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On Friday, 2 January 1981 the Yorkshire Rippers five-year reign of terror came to an end. In the previous five years, beginning in July 1975 with his first attack, he had killed thirteen women and left seven others for dead. As Britain celebrated that it was over, the Yorkshire Rippers family sat stunned that the peter William Sutcliffe they knew could possibly be responsible for the horrible crimes of the Yorkshire ripper.

Peter William Sutcliffe born on june 2nd 1946 always was different, unlike his 6 siblings he enjoyed staying inside with his mother instead of playing rough games. He never showed any interest in making friends or school and never any interest in girls. To everyone else this seemed very odd.

When he was 20 peter finally approached a girl for the first time, Her name was Sonia Szurma. They eventually married 8 years later. Everybody seemed to believe he was the perfect family man with not a single mean streak. He was described by others as hard working and quiet, a caring and loving husband who kept to himself with no outward signs of the violence. Boy were they all wrong.

On the night of the 4th of July 1975 the Yorkshire ripper made his first attack. Anna Rogulskyj was a 36 year old prostitute and her and her boyfriend had had a fight so she decided to go out, when she returned he was nowhere to be found, her anger from earlier rose again so she walked across town to his house to sort things out but when she arrived nobody answered the door. Little did anna know but peter Sutcliffe had followed her home from the bar she was at with her friends.

He appeared from behind her and with a ball-pin hammer, hit her three times on the head. Once she was on the ground, he lifted her blouse and slashed her across her abdomen. He was about to stab her in the stomach, when a man living in Lord Street, disturbed by the noise, called out and asked what was happening, causing Sutcliffe to flee, leaving his victim alive.

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