Born to Kill (2012)

The Yorkshire Ripper (4x6)

Data di messa in onda: Lug 31, 2014

Between 1975 and 1981, the Yorkshire Ripper murdered 13 females and brutally attacked at least seven more in the north of England. When Peter Sutcliffe was eventually captured, his family were stunned. The Peter they knew was a quiet, caring, hard-working man. This chilling profile of Sutcliffe’s life and crimes asks whether it was nature or nurture that turned him into a serial killer. Born in Bingley, Yorkshire on 2nd June 1946, Peter was the eldest of six children in a working class Catholic family. He worshipped his mother Kathleen but grew up in terror of his womanising, bullying father. John Sutcliffe considered his small, scrawny eldest son a sissy. At school, Peter was a loner, so with drawn and passive that few of his teachers could recall his face when they were told of his arrest. Sutcliffe went on to become one of Britain’s most prolific and infamous serial killers, exercising a reign of terror over the north of England for five years. During that time he was interviewed by the police numerous times. How did he manage to avoid suspicion? Was Sutcliffe’s hatred for women triggered by events in his life, or was the Yorkshire Ripper born to be a sexual predator and serial murderer?