points. Yeah, what I'm trying to say.

In July nineteen seventy seven, Peter and Sonia officially bought their dream home, and on July ninth, nineteen seventy seven, Peter went out drinking with his friend with his friends Ronald and David Berker in Bradford. After a night of drinking, Peter dropped his friend's home and then he went out looking for a victim. At around two am, he saw forty two year old Moreen Long outside a nightclub. Peter offered her a write home and she accepted. Maureen

asked Peter to drop her off at her ex husband's apartment. According to Peter, she asked him if he fancied her, and the pair agreed to get to a more secluded place. However, this is just what Peter says, so we don't know how true it is. Moren then got out of the car to go pee behind a bush on an embankment with her back to Peter. He snuck up behind her and he hit and he hit her on the head with a hammer. Peter then dragged her to a waiste disposal sight.

He then hit Maureen again with the hammer. He then pulled up her dress and stabbed her five times. In the torso. Peter then made long incisions from her groin to her sternum. He then flipped Maureen and stabbed her a further four times in the back. Peter then dragged her body to the darker side of the Waiste disposal and put a dirty old mattress on top of her. As Peter left the Waiste disposal, he left, he fell and landed on a broken porcelain sink. He left behind a bloody partial handprint. A

night freshman mhm. A night watchman had seen Peter drive away in his white Corsair. However, he mistook it for a Quartina, which I'm not gonna lie, right, I don't know my carney, no me neither, Like whenever I get a bolt here, just like uber, I'm I'm looking at the license plate. I have no fucking idea what car you drive at Yeah, so I'm not even going to pretend like I know what the difference between

those two cars is, but there is a difference. The next morning, at about eight thirty am, two women walking past the waste disposal heard what they thought was a baby crying. It was Maureen crying for help. Oh my god, Maureen was brought to hospital, where she survived. What Peter didn't realize was that when he put the mattress on top of her to try hide her body, that helped like put pressure on her wounds. Oh my god, how that's so. I don't want to say lucky, but yeah,

it's crazy. How that how that happened? Maureen was sorry. Maureene didn't remember much about her attack, but she was able to give some sort of description of Peter to police. Police were now looking for a white Cortina, which is there still the wrong car, but it's closer than a land Rover and a man with light brown shoulder length hair in his mid to late

thirties. Peter then decided to sell his white Cosair and he bought a red Courser Cosair to try and to try further himself from the description a little m I mean, it's the same car, but it's just instead of white, it's new head. On October first, nineteen seventy seven, Peter drove to Manchester to the Red Light District to look for a victim. He saw twenty year old Jean Jordan. He asked her if she was in business, and she agreed. They drove to a cemetery and agreed to have sex for five

pounds on the grass. As Jean walked towards the grass, Peter snuck up behind her and hit her thirteen times with a hammer in the head. Peter then stabbed her multiple times before headlights of a car scared him off. Whilst driving home, Peter realized the five pounds he had paid Jean was a brand new five pound note. There wouldn't have been many of those because it was just released, and they would be able to connect him to the crime through

this five pound note. And he reads, He's like, shit, I left that behind and that's going to have significance because it's a new five pound note. They like changed the picture of the queen or something the on us. So he was like, oh no, bro h. And it had come from his paypacket. So what police were going to be able to do, and what they were able to do, is they find out what bank

it has come from. They're able then to find out where this bank paid it too, which would be the company that Peter is working for, and then they wouldn't obviously be able to tell what paypacket it went into, but they would be able then to interview all the workers and you know, yeah, yeah. So Peter decided that he wasn't going to go back and find it at the risk of being caught, and thought that he would just wait

it out. Now, he attacks and kills Jean on October first. On October ninth, nineteen seventy seven, Peter in Sonia through a housewarming party. Peter offered to drop his friend's home after the party, and then he drove up to Jean's body. She had still not been found. Peter could not find Jean's purse, which had the five pounds in it, and in a rage, Peter dragged Jean's body out of its hiding spot, ripped her clothes, and stabbed her torso a couple of scabbed her. Yeah, he stabbed

her corpse a couple of times. He then slashed her chest and her stomach over twenty times. He then tried to remove her head so she couldn't be identified and make sure it looked less like a ripper killing. However, he couldn't get her head off, so he gave up and went home, opening her out in the open like that. Oh my god, that poor woman. Even after death, she wasn't left alone. Nope. The next morning, October tenth, a worker who was there to like work on the garden

and so the area that he killed her was beside a graveyard. So a worker came to like tidy up the garden and to tidy up the graveyard found Jean's body. Police immediately could tell that this was a ripper killing, and it was all over the news, so he tried to not make it look like a ripper killing, but in Dosau made it even more evident that it

was a ripper killing. Jean's husband knew it was his wife by the description and told police that he never reported her missing because she often went to Scotland to see family for days at a time, so it wasn't unheard of that he wouldn't hear from her for a couple of days, okay, which I mean, I guess okay, you know, like yeah, it's not like they had mobile phone, so you're just texting each other and being like, hey, I'm just going away for a couple of days. I'm sure,

so oh, she'll call me when she gets there. He just assumed that she had told him and he'd forgotten. He was just like, I just like she does it so regularly that I just assumed I just like forgot she told me and was like, oh, she'll be home in a couple of days time. But then when the description of the body found in the park was on the news, he was like, oh shit, that's my wife. Five days later, someone found Jean's purse with Peter's five pounds inside.

