Yorkshire Ripper Letter
The hoax letters and taunting tape that wearside jack had sent to officers meant that anyone interviewed who did not have a north east accent was discounted.
Yorkshire ripper letter. Read the yorkshire rippers letter from prison in full. The message recorded on an audio cassette caused the investigation to be moved away from the west yorkshire area home of the real killer peter sutcliffe and thereby helped to. The hunt for the yorkshire ripper became the biggest manhunt britain had ever known.
But by then detectives were convinced the yorkshire ripper was not even from yorkshire. But despite the 25 million police man hours expended on catching him peter sutcliffe was allowed to continue. Humble sent a taped message spoken in a wearside accent and three letters taunting the authorities for failing to catch him.
Wearside jack is the nickname given to john samuel humble an englishman who pretended to be the yorkshire ripper in a hoax audio recording and several letters in the period 19781979.