ITV has announced that it is producing another true-crime drama based on the case of Peter Sutcliffe, also known as the Yorkshire Ripper.
The Yorkshire Ripper will focuses on the lives of Sutcliffe’s victims, the victims’ families, and the extensive five-year manhunt which eventually resulted in Sutcliffe’s arrest.
This is not the story of a Ripper who hailed from Yorkshire, but the story of how Yorkshire was ripped apart.”
According to ITV, the project will seek to be “the first definitive account of a case that shook Britain”, and will be based upon Michael Bilton’s acclaimed book Wicked Beyond Belief: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.