
Case 37: The Yorkshire Ripper (Part 2)
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The New £5 Note Found at Gene Jordan's Murder
Margarit Walz was found dead in Pudsey, Bradford on August 20th 1980. She had been strangled and stabbed to death with a new £5 note. Detective Jack Ridgway believed the best way to catch the Ripper was to follow the money from the very beginning. He could only narrow it down to 6,000 people who could have possibly been in possession of the note. So senior bank officials agreed to do something extraordinary to help the investigation. They did an exact reprinting of the bundle of £5 notes that were sent to Midland Bank in Shipley two years prior. When they got to the point where the reprint of Gene Jordan's £5 note
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