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[ambulance siren wailing]

[Whitehouse] This was a case that had been running on for over a year.

[ambulance siren continues wailing]

[ominous music begins]

[car engine roaring]

They couldn't catch this guy.

He did these trademark murders and then just vanished.

[dog barking]

[ominous music continues]

You're a coward.

Why do you come up and stalk young girls, innocent girls as well?

You come up from behind them. They don't have a chance.

You're not a man, you're a beast.

And I hate you.

[Whitehouse] You were wondering all the time,

when's the next one gonna be?

So it came as no surprise at all to hear of another attack.

What set this one apart was that the woman had survived.

[ambulance siren blaring]

She was able to talk to the police

from her hospital bed.

At long last,

this was the breakthrough they'd been looking for.

[static]

[newscaster] Maureen Long became the first of the Ripper's victims to survive.

She'd spent the evening at the Bali Hai discotheque in Bradford.

[reporter] She was picked up in a car and brought here

just off the Leeds Road to this waste ground.

What followed was a classic Ripper attack:

a blow to the back of the head with a blunt instrument

and a knife down the front.

[Whitehouse] This is a macabre thing to say,

but the Ripper had not been quite as careful.

And as a result, Maureen Long was very lucky.

Police were very excited about it.

"We've got somebody who can tell us

about what happened, give us a description of the man,

anything he said, any speech patterns he might have used."

You get two or three together,

and you might be a long way to cracking the case.

[Domaille] Maureen Long had seen him.

She would be able to tell me what he looked like,

where he had come from, how she met him,

and all the things about him that might lead me to get to him.

He left Mrs. Long for dead.

Uh... the fact that she survived

uh, is, you know, to my advantage and not to his.

[interviewer] You may have stumbled on a big break now.

Erm... there is that possibility, and I would sincerely hope so.

[Domaille] I had to draw out from her everything that I possibly could.

But one had to be extremely careful

not to feed what you want her to tell you.

So we decided to try to take things forward slightly differently.

[camera clicks]

[Laptew] I was called to the boss's office.

"Got a job for you.

I want you to take Maureen Long out."

And joking, I says, "I'm sorry, she's not my type, you know."

He says, "You haven't got a choice."

[club music]

[Laptew] "I want you to take her to the dance hall.

See if that man's there...

if he's out there stalking a potential victim."

He says, "There's, uh, 15 quid expenses for you."

I says, "That ain't gonna last long. That won't go beyond the first round."

I spent 78 quid that night...

because she liked to drink.

I thought, "I hope nobody sees me that I know."

'Cause I had to do the pretense, you know, that we're a couple.

[crowd chattering]

[Laptew] If she saw her attacker, she was to tell me.

I'd have called troops in and arrested him.

My friends used to say, "What are you doing?

Haven't you caught this guy yet?"

And I'd say, "Oh, it's not for lack of trying."

[ambulance siren blaring]

[Laptew] By the end of that night...

there was nothing to indicate that anybody we saw was our man.

[Domaille] There wasn't a lot in there, in her head...

about anything.

So to draw out from her...

what she'd seen...

and get her to talk about it

was quite a difficult situation.

[reporter] She lived but not, unfortunately, to tell the tale.

Brain damage destroyed her memory cells.

She can tell the police nothing.

[Long] About half-past eleven, I went into the Mecca

getting drinks bought off various, you know... men, right?

And then, I got my coat...

and that's all I remember...

coming out of the Mecca.

That's all I remember about it.

[loud whooshing]

[car stereo playing]

[Domaille] This should have opened the whole thing up

and it should have led to the detection.

It didn't.

[Laptew] Another blind alley, another dead end.

We just got on with the job

to find something that might assist

in the inquiry.

[car braking]

[man] Hello.

[woman] Doing business?

- How much, love? - Ten.

- Ten pounds? - Yeah.

- Full strip? - Yeah.

Jump in, yeah.

