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Beyond Reasonable Doubt
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Award-winning Daily Mail crime writer Stephen Wright talks to top detectives, lawyers, victims and relatives to take an in-depth look at crimes that have shocked Britain (and the world), as well as revisiting some of his landmark stories and campaigns. From serial murderers to child killers, ruthless gangsters to corrupt police, psychopaths to paedophiles, celebrity criminals to audacious conmen, he untangles the mysteries and the secrets behind the headlines.
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The Yorkshire Ripper: A Detective's Story - Episode 3
Dec 10, 2020Tap to summarizePeter Sutcliffe was locked up for life in 1981 for the brutal murders of 13 women, but one mystery still remained - who WAS the cruel hoaxer behind the 'Wearside Jack' tape, which derailed the police investigation and led to three more women dying at the Yorkshire Ripper’s hands? Award-winning Daily Mail crime writer Stephen Wright speaks to retired Detective Chief Superintendent Chris Gregg, whose team unearthed a crucial clue more than two decades on.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Yorkshire Ripper: A Detective's Story - Episode 2
Nov 30, 2020Tap to summarizeBy the summer of 1979, Peter Sutcliffe had already killed ten women, but the investigation into his brutal crimes was about to take a fateful wrong turn, as police went public with letters and a tape sent by a man claiming to be the Yorkshire Ripper. Award-winning Daily Mail crime writer Stephen Wright speaks to retired Detective Chief Superintendent Chris Gregg, who joined the Ripper investigation as a young policeman, and who had serious doubts about the credibility of the so-called 'Wearside Jack' tape.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Yorkshire Ripper: A Detective's Story - Episode 1
Nov 22, 2020Tap to summarizeFor five years, Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, hunted and killed defenceless women, mutilating their bodies with hammers and screwdrivers. But could his murder spree have been stopped earlier? In the wake of the Ripper's death this month, award-winning Daily Mail crime writer Stephen Wright talks to retired Detective Chief Superintendent Chris Gregg, who joined the Ripper investigation as a rookie policeman in the late 1970s - and witnessed the cruel hoaxes and fatal police errors that allowed Sutcliffe to remain at large. In powerful and poignant testimony, the respected ex head of CID at West Yorkshire Police discusses the ‘Life on Mars’ culture in the force at the time of the Ripper murders, and the harrowing stories of Sutcliffe’s victims. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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