Police were able to trace it to the bank, and then they traced it to where Peter worked, and police interviewed over five thousand people, Peter being one. However, he had an alibi. He was having a housewarming party that night, so there's no way that he had killed somebody because he dropped his friend's home and then went home. Guy, guys, there's like plenty,

plenty of time in an evening, you know. H On December fourteenth, nineteen seventy seven, Peter drove past twenty five year old Marylyn Moore. Marlyn was a sex worker who was walking home from a friend's house. Peter drove passed her twice before pulling over. He called her over and introduced himself as Dave. He asked if she wanted business, and she agreed. He paid her five pounds and then they got into his car and drove to a

quiet spot. When they pulled over, Peter suggested that they get into the back of the car instead of getting out. Marlin agreed, but notice that her door was locked, so Peter got out and he walked around to open her door for her, and as he did, he hit her over the head with a hammer. Marlin screamed as she fell out of the car. She tried to stay up by holding onto Peter's trousers, but he just continued

to hit her over the head with the hammer. Marlin's screams caused a nearby dog to start barking, and this made Peter panic about being caught, so he ran away. Peter thought Marlin would die because he had hit her over the head so many times. However, after he ran away, Marlin got the strength to get up and she ran towards the road. A couple were driving past and saw her covered in blood and crying, so they pulled over and called nine one one for her or I don't know is it nine one

one in America or in England? Yeah? Please, I think I think if you call it no matter where you are, I think it will connect you to an emergency service. You know what I mean when I say nine one, Yeah, in Ireland it's one one two M. Because we had the Randy phones, so it was faster. It's not why. I'm pretty sure someone told I can't remember someone told me that before. I always thought that about the Randy phones, Like, if you're calling nine one one,

it's not not going to take for fucking ever. Yeah, we're an OL and just go one, one two M. Anyways, Marlin then gave a description of Peter and was able to tell police that he drove from a Roon colored car. However, they were now looking for somebody named Dave or David, so they were you know, they had interviewed Peter, but they were looking for a Dave and David. M hmm. Yeah. On January twenty first, nineteen seventy eight, Peter was helping his parents move into their new

home. When he left, he went looking for a victim, and this is when he saw on twenty one year old Yvonne Pearson. Yvonne was out working the streets when Peter tried to hit on her with his car. No, sorry, he tried to hit her with his car. What, Yeah, that's that's a whole new what Peter waters, he has like a disgusting amount of confidence at this stage, like for all of the times that he's been interrupted, that he's done this in fields, like in public and never

been caught. Oh, he's just dead here hitting people with his fucking car. It gets better. He then came to a stud a sudden stop, and he rolled down his window and he began apologize in claiming that he didn't even see her and he's so so sorry. Are you okay? Do you need to lift home? And Yvonne just replied, quote, just good timing. You can put it down to face, oh, Vaughan. Oh. Yvonne then got into Peter's car and they agreed on five pounds in exchange for

some sex, and then drove to a quiet area. Peter suggested that they get into the backseat of the car, and while Yvonne wasn't looking, he took out his hammer and he hit her on the head. Peter then dragged Yvonne to an old, dirty sofa that was beside them where he had pulled up. Another car pulled up beside him and there was a couple in it. Yvonne was moaning from being hit with the hammer and in order to make her quiet, Peter began stuffing couch the like couch, stuffing down her throat,

oh my god, and he held her nose. The car eventually left because like to be fair to that other car. First of all, it's dark. Second of all, if you just see a couple sitting on a dirty old couch, you're just going to assume it's like sex work happening or you know, yeah, and he's probably like on top of very like you, and yeah, you're not thinking, oh, a woman is being killed. They're in knocking, they're having sex. Yes. Peter then began to

kick Yvonne in the head and the body. He then jumped on her chest until her ribs cracked. Yvonne had two children and there was a babysitter the night that Yvonne went out. When she never returned home, the babysitter immediately reported her missing, as she always came home. Yvonne's body would not be found until March twenty sixth, nineteen seventy eight, and she was killed when in January January twenty first fuck someone walking past the disposal site sawn arm sticking

out from the couch, and that's how they found her corpse. The police didn't originally link the murder to the Ripper case as it was so different. A newspaper with the date February twenty first on it was placed under Yvonne's arm, which which was a month after she was murdered. However, Peter denies returning to the scene of any of his victims. We know that to be a lie because he returned to Jean Jordan's body exactly, and he returned to

