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Less than a year after Peter Sutcliffe married his doting wife Sonia Szurma, the killer began callously murdering women. Sonia stood by her ex-husband during his trial and said she 'didn't suspect a thing'

West Yorkshire Police was notoriously misled after being distracted by a hoax in their search for killer Peter Sutcliffe. Constable George Oldfield became obsessed with the case, and in tonight's The Long Shadow, he is seen falling desperately ill

John Humble, also known as Wearside Jack, managed to trick police searching for the Yorkshire Ripper as he helped Peter Sutcliffe evade capture from 100 miles away despite never meeting

As seen in ITV's The Long Shadow, Meg Winterburn was an undercover officer on the Yorkshire Ripper case. And here, she shares why murderer Peter Sutcliffe chose the victims he did

Peter Sutcliffe's sick murders triggered one of the biggest manhunts the country has seen however the years-long investigation to find the serial killer went down a rabbit hole thanks to hoax letters and a confession tape from John Humble, aka Wearside Jack

Missing crucial clues, chasing false leads and letting slippery Peter Sutcliffe give police the slip for years - viewers about to see the deadly mistakes on ITV's The Long Shadow

Peter Sutcliffe's little brother Carl recalls growing up with the serial killer as a sibling and the very moment he found out he was related to the notorious Yorkshire Ripper

Irene Richardson was just one of the women Peter Sutcliffe brutally murdered during his years-long killing spree and as her story has been told in new drama The Long Shadow, a devastating secret has come to light

ITV's The Long Shadow will tell the story of third victim Irene Richardson, whose long-lost son only discovered her devastating fate when he went searching for his birth mum

Former undercover police sergeant Meg Winterburn shuts down the Yorkshire Ripper's claim he murdered prostitutes 'because little voices in his head were telling him to'

Irene Richardson had asked Peter Sutcliffe to pull over for a break when he horrifically beat her three times on the head with a hammer and slashed her body with a knife

Irene Richardson, 28, was brutally beaten to death with a hammer by the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, in 1977, and took a heart-wrenching secret with her to the grave

Emmerdale's Charley Webb quit the Yorkshire Dales in 2021 to pursue other ventures and here we take a look at the star in her latest crime darma role in The Long Shadow

Katherine Kelly, who plays Emily Jackson in the ITV true crime drama The Long Shadow, has defended the seven-part series after Peter Sutcliffe's brother hit out at ITV bosses

The Long Shadow has been slammed for its 'atrocious' sound after viewers were forced to use subtitles to follow the new ITV1 true-crime drama about the police hunt to find the Yorkshire Ripper

Peter Sutcliffe, who became known as the Yorkshire Ripper after he brutally murdered 13 innocent women, is the subject of a new ITV drama, The Long Shadow