On December 23, 1981, Thomas Sophonow, a Canadian man, was wrongfully accused of murder. 16 year old Barbara Stoppel was ruthlessly killed at the washroom of her workplace. Unfortunately, eyewitnesses mistakenly chose Mr. Sophonow as being the murderer. Eye witnesses stated that a man, whose appearance was very similar to that of Thomas Sophonow, locked the door and made his way to the back of the shop where he was presumed to have strangled Barbara Stoppel to death. Furthermore, while Thomas Sophonow was in custody, he showed an undercover officer a door locking technique.
Print. This autobiography goes into detail about how Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. Jennifer was able to escape and eventually identified her attacker, Ronald Cotton. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken.
On January 2, 1981, Peter Sutcliffe’s killing spree was finally brought to an end. Officers of the Sheffield Police Department in South Yorkshire caught Sutcliffe in a car with fake license plates. He had a prostitute, 24-year-old Olivia Reivers, in the car with him when he was caught. The police arrested him and he was brought to the Dewsbury Police Station. While in custody, the police questioned Sutcliffe about the Yorkshire Ripper case, since he looked similar to the drawing of the killer (Sohrabi-Shiraz).
The night of September 30, 1988, the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper committed not one, but two murders. These two stand out among the other five for both their intensity and the impossible time frame that their murders were achieved in. At one a.m. Elizabeth Strider was found dead, then not an hour later and not more than a mile away, Catherine Eddowes body was discovered as well (Whitechapel Jack, The Double Event) Catherine Eddowes and Elizabeth Stride were not friends, they did not know each other and they didn’t even frequent the same alleyways.
Zodiac killer Name Institutional affiliation The Zodiac killer is one of the most infamous killers in American history. He murdered at least five people between the 1960s and 1970’s. His victims were often couples who were in secluded places around San Francisco. He received widespread media attention due to his habits of taunting the police and newspapers with coded messages.
Shay Tittle Mrs. Knight English III 12 April, 2024. The infamous “Jack the Ripper” was an unidentified man, who was a serial killer in the 1800s, all of Jack’s killings were in London, and lastly Jack’s motives were unknown. All of Jack the Ripper's victims were female prostitutes. All of Jack the Ripper’s victims were killed in such a way that Jack the Ripper knew human anatomy.
The Zodiac Killer, an assassin known for gruesome murders, mysterious letters, and threatening phone calls, was never caught because he usually murdered in dark secluded places, late at night. The Zodiac Killer terrorized northern California for almost thirty years; to this day he has not been found, and the police
The Case Between 1975 and 1981 a man who became known as the ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ left at least 23 children motherless when he brutally murdered more than a dozen women in the North of England, and attempted to murder seven more. The victims were mostly prostitutes, but some were just ordinary girls (O 'Gara, 2006). The search for the ‘Ripper’ was one of the biggest investigations ever undertaken by a British police force and pre-dated the use of computers (Yorkshire Ripper, 2013). Because of the large scale of the case, this report will focus on just some of the investigative strategies used and some of the mistakes the police made. INVESTIGATIVE STRATEGIES
In the dirty streets of Victorian London, a figure cloaked in the shadows of his unknown identity slices through the thin fabric of English society with a calculated but gruesome brutality that shocked England. Jack the Ripper is a grotesque quandary whose legacy sends chills down the spines of the public, causing them to try to unravel his closely sewn puzzle of secrets; furthermore, he becomes a sensualized killer who causes the uprising of serial killers worldwide. Jack the Ripper is an unidentified serial killer who tormented Whitechapel, London, in 1888. The Ripper's identity is still unknown, and the grotesque murders of at least five women, known as the “canonical five,” were known for being some of the most mutilated and gruesome crime
The killer wrote about 700 letters. The first letter was one known as ‘Dear Boss’, which arrived on September 27th, 1888. The letter signed off with “Yours truly, Jack the Ripper.” Up until that point the killer had been known variously as the "Red Fiend", "The Whitechapel Murderer," and "Leather Apron. "1 Most of the letters consisted of mocking the police and talking about the women he was planning to kill, or killed.
This man is the one and only infamous Zodiac Killer. Between the years of 1968 and 1969, the Zodiac Killer murdered at least five people, though he was suspected of more. He had killed a confirmed five people, injured two, and possibly killed twenty to twenty-eight more people, even though he confessed to thirty-seven murders
Jack the Ripper has left a mystery since his first horrific murder; the information that has been gathered helps narrow him down to specific suspects. In the time between August and November of 1888, in Whitechapel, five prostitutes were mutilated by a knife (“The Hunt”). The women who were known to be killed by him are Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Polly Nichols, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly
Jack the Ripper was the moniker that terrorized east London in 1888 from August 7 to September 10, by killing and mutilating
Ted Bundy was a notorious serial murderer who’s reign of terror lasted from 1974 to 1978. Bundy was convicted of three homicides and was sentenced to death for all three charges. However, at the time of his execution, Bundy confessed to 30 murders however the exact number of victims is still unknown. Bundy’s crimes evolved over time but he was both a sexual sadist and a necrophiliac serial killer. At the beginning of his rampage, Bundy would sneak into the victims house in the middle of the night, violently attack them while they were sleeping with a blunt object and then Bundy would usually sexually assault them.
2. The East Area Rapist is believed to have committed at least 12 murders and 51 rapes and a host of other crimes that terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s (Egel, 2018). He broke in, tied up, raped, bludgeoned, and shot his victims. On multiple occasions, he piled dishes on the individual in the home who he was not going to sexually assault (husband, mother) and instructed them not to move or he would kill them both.