be even more violent. He's a sick guy, so it wouldn't surprise me if he went back to try and do something to alterate the scene. So like he claims that like he didn't go to any he didn't return to any sites, and that it wasn't him that put the newspaper under Yvonne's arm, but like it more than likely was him. On January thirty first, nineteen seventy eight, Peter was out looking for a victim when he came across eighteen year old Helen Ripke. Peter picked Helen up in the Red Light district and

drove to a secluded place near the railway. He suggested that they get into the back of the car, and she agreed. As he went to hit her on the head, two men started walking past the car, so Peter had to stop his plan. When the men left, though, Peter just continued on with his plan and hit Helen in the head with the hammer. Peter then said he took a break before going back and dragging Helen's body to

a woodyard. He then began stabbing her several times. Peter then became a raised at the thought of almost getting caught, so he sexually assaulted Helen once he had finished stabbing her. However, the medical examiner later said that there was no evidence that Helen was assaulted like sexually. So it is the being out in the open and they're really getting caught that is doing it for him.

Well, so like he's saying, oh, I sexually assaulted her, but the medical examiner is like, there's no evidence to suggest that at all. M hmm. I wonder if he had trouble Maybe that's why he hated women so much. I wonder if he had trouble like having sex, like like, yeah, become incompetent. Is that no? Not incompetent? Not? Because the like medical examiner is like, not, only was there no evidence that she was assaulted sexually. There's no evidence of sexual intercourse at all.

M The next day, people were arriving for work at the woodyard and they saw the ground was soaked in blood and they saw torn women's clothes. But they ignored that. Oh okay, they said that, seeing as sex workers were often frequent on the yard at night, it was just no cause for concern. They were like, it's just just sex workers blood, Like, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. Helen's body was then found two days later. Her body had been found between two stocks of wood.

Police were seriously struggling to solve the case, and even reached out to the public, offering a reward of five thousand pounds to anyone with information that would lead to an arrest. Nothing of note really came forward, And then this was when police would start receiving letters from Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper from Like what the eighteen hundreds place? It is not Peter sending these letters. Oh so it's just some other ziggo looking to take credit. What did

these weirdos always come crawling out of the woodwork? Honestly, I know, and I think that is where I will leave it. You guys, oh, leave it on a cliffhanger with Jack the Ripper. Yeah, I leave it there, you guys, because the liffhanger. Those poor women, Like I know, I didn't talk much throught that because it was like trying to process. It's a lot of information, it's a lot of it's a lot

of a compression and anger. Yeah, he is so angry, and I'm genuinely starting to think that it's because he can't get it up and that's why he's trying about sexually assaulting these women. I know he's actually assaulted at least one, and I know he's masturbating over the bodies. But maybe it's because they're dead they can't judge or laugh at him. And I don't lie. I never thought of it like that, Like, I never thought of it in that way that maybe it's because he has incompetence. Oh, now that

you say it, I'm like, it makes the most sense. And don't they say as well, that's stabbing is like another it's it's another type of penetration, Like that's yeah, because they struggle to penetrate they stabbed because yeah, yeah, um, that's very very possible. And it gets pretty wild from here on out and the police just when I told you that they question When I told you that they questioned m. Peter, that's not the only

time that they questioned him again. They go on to question him like another like ten times, and then he's also a person of interest at least eighteen times. Or he's like, so he's interviewed by police officially like ten times or something like that, and then he's like in like the suspect pool like a further like eighteen times. What if somebody is coming up that much on your radar, Like, mmmm, maybe it's time to do a bit more than questioning, you know, maybe maybe follow him for a while, see

what he gets up to in his spare time. And then we will see Trevor birdsall his redemption arc, his redemption It's a coming. Don't forget about Trevor, Or do I don't really really care. I mean he still does. Let it go on for like fucking six years or some shit. Yeah, Trevor, come on, I'm rooting for you. I'm so If you enjoyed this week's episode, please go check out some of our other episodes.

If you haven't already listened to Megan's episode on Oh Megan's episode on What's This Leaf Guy, Leaf Guy Matthew Hoffman, Um, that was a really good episode. I know I didn't forget it. I know I forgot his name, but I forget everybody's name, so it's fine. I forget people I know names, So it's totally cool. Every time somebody like close to me has the baby for the first like a month, and I was like, oh, how's the baby because I'm terrified and I'm gonna say the wrong name.

And I'm like, I know that that's that's that child's name, but I say the wrong one. I've forgotten people's names thought like I literally see on a daily basis, like I work with them every single day. I'm like, yeah, I hate that I see these people every day, but yeah, I'm like, what's your name? That was a really good episode and reinformative. Thank you leave, You're welcome. It was I'm not gonna

lie am. I then think that I had seen the netext documentary and I was like, oh, that would be super interesting to cover on the podcast, and then I kind of forgot about how many people he actually does attack and kill, and so I was like, this will be a like quick case to cover. It will be something that'll only be like one episode, won't involve too much research, like as in like like life consuming research, and you know, and then I was like fantastic, Yeah, that's great

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