Margo Walls was murdered by Peter Sutcliffe in Pudsey, a
small town located between Bradford and Leeds, in August 1980. Sutcliffe
waited in the garden of the local magistrate's house, whose son was a
crime reporter in the Yorkshire Evening Post and when she passed he
battered her with a heavy object and then pulled a cord around her neck to
strangle her.
Then he dragged her into the garden, stripped her and
covered her body with leaves. The murder was discounted as a Ripper murder
and never came within the frame.
After Sutcliffe's arrest he admitted to this but the police
knew this anyway and only then did it became a Ripper murder as the police
sought to close the files on some of their failures. He couldn't get closer
to the police than to wait next door to a police station, and in the
Magistrate's garden whose son is a crime reporter. He thought he would
surely be caught but he did not know about the police strategy to get
Billy Tracey.
This murder does not compare with the Ripper's murders for
savagery and was stated by the police not to be a Ripper killing. When
Sutcliffe was arrested about four months later confessing to all, and it
suited their purposes, they reversed all this.
