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Wicked Beyond Belief The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

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ISBN-10: 0007169639

ISBN-13: 9780007169634

Edition: 2003

Authors: Michael Bilton

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Revelatory investigation into the police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper Case which spanned over 14 years. For the first time, the files have been opened, the detectives are talking and the victims are reliving the nightmare.For over twenty years, the dark secrets of the biggest criminal manhunt in British history have remained a closed book. Detectives refused all requests to tell the inside story of the Yorkshire Ripper investigation that logged over two million manhours of police work. The victims who survived maintained a wall of silence. And the detailed forensic evidence, witness statements and autopsy reports have remained locked away.Until now.Award-winning writer Michael Bilton…    
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Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Publication date: 8/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

T. O. Beidelman is Professor of Anthropology at New York University. He is author of Colonial Evangelism: A Socio-historical Study of an East African Mission at the Grassroots (IUP, 1982), The Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought (IUP, 1986) and The Cool Knife: Metaphors of Gender, Sexuality, and Moral Education in Kaguru Initiation Ritual.Michael Bilton is a Sunday Times investigative journalist and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. He won an Emmy for his documentary on the My Lai massacre and received rave reviews for his book Four Hours in My Lai, published seven years ago and which has sold over 350,000 copies.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Dramatis Personae
Chronology
Map
Preface
Contact and Exchange
The Diabetic Detective
'A Man with a Beard'
Tracks in the Grass
Impressions in Blood
A Fresh Start
Punter's Money
'The Job Is Life; Life Is the Job'
A Miserable Place To Die
Chinese Walls
The Wrong Track
Going Covert
'He Comes from Sunderland'
Bad Feelings
Swamped by Paper
'He Lives Somewhere, He Works for Someone'
'The Beast I Am'
Mad or Bad?
DNA, DNA, DNA
Endpiece: A Suitable Case for Treatment?
Note on Sources
Text Notes and References
Bibliography
Author's Note on the Appendices
Statement of Peter William Sutcliffe to West Yorkshire Police, 4 January 1981
Subsequent Police Statements, January-February 1981
Index