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November 6, 2023
A PLAY set in a police station involved in the Peter Sutcliffe manhunt is at Ilkley Playhouse this week.
November 6, 2023
A horrifying police error that could have prevented the murders of 13 known Ripper victims 'and many more' has been exposed following ITV series The Long Shadow
November 5, 2023
John Humble got a sinister kick when he sent police officers investigating the Yorkshire Ripper an anonymous two-minute tape confessing to be the twisted serial killer
October 30, 2023
ITV's The Long Shadow will tonight look at the case of Jacqueline Hill, who had ambitions of working within the justice services, when her battered, lifeless body was found 100 yards from her university halls
October 29, 2023
The ITV series charts the five years during which Sutcliffe killed 13 women, as he committed his crimes under the nose of police. Read on for pictures of victims, survivors and policemen.
October 29, 2023
Concerns over the direction of the police investigation emerge in the next episode of ITV drama The Long Shadow.
October 23, 2023
Peter Sutcliffe's sick murders triggered one of the biggest manhunts the country has seen however the years-long investigation to find the serial killer went down a rabbit hole thanks to hoax letters and a confession tape from John Humble, aka Wearside Jack
October 23, 2023
John Humble, also known as Wearside Jack, managed to trick police searching for the Yorkshire Ripper as he helped Peter Sutcliffe evade capture from 100 miles away despite never meeting
October 23, 2023
West Yorkshire Police was notoriously misled after being distracted by a hoax in their search for killer Peter Sutcliffe. Constable George Oldfield became obsessed with the case, and in tonight's The Long Shadow, he is seen falling desperately ill
October 17, 2023
Who was Wearside Jack? The Mirror looks back at the true story of John Humble, who plagued the minds of detectives working on the Yorkshire Ripper case for 27 years