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🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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0:00.0 | During the 1970s, a brutal serial killer terrorized the women of Manchester and West Yorkshire, |
0:23.0 | England. |
0:24.0 | By the time he was apprehended, Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, had claimed |
0:28.0 | the lives of 13 young women and girls and had attempted to kill at least eight more. |
0:34.5 | Many of them were sex workers, he had picked up in red light districts. |
0:38.4 | His killings created a culture of fear and suspicion in England. |
0:42.4 | Every man was looked at with a side eye, whether he was your neighbor, teacher, bus driver |
0:46.7 | or father. |
0:47.7 | Even after Sutcliffe was arrested in January of 1981, there was still a lingering, dark |
0:53.0 | cloud, causing women who were walking alone at night to pick up their pace and glance |
0:57.3 | over their shoulders. |
0:58.3 | But by the early 90s, the fear had subsided and Peter Sutcliffe and his horrendous crimes |
1:04.3 | had faded to a cold memory. |
1:06.1 | But when the West Yorkshire Police received a letter from an anonymous man in July of |
1:11.0 | 1991 alleging that he had kidnapped a prostitute, office street and chapel town, those distant |
1:17.2 | cold memories began to grow more vivid. |
1:20.0 | The letter claimed that unless a ransom of 140,000 pounds was paid, the girl would be |
1:26.5 | killed. |
1:27.5 | And the clock on Julie Darts' life began to tick down. |
1:30.5 | Hello, everybody. |
1:46.9 | Welcome back to Crime Weekly. |
1:48.3 | I'm Stephanie Harlow. |
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