playing card A3: John Wayne Gacy (* 1942 – † 1994)
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playing card D1: Edmund Kemper (* 1948 – today)
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Peter Sutcliffe (* 1946 – today)
age at first kill
years undiscovered
number of victims
born
Peter Sutcliffe: Yorkshire crime scene
Most of these women were prostitutes. In 1981 he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. During this time, he was named The Yorkshire Ripper by the media after Jack the Ripper and the Yorkshire town where the victims were found.
“The voice of God has guided me”
Sutcliffe's series of murders from 1975 to 1980 kept the population in suspense. Not only because the victims were cruelly mutilated at times, but also because the victims were not all prostitutes: many women were scared, and this fear of a serial killer was intensified by the media. After his arrest on January 2, 1981, he testified that the voice of God had guided him: “..the women I killed were filth - bastard prostitutes who were littering the streets. I was just cleaning up the place a bit.”
Yorkshire ripper Peter Sutcliffe is a British serial killer who mostly killed prostitutes in Leeds and Bradford. In 1981 he was arrested. Photo: Police Dept. Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
The Murder Victims by Peter Sutcliffe
| 1. Wilma McCann (28) – 30 October 1975 |
| 2. Emily Jackson (42) – 20 January 1976 |
| 3. Irene Richardson (28) – 5 February 1977 |
| 4. Patricia Atkinson (32) – 23 April 1977 |
| 5. Jayne MacDonald (16) – ]26 June 1977 |
| 6. Jean Jordan (20) – 1 October 1977 |
| 7. Yvonne Pearson (21) – 21 January 1978 |
| 8. Helen Rytka (18) – 31 January 1978 |
| 9. Vera Millward (40) – 16 May 1978 |
| 10. Josephine Whitaker (19) -[nbsp]4 April 1979 |
| 11. Barbara Leach (20) – 2 September 1979 |
| 12. Marguerite Walls (47) – 20 August 1980 |
| 13. Jacqueline Hill (20) – 17 November 1980 |