https://yesoui.ai/shows/thirteen-women-murdered-across-northern-england-between/enTrue Crime© 2026 YesOui.aihttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fec29c290a0957707d296a1d241e53d8.jpghttps://yesoui.ai/shows/thirteen-women-murdered-across-northern-england-between/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:53:14 +0000YesOuiYesOuihello@yesoui.aiThirteen women murdered across Northern England between 1975 and 1980. Peter Sutcliffe, the Bradford truck driver. The West Yorkshire Police missing the ledger fifteen times. The hoax Wearside Jack tapes that led them astray. The Byford Report. The...false6cd8176f-d7d7-5791-8e47-ea75b9b89ff2trueepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thirteen-murders-and-the-system-that-looked-away--75442329 (00:00:48) The Beginning
(00:01:50) The Hierarchy of Victims
(00:03:10) The Card Index and the Missing Pattern
(00:04:30) Wearside Jack
(00:06:02) The Nine Interviews
(00:07:28) The Arrest
(00:08:46) Trial, Conviction, and What Came After
(00:09:45) The Byford Report and What Changed
(00:10:48) What This Case Tells Us

Between 1975 and 1980, Peter Sutcliffe — a Bradford truck driver from Bingley — murdered thirteen women across Northern England. West Yorkshire Police interviewed him nine times and let him walk out the door every single time. This is the story of how that happened.

The failures were not a matter of bad luck. They were structural, moral, and institutional. Senior officers drew a line between victims they considered respectable and those they did not, building an investigation around a partial picture of the killer's pattern. Survivors like Marcella Claxton gave accurate descriptions that were set aside because they didn't fit the official victim profile. A five-pound note was traced to Sutcliffe's workplace and filed. His vehicle registration appeared in records linked to multiple murder scenes. None of it connected, because the card-based index at the heart of the investigation couldn't surface what a modern database would find in seconds.

Then came the hoax. In June 1979, a cassette tape arrived carrying a Wearside voice taunting the lead detective by name. George Oldfield staked his investigation on it. Officers were redirected toward men with Sunderland connections. Sutcliffe, who spoke with a West Yorkshire accent, was quietly deprioritised. The tape was a prank. Its sender, John Humble, wasn't identified until 2005.

This first chapter of the series lays out the architecture of failure — the decisions made early that compounded across five years, two and a half million police hours, and thirteen lives lost. The Byford Report would later document what went wrong. This episode begins at the beginning: Wilma McCann, a playing field in Leeds, and the thirtieth of October, 1975.

This episode includes AI-generated content.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75442329Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:24:32 +0000trueYesOuiBetween 1975 and 1980, Peter Sutcliffe — a Bradford truck driver from Bingley — murdered thirteen women across Northern England. West Yorkshire Police interviewed him nine times and let him walk out the door every single time. This is the story of how... (00:00:48) The Beginning
(00:01:50) The Hierarchy of Victims
(00:03:10) The Card Index and the Missing Pattern
(00:04:30) Wearside Jack
(00:06:02) The Nine Interviews
(00:07:28) The Arrest
(00:08:46) Trial, Conviction, and What Came After
(00:09:45) The Byford Report and What Changed
(00:10:48) What This Case Tells Us

Between 1975 and 1980, Peter Sutcliffe — a Bradford truck driver from Bingley — murdered thirteen women across Northern England. West Yorkshire Police interviewed him nine times and let him walk out the door every single time. This is the story of how that happened.

The failures were not a matter of bad luck. They were structural, moral, and institutional. Senior officers drew a line between victims they considered respectable and those they did not, building an investigation around a partial picture of the killer's pattern. Survivors like Marcella Claxton gave accurate descriptions that were set aside because they didn't fit the official victim profile. A five-pound note was traced to Sutcliffe's workplace and filed. His vehicle registration appeared in records linked to multiple murder scenes. None of it connected, because the card-based index at the heart of the investigation couldn't surface what a modern database would find in seconds.

Then came the hoax. In June 1979, a cassette tape arrived carrying a Wearside voice taunting the lead detective by name. George Oldfield staked his investigation on it. Officers were redirected toward men with Sunderland connections. Sutcliffe, who spoke with a West Yorkshire accent, was quietly deprioritised. The tape was a prank. Its sender, John Humble, wasn't identified until 2005.

This first chapter of the series lays out the architecture of failure — the decisions made early that compounded across five years, two and a half million police hours, and thirteen lives lost. The Byford Report would later document what went wrong. This episode begins at the beginning: Wilma McCann, a playing field in Leeds, and the thirtieth of October, 1975.

This episode includes AI-generated content.]]>7611970s murders,british true crime,byford report,george oldfield,marcella claxton,peter sutcliffe,serial killer uk,true crime podcast,wearside jack hoax,west yorkshire police,wilma mccann,yorkshire ripperfalsefull