Dark Son: The Hunt for a Serial Killer (2019) - full transcript

As an emeritus professor

of criminology,

I've studied and written about

every single serial murder case

in the United Kingdom.

And one case continues

to intrigue me.

A series of murders known

as the Hammersmith nude murders.

This is the biggest unsolved

serial murder case

in British criminal history,

with a killer who's even

more prolific than Jack the Ripper.

The murderers all took place

while swinging-'60s London

was being hailed as the world's most

fashionably vibrant capital.

Yet, a darker, more terrifying,

reality was unfolding

on the streets.

A serial killer was at large

and he sadistically

murdered six women.

Well, I found this body

and just see the legs,

the bottom of the legs

with the feet.

The killer abducted his victims

from

what was then the red-light

district

around Shepherd's Bush

in West London.

He then proceeded to strangle them,

strip them and remove their teeth.

TV COMMENTARY: Amongst those

watching this programme,

there may be one of you at least

who knows or strongly suspects

the person responsible.

His grim spree sparked one of the

biggest police manhunts in history.

Yet, the killer was never caught.

Lots of people put

forward different theories

about the identity of the killer.

But, frankly, only one

really stands out.

And if we could prove this theory,

it has every possibility

of delivering to the

Metropolitan Police something

that they didn't

have 50 years ago,

and that's a genuine prime suspect.

Living in the epicentre

of the murders was a man

who went unnoticed by detectives.

A man who, as a boy,

had killed two young girls

in the quiet Welsh town

of Abertillery.

Their deaths have eerie parallels

with the Jack the Stripper killings.

In an extraordinary series

of interviews,

I'm going to speak to the daughter

of this double child killer,

to see if she can shed light

on a possible connection

between her father

and the Hammersmith nude murders.

I couldn't believe it.

I thought...

..my dad hasn't killed anybody.

The man that I knew

as my dad was a murderer?

All I want are some answers

to an enduring mystery.

Answers, moreover,

that might take us one step forward

to identifying the man that the

press called Jack the Stripper.

TV COMMENTARY: Hannah Tailford's

body, naked except for stockings

and underclothes stuffed in her

mouth, was found in the river.

In April, the river cast up at

Chiswick, the nude, tattooed body

of Irene Lockwood.

She had not been dead for very long.

The same month,

a mile from the river,

another tattooed prostitute, Helen

Barthelemy, was found in Brentford.

Acton again, July, Mary Fleming's

body was dumped in a cul-de-sac.

In the night, neighbours

heard a car stop, reverse

and roar away in panic.

Four months later the tattooed body

of Frances Brown

was found in a car park.

In the murder room

at Shepherd's Bush,

police have checked every data.

But they have found enough

similarities to convince them

that the killings are

the work of one man.

I remember watching

this on the news as a child.

And it really captured my

imagination about the kind of person

who would be able to do this.

At the time,

the press kept comparing the killer

to Jack the Ripper.

But for me, that was

in the distant past.

And therefore, Jack the Stripper

seemed much worse,

more sadistic, more calculating.

And, of course, like Jack the

Ripper, he evaded capture.

As a criminologist,

I'm always interested

in a serial killer's MO -

his modus operandi.

And the Jack the Stripper murders

have a number of common factors

which really intrigue me.

All of his victims were sex workers.

They were all diminutive in height,

they had been stripped naked

and had their teeth removed.

And the bodies had been stored

for some time before being deposited

across West London.

This wasn't a London

that we would recognise today.

Back in the 1960s

some parts of West London

were a real rough-and-ready

type of place

with lots of women

selling sexual services,

and men kerb crawling, seeking

to buy those sexual services.

It was a pretty grim

and desperate lifestyle.

And, of course, some of the women

were beaten, were robbed.

And, of course, for six women,

they would be picked up

and go into a car with a man

who'd eventually kill them.

Back in the 1960s, the press

diminished the crimes and the women,

choosing to concentrate on the more

salacious aspects of their lives

and their work,

so as to degrade them.

Many of their children

are still alive today

and they are still

searching for justice.

TV COMMENTARY: Victim number one,

Hannah Tailford,

a 30-year-old prostitute who

originally came from Northumberland.

On February 2nd, 1964,

her body was fished out of

the Thames at Hammersmith.

Hannah Tailford was my birth mother.

She had me in Exeter Prison

in July 1957.

I remember seeing a newspaper

article and the headlines were -

"Fun-time girl found in the Thames."

So, the general attitude

towards them was,

"Well, it's just a prostitute."

It was a cheap life, so...

They would just see her

as another trollop

that was in the cafe

having a coffee,

or in the pub having a beer

trying to pull for the night.

At the end of the day,

whatever happened, she was a mum.

And she did as best

as she could in the situation

that she found herself.

Justice wasn't done at the time.

I'd like them to open the case,

find the evidence,

maybe come up with closure and say,

"Actually, it could have

been this person here."

Because the children

that are out there,

of all the mums that were murdered,

most of them had children,

and we're still alive.

And it would just give us proper,

OK, justice has been done,

you've named that person.

The Metropolitan Police mounted

what still remains as

one of the biggest manhunts in its

history.

Hundreds of officers were drafted

in to hunt down the killer.

But this huge combined

effort came to nothing,

forcing them to turn

to new innovative means

of getting the public

and the killer's attention.

Amongst those watching

this programme

there may be one of you at least

who knows or strongly suspects

the person responsible.

If so, I am speaking directly

and personally to you.

There could rest on your conscience

the possible death of

yet another young woman.

I appeal to you to come forward,

and I can assure the utmost

confidence and discretion

to anything disclosed.

In one final, desperate effort,

they conducted tens of thousands

of door-to-door

inquiries across London.

One door within this search area,

which they very likely

did not knock upon,

was the home of

an unassuming family man.

But he was also a man

who kept until his death

a terribly dark secret

from all who knew him,

including his own family.

For in his youth

he'd been imprisoned

for murdering two young schoolgirls

in the most brutal and sadistic way

imaginable.

And he was living at the epicentre

of the Jack the Stripper murderers.

The first question

I'm looking to answer is,

how could such a man have

escaped even being questioned?

And could he have gone on

to kill and kill again?

And that man's name is Harold Jones.

Harold Jones hailed from the

Welsh mining town of Abertillery.

He sadistically murdered

two girls in 1921.

I believe by revisiting

and deconstructing their deaths

at the hands of Jones,

we have the precise starting point

for discovering if he could

have matured into a serial killer

later in his life.

The crimes, though almost

a hundred years old,

continue to be felt by the community

and family members even to this day.

Visiting the girls' graves

today are their nieces,

Sue Lloyd and Shirley Swift.

But it's so pretty. So pretty.

I love the, is it like a...?

Is she holding, is she holding

a rose or something,

is she, in her hand?

And the dress that she's wearing

is what they used to wear then...

Yeah. ..you know,

those sort of clothes.

Eight-year-old Freda Burnell

had gone to a local shop,

running an errand for her father.

She disappeared, only to be found

dead in a back alley a day later.

They must have been

absolutely devastated.

I know it has affected my

family throughout my life.

You can't quantify it, can you?

Because it was so unexpected.

