Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter by Carol Ann Lee

Author:Carol Ann Lee [Lee, Carol Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782439257
Publisher: Michael O'Mara

Despite the newspaper’s defence of its decision, publication and reproduction of the image undermined the previously cordial relationship between police and press, which deteriorated from then onwards.

Easter leave was cancelled for all two hundred and fifty officers engaged in the hunt for the Ripper after Josephine’s death. The temporary relocation to Halifax of the Millgarth inquiry team stemmed the processing of all outstanding actions while officers conducted house-to-house enquiries and evaluated evidence from the crime scene. Footprints in the mud near Josephine’s body had been made by a size-seven industrial boot, similar to that found at the crime scenes of Emily Jackson and Patricia Atkinson. It was subsequently established that a person taking a size eight-and-a-half shoe could also comfortably wear the boots, but there was a clear pattern of wear to the right print, suggesting a manual worker. The evidence regarding the substances found in Josephine’s wounds supported the possibility that the killer operated machinery as part of his job. Gee spent several months trying to track down the sort of instrument that had been used to inflict the wounds. An engineer’s scraper, used to clear bores on piston engines, was the closest match.

The man who had broken off his walk after hearing a chilling cry near the Refreshment House on the night of Josephine’s murder came forward. He described the sound as ‘a laugh or a wail’ and was sure he had seen a figure or two at the spot where Josephine’s body was found the following morning. The couple who ran the Refreshment House informed Oldfield that they had heard a woman’s footsteps running into the toilet at the back of the lodge between 12.10 a.m. and 12.15 a.m. on the night of Josephine’s murder. A dog walker recalled seeing a woman who resembled Josephine strolling with a bearded man in Manor Heath Road around 11.40 p.m. Police also interviewed a hundred and fifty members of the Bradford Pennine Insurance Sports and Social Club, who had attended a party at Standeven House off Broomfield Avenue that same evening. One of the guests had seen a man running at speed across nearby Savile Park around 1.15 a.m. that night, but he was never traced.

Detectives sought to track down the drivers of three cars in the area at the relevant time: a dark, dirty Ford Escort saloon parked on the grass between the Refreshment House and Skircoat Moor Road; a dark-coloured Datsun, possibly an estate, parked in Free School Lane at the junction with Moorfield Street; and a new style orange or tan-coloured Rover, parked on Savile Park Road outside the café just after midnight. The Ford Escort had been linked to an incident in the town centre around 9 p.m., when a woman walking towards a bus stop was propositioned by a man driving the same make of car. Her reaction caused the man to accelerate away, but she provided sufficient detail for a photofit, which featured in the Yorkshire Evening Post on 9 April and afterwards in the national press.

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