[car door opens, shuts]

[Gregg] I was 23 years old...

doing my normal everyday policing...

and waiting to be appointed as a detective.

A killer was at large and everyone had a role to play.

With the nature of where the murders were happening and the victims,

the red-light areas were... were clearly vulnerable areas

in terms of, um, the killer striking again.

[Gregg] I was part of an undercover operation...

in the red-light area...

recording the car registration details of...

cars that were coming in with a single male in

driving through the area, cruising.

One of us was shouting the numbers out of the car going past

and the other colleague was scratching the number down on paper.

It was staggering, the numbers.

There were just so many.

Car after car...

thousands upon thousands...

like a football match at times, the number of people coming through.

[phone ringing]

[reporter] George Oldfield knows as much as any detective in Britain

about catching killers.

[hushed tones]

But he's met his match.

From this incident room at Leeds Police Station,

he directs a team of 270 men,

all of them working full-time on the search for the Ripper.

Incident room at Millgarth, can I help you?

[Benson] The incident room was absolutely buzzing.

The whole building was just taken over by manpower.

Elaine, can you check me into the system?

Yes.

Andrew Robinson St. Joseph Samuel, Leeds.

[Benson] All the officers were given a specific job.

I was given indexing the names of people that came into the system

and I was put working on what they called the "Big Wheel."

[Gregg] A metal carousel that had all the index cards in.

[Benson] Somebody might ring up and say, "I think my cousin is the Ripper."

Just hold on, I'll just check it.

You would go to the wheel and you would look through the indexes

and see if that name was already in

and if it was already in, then you would fasten those details to it,

and off it would go to an inspector.

Out at the other end would be a piece of paper titled "action."

And that action may be,

"Go and interview John Smith at this address."

Red House.

[Gregg] Do that one piece of work, write it up with a result,

and then bring it back through the machine,

and it comes in and goes around the incident room.

[Benson] The information could come from the house-to-house inquiry teams,

people that were telephoning in,

officers who came across something while doing their ordinary police work.

We were getting hundreds and hundreds of actions every day.

There were piles of paper in the incident room.

[ambulance siren wailing]

[interviewer] Do you dread the news, that there's going to be another murder?

I don't think I can answer you more than to say that

I hope that we can draw this to a conclusion

without anyone else having to die.

But I don't know that that will be the case.

I... I think there is a grave danger that this man will strike again.

[ominous music]

[Jones] I had a good mate at work and he was a keen gardener.

So we got an allotment

and we were going to grow our veg and stuff there.

It was a lovely sunny day.

I'd got the day off work, he'd got the day off work.

We thought we'd go to the allotment and get a shed up.

I was getting all the old bricks to lay a base.

And I... [scoffs]

I'd only realized later that I'd rolled...

my wheelbarrow over this girl.

[ominous music continues]

[sighs]

Uh...

Her hair was burnt off.

Her face was smashed in.

Her breasts were cut off.

She was... [sighs]

She was disemboweled.

She...

Sh... Sh... She was cut in the most horrendous ways

a person could cut someone.

[police sirens wailing]

[Jones] I'd run to the phone box across the road…

and rung 9-9-9.

They were there within minutes.

[police siren wailing]

[narrator] Jean Jordan's body was found nine days after she'd disappeared.

The body was naked and her clothes were scattered around it.

It was very obvious to any passerby.

[Jones] I had to describe it all and I just…

"Is that how you found her?"

"Is that what you saw?"

My God.

I just...

didn't have a clue what was going on.

[crowd chattering]

[Green] Jean Jordan was a known prostitute last seen in the red-light area,

taken to a place which is a well-known...

place of resort for prostitutes to take the punters.

There was enough there to make it pretty clear

that this was all part of the series.

The only difference was that she was found...

in Manchester.

Uh... [stuttering]

We had somewhere in the region of 400 officers at some time,

got all this activity with hundreds of thousands of hours

in West Yorkshire.