And, certainly, not in a community,

as the way that I have seen

Abertillery over the years,

that protects its own.

So this to happen then,

must have been earth-shattering.

Buried a short distance from Freda

is her friend Florence Little.

The 11-year-old was murdered after

Freda Burnell had been laid to rest.

Florence's murder

devastated Sue's family,

which was torn apart by the tragedy.

And Florence's parents were buried

with their murdered daughter.

Just give me a minute.

She's not on her own.

She's got her mum and her dad.

I mean, it might

be sentimental but..

SHE SNIFFS

..but they're there with her,

trying to protect her now,

the way they couldn't

on that particular occasion.

The twin murders

devastated the community

and made headlines

all over the world.

Local people were convinced

the killer must be an outsider.

But the arrival of detectives

from Scotland Yard found the answer

much closer to home,

in the form of 15-year-old

shop assistant Harold Jones,

the last person to have seen both

girls before they disappeared.

Could Harold Jones really have gone

on to become Jack the Stripper?

Local historian Neil Milkins

certainly believes so,

having researched the story

and lived in the town

where the killer's spectre

still looms large.

It's a part of the history

of Abertillery,

you can't get away from that.

It's the murder of two little girls

which astounded the community then.

And it's still a sensitive subject

although 97 years have passed.

Harold Jones served 20 years

in prison for his crimes.

But Neil's interest in Jones

didn't end with his imprisonment.

He was let out of prison in 1941

against the recommendations

of a number of professional people

within the prison service.

He told the prison authorities,

"I do not want to lose

a desire to kill,"

you know, shortly

before he was released.

I was convinced, absolutely

convinced, that Harold Jones

didn't come out of prison

and settle down

and lead a normal life.

He discovered that

after leaving prison,

Harold Jones moved to London

and lived at the heart of Jack

the Stripper's hunting ground.

What's more, he discovered that

Jones lived only a few streets away

from two of the victims' homes.

But then Neil hit a brick wall.

Frustrated by his inability to get

anywhere further with this theory

that Harold Jones may have committed

the Hammersmith nude murders,

Neil remembered my own long-standing

interest in the story.

VOICEMAIL: Received, 1.58pm

on the 6th of September.

Hello, a message for

Professor David Wilson.

Hello, David,

it's Neil Milkins here.

I've been doing more research

on Harold Jones

and I believe he's committed

other crimes.

Would you be interested into

looking into it further?

Hope to catch you soon, David.

Thanks for your time,

bye-bye.

I got Neil's call so,

I'm on my way to Abertillery

to really test his theory.

I'm going to try and identify

Harold Jones' signature

as a killer, and see if this can be

compared to Jack the Stripper's.

And you know, we can approach

this like an old-fashioned case,

looking for new leads, testing

for the evidence that exists.

But one of the things I'm aware

about in relation to this case,

is that there's absolutely

no DNA evidence that's survived.

So, we're going to have

to look at this also

as if it's a 21st-century cold case.

And to do that, I need

to gather a team around me.

Most obviously,

a forensic psychologist,

a pathologist, and, perhaps,

most importantly of all,

a great detective investigator.

I received this message

from Professor David Wilson,

the criminologist, to see whether

I'd be interested in helping him

as an ex-detective investigator,

in the case of Harold Jones

and whether there was any linkage

to the Hammersmith nude murders

of the 1960s.

Immediately, you know, looking

at the case of Harold Jones

I could feel myself going into

that obsessive detective...

..mode.

And there may be a connection

and there may not be a connection.

It's always the search

for truth in a police investigation.

And I have to start that search

in the town of Abertillery.

Jackie and I have set up an incident

room in Abertillery town centre.

From here, we'll examine the two

murders we know were committed

by Harold Jones.

We are supported by a group

of local people

with backgrounds

in research and policing.

Jackie, you've been in charge of

many incident rooms in your career.

What do they do?

How are they organised?

Murder is the most serious crime

that any detective can investigate.

It is the search for truth.

The incident room is the hub.

The crime will be detected

from the incident room.

It is an intelligence cell.

Every bit of information

that you gather comes back

to the incident room.

The first question is - who?

Who was the victim?

Why was she murdered?

Where was she murdered?

What happened

when she was murdered

and how?

One of the locals is Lisa Bevan,

a forensic science graduate.

Other team members are world

leaders in their respected fields.

There's Professor Mike Berry,

a clinical forensic psychologist

who works as an offender

profiler for the police

on serial murder cases.

Bernard Knight is one

of the Home Office's

most pre-eminent pathologists.

He worked on some of

the biggest murder cases,

including that of

Fred and Rose West.

We know who was killed

and we know who killed her.

We know that was done

by Harold Jones.

I'd like us to get out

and actually look at the streets

around Abertillery to see

if we can build up a picture

in relation to how Abertillery

fits in, or doesn't fit in,

with what happens in London.

OK, let's go.

The town's layout has

remained remarkably intact.

This means the team are virtually

able to walk in the footsteps

of Harold Jones and that

of his first victim,

eight-year-old Freda Burnell.

The last day of Freda's life began

with her running an errand

to Mortimer's general store

and grain merchants,

where 15-year-old

Harold worked as a shop boy.

He was a nice young boy, he

was polite.

School teachers said

they couldn't find no fault in him.

His neighbours, everyone

painted him as an angel.

CHURCH BELL TOLLS

Around 9.10am on

Saturday, February 5th, 1921,

Freda Burnell was asked

to go on an errand.

She'd gone into the seed store

but he told her that,

if you go to the seed storage shed,

which is 400 yards away,

he said, I can give you that grit,

we have got none in the shop.

With Harold's employer, Mr Mortimer,

busy elsewhere in the shop,

Harold Jones saw an opportunity

to leave the shop unnoticed.

He followed Freda.

Harold Jones, we now know, cunningly

stayed quite a distance

from her so that nobody could say

they'd seen her anywhere near him.

He invited her into the shed,

he pointed out the bag of grit

and he apparently

attempted to rape her.

Strangled her, bludgeoned her

and did suffocate her with a scarf

and left her for dead in the shed.

The team arrive at the site

where the seed store once stood.

By trying to rebuild

a picture of the crime,

they are looking to see if there is,

what criminologists call,

a signature to it.

A signature being something unique

about the killer's style

and the method of murder that acts

as a form of deadly calling card.

What do we know about what actually

happened to her in the seed store?

Lisa, have you got the report?

Well, I've got the

death certificate.

And what does the death

certificate say?

Well, it says that the cause

of her death was shock

consistent upon rape

or attempted rape,

and injuries to the

vulva and hymen,

injuries to the neck

and partial strangulation,

injuries to the forehead

and, erm, shock and fright.

So, Bernard, is she hit on the head

as a way of stunning her

Well, that's the impression you get.

It's the final episode, isn't it?

The final part of this

is being suffocated.

Would the rape have been

pre- or postmortem?

Again, you can't tell from this.

I mean, these examinations

were very superficial.

You couldn't tell really.

But, certainly, it could be either

or it could be,

what's called, perimortem.

In other words, at the time of death

a minute or two before,

a minute or two after.

So, it's impossible

to be clear-cut.

