[DOOR FLIES OPEN]

Well, it’s been another fun week of Donald Trump not surrendering, so lets take a look at the news:

This charming fellow went by the name Peter Sutcliffe, but the press called him the “Yorkshire Ripper”. Between 1975-80 he killed 13 women in northern England & attempted to kill seven more. The manhunt to catch him was more tragic-comic than effective police work. The investigation was bungled because the killings happened across multiple local jurisdictions in Yorkshire & Manchester, and possible tips & clues were caught up in paperwork. It didn’t help that a guy named John Humble, for reasons known only to him (that he never divulged), tricked police into believing the serial killer was a man dubbed “Wearside Jack”, leaving false clues & taunting phone calls for over a year before he stopped. This led police to switch their focus to a different part of the country. In that time, they estimated three more women were killed by Sutcliffe, a period during which Sutcliffe admitted “while that was going on I felt safe.”

[Humble was eventually arrested in 2005 after police matched his DNA, taken after a minor offence, against saliva on an envelope sent to Ripper squad detectives back in 1980. In 2006 Humble was sentenced to eight years in prison for perverting the course of justice. He died in 2019.]

Also, the language of the investigators led them to search for a “prostitute killer” rather than a “serial killer”, which limited the scope of their investigation. In 1979, one senior detective told reporters the killer “has made it clear he hates prostitutes, many people do, but the Ripper is now killing innocent girls.” Police categorized Sutcliffe’s victims as “innocent” and “non-innocent” based on class and lifestyle. Sometimes, the designation was based on a victim’s criminal past, their current life situation, or simply where the body was found. In one circumstance Marcella Claxton, a black woman who survived an attack by Sutcliffe in 1976, was racially abused, wrongly labelled a prostitute, and her accurate description of the killer was dismissed. On Friday, the West Yorkshire police apologized for their past misdeeds during their investigation. “Such language and attitudes may have reflected wider societal attitudes of the day, but it was as wrong then as it is now.”

During the course of the manhunt, he was actually considered a suspect & was interviewed four times, but no one could connect the dots. He was only caught because the policeman that stopped him in January 1981 noticed he had a false licence plate on his car. Taken to the police station, he admitted after two days of questioning to being the Ripper. After a two week trial in May 1981, which hinged on whether Sutcliffe was a paranoid schizophrenic, he was convicted & given 20 concurrent life sentences; a year before his parole eligibility in 2011 he was given a “whole life tariff”, which is a special Ministerial order of the British Home Secretary allowing them to extend a person’s imprisonment “until they die”.

That was Friday, November 13th, of COVID. So don’t say nothing good came out of all this.

Sunday broadcast maps: (courtesy 506sports.com)

CBS SINGLE

NOTE: all CBS games are in the late slot due to the Masters.

█ Buffalo @ Arizona (LATE) – Ian Eagle, Charles Davis

█ Denver @ Las Vegas (LATE) – Kevin Harlan, Trent Green

█ LA Chargers @ Miami (LATE) – Greg Gumbel, Rich Gannon

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FOX EARLY

█ Tampa Bay @ Carolina – Kevin Burkhardt, Daryl Johnston

█ Jacksonville @ Green Bay – Chris Myers, Greg Jennings, Brock Huard

█ Philadelphia @ NY Giants – Kevin Kugler, Chris Spielman

█ Washington @ Detroit – Brandon Gaudin, Aqib Talib

█ Houston @ Cleveland – Dick Stockton, Matt Millen

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• NCAA: note – Alabama vs. LSU and OSU vs. Maryland were cancelled due to the ‘rona
  • Arkansas at Florida – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
  • Oregon at Washington State – 7:00PM | FOX
  • SMU at Tulsa – 7:00PM | ESPN2 / TSN
  • Wisconsin at Michigan – 7:30PM | ABC
  • UNLV at San José State – 10:30PM | FS2
  • Oregon State at Washington – 11:00PM | FS1
• Fisticuffs:
  • UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Dos Anjos
    • Prelims – 5:00PM | TSN3 / ESPN+
    • Main card – 7:00PM | TSN3 / ESPN+
  • Top Rank Boxing:
    • Crawford vs. Brook – 10:00PM | ESPN / TSN5
• Squealing tyres:
  • 2020 Formula 1: Turkish Grand Prix – 5:00AM | ESPN / TSN3

Looks like a wonderful night in front of the telly, especially since I lined up at 7:00AM for the BCLDB Premium Spirits release. Here’s the brochure; I actually saw an Asian gentleman buy the $84,000 bottle of the 72 year-old Macallan. Not being as wealthy, I picked up a bottle of 21 year-old Auchentoshan, which is going to be cracked once I’ve recovered from the shoulder surgery. In the meantime, grab a beverage & make with the comments.