On Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:38:37 PM UTC+1, Special Care wrote:
> 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.
Ermm,, there was a £30,000 reward on offer....
>
> 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.
Imagine all that lovely lolly....
>
> 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.
I once had my photo taken wi a few dead fish,,,,
And many hunters liked to show off the animals they slaughtered...
The day I helped nail the Ripper has been used in the Press,,
song of the hunter,, and a glory it wouldda been,, if true...
Doubt if the average Joe would have been thinking that way,,
but maybe programms like Jeremy Kyle support your day on the box
idea to some extent...
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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...
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> Why did it not happen? We can only speculate in an intelligent way.
Well I do not go for the homeless bum idea either,,,
though it could be true,, it is only one possible
explanation of the dead man talking scenario.....
The first two letters had been kept quiet by the Police,,
they quite reasonably suspected a deliberate mislead by the killer
at that time....
However the handwriting and the fact that the killer must have
visited Sunderland were the only leads they had..
It is recorded that discrete enquiries were made
with the local cops,, of course they would..
But as far as folks in Sunderland were
concerned it was life blissfully ignorant
of the storm heading their way...
Depending on the lifestyle and interests of the locals
I would think that many of them had very low awareness
of the Yorkshire Ripper... I don't know the date off-hand
but footy fans started chanting Ripper scores at some point,,
I think it is possible the average Joe wi little interest in worldly
afairs might have no awareness of the Ripper at all...
Even after Halifax and the third letter the cops kept
pretty quiet,, until after that tape arrived...
To persuade another man to record a message onto a tape machine
will have required a considerable amount of
forethought and planning,, chewing it over,, how best to do it...
Halifax came after the killer had kept his first prediction,,
and the cops kept his letters quiet,,
and started playing games wi him,, trying to outsmart him
with honey traps in Bradford an Leeds,, while they cops was
watching wi bags of chips from steamy cars...
Blah Blah,,, we know tha story...
Point is that the killer made a prediction to kill
well over a year before that tape was sent and had
all sorts of motivation to outsmart the cops...
Specially if it was the intention to convince thame cops
he was from Sunderland when he lived in the opposite direction...
The first attempt in Manchester did not achieve the desired
result,, they did not acknowledge the Sunderland letters...
At some point during that year of puzzling what the cops were up to
the realisation would be that it would take more than a couple of letters..
At some point it occurred that a voice would probably do the trick,,
specially if it came with a third prediction to kill..
They would have to announce a voice,, a recorded message
from a Sunderland man... To save a girl,,,
Give em slowcoaches plenty of time to be sure,,,
make the prediction for a few months ahead..
Don't need to be too accurate,,
use the three sided file again to make sure
they dumbo's know it was you...
That is why the three sided instrument was first used in
Halifax,, to introduce an undeniable connection...
No more Yvonne nonsense,, they will know,, it cannot be mistaken..
The introduction of the triangular instrument is a very good measure
of the degree of fore-thought and planning involved,,
connected positively with the message/prediction on the tape....
Three months later,,
that triangular weapon was used again in Bradford...
The cold calculated planning months in advance is
a particularly chilling aspect of the case...
Not crimes of passion or lust or mad maniac on the loose,,,
none of that cold forethought and logic to achieve an end result...
Dead girls were just means to an end by this time,,
the levers and mechanism of persuasion,,,
by which the Sunderland result was achieved...
When think about how far ahead they were planning,,,
Well I say the tape was probably made around about Feb 79..
Months before folk in Sunderland heard of the Ripper,,
a man with that voice met an untimely end...
Folks might not go off and report a
dead man under those circumstances,,,
You Wally,, he died months before the tape was sent and
several weeks before the third letter to be sure...
No need for a down and out tramp,, could just be an
innocent punter on his way home from the pub,,
and even if his folks did believe their ears and went to
the cops,,, well they would have no way of proving it was him..
Thame thick-skinned cops would just dismiss
them as grief stricken hysterical..
Mass histeria played a part in the Ripper
puzzle ,,, along wi all thame greedy folks
alustin after thon reward,,
an reporting folks whot
just might be him...
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