But it's in Manchester.

Wow. [scoffs]

[narrator] Greater Manchester has the largest network of motorways

in the country.

Eight motorways, a total of 260 miles of carriageway.

[Green] It was unusual for any multiple murderer

to travel out of area.

But then, we were still in the early days of getting used to motorways.

[Whitehouse] The motorways gave people the...

opportunity to do things that they hadn't done, which included criminals.

If the Ripper has a means of transport, and he's going to Manchester,

he could go anywhere.

[narrator] After murdering Jean Jordan,

the killer had pushed her body under the hedge.

And then, when it had not been discovered,

he'd been reckless enough to return to the scene of the crime

and move the body out into the open.

[Green] There were slash injuries to the trunk and abdomen

which had been inflicted much later.

It seemed that this assailant...

had gone back to the body...

looking for something...

and had lost his temper...

when he hadn't found it.

[Green] Her handbag was found some distance away

and its contents had been chucked all over the place.

But what had been missed was an inside pocket of the handbag,

which contained a brand new five-pound note.

[Gregg] Each five-pound note has a unique serial number.

And when the Bank of England distribute them,

they know generally what district these notes go to.

So the banknote that was found on the body of a victim

could be traced back to see,

"Where did that note come from, and where was it distributed to?"

[Green] The going rate for prostitution was five pounds a go.

If he had paid her five pounds,

and it was a brand new issued five-pound note,

he must have guessed that it was easily traceable...

and gone to try and get it back.

[interviewer] How much importance are you putting on this 5-pound note?

We are satisfied that this five-pound note

only came into circulation on the 27th of September,

four days before she met her death.

We have reason to believe that it was

sent to one of three banks

in the Bradford, Shipley, and Bingley area,

and that from the bank it found its way to an employer,

and from the employer into an employee's wage packet.

As a result, we are visiting several factories in the area

and interviewing all the male employees.

[Whitehouse] This is as big or as good as anything that's happened in the past.

There was a feeling of euphoria that at least now we're gonna get somewhere.

We were teamed up with a colleague

who was based in Manchester, the Greater Manchester Police.

[Laptew] We would go to the factories where the people worked...

address the employer.

[Clark] The police came and went through everybody.

It was in-depth.

They really went into it. I mean, I was...

quite joking about it... and they... they soon told me how serious it was.

And they really put the pressure on, and to everybody.

I probably interviewed hundreds of people that night.

Hundreds.

Of course, there was haulage, stationers, all sorts of businesses.

I mean it was, uh...

an overwhelming number of, uh... inquiries to do

and, uh, interviews to conduct.

Um, there's a possibility he has been... uh, spoken to...

during this inquiry.

[Ridgway] We are prepared to keep on pursuing these inquiries

until we have interviewed everybody

who could possibly have received that five-pound note.

[Laptew] We needed the public to help to get this solved.

But at that time...

it was hard.

[Whitehouse] People weren't very interested.

The prevailing mood in the country was

worry about whether you have a job next month.

[narrator] London's burning, but fighting the flames

were not professional firemen, but naval ratings.

The reason: the first national firemen's strike in British history.

[Whitehouse] It was a very turbulent time.

The Organization of Oil-Producing Countries

has quadrupled the price of crude oil in two years

and thrown the industrial world into grave turmoil.

[Whitehouse] The price of oil went through the roof not once, but twice.

That produced a lot of stresses and strains,

because higher oil prices always feed through into higher inflation,

so every time you turned around,

the price of everything you wanted had gone up again.

So you were in this constant scramble then

to make your wages keep pace with inflation.

Employers had other costs to think about as well

and felt very often they couldn't afford to pay increases.

So everybody was permanently on strike.

[narrator] The government will not accept deals which break pay policy

aimed at reducing the country's inflation rate.

[crowd chanting]

[Whitehouse] There were societal changes too.

