The Long Shadow

Miniseries

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Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious serial killer cases, the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, between 1975 and 1981. The search involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.

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7 Episodes

Episode 1
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Episode 1Leeds DI Les Hanley assembles a whole team to investigate the rape, torture, murder and dumping of house-mother Wilma McCann, fearing the similar MO suggest a serial 'Ripper' all over (West) Yorkshire. Colleagues are less impressed, suggesting it's just another prostitute. The husband, a penniless blue collar worker, father of ore-teen son and daughter, is questioned as prime suspect, but cleared.
Episode 2
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Episode 2The police face the prospect of a multiple murderer at large in the wake of more linked murders, but the testimony of a survivor could turn the tide.
Episode 3
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Episode 3The investigation spreads to Bradford with the murder of another young woman. A female police officer is tasked with dangerous undercover work, while for the real sex workers, that danger is ever present.
Episode 4
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Episode 4When another woman survives an attack, detectives hope that they are in with a chance of finding their man as a driver in Leeds emerges as prime suspect.
Episode 5
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Episode 5The police revisit historic attacks in the hope of identifying further victims, and George Oldfield is fired up by the arrival of a letter from the killer.
Episode 6
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Episode 6West Yorkshire Police launch a massive public appeal in the hope of rooting out the killer as some detectives begin to voice concerns about the direction of the investigation and veracity of their evidence.
Episode 7
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Episode 7After a chance arrest, the killer is finally caught and the failures of the investigation are laid bare in the wake of the trial.