Ripper Hoax / John Humble

They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

True Crime

4.6 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Between 1975 and 1980, The Yorkshire Ripper used the North of England as a hunting ground. He spread fear not just in Yorkshire, but across the entire country. The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, killed thirteen women and attacked eight others. But before his capture, police were duped by a recording and three letters sent by a hoaxer. The voice on the tape claimed that he was the serial killer. This false evidence would derail the investigation and divert attention away from the real culprit. Police would later discover the recordings were made by John Humble. For over a quarter of a century, the answer to the question, who is “Wearside Jack”, would remain unanswered, and John would lead detectives on a wild goose chase that may have cost three women their lives...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 2, Episode 22 of They Walk Among us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.
0:20.7	Listener caution is advised, as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions that some listeners may find distressing.
0:33.6	Between 1975 and 1980, the Yorkshire Ripper used the north of England as a hunting ground.
0:45.7	He spread fear, not just in Yorkshire, but across the entire country.
0:50.7	The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe killed 13 women and attacked eight others.
0:56.0	But before his capture, police were duped by a recording and three letters sent by a hoaxer.
1:02.0	The voice on the tape claimed that he was the serial killer.
1:06.0	This false evidence would derail the investigation and divert attention away from the real culprit.
1:13.2	Police would later discover the recordings were made by John Humble.
1:17.6	For over a quarter of a century, the answer to the question who is Wearside Jack would remain
1:22.6	unanswered, and John would lead detectives on a wild goose chase that may have cost three women their lives.
1:33.3	John Samuel Humble was born on January 8, 1956.
1:41.3	His mother Violet raised him after his father Samuel passed away when John was only eight years old.
1:48.0	He had a brother called Henry and a sister called Jean.
1:51.0	They lived on the Hilton Lane estate in Sunderland.
1:55.0	John attended both Hilton Road School and Havelock Secondary, receiving above average grades. After John had left
2:02.8	school in Castle Town, he found it difficult to forge a career path, trying his hand at cleaning
2:08.3	windows, working as a security guard and a labourer on a building site. In his spare time,
2:15.0	he would be found in the round-robin pub playing darts or watching football.
2:19.3	He had an interesting crime writing and reading stories of Jack the Ripper, a notorious serial killer who stalked the streets of Whitechaple in the 1880s.
2:29.3	John Humble also had a criminal record.
2:33.3	In 1973 he received a conviction for burglary and theft,
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