Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.


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Michael McElhatton
CC Ronald Gregory (7 episodes)

Jack Deam
DI Les Hanley (7 episodes)

Lee Ingleby
DCS Jim Hobson (7 episodes)

Kris Hitchen
DC John Nunn (7 episodes)

Chloe Harris
WPC Jenny Bush (6 episodes)

David Morrissey
ACC George Oldfield (5 episodes)DCS George Oldfield (1 episode)

Steven Waddington
Dick Holland (6 episodes)

John Henshaw
Mike Dugdale (5 episodes)

Toby Jones
DCS Dennis Hoban (5 episodes)
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