LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Stanley Ellis and Jack Windsor Lewis on Yorkshire Ripper hoax tapes

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:15:57

Description

Stanley Ellis, Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Leeds, and Jack Windsor Lewis, of the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Leeds, talk about their involvement with the Yorkshire Ripper investigation based on the hoax tape sent from the Wearside area. They say police ignored their request to treat the tape as a hoax. Includes excerpts from the tape. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Stanley Ellis; Jack Windsor Lewis

Keywords

Crime; Police; Yorkshire; Women; Homicide; Murderers; Yorkshire Ripper; Peter Sutcliffe; Policing practice; Magnetic tape recordings; Criminal investigation; Leeds; Linguistics; Phonetics; Forensics; University of Leeds; West Yorkshire Police; Speech; John Humble; Wearside Jack

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