THE GLORY FACTOR
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I don’t remember hearing this aspect of the Yorkshire Ripper Cover-up
being mentioned yet.
Well, you know what people are like. To have your fifteen minutes of
fame on TV is what most people long for.
But imagine - in the context of 1979 – the prospect of being
immortalised in history as THE MAN WHO CAUGHT THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER, by
identifying the voice on the tape.
If anyone had recognised that voice, they would have informed, for two
reasons:
1. Everybody in England and elsewhere was disgusted by the sneaky,
cowardly way in which the Yorkshire Ripper came up behind lone women
and hit them on the head and then violated them. Everybody wanted him
behind bars. For that reason alone, if anyone had recognised that
voice, they would have informed.
2. Then there is the glory factor. Imagine being immortalised in
history as THE MAN WHO CAUGHT THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER. If anyone had
recognised the voice, they would have informed, for these two
reasons.
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Why did it not happen? We can only speculate in an intelligent way.
Some of the victims of the Yorkshire Ripper (NOT Peter Sutcliffe’s
victims) were poor, homeless girls. Miss Harrison and Miss Richardson,
for instance. The Yorkshire Ripper (NOT Peter Sutcliffe) seems to have
had some knowledge of the homeless hostel scene and knew how to chat
up homeless women in need of a drink.
On that basis, it would have been quite easy for the Yorkshire Ripper
to chat up some male down-and-out, who needed a drink, and to offer
him drink and money and a hot meal and a bed for the night.….in return
for having a bit of a lark with a tape recorder, reading that script
into a microphone……
And it would have been easy for the Yorkshire Ripper to establish that
the bum had no family or friends who cared about him, no one who would
make any noise if the bum disappeared……
The bum who spoke on that tape might have been illiterate. The
numerous pauses on the original tape may signify that the Yorkshire
Ripper was reading the script, sentence by sentence, to the illiterate
bum, who was hesitantly repeating each sentence that the Yorkshire
Ripper recited while the tape was paused…… Then the nameless,
anonymous bum was bumped off, maybe forcibly drowned in a river, and
the cops just recorded it as another suicide of a nameless bum……
Then the tape was sent to the West Yorkshire Police (=KEYSTONE COPS),
and the Yorkshire Ripper was amazed by what happened next as the
Keystone Cops danced to his tune. Imagine how the Yorkshire Ripper was
laughing in front of the TV every night.
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One of the most amazing aspects of the Yorkshire Ripper Cover-up is
the fact that apparently intelligent men such as THE FOUR STOOGES -
Ronald Gregory, George Oldfield, Jim Hobson, Dick Holland - failed to
spot the ‘obvious’ nonsequitor:
ALTHOUGH THE RECORDING CONTAINED INFORMATION KNOWN ONLY TO THE
YORKSHIRE RIPPER AND TO THE POLICE, IT DID NOT FOLLOW THAT THE VOICE
WAS THE VOICE OF THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER. It could have been anybody’s
voice.
In fact the OPPOSITE conclusion should have been drawn - the Yorkshire
Ripper was no fool and was not going to use his own voice on that
tape.
Perhaps that is the most mysterious aspect of this most mysterious
case in the history of true crime: the fact that seemingly intelligent
men assumed that the voice on the tape must be the voice of the
Yorkshire Ripper, when it could have been anybody’s voice……. What a
mess! I admit I didn’t see the nonsequitor either, until the man who
uses the name ‘Rupert Bear’ in discussions pointed it out to me a few
years ago. A total nonsequitor. A recording is sent to the police
giving details about the Yorkshire Ripper killings known only to the
police and to the Yorkshire Ripper. And the Keystone Cops conclude
that the voice on the tape is the voice of the Yorkshire Ripper, when
they should have drawn the OPPOSITE conclusion.
Even ‘the greatest investigative writer in the world’ didn’t spot that
obvious nonsequitor, just as ‘the greatest investigative writer in the
world’ somehow missed the numerous statements from the West Yorkshire
Police during 1978-80 stating that there were TWO men committing the
series of killings.
Nobody disputes that Peter Sutcliffe killed about five women and
severely assaulted about ten women during the period 1973-1980. He
began in a clumsy, hesitant way, for example the amateurish assault on
Marcella Claxton in Chapeltown, Leeds, on 9 May 1976…. but by 1980 he
was escalating and his attacks were more cunning and more vicious, as
in Marguerite Walls….. But Peter Sutcliffe was NOT the Yorkshire
Ripper. He was a weak, cowardly, submissive, henpecked husband, who
redirected his hatred for his mother, and for his impossibly frigid
and domineering wife Sonia, onto these lone women. Finally, Peter
Sutcliffe couldn’t live with it any more and forced his arrest by
displaying fake number plates in a location where police often checked
on parked vehicles. Then Peter Sutcliffe made them an offer they
couldn’t refuse, by showing a willingness to confess to anything in
return for good treatment.
After being arrested, Peter Sutcliffe easily could have wriggled out
of it again if he’d wanted to. He’d been interviewed by the Keystone
Cops about ten times already. But no, he said:
“I think you’ve been leading up to it.” /
“Leading up to what?” /
“The Yorkshire Ripper, it’s me.”
That conversation came from a henpecked emotional cripple desperate to
get into institutional care - NOT from The Yorkshire Ripper.
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THE BOTTOM LINE IS:
Imagine - in the context of 1979 - the opportunity of being
immortalised in history as THE MAN WHO CAUGHT THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER, by
identifying the voice on the tape.
If anyone had recognised that voice, they would have informed, for two
reasons:
1. Everybody in England and elsewhere was disgusted by the sneaky,
cowardly way in which the Yorkshire Ripper came up behind lone women
and hit them on the head and then violated them. Everybody wanted him
behind bars. For that reason alone, if anyone had recognised that
voice, they would have informed.
2. Then there is the glory factor. Imagine being immortalised in
history as THE MAN WHO CAUGHT THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER. If anyone had
recognised the voice, they would have informed, for these two reasons.
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I’M JACK:
http://s867.photobucket.com/albums/ab239/rupert-bear-2010/Offbeam%20Images/?action=view¤t=Produce.mp4
The West Yorkshire Police = The Keystone Cops:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZBdxvego1E&feature=related