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Casefile True Crime

Case 37: The Yorkshire Ripper (Part 3)

Casefile True Crime

Casefile Presents

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.741.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

[Part 3 of 3]

With the West Yorkshire Police no closer to identifying The Yorkshire Ripper, the department came under intense scrutiny. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher offered to take over the investigation, while the media and public demanded that Scotland Yard be called in to find the killer.

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Research for this episode by Victoria Dieffenbacher. Co-written by Victoria Dieffenbacher and the Anonymous Host.

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At 10.50pm on Friday, the 2nd of January, 1981, a brown, rovers saloon motor vehicle was

0:49.5

parked in the driveway of light tradeshows, a steel manufacturer in Chefield, 50 minutes

0:55.2

south of Leeds. Being late at night, the area was completely deserted, but it was a popular

1:01.1

place for sex workers to take clients. Two police officers on patrol drove past the vehicle.

1:08.0

They believed it could only be there for one reason. They stopped their patrol car next

1:12.6

to the rover, and one of the officers approached the male driver. He asked the driver if it

1:18.1

was his vehicle. The driver replied it was. He gave his name and address as John Williams,

1:25.0

65 dorsis the road, canclo, rather him. The driver had a woman in the vehicle with him,

1:32.0

and the officers asked who she was. The driver replied she was his girlfriend, but couldn't

1:36.9

give her name, as he hadn't known her that long. The woman gave her name as Olivia Revers.

1:44.2

The officers radiated in the two names, and asked for details on the registration plate

1:48.4

of the rover. There was no match for a male by the name of John Williams. They found out

1:54.0

Olivia was 24 years old and a known sex worker. They found out the plate was registered to

2:00.0

someone by the name of Aslan Khan, and it was registered to a completely different

2:04.5

make and model of vehicle. Olivia and the male driver were both arrested on suspicion

2:10.1

of theft. When they got back to the police station, they learnt the male driver's name wasn't

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