Author Archives: noel o'gara

Sutcliffe knew he was being baited by the Ripper. He knew he was involved in a deadly struggle with the unknown evil murderer and he had pitted his wits against him in 1976,1977 and 1978. Tracey murdered Vera Millward in Manchester on … Continue reading →

Billy Tracey knew Vera Millward of old, when his own wife was on the game in the same area years earlier, while he was doing time in Strangeways jail in Manchester, where he lived for a period of time. He never forgot … Continue reading →

THE HUDDERSFIELD CONNECTION           Helen Rytka an attractive 18 year old girl was murdered by the Ripper in Garrards timber yard in Great Northern Street on the 31st january 1978.         Helen and her sister Rita were soliciting … Continue reading →

  The Ripper’s last murder was in Bradford two months previously. Now he had returned to his favourite hunting ground and was trying to catch a victim alone outside the entrance and car park to The Hayfield public house on Chapletown Road. … Continue reading →

    Tina Atkinson was a prostitute who rented a flat near her soliciting pitch because she was afraid of being the next Ripper victim She would not get into a car because the police had warned prostitutes that the … Continue reading →

Tracey moved to Ireland from the Yorkshire area on Good Friday 1976 when the Yorkshire police were looking for a bearded , tatooed Irishman resembling him in connection with the Ripper murders. The local Sargeant could pinpoint the exact date … Continue reading →

Sutcliffe’s assaults on Rogulsky, Smelt and Tracey Browne were puzzling random attacks on women but not regarded in the same mould as the murder of Wilma McCann in Leeds or indeed of Joan Harrison in Preston. Wilma’s killing was the first linked … Continue reading →

Barbara Booth was a prostitute who advertised her services in contact magazines and on post cards in shops. Her common law husband was her pimp, and left the house while she entertained her customer, who had come to murder her. … Continue reading →

THE PRESTON CONNECTION JOAN HARRISON   Joan Harrison was a poor vulnerable single girl who was murdered by being kicked to death in a disused garage near the centre of Preston on the 20 November 1975. She had been sexually … Continue reading →

Wilma McCann worked as a prostitute in Leeds. She was the first publicly acknowledged victim of the Ripper, who was to be branded as such after the linked murder of Emily Jackson in Leeds on the 20th January 1976 some 11 weeks later. … Continue reading →