Jackie, the other thing

that strikes me about this

is that he has enticed her

to the store.

He hasn't been seen walking

with her to the store.

Again, what does that imply

for you about the kind of offender

we are dealing with?

He's had the foresight to say,

you walk ahead and I'll follow you.

And it appears she walks ahead

to the store

and he's said, I'll meet you there.

Constantly thinking about

what happens when, if, I get caught,

or what happens when

the police investigate.

Constantly thinking

ahead of the game.

Very sophisticated and intelligent.

When Freda didn't return home,

her parents raised the alarm.

Under cover of darkness, Harold

Jones moved Freda's body

from the seed store and dumped

it in the lane on Duke's Hill

where she was discovered

the next morning.

A local surgeon performed

an autopsy on the young girl

on a kitchen table

as the distraught family looked on.

Scotland Yard detectives were

drafted in to help with the search.

It was about a week later that

someone had said to the police,

do you know that Mortimer

has got a storage shed?

And it's when they searched

that shed, they realised

that was the murder scene because

they'd found a handkerchief

of Freda's on the floor that had

come out of her pocket

while she was being assaulted

by Jones.

Much to the outcry of the locals,

Scotland Yard arrested Harold Jones

for the murder of Freda Burnell.

They took him into custody,

they charged him

and he was protesting his innocence

to them.

And in the court,

"I know it's all black against me

but I didn't do it."

The trial of Harold Jones made

headlines all over the world.

But the prosecution's case

was dealt a blow

when one man was called

to give evidence.

That man was Herbert Henry Mortimer,

Harold Jones' employer.

The Mortimers believed

the police were setting up

Harold Jones for a murder

that he didn't commit.

And they were so convinced, they

were prepared to lie to the police

and in court

regarding Harold Jones' movements.

Mr Mortimer's testimony

was enough to sway the jury

and save Jones from jail.

He was found innocent of the crime,

much to the delight

of the people of Abertillery.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

A lot of the newspapers

reported on it

because it was quite a big thing.

And he was treated like a hero,

and he acted like he was a hero.

Flags, bunting, and he was carried

shoulder-high through Abertillery

and presented with a gold watch.

BRASS BAND PLAYS

However, not everyone

gave Harold Jones a hero's welcome.

Freda Burnell's school friend was a

girl called Florence Little.

Florence lived just a few doors

down from Harold Jones

on Darran Road.

She was seen openly

accusing Jones of murder.

Harold, we now know,

invited Florence to go

into the house with a promise

of a drink of pop.

SUSPENSFUL MUSIC

TAP DRIPS

Just like Freda, Jones

sadistically murdered Florence.

Once again, the little girl

was strangled and sexually violated.

And in a final act of cruelty,

he slit her throat and drained

her body of its blood.

Harold Jones had once again

been the last person to see

the missing child alive.

And this time, police weren't

prepared to believe his story

and immediately searched his house.

When they went to the top

of the stairs, PC Cox noticed

near the hatch to the attic

that there was,

the wall had been cleaned.

And they realised then that

there's some reason why that wall

had been cleaned.

PC Cox climbed up into

the attic and he said,

"I found the body."

Harold's father was told by the

police the body was in there.

He approached his son and he said,

"Harold, the body's been found

in the attic."

And he protested, "Dad,

I don't know nothing about it.

"I swear I don't know

anything about it."

And Harold's father said to him,

"Well, it's either you or me, son,

and God knows I didn't kill her."

Florence's body was

removed from the house.

Mrs Ada Minnie Lewis is one of

Abertillery's oldest residents

and, amazingly, can still

recall events surrounding

Florence's demise.

They found a second little

girl that he murdered,

in the attic.

Oh, the funeral was immense.

Crammed, jammed, full, you couldn't

get another person in there.

Mind you, they did pay them tribute

to the extent, you know,

that everywhere was full.

Harold Jones was once again

brought before the court

on the charge of murder.

Once again, he denied everything.

"I didn't do it," he said.

Like I said,

he was at a child's court.

So they couldn't put him through

what they put an adult through.

Indeed, it was the fact

that Harold Jones was still a child

when he committed the murders,

that saved him from an appointment

with the hangman.

Despite calls for his execution,

being 15 meant his life was spared.

In search of a

more lenient sentence,

Harold Jones confessed

to the murders.

But such was the gravity

of the crimes, he was detained

at His Majesty's pleasure for taking

the lives of Freda and Florence.

Even though the murders

happened in 1921,

I believe the attic of Jones' home

still holds a crucial clue

about his continued evolution

as a murderer.

Gosh, this is the actual

attic where he hides

the body of Florence,

Come up, Mike, come up.

Oh, my gosh.

I thought it was going to be a small

space but it's really a big one.

I've worked with killers

who kept bodies

because they enjoyed the power that

they were even able to express

over the victim,

once the victim had died.

But I think he's

progressed as a killer.

I think he's learned

from the first murder.

And who's to say that that

progression doesn't continue

in the years and decades to come.

Oh, yes, we both would agree

that the killers

get better with age, with time.

And as you get older, you're less

impulsive, you're a better planner.

People who go on to kill repeatedly

develop methods of murder

and fixations with their victims.

Those who are most sadistic find

a safe place to store the body

so as to prolong their warped

pleasure, even after death.

Jones stored both his victims.

Those who are most

ritualistic take trophies,

such as personal effects,

or even parts of the anatomy

so they can carry a part of their

victim with them at all times.

Already, I detect such sadism

and ritualism in Harold Jones.

When Jones was arrested he was found

with seven ladies' handkerchiefs

in his pockets.

In my experience, handkerchiefs

often excite those serial killers

who are aroused with the

sensations of smell and taste.

I suspect some belonged

to his victims,

the others to girls

he had coveted.

More disturbingly, I believe

this fascination was rapidly

developing into something

more sadistic,

as was recorded in a letter between

Jones and his teenage sweetheart,

Lena Mortimer.

You know, when you asked

me to spit in your mouth, dear,

really, I don't believe

I will ever be as dirty as that,

so please forgive me for saying so,

for you really did offend me then.

A pattern can be seen emerging

in Harold Jones' sexual behaviour.

For me, the oral fixation

is in itself an act of sadism,

and in my experience with serial

killers, such a pattern of behaviour

can only continue to be satisfied

if it escalates into

something even more extreme.

The team regroup back at the

incident room in Ebenezer Chapel.

..and the two murders

in Abertillery?

First thing for me

is the geography of the crimes

and where he disposes

of the bodies.

There was something about walking

those crime scenes

that was quite important.

What did you make of it?

Well, I think Abertillery

must have been a very, very

safe town in 1921,

everybody knows each other

and he would know that he would

have been seen had he walked

with Freda Burnell.

They'd say, "Oh, yes, I saw Harold

Jones walking with Freda Burnell."

But he was sophisticated

for a 15-year-old to say,

"You walk ahead, I'll follow,"

to distort, creating a distance,

creating a distance for witnesses

not to see them together.

He was killing in plain sight.

The day has given the team

a valuable insight

into Harold Jones, the boy killer.

They now have a clear picture

of his signature as a murderer.

He is violent and

sexually motivated.