It became acceptable to live with someone rather than marry someone.

Uh... It became acceptable to have children out of wedlock.

So you've got all these undercurrents, things seem to be changing around you...

all the time.

And eventually, in the eyes of some people,

you reached a point where you felt that

society was beginning to come apart, to fray around the edges.

[camera whirring]

And now, we've got a serial killer on the loose.

[chanting] Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho!

[crowd singing]

[Hellawell] Just before Christmas in '77...

one of my colleagues came in and said,

"There was another attack on a prostitute in Leeds."

This was significant in that,

like Maureen Long,

she survived.

[narrator] The victim this time, Marilyn Moore.

[Moore] I didn't feel the first, I felt the second and third blow.

And as I felt the third one, my hands were on top of my head.

Then I... I remember grabbing his trousers

and as I grabbed his trousers, he pulled away.

And I heard him go back in the car

and as he drove off, his back wheels skidded on the back.

[Green] A major breakthrough.

We... we had tire information,

and three of those tires matched

the same tires that we'd seen at the Irene Richardson murder.

And unlike Maureen Long,

she did remember the attacker.

[interviewer] Marilyn Moore was able to give a good description.

They drew up an identikit picture.

It was one of the strongest clues so far.

The incident room in Leeds was...

He was... around 30,

he had a beard, and he had dark hair.

The photo vita of the Marilyn Moore attacker

was on the wall on every police station throughout this country.

For the first time,

we had a picture of who we now believed to be the Yorkshire Ripper.

[Hellawell] Unless you were there, you cannot...

conceive of what it was like.

Every single police officer in West Yorkshire

would've worked 24 hours a day

to catch this man.

[narrator] It would be hard to imagine a more difficult inquiry.

There's no pattern in dates, days of the week,

frequency, or locations of the murders.

[interviewer] Is he likely to kill again?

I think that's very much on the cards.

[Gallop] Obviously, I'll never forget it because it was my first crime scene.

I was in the lab at the time

and then we were told we had to get out to the timber-yard.

I was the first woman to join the forensic science lab.

And I was initially received with a large dose of skepticism

by the chap who was my boss.

But you just think, you know, "I'm here to do a job."

And you just get on with it.

[Gallop] The first thing that struck me was how beautiful she was.

[narrator] Helen Rytka is the 7th victim

to lose her life at the hands of the Ripper.

[Gallop] I don't know what I was expecting.

But... she just looked very serene.

It surprised me.

I was pleased by that. It made it... made it easier.

[narrator] Helen's body was found in a timber yard by police using dogs.

[Gallop] It was a rather forbidding place.

[dogs barking]

It was very dark and wet.

There was a little bit of street lighting.

So there were dark shadows thrown onto these great stacks of wood.

[ambulance siren wailing]

It was a horrible place to die.

[camera clicks]

[Gallop] We were very keen obviously

to see if we could find anything at all

that the perpetrator might have left behind them.

[Gallop] Because rough wood just picks up stuff, it's splintery.

But he wasn't leaving a lot of traces

that we could actually analyze and compare.

And certainly nothing we could get a blood group out of.

I'm anxious to talk to the man...

who was said to be standing in the entrance to the wood yard

at the end of Great Northern Street up to the toilets... about 9:30.

[Gallop] Whoever it was, was just so dangerous...

um, and so likely to kill again.

And probably, it could... could be any day. It could be quite quickly.

And I think that that added...

an extra impetus for George.

[Hellawell] It was a lot for him, all this stress, all this pressure...

pressure from the press, pressure from the professionals.

No officer had ever experienced that level of video coverage or pressure.

[Hellawell] I'm sure George took it personally. I would have too.

The whole area was being blitzed by cops knocking on doors with questionnaires,

because where she was last seen was on quite a busy junction.

The belief was this case will be cracked here.

[narrator] 48,000 people have been interviewed.

A 136,000 vehicles checked.

