Cold Blooded Evil. Neil Root
There is obviously a connection with two notorious serial killers from the past, Jack the Ripper and the Yorkshire Ripper, but it must be remembered why these killers got their monikers. Both of them had carried out terrible mutilations on their victims (although both had primarily attacked prostitutes, as in Ipswich) while the Ipswich killer inflicted no visible wounds at all, and certainly did not draw blood. In fact, the Ipswich killer could be noted for the sterility of his murders.
The Ipswich Evening Star used the headline ‘Red Light Murders’ in a clear reference to the town’s red light district, but the fact was that the fear had spread much further than this tiny area. In a report in The Times on 13 December, a lecturer from Suffolk College in Ipswich, which coincidentally Gemma Adams had attended, explained the widespread feeling: ‘Normally it’s hard to keep the girls calm at this time of year. Usually they’d be all excitable about Christmas, partying, wanting to get away and out on the town. We were going to let the girls home early, before dark, but we’ve been told not to. A lot are only sixteen, and parents need to know where they are. A lot are picking them up from the bus stops.’
But the fear and media attention were only just beginning to mount. And just two days after Tania Nicol was found there was yet another tragic discovery, the third in just over a week.
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