His victims are much smaller,

so that he can dominate them.

He applied cunning

and planning to his crimes.

He stored his victims' bodies.

He took trophies and he appeared

to have an oral fixation.

Our task as a team

is to see if this cold,

calculating and cunning killer

in Abertillery

re-emerges in the 1960s

as Jack the Stripper.

Our next stop is London.

Starting on the banks

of the Thames in 1964,

Scotland Yard were about to find

themselves dealing with a killer

the likes of whom they'd not met

since Jack the Ripper.

The Jack the Stripper murders

have never been subject

to a full investigation with a team

with modern policing techniques.

The hope is that by revisiting

the decades-old case

they can discover previously unknown

clues about the killer's

modus operandi and his signature,

and see if any of these match

with those of Harold Jones

as a murderer.

When Professor Mike Berry works for

the police as an offender profiler,

he begins the process by building

a mental picture of a killer's

movement and behavioural patterns.

One of the first things he does

is to revisit the locations

where the victims were found.

Today, he is assisted

by journalist Robin Jarossi,

who has written extensively

about these crimes.

This is the sort of Chiswick area,

we're coming down towards

Hammersmith.

I think, back then,

certainly up that way,

it was much more of a working area

with factories, wharves.

All that's now gone,

but this is the scene

where the first two bodies

were discovered.

Hannah Tailford, the first victim,

is found here by the river.

I suspect he lived nearby,

he knew the area very well

and it's occurred to him

that this would be a great spot

to just come down here late at

night, reverse up to the river edge

and let them go, and let

the river do its job in washing away

any evidence that may

have been left behind.

One of the things I found

with serial killers is they do take

trophies, and it's not

the obvious things, you know.

It can be something that's

connected to the victim

but have meaningless

value to anybody else.

Any hopes that the murder of Hannah

was an isolated incident were dashed

when over two months later the naked

body of 26-year-old Irene Lockwood

was also washed up.

Can you tell me a bit

more about Irene Lockwood?

Yes, she'd come down from

Nottinghamshire as a young woman.

She very quickly picked up a lot

convictions for prostitution.

She'd gone to a pub in Chiswick.

The landlord there positively

identified her as having been

in the pub and then she,

the very next day I think,

was found by a police patrol

as the tide was going out,

she'd been strangled

on the foreshore.

She was obviously unclothed.

The river visit is offering

Mike an invaluable insight

into the dark mind

of Jack the Stripper.

This killer knows

the area very well.

At the time, it would have been

quite an industrial area,

it would have been dark at night,

there would not have been

many people,

it was in the middle of winter, it

would be cold, wet and miserable.

So, he would be able to come

here and then dispose of a body

knowing that he's unlikely

to be seen by anybody.

One of the things that we know

is that people escalate,

serial killers

get better and better.

Most people do not

think about disposal.

This man has planned ways

to dispose of the bodies.

To actually leave a body the way

that the killer's left these bodies

makes me wonder

whether he's done something before.

Following the discovery

of Irene Lockwood's body,

an increased police presence

was to be found along the river.

But any hopes the authorities

had in deterring the killer

from killing again were dashed

when another body turned up,

this time not in the river

but in a suburban alley

near Swyncombe Avenue, Brentford,

three miles to the west of Chiswick.

The victim this time was 22-year-old

Helen Barthelemy from Blackpool.

She was my sister.

I only knew her up until

the age of about ten,

but I always remember her fondly

because she was such a good sister.

I remember in Blackpool she took me

up and down the seafront in a Zodiac

with the top down, and she had

a rock-and-roll dress on,

you know, with spots on.

She had a lovely smile and she

always had her hair usually up

whenever I saw her, she used to have

it in one of these rock-and-roll...

Beehives they called them.

And she was beautiful,

she was, you know,

a beautiful sister, really.

The first I heard of Helen

being in London

was when my brother

told me that she'd been murdered.

For Helen to be portrayed the way

she was, I think was disgraceful,

because the woman

that the papers described

bore no resemblance to the person

I knew.

Because they were all people,

they were all somebody's

mothers and daughters.

There's actually no facts

came to my mind

that have been produced

about Helen's murder

apart from the fact that she was

found strangled, naked and dead,

and had teeth removed at the front,

and that's the only facts that I've

ever been able to find out.

The postmortem of Helen

took place over 50 years ago.

The team have obtained a copy

of the postmortem report

and digitally recreated an autopsy

using a system called anatomage.

What did the postmortem

say about her, Lisa?

Right, body found naked.

Death from asphyxia

due to strangulation,

probably due to

twisted clothing around her neck.

The postmortems of all the women

reveal they had all lost teeth,

and, while some may have been due

to decay, it's clear in the reports

that others had been

removed after death.

I believe the killer

had a fascination with the mouth

and that he kept the teeth

as trophies, along with the clothing

he stripped from

his victims' bodies.

Lisa, this is interesting,

because this body has not

been placed in water

and therefore that allows us

to get a bit more information.

What other information do we have?

Well, actually, this is

the first lady that we had

some forensic evidence found.

She had flecks of paint

found on her body,

paint that was used in automobile

manufacturing at the time.

The paint flecks found on

Helen's body offered the police

their first real clue.

Given that Helen's body was dumped

several days

after she'd last been alive,

police now believe her dead body

may have been stored

after her murder.

As a criminologist,

I always feel that if they are

storing the body it gives them

greater amounts of time

to be with the victim,

and that might satisfy

all kinds of sexual needs.

The police now had forensic clues

gleaned from Helen Barthelemy's

body, but before they had

a chance to process them

Jack the Stripper struck again.

His victim this time

was 30-year-old Mary Fleming.

Again, the diminutive sex worker

had been left naked

and had her teeth removed,

and there were flecks of paint

on her body.

But the case was about

to have its first breakthrough

in the form of an eyewitness.

To this day, Peter Murray remains

one of the only known people

who ever saw the killer.

This is the first time

he's publicly shared his account

of that fateful night.

And it's an account which gave

the police at the time a compelling

piece of evidence

about the killer's height.

I'd been out with a young lady.

I think we'd been to the pictures.

Let's say we was on the right-hand

side of the road,

on the left-hand side

is a garage setback,

and there was a couple in there.

The girl, I can recall,

she had dark hair.

The man, he had a hat on,

it was a trilby,

and he had a cream type mac.

He was disturbing her clothing.

I could see his hand

on her clothing.

I couldn't see his face.

The struggle that Peter

was witnessing was in fact

Mary Fleming fighting for her life

at the hands of Jack the Stripper.

I've gone to Acton police

and I've given them a statement.

I don't think he was that tall,

because I'm thinking

he was about the

same size as the woman.

The policeman said at the time

that we probably witnessed

the murderer.

This new information

about the killer's height

was useful to police for

stop-and-search purposes,

but they were still at a loss as to

when the killer would strike again.

The Stripper's fifth victim was

found in a Kensington car park -

21-year-old Frances Brown.

Her profile as a victim was almost

identical to the previous women.

On the night of her death,

Frances was seen getting into a car

with a kerb crawler.

A friend, who was also working

the streets that night,

provided a police sketch artist

with a likeness of the driver.

