The Long Shadow

Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.

★ 7.5/10 · 85 TMDB audience ratings

Starring

• Michael McElhattonCC Ronald Gregory
• Jack DeamDI Les Hanley
• Lee InglebyDCS Jim Hobson
• Kris HitchenDC John Nunn

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Audience reviews from TMDB · may contain spoilers

zingyyellow: Based on the real life police search for the serial killer, 'The Yorkshire Ripper'. Set in the seventies, it shows us the inequalities… Read full review

aGoryLouie: We in Britain pretty much have the crime procedural down to a T. While on the one hand it can make many feel… Read full review

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