Richard McCann has opened up about the death of his mother Wilma, who was murdered by Peter Sutcliffe ... retells the horrors Sutcliffe inflicted, with particular focus on his victims and their ...

On October 30, 1975, Sutcliffe killed his first known victim: Wilma Mary McCann. A mother of four, she was struck across the back of the head twice and stabbed repeatedly with a sharpened screwdriver.

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The hunt for serial killer Peter Sutcliffe was one of the largest ever to be undertaken by a UK ... but also in other parts of the country.” On October 30, 1975, Sutcliffe killed his first known ...

Serial killers became scarily common between the 1970s and the early 00s, in what's known as the golden age of <a ...

Wilma McCann - Sutcliffe’s first known murder victim - was a 28-year-old mother ... fault in the central index system which allowed Peter Sutcliffe to continually slip through the net.

Netflix has been accused of “glorifying” serial killer Peter Sutcliffe’s crimes by relatives of his victims. Netflix’s The Ripper caught the attention of true crime fans a wee while back ...

The hunt for serial killer Peter Sutcliffe was one of the ... On October 30, 1975, Sutcliffe killed his first known victim: Wilma Mary McCann. A mother of four, she was struck across the back ...

notorious for stuffing body parts down drains to Peter Sutcliffe, who anonymously terrorised Yorkshire for five years and Ted Bundy, who confessed to killing at least 30 victims between 1974 and 1978.