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Bezig met laden... Wicked Beyond Belief: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (editie 2003)door Michael Bilton
Informatie over het werkWicked Beyond Belief: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper door Michael Bilton
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This was my first book reading about the Yorkshire Ripper. Perhaps I should have read another book first cause this one was so detailed but all in all I did think it was very interesting. It was hard to read and read more murders and he still wasn't caught. To read about all the mistakes that were made and especially the mistake about the letters from someone who was not the ripper. I was also annoyed to find out how against the advice of the judge the psychiatrist still did what they wanted with Sutcliffe. Pissed me off. 3.6 geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper case, which spanned over 14 years, is investigated in this book. For the first time, the files have been opened, the detectives are talking and the victims are reliving the nightmare. For over 20 years, the dark secrets of the biggest criminal manhunt in British history have remained a closed book. Detectives refused all requests to tell the inside story of the Yorkshire Ripper investigation that logged over two million man-hours of police work. The victims who survived maintained a wall of silence. And the detailed forensic evidence, witness statements and autopsy reports have remained locked away. Until now. Michael Bilton has persuaded the key people to talk. After years of research he can finally reveal the truth behind the murder enquiry that left Peter Sutcliffe free to kill again and again. With exclusive access to the detectives involved, to pathologist's archives and confidential police reports, the story of the hunt is revealed. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The author's bloated narrative aside, reading about the botched investigation by the newly created West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police - and in particular George Oldfield - made me so angry! Sutcliffe might have wielded the hammer, but Oldfield gave the killer room to keep taking a swing, particularly after receiving the 'Wearside Jack' hoax letters and tape. Not only were the first victims dismissed as prostitutes, by the police and press alike, but possible suspects were eliminated because they didn't have a Sunderland accent. The lead detectives were so narrow-minded and literal-thinking throughout - later women who were attacked or killed with a slightly different method were called liars or the cases were hushed up purely to save face. And when interviewing men who had been spotted in multiple red light districts, the police were told to take a softly softly approach: 'Fear of sparking marital strife inhibited detectives from using their gut instincts about a potential suspect'. Incredible! Bilton's insistence on providing biographies for men like Oldfield and Hobson in a bid to make them more sympathetic didn't work - I merely started skipping whole sections.
I'm glad - or at least I hope - that the police and investigative procedures have improved considerably since Sutcliffe was interviewed on nine separate occasions and only arrested by chance in Sheffield because he was driving a car with stolen plates. Still, it's depressing to think that the hunt for a killer in the 1970s was almost like a continuation of Jack the Ripper 100 years earlier - and came close to ending the same way. ( )