And still nothing.

[interviewer] This girl in the picture, did you know her?

I've seen her once.

- You've seen her once. - Yeah.

With any murder investigation, you need the public's help, clearly.

But there was a degree of apathy amongst the communities

where these murders had happened.

And as far as I could see,

no one knows the victim.

[Whitehouse] Helen Rytka and her sister, uh, Rita

had had a fairly chaotic upbringing.

Uh, and, eventually, the girls were fostered.

But both girls were troubled by their past.

They left home, went to live in Huddersfield...

and got involved in prostitution.

We got access to Helen's foster parents via the police.

The police wanted them to talk to us,

so that this human portrait of an unfortunate girl

might prick someone's conscience, perhaps,

to come forward and give them a lead.

[ominous music continues]

[narrator] Rita Rytka had accompanied her sister on the night she died,

as she later told George Oldfield.

And Rita was no ordinary...

Helen's twin sister, Rita, helped with the investigation enormously.

It was... an incredibly distressing time for her.

They were both 18 at that point.

There was hope that this would

galvanize the public effort towards contacting the police.

[Whitehouse] Rita put her heart and soul into this... scramble for information.

And it did... nothing.

[dog barking]

[narrator] The women who might help aren't noted for cooperation

with the old enemy, the police.

And their client's have obvious reasons

for being shy in coming forward.

What we do find...

if there's something involving an animal,

if an animal is killed in the course of the commission of a criminal offense,

then, you know, the public...

are... are... are revolted by this

and then they will come forward and give information.

Yet, when human beings are involved,

uh, particularly the type that... we're investigating,

the murders with which we're concerned with,

um, there's this...

- laissez-faire attitude. - A reticence to come forward.

[Hellawell] George's life was this investigation,

had been for a number of years.

He'd see around him officers getting divorced.

He'd see some of them dying, which would be stress-related.

Stress is so dangerous to our lives.

And also to... the investigation.

Because the information hadn't come through to crack the case at that point.

It was, "What can we do next to flush them out?"

And a huge amount of money may be the carrot to do that.

[Whitehouse] And that was the thinking behind the reward.

That, maybe, a life-changing amount of cash would make someone,

if they were sitting on information,

might bring them forward, might flush them out.

The basic reward was 10,000 pounds.

Private companies put in more and more

and eventually, they got the total to 30,000 pounds.

[reporter] You obviously think that money

is going to work amongst some people who might be involved.

Whereas, they might not go to the police voluntarily.

Yes, this is a sad reflection on human nature,

but anything which could alleviate the position or assist the police...

uh, should be encouraged.

[phone rings]

This is George Oldfield, Assistant Chief Constable

West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police, speaking.

If you have any information,

please pass your message after you hear the short tone.

Anything you say will be treated in confidence.

[phone clicks]

[Whitehouse] I think, the response was overwhelming at first.

[Gallop] We did have an awful lot of calls.

A girl might have fallen out with a boyfriend,

so she'd ring in and say he was the Ripper.

Is there... Is there any way, any other way we can trace him?

Wives said it was the husbands.

The one we spoke about earlier.

Yeah, I'm having trouble finding the previous.

We had clairvoyants saying it was a man on the top of a number 97 bus.

We received all sorts of crank telephone calls.

And we put everything into the system no matter how it sounded.

[Hellawell] Imagine a football field in the US or UK.

The files of filing cabinets would have filled that football field.

There were millions and millions and millions of pieces of paper.

Thousands of phone calls in a week,

twice that number of actions coming back in.

As it built and built,

structural engineers said the floor was going to fall in.

So we had to put concrete pillars underneath

to hold the floor up, to hold the weight of the floor up.

That's how much paperwork there was.

[Whitehouse] Nothing was working as it should.

The filing system was so chaotic...

they, frankly, were floundering.

It's impossible to believe the Ripper didn't know

that it was suspectless,

that they had no idea who was doing this.

