The Long Shadow (2023)


The biggest manhunt in British history.
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.
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Cast & Crew
- Director
- CC Ronald Gregory Michael McElhatton
- DI Les Hanley Jack Deam
- DCS Jim Hobson Lee Ingleby
- DC John Nunn Kris Hitchen
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Miniseries
2023
7 episodes
Season 1 of The Long Shadow premiered on September 25, 2023
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Keywords
- prostitute
- 1970s
- police
- based on true story
- murder
- serial killer
- man hunt
- series of murders
- true crime
- murder investigation
- english police
- north of england
- police procedural