1970s (Topic)

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Peter Sutcliffe · Sutcliffe is seen by two detective-constables for the second time about his Sunbeam Rapier being spotted over 36 times in red light areas. This was due to an inspector who was checking through the Ripper Incident Room's backlog of unprocessed actions. He was not entirely satisfied with the alibis and statements that had previously eliminated Sutcliffe and so further action was initiated. Unfortunately, at this time, the Laptew report was still missing from the system. Sutcliffe was re-interviewed and samples of his handwriting were again taken, and, not surprisingly, he was again eliminated as a suspect. Age: 33

Peter Sutcliffe · The police interview Sutcliffe for the 5th time. Detective-Constable Andrew Laptew and Detective-Constable Graham Greenwood visit Sutcliffe at home after his Sunbeam Rapier was spotted 36 times by Ripper surveillance teams in Bradford, twice in Leeds, and once in Manchester. This was the most crucial interview of the nine times that Sutcliffe was questioned by police. For the first, and only, time Sutcliffe's answers and demeanour did not allow him to avoid the suspicion of the officers that there was "something not quite right about this man." When the two detective-constables went to interview Sutcliffe they did not know that he had been questioned about the £5 note, nor did they know he had been questioned about the frequency of his red Corsair in red-light areas. His file in the Ripper Incident Room was almost two years out of date.

As he sat in the front room of Sutcliffe's home in Garden Lane, Bradford, DC Laptew realised that everything the police knew about the Ripper seemed to fit the man he was questioning. Sutcliffe was the same height and build as the man described by two survivors, he had a beard, a Jason King-style of moustache, collar-length black hair, dark complexion, and smallish feet. Sutcliffe also had a distinctive gap between his top two teeth as noted in survivor Marilyn Moore's photofit. He was also a lorry driver, one of the suspected occupations of the Ripper.

Days later, Laptew discovered that could have owned the £5 note that was found in Jean Jordan's handbag. Continuing to follow up on Sutcliffe, he also found found out through the Regional Criminal Records Office that Sutcliffe had been convicted for 'going equipped to steal' in 1969. Unfortunately, Laptew did not check with the Criminal Records Office at Scotland Yard, where there were two important and vital details, the burglary tool had been a hammer, and Sutcliffe had also been arrested earlier in a stationary car in a red light district.

DC Laptew's two page report, detailing his and DC Greenwood's suspicions, and that Sutcliffe should be seen by senior detectives, was passed on where it was considered about nine months later by two superintendents, including Detective Superintendent Dick Holland, second-in-charge of the entire inquiry. Here the hoax letters and tape, and the police over-reliance on them as being from the Ripper, instead of the real crime scene clues and descriptions from survivors, played their horrific part in allowing Peter Sutcliffe to avoid becoming subject to more intense questioning and from becoming a prime suspect. Sutcliffe had lived all his life in Yorkshire, and a Home Office report showed that a specimen of Sutcliffe's handwriting, taken by DC Laptew, did not match the letters from Sunderland. DC Laptew and DC Greenwood's suspicions and report was routinely marked "to file" where it would languish with thousand of others in the massive backlog of reports not yet filed in the system, allowing Sutcliffe to escape yet again from further and more probing investigation. Age: 33

Peter Sutcliffe · Interview #4: did not check the tires on Sutcliffe's red Ford Corsair, nor was he aware that Sutcliffe had recently purchased a black Sunbeam Rapier, which had already been spotted nine times in the Manningham red-light district. Age: 32

Peter Sutcliffe · Sutcliffe is interviewd by the police for the 3rd time. An operation mounted in the red-light districts in Leeds, Bradford, Manchester, and Sheffield brought the police again to Sutcliffe's door. Police officers had been staking out the red-light districts noting down car numbers. Sutcliffe's red Ford Corsair had been spotted seven times in the Bradford red-light area.
Without revealing that the police were conducting the secret monitoring of vehicles in the red-light districts, DC Smith inquired generally about Sutcliffe's car movements. Sonia Sutcliffe backed up her husband by stating that he rarely went out at night, and when he did she was usually with him.
The police did not check the tires on Sutcliffe's red Ford Corsair, nor was he aware that Sutcliffe had recently purchased a black Sunbeam Rapier, which had already been spotted nine times in the Manningham red-light district. Age: 32

Peter Sutcliffe · Sutcliffe murdered 20-year-old Barbara Janine Leach, a Bradford University social psychology student. Age: 33

Peter Sutcliffe · Sutcliffe murdered Josephine Anne Whitaker, a 19-year-old clerk, on Savile Park Moor in Halifax, West Yorkshire. Age: 32

