TRUE CRIME SERIES! Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper

Peter Sutcliffe, also known as the Yorkshire Ripper, was a British serial killer who terrorized the streets of northern England in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Sutcliffe was born on June 2, 1946, in Bingley, Yorkshire, England. He was the son of a mill worker and grew up in a working-class family.

Sutcliffe's reign of terror began in 1975 when he attacked a woman with a hammer in Keighley, Yorkshire. Over the next five years, he would go on to attack and kill 13 women and leave seven others injured. Sutcliffe's victims were typically sex workers or women he perceived as such, and he would bludgeon them with a hammer before stabbing them multiple times.

Despite a massive police investigation, Sutcliffe was able to evade capture for several years. He was finally arrested in January 1981 after he was caught in the act of attacking a woman in Sheffield. Sutcliffe was convicted of 13 counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder in May 1981 and sentenced to life in prison.

Sutcliffe's trial was one of the most high-profile criminal cases in British history. His defense argued that he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and that he believed that he was on a mission from God to kill prostitutes. However, the jury rejected this defense, and Sutcliffe was found guilty and sent to prison.

While in prison, Sutcliffe continued to attract media attention. He was attacked by another inmate in 1997 and suffered severe injuries. In 2010, it was revealed that Sutcliffe had been diagnosed with diabetes and was receiving treatment for the condition. He has since been moved to a high-security psychiatric hospital, where he remains to this day.

The crimes committed by Peter Sutcliffe shocked the nation and changed the way that the police and the public viewed serial killers. His case remains one of the most notorious in British criminal history, and his name is still synonymous with terror and violence.