The detective who helped to catch Wearside Jack, the Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer, has described how a keen-eyed biologist stumbled across the evidence that led to his arrest.
Detective Chief Superintendent Chris Gregg was the only detective to work on both the original Ripper investigation and the Wearside Jack cold case. On the Behind the Crimes podcast with TV journalist Robert Murphy, Mr Gregg spoke of how close police came to never finding hoaxer John Humble.
Mr Gregg explained how the Sunderland bricklayer’s hoax “derailed” the search for serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, who was ultimately convicted of murdering 13 women and injuring several others.