Peter Sutcliffe · He assaults 22-year-old Irish student Ann Rooney at Horsforth College in Horsforth, Leeds.
Rooney's description of her attacker and his car closely matched that of Sutcliffe and his black Sunbeam Rapier, which had been flagged by police numerous times in red-light districts in both Leeds and Bradford. Age: 32

Peter Sutcliffe · Stucliffe assaulted and murdered 40-year-old Vera Evelyn Millward at the parking compound of the Manchester Royal Infirmary in Chorlton-on-Medlock.
She was a mother of seven who lived in council flat in Hulme (Manchester) with her boyfriend. Age: 31

Peter Sutcliffe · Ten days later, Sutcliffe killed 18-year-old Elena "Helen" Rytka in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Rytka was then sexually assaulted as she lay on the ground. She was the only one of his victims that he had sexual intercourse with.
Her body was found three days later. Age: 31

Peter Sutcliffe · He assaults and murders 21-year-old Yvonne Ann Pearson. He hid her body near Lumb Lane in Bradford. Age: 31

Peter Sutcliffe · Six days after the first interview, Sutcliffe was questioned again about the £5 note by two different policemen. Sutcliffe and his wife Sonia gave the same stories as they had given to the previous police visitors. They also allowed their house to be searched and nothing incriminating was found. Sutcliffe was also questioned about his car, as tire tracks had been found at the scene of the Irene Richardson murder.
As a follow-up to Sutcliffe's statement about the housewarming party on the night of October 9th, police called on Sutcliffe's mother, Mrs Kathleen Sutcliffe, who confirmed she had been at her son's house on the night in question.
He was not investigated further and was contacted and disregarded by the Ripper Squad on several further occasions. Age: 31

Peter Sutcliffe · Sutcliffe attacked 25-year-old Marilyn Moore in the back of his car on waste ground in Scott Hall, Leeds. Tyre tracks found at the scene matched those from an earlier attack. The resulting photofit bore a strong resemblance to Sutcliffe, as had those from other survivors, and Moore provided a good description of Sutcliffe's car, which had been seen in red light areas. Sutcliffe was interviewed on this issue. Age: 31

Peter Sutcliffe · First police interview to Peter Sutcliffe, in relation to the newly issued £5 note found at "Scottish" Jean Jordan's handbag.
"Not connected" was the conclusion drawn in regards to the Jean Jordan murder.
He is released. Age: 31

Peter Sutcliffe · Jordan's body was discovered by local dairy worker and future actor Bruce Jones. The £5 note, hidden in a secret compartment in Jordan's handbag, was traced and over three months, the police interviewed 5,000 men, including Sutcliffe. Age: 31

Peter Sutcliffe · Sutcliffe murdered 20-year-old Jean Bernadette Jordan in Manchester's Princess Road near the Southern Cemetery. She was mother of 2.
He had paid her with a new £5 note and realized it was traceable. After hosting a family party at his new home, he returned to the wasteland behind Manchester's Southern Cemetery, where he had left the body, but he was unable to find the note. Age: 31

Peter Sutcliffe · Sutcliffe assaulted 43-year-old Maureen Long in Bradford. Long was suffering from hypothermia when found and was in hospital for nine weeks. A witness misidentified the make of Sutcliffe's car, resulting in more than 300 police officers checking thousands of cars without success. Age: 31

Peter Sutcliffe · He assaults and kills 16-year-old student Jayne Michelle MacDonald in Reginald Street in Leeds. Age: 31

Peter Sutcliffe · Sutcliffe killed 32-year-old Patricia "Tina" Atkinson-Mitra in her Bradford flat. Age: 30

Peter Sutcliffe · Sutcliffe attacked and murdered 28-year-old Irene Richardson in Roundhay Park. Age: 30

Peter Sutcliffe · Sutcliffe assaults 20-year-old Marcella Claxton in Roundhay Park in Leeds (West Yorkshire). She survives the attack but had been four months pregnant and subsequently miscarried her baby Age: 29

Peter Sutcliffe · He assaults and kills 42-year-old Emily Monica Jackson in Leeds. Age: 29

Peter Sutcliffe · He assaults and murders 28-year-old Wilma Mary McCann in the Chapeltown area of Leeds (West Yorkshire). She was mother of 4 little children. Age: 29

Peter Sutcliffe · He assaults 14-year-old Tracy Browne in Silsden, Bradford. She survives. Age: 29

Peter Sutcliffe · He assaults 46-year-old Olive Smelt in Halifax, West Yorkshire. She survives. Age: 29

Peter Sutcliffe · He assaulted a36-year-old Anna Rogulskyj in Keighley, Bradford (West Yorkshire). She survived. Age: 29

