Post by liferreilly on Nov 13, 2020 12:24:36 GMT
www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=1329&termRef=Amala%20de%20Vere%20Whelan
Her killer sprayed the word 'Ripper' in detergent on the wall of her flat. Never been solved.
This took place in 1972 a few years before the name the Yorkshire Ripper was being used in the media.
Sutcliffe had been linked to a few unsolved murders in and around London, as he traveled there to see his wife sometimes.
I would imagine this was coincidental though and there was/is some undetected maniac, who was never brought to justice.
Does anyone know any other details around this case?
NB: Just to add, this case came to mind, due to the 'ripper' link and Sutclffe's death. I've read a little on the BN archives:
Birmingham Daily Post 20th February 1973
Killer of 'friendly girl' a mystery, inquest jury finds
An Excerpt:
"Prof Donald Teare, a pathologist said Amala, who was strangled, had probably been dead for three or four days.
There was no signs of sexual interference"
This differs from the BBC report stating that she had been raped.
An interesting article:
Daily Mirror 1st December 1972
Ripper warning to bed-sit girls
Scotland yard murder squad detectives last night warned girls in London's bed-sit areas to be aware of a killer nicknamed
"The Ripper." Police believe that the man who strangled 22yr old Amala de Vere Whelan in a Maida Vale flat, fifteen days ago
may strike again. They want to interview a man in his twenties with semi-afro style hair who approached Amala in a pub
before she died. The killer wrote word Ripper on the wall of her flat"
Similar hairstyle to Sutcliffe? I suppose similar to quite a lot of men around that time period as well though.
Her killer sprayed the word 'Ripper' in detergent on the wall of her flat. Never been solved.
This took place in 1972 a few years before the name the Yorkshire Ripper was being used in the media.
Sutcliffe had been linked to a few unsolved murders in and around London, as he traveled there to see his wife sometimes.
I would imagine this was coincidental though and there was/is some undetected maniac, who was never brought to justice.
Does anyone know any other details around this case?
NB: Just to add, this case came to mind, due to the 'ripper' link and Sutclffe's death. I've read a little on the BN archives:
Birmingham Daily Post 20th February 1973
Killer of 'friendly girl' a mystery, inquest jury finds
An Excerpt:
"Prof Donald Teare, a pathologist said Amala, who was strangled, had probably been dead for three or four days.
There was no signs of sexual interference"
This differs from the BBC report stating that she had been raped.
An interesting article:
Daily Mirror 1st December 1972
Ripper warning to bed-sit girls
Scotland yard murder squad detectives last night warned girls in London's bed-sit areas to be aware of a killer nicknamed
"The Ripper." Police believe that the man who strangled 22yr old Amala de Vere Whelan in a Maida Vale flat, fifteen days ago
may strike again. They want to interview a man in his twenties with semi-afro style hair who approached Amala in a pub
before she died. The killer wrote word Ripper on the wall of her flat"
Similar hairstyle to Sutcliffe? I suppose similar to quite a lot of men around that time period as well though.
