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Peter William Sutcliffe, also known as "The Yorkshire Ripper", is a British serial killer.

Background
Peter William Surcliffe was born in Bingley in West Riding of Yorkshire the first-born child of six. His parents were John and Katherine Sutcliffe. His father was well-liked and friendly, and so his parents hoped that he would grow up to be like him. Instead, Peter was shy, introvert and quiet and preferred reading to playing sports. He was closer to his mother, whom his father suspected of having an affair. In secondary school, he was often bullied, driving him to truancy. He was absent for two weeks before his parents were notified. During his later secondary school years, he made an effort to fit in with his peers, taking up bodybuilding with noticable results. Though he took up some sport activities, he didn't show much interest in girls, of whom he was very shy. Because of his fear of being conspicuous, he never did very well in anything school-related. Leaving school at the age of 15, he spent two years at various jobs. He then got an engineering apprenticeship, but dropped out after a few weeks. After a brief period working as a laborer at a factory, he took a job as a gravedigger at the Bingley Cemetery. He was eventually fired from that job as well because he often showed up late. He also had habits of taking trophies from bodies he buried and talking about necrophilia with coworkers. In 1975, he found steady employment as a long distance truck driver.

At the age of 20, he pursued a relationship for the first time in his life. He approached Sonia Szurma, the daughter of Czech immigrants. They married in August of 1974 and tried to conceive several times; all of them ended in miscarriages. When they learned from the doctor that they wouldn't be able to conceive a child together, they gave up on it. While Sutcliffe appeared quite normal to those close to him, he had a darker side. He and his brother-in-law, Robin Holland, would regularly visit the red light district and solicit prostitutes. Holland eventually broke it off with him because he was always so outspoken about infidelity while at home with the family. In 1969, Sutcliffe committed his first known violent crime. While out with a friend, he attacked a prostitute with a stone stuffed in a sock, striking her on the head with it. The victim escaped when the sock broke and the stone fell out. Luckily for Sutcliffe, she wasn't interested in pressing any charges.

Modus Operandi
Sutcliffe usually targeted prostitues and would attack them on the streets. After approaching them pretending to buy sex from them, then subduing them with strikes to the head with a hammer and pulling their upper body clothing up to their armpits and their lower body clothing down to their ankles, he would kill them by stabbing them with a knife or, during his later attacks, a screwdriver. A few of his later victims were strangled with a ligature instead of being stabbed.

Known Victims

 * September, 1969: "Stone-in-Sock"
 * 1975:
 * July 5: Anna Rogulskyj, 36
 * August 15: Olive Smelt, 46
 * August 27: Tracy Browne, 14
 * October 30: Wilma McCann, 28
 * 1976:
 * January 20: Emily Jackson, 42
 * May 9: Marcella Claxton, 20
 * 1977:
 * February 5: Irene Richardson, 28
 * April 23: Patricia Richardson, 32
 * June 26: Jayne MacDonald, 16
 * July 10: Maureen Long, 42
 * October 1: Jean Jordan, 20
 * December 14: Marilyn Moore, 25
 * 1978:
 * January 21: Yvonne Pearson, 21
 * January 31: Helen Rytka, 18
 * May 16: Vera Millward, 40
 * 1979:
 * April 4: Josephine Whitaker, 19
 * September 2: Barbara Leach, 20
 * 1980:
 * August 20: Marguerite Walls, 37
 * September 24: Upadhya Bandara, 34
 * November 5: Theresa Sykes, 16
 * November 17: Jacqueline Hill, 20

On Criminal Minds
Sutcliffe was mentioned in Legacy, when the team realizes that the UnSub is a so-called "house cleaner", a mission-oriented serial killer who targets people because he thinks the world is a better place without them. The pathology is compared to Sutcliffe, who is quoted by Reid: "The women I killed were filth - bastard prostitutes who were littering the streets. I was just cleaning up the place a bit."