This is the untold story of the forgotten victims. Listen to discretion is advised. You are going to hear about real victims, real cases, real perpetrators and their behaviour at real crime scenes.

There are going to be some graphic details throughout this podcast series. Unfortunately it comes with the territory. Murder is distressing. Victims being killed and harmed is a truly terrible business. It's harrowing and haunting.

And these episodes may be triggering or upsetting, so please be warned in advance.

Across my career I've noticed a pattern, rarely do people remember the victim's names. They tend to get rubbed out and become footnotes in their own murders.

So before I even begin I want you to remember them and together let's honour them.

Hashtag her name was Wilma McCann, Emily Jackson, Irene Richardson, Deborah Schlesinger, Patricia Atkinson, Jane McDonald, Jean Jordan, Evonne Pearson, Helen Richter, Vera Millard, Josephine Whitaker, Barbara Leach, Marguerite Wars, Jacqueline Hill.

And what about the 23 children that grew up without their mother, their victims too? And the brave and courageous women who survived, let's remember them right here right now before we do anything else.

Anna Rajoski, Olive Smelt, Tracy Brown, Marcella Clackston, Maureen Long, Marilyn Moore, Ann Rooney, Dr. Padgea Bandera, Maureen Moly, Theresa Sykes,

Well what about the other women he attacked? Because there were others, many others, and we're going to get to them.

But it was really important for me, well for us, to start at the place that matters the most and ensure that these women and children are not footnotes in their own cases, overshadowed by him.

And in talking about them, we have to talk about him, the man who brutally killed and silenced at least 14 women forever, and this man attacked countless more, we just have to find them.

So in a sense this is a case, which is a who done it and a why done it, and a forensic deconstruction of how he did it and how he got away with it for so long.

Come join me Laura Richards, Criminal Behavioral Analyst, former New Scotland Yard, as I reexamine and analyse this historical case with an experienced and contemporary lens, and throughout the some folding dynamic investigation, we're going to understand just how important that is, why this case matters so much and why we must listen to the women. Welcome to Crime Analyst.

On November 13th, 2020, Peter Suckliff died in prison, age 74.

The news headlines announced all over the world that one of the UK's most notorious serial killers had died of COVID.

I read most of the reports with interest, followed by growing anger and disgust. The father most people know his name is disturbing.

Or they know him by the moniker, the Yorkshire Ripper, which to me is even worse, in fact it's completely nauseating.

I'm intentionally not going to say the R word going forward, and I'll let you know why momentarily.

Why I felt a growing sense of anger was that barely any of the news reports listed the victims, the women that he murdered or those who he attacked and had survived, the very reason he was in prison serving 20 concurrent life sentences.

In fact, Suckliff was one of the few men in the UK who would never be released from prison.

Most people know his name, but barely anyone I speak with present day can remember any of the victims names.

Well, what I can tell you is that all of these women were in the prime of their life and their lives were brutally cut short.

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