The Yorkshire Ripper

The Crimes of Peter Sutcliffe

De: Mark Stokes

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Between 1975 and 1980, northern England lived in fear as a serial killer known only as the “Yorkshire Ripper” stalked the streets of Leeds, Manchester and Bradford. In The Yorkshire Ripper, we follow the unsettling transformation of Peter Sutcliffe—from a seemingly ordinary taxi-driver to one of Britain’s most notorious murderers—who targeted unknown victims with brutal randomness, bludgeoning and stabbing women in a spree that would shock the nation. His motives remained elusive, his movements unpredictable—and the terror he sowed would cast long shadows over countless lives.

This book pulls back the curtain on how law-enforcement battled shockingly high stakes and mounting public pressure. It tracks the complex investigation: the missed opportunities, the hoax letters that diverted resources, the tireless detectives piecing together seemingly disconnected crimes—and, behind it all, Sutcliffe’s own misguided justification that his path was “mission-like” in nature. It reconstructs the chilling timeline from the first vanishings to the fateful arrest in January 1981, offering vivid portrayals of victims, families, investigators and the society forced to confront its worst nightmare.

But this is more than simply a catalogue of evil. The Yorkshire Ripper delves into the systemic failures exposed by the case: how gender, class and assumptions shaped the hunt; how communities reacted and how policing would never be the same again. For readers who seek true-crime writing that combines forensic detail, human stories and societal context, this is the definitive account of a case that still haunts Britain today.