This drawing may now be compared

to two pictures we have

of Harold Jones.

The likeness to my mind is uncanny.

Several months after the body

of Frances Brown was found,

a sixth victim was discovered.

29-year-old Bridget O'Hara

was found behind a shed

on the Heron Industrial Estate

in North Acton.

Well, I went to the stores

here just to get something,

some soap, and then coming out

I decided to have a look

around the back of the store,

the shed itself.

Well, I found this body,

or so I thought, at first.

And just see the legs,

well, the bottom of the legs,

with the feet.

The killing had all the hallmarks

of Jack the Stripper.

Teeth had been removed

and flecks of paint were found

on her naked body.

The flecks of paint were now seen

as being the most powerful piece

of evidence, and efforts

were multiplied to trace the origins

of the paint now found on

four of the victims' bodies.

The police knew it was from a type

of paint used in the automotive

industry, but it was also mixed

with a unique combination

of other fibres and particles.

Detectives were now convinced

that if they could find

the spray paint shop

they could find the killer.

A number of police officers

were trained to gather paint dust

samples and despatched to every

garage paint shop in West London.

It was an enormous operation,

and hundreds of garages were visited

before one finally delivered

a result.

This was the premises of

Shaw & Kilburn Automotives

on the Heron Industrial Estate

in Acton.

Detectives were able to eventually

discover that the bodies

weren't stored in a paint shop.

Adjacent to the spray paint garage

was a disused electricity

transformer shed

that was part of the abandoned

Napier Aero Engine factory.

Ventilation shafts in the spray

paint shop had sucked the flecks

of paint out into the open,

where they had settled in the empty

building next door.

This was where the killer

had been storing the bodies.

The discovery of the body

deposition site still did not bring

the police the breakthrough

they'd hoped for.

But the investigation

was being headed

by one of Scotland Yard's

most senior detectives,

John Du Rose, known as "Four-Day

Johnny", for his reputation

at being able to solve any case

before the working week was out.

Du Rose then implemented an enormous

stop-and-search operation

across a two-mile radius

in West London,

but not a single bona fide

suspect emerged.

This was complemented by the

questioning of thousands of men

in the Acton area,

an area where Du Rose was convinced

the killer either lived or worked,

and had known that the Napier

factory was abandoned and would be

the perfect place to hide a body.

Du Rose eventually put together

a list of suspects.

The list started off with,

I think 20,

it was one of 20 men, we said.

It came down to 16, to 12, to six,

to three, eventually.

These suspects were never made

public, but those working closely

on the case under Du Rose were party

to this confidential information.

Pat O'Connor was one such detective.

Was there any indication

given to you, Pat,

as to where the inquiry was going,

and any named prime suspects?

Yes, there was a name put forward

to me personally...

..and it was a man

by the name of Mungo Ireland.

When you say that was

given to you personally,

this was not in a general briefing,

but who gave you the information?

Probably somebody that I knew

on the squads that knew.

A little bit, who needs to know

gets the information. Yes.

So what was your belief about the

prime suspect, Mungo Ireland?

This could have been the individual

who committed those murders.

And what happened to Mungo Ireland?

I believe he committed suicide.

But this claim that Mungo Ireland

was the killer was certainly not

the official position

of the Metropolitan Police.

The case then, as now,

remains open and unsolved.

Du Rose gives the impression

that they pressured him

and they'd cornered this guy, and

he'd eventually killed himself.

But that didn't happen because the

police weren't aware of him

and his suicide until four

months after the final murder.

They discovered that he'd been

working on the Heron Trading Estate

at that point, but they never

really came up with any evidence

to connect him to

any of the victims.

There was no forensic evidence.

He was never interviewed

and it's clear

that the police who were in charge

of the investigation at that point

never really considered him

to be a very serious prospect.

When one of the victims disappeared

he was in Scotland

doing a job there as a cleaner.

Now, the Met asks Dundee police

to check that,

and Dundee police came back

and said, "Yes, that's right,

"we checked with his employers

and he was at work that day."

The most compelling piece

of evidence that the police had

was that the same flecks of car

paint had been found on four

of the victims, meaning

they'd been killed by the same man.

Mungo Ireland had a watertight alibi

for when one of the victims

was murdered, which,

by a process of elimination,

removes him from the frame

for all of the killings.

John Du Rose's identification

of Mungo Ireland

certainly wasn't based

on any hard evidence.

It was founded on something

far less empirical.

There's no CCTV, no DNA analysis,

no mobile phone data,

so in the '60s, you really had,

apart from...

Instinct. Instinct.

And gut feeling.

And, you think, gut feeling.

Yes.

So in this particular case,

do you think Mr Du Rose went on gut

feeling about Mungo Ireland?

Well, I couldn't say.

That's only an opinion of mine.

I would say he would

have weighed up the situation,

what evidence was there

at this particular time

and his own conclusions.

How long do you think

after you found the samples,

in relation to the murder

of Bridget O'Hara,

and the death of Mungo Ireland,

how long do you think you remained,

not just you but the rest

of the detectives,

on the inquiry thereafter?

We had a...

..get-together.

A get-together.

Yes, a get-together,

an office meeting...

..and Mr Du Rose

was going on holiday.

And thereafter,

it then petered out

and I returned not long after

it was wound down.

What was the information

that you had given to you,

about the reason Mungo Ireland

killed those prostitutes?

His access of the area

and his knowledge of the area

surrounding where those bodies

were being found or picked up.

Any concrete evidence?

No.

Thank you.

By the autumn of 1964,

with the incident room beginning

to wind down, and nobody

being charged for the crimes,

it would appear that

Jack the Stripper really had

gotten away with murder.

The killer would have taken

huge satisfaction knowing that

he'd outwitted

Scotland Yard's finest.

And in a time before

DNA evidence,

he would have known his

secret would have been safe

for the rest of his living days.

But why did he stop killing?

In my experience,

serial killers only stop killing

when they're caught,

become sick, or die.

With this in mind, I'm intrigued

once again by a detail

in the life of Harold Jones.

He began to fall ill in the

mid-1960s and was later diagnosed

with bone cancer.

At around this time, the last of the

Jack the Stripper murders occurred.

If Jones was sat before me now

there are so many questions

I would like to ask him

about his life in London

during that time.

But he died in 1971.

However, an extraordinary

breakthrough has occurred.

The production team has traced

the next best thing

to speaking to Jones himself -

his daughter.

She's agreed to do

an audio interview.

This is the first time she has ever

spoken publicly about her father.

She remains stunned

by the revelation

that he was a child murderer

in Wales,

something he hid from her

during his life.

I couldn't believe it. I thought...

..my dad hasn't killed anybody.

I couldn't believe it.

It took me quite

a while to take it in.

The man that I knew

as my dad was a murderer?

You know?

As I say, to this day,

I still can't believe it.

She's confronted with the reality

that he's committed two murders,

which is unquestionable.

That's a heck of a job

for her to cope with.

She's got to make the image

of her father equate

with the memories

that she has of her father.

And to be fair to her,

she's been advised

her father has been in jail

for killing two little girls,

an event that she did not understand

or know about.

Let's listen to a little bit more.

OK.

