During the 1970s, a brutal serial killer terrorized the women of Manchester and West Yorkshire,

England.

By the time he was apprehended, Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, had claimed

the lives of 13 young women and girls and had attempted to kill at least eight more.

Many of them were sex workers, he had picked up in red light districts.

His killings created a culture of fear and suspicion in England.

Every man was looked at with a side eye, whether he was your neighbor, teacher, bus driver

or father.

Even after Sutcliffe was arrested in January of 1981, there was still a lingering, dark

cloud, causing women who were walking alone at night to pick up their pace and glance

over their shoulders.

But by the early 90s, the fear had subsided and Peter Sutcliffe and his horrendous crimes

had faded to a cold memory.

But when the West Yorkshire Police received a letter from an anonymous man in July of

1991 alleging that he had kidnapped a prostitute, office street and chapel town, those distant

cold memories began to grow more vivid.

The letter claimed that unless a ransom of 140,000 pounds was paid, the girl would be

killed.

And the clock on Julie Darts' life began to tick down.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome back to Crime Weekly.

I'm Stephanie Harlow.

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