Hey there lovely listeners and welcome back to Crime Analyst and the intelligence cell and the forgotten victims.

Now as usual before I dive in I'm going to give the usual heads up that the content and information that you're going to hear may be triggering or upsetting.

Listen to discretion as advised. You're going to hear about real victims, real cases, real perpetrators and their behavior at real crime scenes.

There are going to be some graphic details throughout. Unfortunately it comes with the territory. Murder is distressing.

Victims being killed and harmed is a truly terrible business.

Now in episode 26 I detailed what was known about PS and compared it with my analysis from his crime scene behavior.

What did you think about that? What did you make of that?

As I said this case in these episodes in particular have been a lot of work. I approached the case from the beginning as I would any case and therefore I concentrated on the victimology, the behavior at crime scenes and the geography.

And since then I've been deep diving much more about PS.

Admittedly I knew very little about him given how old this case is. It was before my time at New Scotland and Yard and like I said the only thing that was really talked about was that prostitutes were targeted and killed by PS and the recommendations from the Bifid report.

And with this case it's not been easy separating fat from fiction and the media reporting that has heavily relied on the police narrative.

In some ways it's very similar to the white chapel murders in 1888 or the Jack the R word case. I've spent a lot of time analyzing this case to and I did a documentary about it back in 2006 with my boss former deputy assistant commissioner John Grieve.

It was called reveal Jack the R word the first serial killer.

Now I could do a few episodes about my behavioral analysis and findings with this case if you're interested let me know.

Okay there are a couple of points I want to make building on from the last episode.

You see I've just discovered that a police officer called George Smith spent time with Sonia when PS was being questioned.

Apparently she didn't ask one question about him or what was happening and George Smith said this.

I can honestly say that had I not spent 15 hours with Sonia I would never have accepted that the wife of the Yorkshire R word didn't know who he was.

But having spent all that time with her I was satisfied that she didn't know.

Well that's instructive to me and it chimes with what I believe to.

It's also not easy spending time deeply immersed in PS his head space in his psychosocial development decision making and psychopathology.

It's dark and I can't just jump into the profile of PS without understanding his psychosocial development the early years the decisions that he took across his life course.

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