Surely, if he had done

these so-called murders

they would have tracked him down?

He's not here...

..to be able to say

and ask him anything...

..to find out really.

OK, he admitted

to the ones in Wales,

but people can change, can't they?

So, it's not... Because he did this,

it doesn't mean to say

that he's done it again.

So because he lived in that area

he must have done them,

but did he?

Nobody's been able to tell me

he did or he didn't.

What I'd like to hear is

he didn't do them, it wasn't him.

But if he did,

I would like to know he did,

but I don't know

we'd ever know why he did.

It would be hard, obviously,

as you know, for you to hear

something like that.

But it would put closure

to things...

..if somebody said, no, we have

proof, it was him that done it.

I wouldn't like it.

It would probably hurt a lot, but at

least it puts an end to things.

Harold Jones the father

appears to be a very different man

to the boy who went

to prison for murder.

Prison records often detail and

offender's rehabilitation journey.

Mike and I have uncovered Harold

Jones' prison psychiatric reports

and they give us cause for concern.

These words are taken

from those reports.

He states that he attacked the girls

to kill them and he denies

that the attacks on the girls

were actuated or accompanied

by any sexual desire.

This, in face of the evidence,

cannot be believed.

This psychiatric report clearly

demonstrates that Harold Jones'

sexual pleasure was derived

through the act of violence

upon his victims,

not through the act of sex,

that his state of sexual arousal

was achieved through murder.

"An ejaculation of semen

had occurred either before,

"during or after the attack

on Florence,

"and in every probability

is connected to that attack."

In other words, sadism.

The interviewing psychiatrist goes

on to highlight his concerns

about the letter from

Jones' young sweetheart,

Lena Mortimer, who is appalled

at his request to spit in her mouth

and we should also remember the

collection of ladies' handkerchiefs

Jones had upon him

when he was arrested.

He says that Jones denies

the ladies' pocket handkerchiefs

found in his possession had any

connection with sexual desires at

all, but I do not think

this can be believed.

His statement to me,

that he took all the handkerchiefs

from Lena because he was fond

of her, is somewhat unconvincing.

He's asking Lena

to spit in his mouth.

The spitting should be regarded

as a sadistic manifestation.

To put it crudely,

if we've got a young man

as a teenager who is a sadist,

that sadism isn't going to disappear

when he's an adult, is it?

It's going to develop.

Without any doubt

I would expect it to become

more violent, more sexual.

I think it shows quite clearly this

was a sexual and violent offender.

Jones' psychiatric report

reveals him to be

an unreformed sexual sadist.

The report continues,

"the aggressiveness of the male

is accompanied by that certain

"pleasure in the manifestation

of power over a woman."

Also the "sexual act reaches

its highest gratification

"when accompanied by cruelty,"

and, most damning of all,

"the prisoner, however,

shows no remorse for the crimes

"and no apparent desire for any

alteration in his condition."

What I find much more worrying

is no treatment. Oh!

There is absolutely no treatment

for this man at all.

He's gone in as a sex offender,

a violent man,

he comes out as a sex offender,

a violent man.

They talk about him

being very well-behaved

because he's institutionalised.

He does as he's told within the

system, but he makes it very clear

that he isn't going to talk to

anybody about his offence

in any doubt.

This guy is dangerous

because we've done nothing with him.

There's nothing in the reports

to indicate

that he's changed one iota.

And therefore we would not

have released him,

because we would have said,

the likelihood is

this man will kill again.

Yeah, I think he has

the potential to kill,

and probably would have killed

sometime after 1941,

when he's released.

With no treatment for the sexual

sadism, Harold Jones left prison.

The authorities didn't keep a close

tab on this still dangerous man

for one good reason.

He was lost in the fog of war.

Conscripted in 1941,

he served in Libya

and stayed in the Armed Forces

for almost five years.

Prized engineering skills

honed in the prison workshop

saw him become a gun fitter.

After being demobbed in 1946,

Jones headed for London.

His Army discharge papers highly

commended him to any future employer

as a fine-skilled engineer.

London was the perfect place to

get lost and start again,

and Jones did just that,

by taking a new name and a wife.

Harold Jones married in 1948

and records show that he used

a false name - Stevens,

his mother's maiden name.

A new baby was soon on the way.

Here now was a golden opportunity

to totally reinvent himself,

to erase his deadly history.

But the pull of Harold Jones' dark

past would prove too much for him

to leave behind,

because he was about to make

an extraordinary pilgrimage

back to the scene of his crimes.

Mum was in school with the girls,

so Mum knew the girls,

so obviously Mum had told us

about the murders.

It was the summer of 1950

and I can remember

being a young girl, and Mum said

about us going up the cemetery

to put flowers

on our Nana and Gransha's grave.

So, as it was a nice day, we said,

yes, we'd like to go.

So we caught the bus up and we went

up to Nan and Gransha's grave,

put some flowers on the grave

and tidied it up, and then we come

down because we had to wait

for the bus to come back.

So, I can remember us sitting on the

seat and Mam took some lemonade up

because it was hot day.

So after we had our pop,

it wasn't very long after,

Mam said to us,

"Come on, girls, we're going.

Quick."

So we wondered what was up.

Well, she didn't tell us

until after we got home

that Harold Jones had walked

in through the gate.

So what he was doing up there

that day, I don't know,

because his mother and father were

still alive at that time

so he wouldn't

have gone up to their graves,

so perhaps he was going up just

to have a look at the girls' graves,

just to gloat, I don't know.

Jones took a huge risk,

seeking out Freda Burnell

and Florence Little's graves.

For me, this wasn't a mark of a man

paying his respects,

this was a man seeking a form

of communion with the dead.

Many killers in history have sought

the same kind of pleasure.

It gives them power

over their victims,

even after death.

I believe it's this very same need

for power over the dead

that possessed whoever committed

the Hammersmith nude murders,

a connection that Mike has also made

whilst preparing his profile

of Jack the Stripper.

What's fascinating

is that he's escalated,

so he's actually keeping the bodies.

Most people, they kill,

they psychologically and physically

want to distance themselves

from the victim.

The serial killer keeps

the victim for pleasure.

They want to possess it.

You are playing God.

That's what they like, being God.

We know that he stripped the bodies

and has taken all the clothing.

Is he dressing up in them?

Is he making them wear

the clothes after death?

And we know

from the pathologists' report

that clearly two of the victims

were dressed after death

and then stripped, so is he working

out some fantasy with them?

Mike's profile also sheds some light

on more fundamental characteristics,

including his basic

domestic routine.

One of the things I found

fascinating was, all the offences

were in the weekdays and they were

all after 11 o'clock at night.

This indicates he's got a life

on a Saturday and Sunday

that doesn't give him the freedom

to go out and commit offences.

This may be he's likely

to have had some family commitment.

Once you start looking at organised

offences, you can then start saying

the killer is likely

to be much older, more mature.

In these cases, we can say,

quite categorically,

this was done by an older man.

Mike's offender profile helps us

build an even better picture

of Jack the Stripper,

and I'm intrigued

by some of the similarities

in the profile

that match what we now know

about Harold Jones.

But there are still

many unanswered questions

and I believe there's only

one person who can answer them.

