Jean Jordan was a prostitute living in Manchester and worked in the
Moss Side area. She was picked up by Sutcliffe and driven to a quiet area at
Southern Cross Cemetery where prostitutes often directed their punters to.
Sutcliffe parked up on the grass verge and they walked into a double hedge where
he battered her 13 times with his stone loaded sock and then probably as
he did to his other victims, masturbated and fled. He claimed after his arrest
that because he had not read about it, a week later he returned to the scene.
His previous victim had been Maureen Long who survived his assault which didn't merit any
headlines in the local papers. The latest Ripper victim had been Jayne
McDonald which received massive publicity and he stated that this murder had
affected him greatly. Now Jean Jordan's body lay undiscovered in a hedge in
Manchester, so he returned to the scene in the early hours after leaving his
mother home from his own house warming party. He was probably hoping that the
police would have the crime scene staked out and he would walk into a police
trap. Frustrated, he pulled the lifeless body out of the hedge and scattered her
clothes about, then using a broken pane of glass from a nearby glasshouse he cut
the body with long lacerations and pulled out her intestines. Sutcliffe was
trying to emulate the Ripper but as he didn't know the calling cards of the
Ripper he went to this extreme while his car sat on the grass verge of a busy
highway. As morning broke, this madman drove back to Bradford, where in broad
day light on a street, he murdered Carol
Wilkinson, who was walking to work.. He took Jean's handbag with him which
he was to return to the scene only days later and which was found with the
famous fiver planted in it. Again there was no expected stake out by the police.
The bag was given to the police by an allotment holder immediately. The Jordan
murder was not regarded as a Ripper murder and had none of the Ripper's hall
marks. The fact that the victim was a prostitute and was battered about the head
were the only common links and these facts fueled media speculation that the
Ripper may have crossed the Pennines.There the likeness ends. This speculation
was not lost to Billy Tracey who decided to capitalise on it as he played out
his badger baiting game. He would force the police to include it in the official
score by writing to them and including it in the count and promising another
murder in Manchester next time, a promise he could fulfill.




