Peter Sutcliffe and the Killing Fields of Yorkshire
Peter Sutcliffe and the Killing Fields of Yorkshire
The following story has been taken from SERIAL KILLER MURDER MAP: UK EDITION - BOOK 1: In the Footsteps of Evil - Following England’s Notorious Serial Killers by Guy Hadleigh
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Bradford has worn many faces over the years. Once the proud “wool capital of the world,” its Victorian mills still stand like stone giants, their chimneys stabbing the skyline. Today, the city has the weary look of a place that’s been promised revival too many times. Neon kebab shops glow beside boarded-up pubs, while ring roads funnel endless traffic through a centre that never quite shakes the grit from its teeth.
By day, the streets bustle with markets and buskers, with students from the university dragging takeaway coffees up Great Horton Road. But at night, there’s a different edge. The wind that howls down Westgate still seems to carry whispers from the late 1970s, when Bradford and the wider West Yorkshire region were under siege. This was ground zero for one of Britain’s most infamous killers: Peter Sutcliffe, the so-called Yorkshire Ripper.
Between 1975 and 1980, Sutcliffe murdered 13 women and attacked many more, striking not just in Bradford but across Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, and Sheffield. Yet it was in Bradford’s red-light district, near Manningham and Lumb Lane, that his shadow loomed heaviest. Women working the streets here learned to glance over their shoulders with every footstep, never knowing if the man...Read More