MOBILE PHONE RINGS

Hello.

Hi, Jackie, it's David, how are you?

I'm good, thanks. How are you?

I'm fine, thank you, Jackie.

Jackie, I think you and I

have got to go and speak

to Harold Jones' daughter.

There's so much information

there that we should be pursuing.

Yes, good idea, absolutely.

I mean, she'll be able to help us

with where he worked,

when he worked in those places,

what other information has she got

that can throw some

light onto this case?

And also it would be really

good to pin down from her

a chronological order of the

addresses that they lived at

that she can remember, from a

small child up until the point

she left home.

OK, thanks very much, Jackie.

OK, nice to speak to you, goodbye.

Bye.

You know, the more I think

about it, the more I realise

that Jones' daughter is a real link

back to Jones the man,

Jones the killer, potentially

Jones the serial killer.

And his daughter might

therefore just be the key

that's going to unlock

this entire mystery.

I cannot emphasise enough

just how generous the daughter

and her husband are being in helping

us with such a difficult matter.

They're also prepared

to share her family archive

of photos and documents, which

reveal what Harold Jones looked like

whilst he lived in London,

and also the identity he used.

This is their marriage certificate.

His name was Harry Stevens.

Yeah, engineer...

Your dad's quite small in a sense,

because, how tall are you?

Five foot something.

Wasn't really tall.

So he's about 5'4 then?

Yeah.

There he is. He's hiding.

Yeah, he's behind there.

Did he often wear a trilby hat?

Towards the end, yeah,

I don't know why, but he did.

What sort of occupations

do you remember him having?

Well, he used to be

a sheet metalworker.

A sheet metalworker. Yeah.

And where was the sheet metalwork,

where he worked, where would he do

the sheet metalwork, where was...?

That was in Acton.

In Acton itself, yeah.

Do you know where in Acton it was?

No, no.

Until you were told

of his background,

you had no knowledge

that your father was Harold Jones?

I did know his name

was Harold Jones, yes,

because when we moved

to Hammersmith... Mm-hm.

..he used Jones for working.

Oh, OK.

And I did question that with mum.

What did she say?

She said, "Oh, another person

has got the same name,

"so Dad's changed." Right.

I'll always remember

that because I did ask,

because I found something

with Jones, and I said,

"Who's this?"

SHE CHUCKLES

Because I didn't know.

And she said, "Oh, it's Dad."

I said, "Well, no,

it's not his right name."

And she said, "No."

She said, "He had to change his name

while he was working."

This is a crucial

new piece of information.

Harold Jones changed his address,

job and name at a time

that coincides with the discovery

of the location where the killer

had been storing the bodies

in Acton.

And, just as importantly, given that

Jones had worked in Acton,

I'm convinced that, as an engineer,

he would have known about the

closure

of the Napier Aero Engine factory,

a sprawling abandoned site.

As the conversation

about Harold Jones progresses,

the daughter remembers another

disturbing memory about her father.

I know that they had an argument

and...Dad just went.

Mm-hm.

He would never hit mum... Mm-hm.

..or me.

I never got smacked or anything.

Mm-hm.

And he would rather walk out

the house than to hurt her.

Did she know where he'd gone?

Yeah.

How did she know, do you think?

I don't know how she knew,

but she used to...

She took me with her when he went,

so she knew where to find him,

but I asked, "How do you...?"

She didn't want to say anything.

And he had a kind of bolthole...

Yeah. ..to go to.

Rather than...

He didn't like to argue,

so he would walk out

and that's obviously,

he found somewhere to go.

Can you remember where the bolthole

was? It was in Hammersmith.

In Hammersmith itself. Yeah.

And do you remember

anything about it? Was it a flat?

It was like one of

these hostel places. A hostel.

He buggered off and went

in that, that doss house. Mm.

But there's no smoke without fire,

is there, you know what I mean?

He kept it all them

years to himself.

Which has got to play

on your conscience.

I don't care who you are,

you've murdered someone,

it's something you can't tell

your new wife

and then you've had a kid and you

can't tell her,

it's a hell of a strain on someone.

Mm.

The thing is, you are not

responsible for anything

that your father may

or may not have done,

you don't have to carry any guilt

or shame on behalf of him.

Mm.

What I'd like to know, the truth.

Sure.

If that can ever be... Established.

Yeah. Yeah.

The bolthole Harold Jones

used to stay in was called

Rowton House,

a working man's hostel

on Shepherd's Bush Road

near Hammersmith.

Records show that Harold Jones first

stayed there after being demobbed.

This bolthole was at the epicentre

of the Jack the Stripper murders

and Harold Jones' daughter

remembers picking him up

from there around that time.

Bridget O'Hara, the sixth victim,

was last seen close to Rowton House

on the day she died.

She was with a man who

had previously been seen drinking

with a small group of

Welshmen in a local pub.

The last sighting of Bridget

was walking down the road

with this man, who is described

as being very short

and wearing a trilby hat.

We believe this new information

about Rowton House is a critical

new lead, and one Jackie

is looking to explore further,

along with other information we know

about where Jones lived and worked.

Environment is really important,

I think.

Understanding and knowing where

prostitutes work and frequent

in the pubs, that's a real kind

of essential part of it,

so it's familiar, familiar.

I definitely think that the man

lived in this area

and worked in West London,

that's what I believe to be true,

that this area was

very comfortable for him.

Jackie has arranged

to talk to Dr Kim Rossmo.

Kim is a geographic profiler,

one of the FBI's go-to men

in serial murder cases.

He helps investigators to create

murder maps based on empirical data

about where the killer's

victims' bodies were found.

These maps can suggest links

between where the killer lived,

worked or socialised.

He's created for us one such map

for the Jack the Stripper murders.

Could you just explain

what is geographical profiling?

Geographic profiling

is an investigative tool that's

used in serial crime cases.

Its purpose is to help police

focus on the offender's

most likely anchor points.

Now, that might be their home,

it might be some place

they start their search from.

You know, in some cases

offenders' work

is more important than their home.

There's been a lot of research

on what's called "journey to crime".

How far does an offender travel from

their home or their anchor point

to where they offend.

As you move further away

from an offender's home,

the probability they'll

commit a crime drops.

The other factor is there

tends to be a buffer zone

around an offender's home,

because they don't want to operate

too close to home.

Their car might be recognised,

someone may be a friend

or a neighbour and

recognise their face.

So, overall, in a serial case,

we'll have a number of locations,

each one of them giving

a geographic clue,

but, together, providing a pattern

that gives us a lot of information.

One of the areas was north

of Chiswick High Road,

South of the Vale

and the Uxbridge Road,

it stretches down all the way

to Lyric Hammersmith.

So the second one,

which is to its east,

focuses kind of around Holland Park,

down to Kensington High Street.

We're looking at

a particular suspect

who we know,

when he was a young man aged 15,

murdered two girls

on separate occasions.

Sometime later on release

he ended up in an area

within one of the hot spots

that you identified.

Well, based on what you've

described,

he sounds like a good suspect,

but you also have to consider

both elements to make someone

a good suspect and elements

that make someone a bad suspect.

