Yvonne Pearson was soliciting for prostitution on the same corner where
her friend Tina Atkinson had been last seen alive before
she became the Rippers earlier victim in Bradford. The Bradford Ripper squad were
keeping Yvonne under observation as live bait from a discreet distance
as they sought to catch the Yorkshire Ripper. She was also being observed by her
pimp.They were all up-tight because of Him. Every pimp in England knew the Yorkshire
Ripper was a person with intimate knowledge of their business. Peter Sutcliffe,
a man greatly disturbed by the Yorkshire Ripper murders because of his own insight
into his assaults on women, and suffering from verbal abuse from his own psychotic
wife, had been greatly affected by the Ripper killing of the innocent 16 year
old Jayne MacDonald, the last Yorkshire Ripper murder which took place
in Leeds. He knew for sure the evil Yorkshire Ripper was baiting him. He had attempted
to throw the towel in with his assault on Marilyn Moore in Leeds in mid December. This
attack didnt achieve its purpose. Now , a month later he was going to go one further
and prove that he was the Yorkshire Ripper. The word was that the Yorkshire Ripper
used a hammer to kill. It was Saturday night about 9.30 pm, the busiest time of
the week and the exact same time as Tina Atkinson had been picked up by the Yorkshire
Ripper. Sutcliffe was kerb crawling along Lumb Lane, no doubt observing the police
stake outs and doing his best to be noticed. They reported she was last seen talking
to a white Asian. The white Asian is as good a description of Sutcliffe
as you would get and the police also had his car registration number. He had already
been interviewed twice in connection with the Manchester murder of Jean
Jordan, which was not regarded as a Yorkshire Ripper murder at this time.These
police statements and records were held in Manchester. Now, like the Yorkshire
Ripper had done with Irene Richardson, he was going
to respond to the Ripper with a murder in his, the Yorkshire Ripper's, chosen
place. The Yorkshire Ripper's hammer was only rumoured but unconfirmed by police.
Sutcliffe, not knowing the type of hammer the Yorkshire Ripper used, had a lump
hammer with him on this occasion to associate himself as the Yorkshire Ripper.
The claw hammer used by the Yorkshire Ripper was not revealed by the police until
after the arrest. Sutcliffe was like an automoton for Billy Tracey, the evil Yorkshire
Ripper. Newspaper reports of Yvonne's disappearance were not lost on Tracey, who
guessed that his copy cat emulator had struck again, as in Manchester, and had
probably hidden the body similarly. Sencing sensation, Tracey was quick to respond
with the sensational murder of Helen Rytka in Huddersfield, Oldfield's home
town, only days after reading about Yvonne's disappearance. Police concern for
Yvonne stemmed from the fact that they had been observing her on the game and
lost her. They probably knew that they blew the best chance to nab the Yorkshire
Ripper. They knew Yvonne had been abducted and almost certainly killed..When her
body was discovered more than two months later under an old setee on waste ground
not far from where he picked her up, a copy of the Daily Mirror was found under
it. This contained a headline story about the Yorkshire Ripper murder of Helen
Rytka in Huddersfield. The body had been moved to make it visible a short time
earlier which meant that the killer had returned to the body on at least two occasions.
All these factors convinced the police that the murder was the work of a disturbed
copy cat killer trying to emulate the Yorkshire Ripper. The disappointing thing
for Sutcliffe was that on both of these murders he was probably hoping that the
police had the bodies staked out and would arrest him in a blaze of publicity
which would bring the Ripper terror to an end once and for all. This, I believe
was his reason for returning to the bodies as he had no way of knowing that the
police hadnt found them. It was not to be. The copy cat headlines are well documented
as well as the police assessment. As the murders progressed and after Yvonne Pearson
was taken into the Yorkshire Ripper frame along with Jean Jordan, her killing
was always in a'grey area'. Sutcliffe's statement of this killing
is indeed graphic because he knew what he was talking about. Graphic
detail of the Yorkshire Ripper's murders is completely lacking in all his statements
for these and the police knew it .Every criminal who commits a crime can remember
in graphic detail everything about his crime
Check out the links with this murder and the Wilkinson
murder
