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Case 37: The Yorkshire Ripper (Part 1)

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The Killing of Emily Jackson

A police Range Rover with flashing blue lights and a large photograph of Emily drove through Chappell town. Another witness said she saw a dark blue transit van with L registration plates near the murder scene around 3.30am. Doctors were also asked to come forward with names of patients who they believed might be capable of the murders. Sex workers were encouraged to give up the names of any clients they thought were suspicious. By May 1976, Wilma McCann and Emily Jackson were officially linked as victims from the same killer. And in that same month, there was a new victim. Marcella Clackston was 20 years old and originally from St. Kitts, a Caribbean island. She was

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