'I didn't want to talk to him at all': Why a new book about the Yorkshire Ripper isn't focusing on the notorious killer
Peter Sutcliffe being escorted into court during his trial in 1981. Image: PA Archive/PA Images Peter Sutcliffe being escorted into court during his trial in 1981. Image: PA Archive/PA Images “THINGS HAVE CHANGED in society now,” author Carol Ann Lee says.
However, Lee found that none of his victims had ever been given much attention, and instead decided to ignore the infamous killer in favour of telling their stories and those of the women’s families.“Not only did families have to cope with never-ending horror and trauma of losing a loved one, they also saw the reputations of those they loved trashed in the media.
She got her married name in 1955 when she married Roman Rogulskyj, whom she divorced eighteen years later, before meeting a man called Geoffrey Hughes, with whom she struck up a dysfunctional and abusive relationship. However, the attacker was waiting in an alley at the end of the road and attacked her, leaving her for dead.
This, she says, is not something that’s not always possible with documentaries, which often reduce women to what she calls “a checkerboard of faces”.
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