Yorkshire Ripper Savile Park Halifax
The yorkshire ripper victim who got away.
Yorkshire ripper savile park halifax. In april 1979 a month before margaret thatcher swept to power the ripper struck for the tenth time killing 19 year old building society clerk josephine whitaker in halifax. The victims of the yorkshire ripper. The teenager had been to visit her grandparents in huddersfield road halifax and was making her way home across savile park moor to ivy.
Building society clerk whitaker was murdered in savile park halifax on 4 april 1979 in a method that was clearly the yorkshire rippers. Twelve of the yorkshire rippers 13 murder victims. On the night of april 4th peter sutcliffe had been out drinking with trevor birdsall and shortly after closing time he had dropped trevor off at where he was living.
Aged only 19 she was the yorkshire rippers tenth victim. Killed on april 4 1979. He followed her on foot and attacked her in savile park with his hammer.
This murder had been committed in one of most affluent parts of halifax savile park or the moor as we. After suffering two hammer blows to her head she was stabbed 25 times across her body. Marcella claxton 64 who was mistaken for a prostitute when she was brutally attacked while leaving party says she finally has closure after his death.
A building society worker from halifax. Mothers daughters sisters friends. The 20 year old student was murdered walking in the university area of bradford on 1 september 1979.
She left at about 1140 pm taking a route that would take her to savile park and across it to the suburb of bell hall halifax and ivy street where she lived.