Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter

title is a rejoinder to Gordon Burn’s convincing biography of Sutcliffe, Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son, as well as being spoken by a detective urging the public’s help in finding the Ripper.

due to the lack of women’s authorship, ‘the Ripper story has become a relentless examination of male identity, of violence perpetually in bloom’.3

first confirmed Yorkshire Ripper murder, of Wilma McCann, in October 1975.

‘good-time girls’ or prostitutes

1975 and 1981 thirteen women in the north of England were murdered by Peter Sutcliffe; a further seven women are formally recognized as having survived his attacks.

thirteen murdered and seven who lived with life-changing injuries

seven women are formally recognized as having survived his attacks