They had no idea, really, how he was managing to do it.

He must have thought, "Blimey!"

Here was a man who could seemingly appear and disappear at will.

And for all he knew,

they were no closer to catching him than they were right at the very start.

No leads, no ideas.

Undetectable.

[man] You know, I would have thought the prostitutes would be on the run.

I thought they would have been leaving this area in dozens and dozens.

There's no real evidence to support that that is so.

I mean, I knew all the Bradford and Leeds prostitutes.

I know because I made it my business to say to them, "Look, you're bloody mad."

You know, what you're doing just isn't in order.

And you couldn't... was like talking to a wall.

Are you scared when you go out on the streets like this now?

Very scared, yeah.

Why do you do it?

Oh, lack of money really.

If there was plenty of jobs, I would have a job.

Well, there isn't. We've got some work somehow.

- How old are you? - 19.

But how can you, as a mother, let your daughter

be a prostitute in this area?

This isn't that bad.

Well it's a living, love, innit? It's a living, love.

[Gregg] There was a lot of emotion flying around

among the general public at the time.

There's a great sadness.

There's a great sense of...

horror...

because of the carnage it's caused.

[Whitehouse] There was a lot of anxiety.

I was reluctant to see my wife out alone.

You know you're going to be at whatever location it is.

You're not gonna leave that location. I will come and collect you.

Everybody seemed to be on edge.

And then...

Easter Sunday, at the end of March...

a passerby noticed in an area of wasteland...

a woman's hand sticking out of a... a pile of rubbish.

The police were called and under a sofa...

on this wasteland and rubbish pile

was the body of Yvonne Pearson.

[reporter] Mrs. Pearson's body was hidden under a settee

on waste ground in Bradford's red-light area.

Police think she died soon after disappearing two months ago.

[Gregg] The way that...

the killer had...

disposed of her body...

throwing her onto a waste dump and covering her with an old sofa...

You just thought, "What is going on in this person's head

to do this?

What kind of... creature are we dealing with here?"

It was quickly established that she'd been killed two months before.

The strange thing about that was

the Daily Mirror newspaper placed under her arm.

It was dated exactly a month to the day, she'd been murdered.

So the murderer had been back...

and, uh, placed the newspaper...

under her arm.

He's taunting the police.

[police radio chatter]

[interviewer] Mr. Oldfield, you're involved in this inquiry.

You've... you've actually detected dozens and dozens of murders yourself.

This, with respect, is your one notable failure.

What is your own personal feeling about it?

I, uh, feel, myself, that... uh...

we shall, in the fullness of time, catch this man.

[drawing breath]

Uh, the greatest risk to the community

that there's been, for generations I would say, certainly in his area.

And...

I... I... I... I've no hard feelings towards him.

I just want to catch him.

[Hellawell] West Yorkshire Police had very good record

of dealing with the most serious crimes compared with anywhere else in the world.

And here now was the most serious crime it had ever faced...

and it was failing.

[Laptew] People were ridiculing the police.

In fact, there was graffiti outside the Carlisle Public House...

which said, "Ripper 8, police nil."

[Hellawell] The tire track inquiry was going but very slowly.

We checked five million vehicles.

Eventually, it was abandoned.

Whilst the five-pound note inquiry

looked to be one of the best leads we possibly had,

we could not link any single person to the murders.

The whole organization felt to be sinking under the weight of this.

Detectives describe the Ripper

as one of the most cunning killers they've ever had to trace.

The extravagance of his behavior over the last twelve months

seems to be part of an attempt to step up his campaign of terror.

Far from giving up,

he's likely to kill even more flamboyantly in future.

I think he's most probably somebody who's had an unhappy love experience...

maybe... with a prostitute.

Who's caught some type of VD.

What is the psychological effect, if any, of all the publicity

which is currently given to this case?

What psychological effect will it have on this... this person?

