Peter Sutcliffe was allowed to carry out more murders thanks to a stranger he never met and who lived 100 miles away. In one of criminal history’s cruellest hoaxes, John Humble tricked police into believing the serial killer was Wearside Jack, a man with a Sunderland accent.
That was despite women who survived Peter Sutcliffe’s attacks saying he sounded like a local. At the height of the manhunt, Humble taunted the press and detectives with letters and an infamous tape, anonymously claiming he was the killer.
In the tape, which he sent to Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield in 1979, he said: “I’m Jack. "I have the greatest respect for you, George, but Lord, you’re no nearer catching me now than four years ago when I started.” Vast
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