Peter Sutcliffe · Peter and Sonia get married. Age: 28

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Andy Gill · Signing to EMI, their debut album Entertainment! (1979) won strong reviews and is now seen as one of the great statements of post-punk rock, its powerful rhythms, dense lyrics and Gill’s stabbing, abrupt, often atonal guitar work opening up rock’s possibilities. Entertainment! reached only No 45 in the UK charts and the band scuppered the offer of a Top of the Pops slot to perform their current single “At Home He’s a Tourist” when the programme demanded they change the word “rubbers” to “rubbish”. Age: 23

Andy Gill · Their debut 45, the Damaged Goods EP, released in October 1978 on Scotland’s Blast First label, received extremely positive reviews from the music press while John Peel regularly played it on Radio 1. Age: 22

Andy Gill · Here the visionary art teacher Bob White insisted his pupils deconstruct the arts they were most enthusiastic about and, in 1976, Gill and King headed to New York City, supposedly to carry out research on the visual arts they would be pursuing at Leeds University.
Instead, they immersed themselves in the music scene then emanating from CBGB, a dive bar on the Lower East Side where the likes of Patti Smith, Television, Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads were shaping a new kind of rock music. Age: 20

Andy Gill · Gill together with Jon King, co-founded the pioneering post punk outfit, Gang of Four, in Leeds in 1976 – the pair met in the art room at Kent’s exclusive boys-only Sevenoaks School school and went on later to study Fine Art at Leeds University. Age: 20

Janis Joplin · Janis Joplin makes her last recordings, singing "Mercedes Benz," which is included on her posthumous Pearl album a capella. She also records a goofy version of "Happy Trails" as a birthday present for John Lennon. Joplin dies three days later Age: 27

Janis Joplin · Janis Joplin is found dead at the Landmark Hotel in Los Angeles after a heroin overdose. She was just 27 Age: 27

Janis Joplin · Janis Joplin records "Me And Bobby McGee" at Sunset Sound Studios in Hollywood. She dies nine days later from a drug overdose at age 27 Age: 27

Janis Joplin · Enjoying some libations at a nearby bar before her concert at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York, Janis Joplin writes the song "Mercedes Benz," which she sings that night. Joplin does just one more show before her death Age: 27

Janis Joplin · At Harvard, Janis Joplin performs what will be her final concert, ending with a version of Gershwin's "Summertime." Age: 27

Janis Joplin · Janis Joplin get tattoos on her wrist and heart, the one on her chest reading "One For The Boys." Age: 27

John Lennon and May Pang · End of the Lost Weekend.In the same month, Lennon and Pang were also planning on visiting Paul and Linda McCartney in New Orleans, where their band Wings were recording the Venus and Mars album, but Lennon reconciled with Ono the day before the planned visit, after Ono said she had a new cure for Lennon’s smoking habit. After the meeting, he failed to return home or call Pang. When Pang telephoned the next day, Ono told her that Lennon was unavailable because he was exhausted after a hypnotherapy session. Two days later, Lennon reappeared at a joint dental appointment; he was stupefied and confused to such an extent that Pang believed he had been brainwashed. Lennon told Pang he had reconciled with Ono and their relationship was over. Over the coming years, Pang quietly met Lennon a few times but their relationship was never rekindled.

John Lennon and May Pang · Montauk cottage.While visiting Mick Jagger at Andy Warhol’s compound in Montauk, New York, Lennon and Pang saw a Scottish-style cottage for sale close to the Montauk Point Lighthouse. Lennon asked a real estate broker to put in an offer for it in February 1975.

John Lennon and May Pang · Mother Superior May.May Pang continued her work as production coordinator of Lennon’s "Rock ‘n’ Roll" album, released on February 1975, where she was credited as “Mother Superior”.

John Lennon and May Pang · Award for May.Pang received an RIAA gold record award for her work on "Walls and Bridges", she was only 24.

John Lennon and May Pang · Lennons #1Lennon's album "Walls and Bridges" rose to the top spot on the album charts. Lennon achieved his only number-one solo US single in his lifetime with “Whatever Gets You thru the Night”. Pang’s is the voice whispering Lennon’s name on “#9 Dream”. “Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)” was written about her.

John Lennon and May Pang · UFO sighting.In the early summer, Lennon was working on his "Walls and Bridges" album when the couple moved into a penthouse apartment at 434 East 52nd Street. On August 23, Lennon and Pang claimed to have seen a UFO from their terrace, which had a panoramic view of Queens.
Lennon called photographer Bob Gruen and told him what had happened. Gruen called the local police precinct which confirmed that three other people had reported a sighting, and the Daily News wrote that five people had reported a sighting in the same area of New York where Lennon and Pang lived. Lennon references the incident in the song “Nobody Told Me”.