Should we maybe be withdrawing some of the publicity?

[ambulance siren wailing]

It... it's happening again.

Somebody's lost a life... again.

[Gallop] And we couldn't stop it happening.

And... it does have an effect.

[reporter] The body was found

here on the grounds of the Manchester Royal Infirmary

shortly after 8 o'clock this morning

by two gardeners who'd left their vans on the grounds of the hospital overnight.

Again, the victim was a prostitute, 41-year-old Vera Millward.

[Green] When she was found

it was obvious

by the drag marks in the undergrowth that she had been pulled away from the hedge

out nearer to where people were walking.

So that... um... uh...

she would become fairly obvious.

[reporter] There were more than 800 patients and staff

in the hospital buildings round about.

The whole area was floodlit.

The killer had taken more risks than ever before

for this was a very public place indeed to leave a murder victim's body.

[Green] The assailant was getting publicity-hungry.

He wanted the world to know

that he had struck again.

[reporter] The police searched for witnesses

but they found the same public apathy they'd always found.

Try as they might,

they failed to turn up anyone who'd admit to having seen the Ripper.

And George Oldfield's men remained in the dark about his identity.

[car purring]

[Hellawell] You get to a stage where you've done

everything you can possibly think of.

What can I do?

I can't let it go on, because nothing's happening.

And so, George decided to ask the Ripper to... sort of, give himself up.

In your own interest...

it is now time for you to come forward and give yourself up.

I'm anxious that we catch you before you've time to add another death

to the catalog that you've already got to your credit.

If the man who's done these things is watching...

then I beg you to give yourself up.

You need a doctor's help.

Give yourself up and you will get it.

I do want to ask you to give yourself up.

You see, you've made your point eight times.

And if you continue making your point,

you're simply going to produce public sympathy for these prostitutes

and I'm sure that that is not what you want.

Around this time, the series of letters came into the incident room.

[presenter] Today, at a news conference

at the HQ of the West Yorkshire Police,

the most vital clues the police have so far were revealed.

The Ripper has written letters to the man who's hunting him,

the Assistant Chief Constable of West Yorkshire, George Oldfield.

George Oldfield received a series of letters

from an individual purporting to be the killer.

Of course, you always get cranks,

but this seemed more than just a crank.

It seemed to be someone deliberately

trying to get a message across as forcibly as could be.

The letter writer was signing off, "Jack the Ripper."

What really drove it home, though,

was the reference to the murder of Vera Millward,

who'd been killed on the grounds of the Royal Infirmary.

It referred to her,

saying that she'd been in hospital for operations there.

George Oldfield knew that Vera Millward had actually had

three operations at the Manchester Hospital

shortly before she was killed.

And this is where the whole investigation now started taking off.

[interviewer] The man has taunted and sent a challenge to you,

what's your reaction to that?

I'm prepared to take it in.

And we have been all the time.

[interviewer] He has also threatened he's going to kill again.

Will you catch him before that?

I sincerely hope we catch him before he can kill again.

[Gregg] The letters were sent to the laboratory for fingerprinting

and forensic examination of the gum seal.

[Gallop] The licked gum strip on the envelope was, uh, grouped,

and that's when it was discovered that it had come from a man who was a B-secretor,

which is actually one of the rarest of the ABO groups.

It only exists in about six percent of men.

You know, sort of, if...

If you're digging for days and days and days,

and then you suddenly find some gold, it's like...

that's a piece of gold, you found something,

and we can deal with this.

That's how it felt.

[Gregg] I personally, and I'm sure that colleagues felt that he's...

he's got to be here, we've got to be within touching distance of him.

[Hellawell] This is going to happen.

We're gonna stop this man. We're going to get him.

And then, out of the blue...

a tape.

[static]

I am Jack.

I see you are still having no luck catching me.

I am not quite sure when I'll strike again.

Maybe September, October.

Even sooner if I get the chance.

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