If this was an active

investigation today,

these are different angles

and theories the investigators

would use to geoprofile,

to help explore,

to help prioritise their efforts.

Thank you so much, Kim,

it's been an absolute delight.

Nice to see you. Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

Kim Rossmo's saying these are

good indicators to police,

so where we had a big area

of 24 miles

that John Du Rose was looking at,

this talks about

1.6 miles and one mile,

just under three square miles,

that's a hugely useful tool.

This information from Kim

also intriguingly marries up

with a new piece of information

Jackie has found out

about the identity of a man

who worked at a location

within the hot spot.

Hello.

Hi, David, it's Jackie.

Oh, hi, Jackie.

How did you get on with Kim Rossmo?

Very well indeed, thank you.

I did some research

about a company called

Napier Aero Engines, Acton,

and they have a roll call

of all their ex-employees

and I have a man here

in the name of HL Stephens,

who was employed next door

to the building

where four of the bodies

were known to be stored,

in the transformer shed.

This new information

about a Mr HL Stephens

is fascinating, as we know Jones

went by the name Stevens

during part of his life.

And it's a finding which potentially

forms another compelling piece

of our puzzle.

But pieces remain missing.

Partly because, as civilians,

we don't have the powers

of the police to obtain

certain documents,

such as Harold Jones' work records.

The last time the Metropolitan

Police looked at the case

was just over a decade ago.

They remained unable to

draw any firm conclusions

as to the identity of the killer,

but Harold Jones wasn't

on the police radar

when that cold case review was done.

If he had been, would that

information have changed the outcome

of the police's findings?

I'm now convinced that we need

Jackie to use her contacts

at Scotland Yard to get hold of the

man who did the review in 2007

and get him to look at

what we've found so far.

Do you know the detective

who did that review?

I've heard of him,

Alan Jackaman,

a very, very experienced

murder squad detective.

I can get on and do that for you,

David,

and come back when

I've made contact.

OK, Jackie, thanks very much.

Thank you very much, goodbye. Bye.

Do you know,

if we can get Alan Jackaman,

who conducts the cold case review,

as part of our investigation,

that really would add some weight

to what it is that we've been doing.

In particular, you know,

it's always difficult to get

the police to reopen a case, but

if we've got the man who conducts

the cold case investigation saying,

actually, if I'd had this evidence

when I conducted my

cold case review,

that seems to me to be

really significant.

The contents of the

2007 cold case review

remain unavailable to the public,

but Jackie has tracked down

Detective Alan Jackaman.

Jackie is particularly keen to see

if Alan can recall ever seeing

a suspect list from the era,

and if so, did the name

of Harold Jones or

Harry Stevens appear on it?

We were lucky enough to find

the original report written

by Detective Superintendent Baldock,

within which contained quite a long

list of suspects which

he looked at at the time.

Neither the name Jones

nor Stephens appeared,

so he didn't form

a part of the review.

I wondered if you would be kind

enough to come back with me

down to Abertillery in South Wales,

where there are enormous amounts

of intelligence and information

that I would like to present to you

for your examination,

and look at the work

that the team have gathered

over the last ten months.

I'd be fascinated, I would love

to go and look at the evidence

that you found against Jones.

Thank you.

Many months have passed

since we began our investigation

in Abertillery,

and the time has come

to return to the incident room

there.

Our team have compiled

a comprehensive list

of all the evidence we've unearthed,

and we are about present this

to Detective Alan Jackaman.

Alan will consider our findings

to see if there's any merit

in presenting them to Scotland Yard.

Let's start by things like age.

One of the things profiles suggest

is that this is an older man,

because he was organised.

And he's organised in a number

of different ways.

We know that he stripped the bodies

and we know that he took trophies,

specifically of the clothing...

..and the teeth.

There's also, I think,

some information about height.

Robin, what height were the victims?

They were all 5'0, 5'2 tall,

so they were very petite women.

On the night that the

last victim disappeared,

one of her drinking companions saw

her walking off at closing time

with a chap

that she seemed to have known,

and he was described as being 5'6,

wearing a sheepskin jacket

and a trilby.

A number of the victims were found

in a particular area

related to a particular trading

estate, Alan, weren't they?

Yes, the Heron Trading Estate,

which is quite a large area,

containing lots of factory units

and where thousands

of people were employed.

Our killer has access to a lock-up

that he's able to use,

that might also indicate that our

killer was also employed there.

So, let's bear this profile in mind

and think to what extent

there is some mirroring in relation

to the profile of Jack the Stripper

with what we know definitively

about Harold Jones.

In relation to Freda

and Florence's murder,

there's evidence of Harold Jones

storing the bodies.

I'm also interested

in this idea of trophy-taking.

Jack the Stripper's murders

are characterised by the taking

of trophies, in particular

the clothes and the teeth.

The prison records reveal quite

a lot in relation to handkerchiefs

and spitting in the mouth.

The spitting in the mouth,

I think, ties up

with the sadism that we see

in the Jack the Stripper murders.

The idea of the killer's fixation

related to the teeth,

to the mouth.

These women were

sadistically murdered.

And because of that sadism,

which had a sexual overtone,

they lost their lives.

Sadism doesn't dissipate over time,

sadism always finds some way

of expressing itself

in terms of the killer's

life and lifestyle.

So when you start to put

these things together

there's an uncanny mirroring

of these early murders in the 1920s

and how aspects of those murders

are reappearing in the murders

that we see in the 1960s.

And your work in particular, your

part of the investigation, Jackie,

throws up the information in

relation to whether or not

we can determine was

Harold Jones Jack the Stripper?

Thank you, David.

What I'd like to do is play

some excerpts from the interview,

and you will hear the words

of Harold Jones' daughter.

She remembers her father

leaving home on two occasions

for two to three days.

She asked her mum,

because it troubled the little girl,

why he'd done it, and her mum said,

"Because he had to get away."

This troubled the girl,

and when she was older,

she asked her mum about it again,

and I'd like you to play

the next clip, please.

I know they had an argument.

He wouldn't argue with Mum, he'd

walk out, and he would end up there.

Why did he have to go?

Why could he not just

argue it out with Mum...

..like people do?

Was he frightened that he might

have done something to Mum?

What do you mean?

Well, was he afraid

that if he stayed and argued

with Mum, he would have killed her?

He was very afraid to lose his

temper by the sound of everything

that's gone wrong,

that he might do something.

What is also interesting

is that the daughter reveals

another name change.

All the paperwork, all the paperwork

was in the name of Stevens.

So why does he want

to change his name back to Jones,

having been called Stevens?

And might I suggest to you that is

because the name Stevens

is even more toxic than Jones,

and he's worried that that might

mean that people start

to investigate this man

called Harry Stevens,

who might be connected to the

Jack the Stripper murders.

So I wondered if you, David,

would put up on the map Rowton House

on this road here,

221 Hammersmith Road.

So within the western hot spot

of the Jack the Stripper murders

we've got where Harold Jones

disappears to

when tensions within the home

become too much for him.

I mean, this is quite

extraordinary, isn't it?

This is beginning to look like

some empirical evidence

based on our profiles, and then

based on the evidence

of what we know about what

Harold Jones did

and what people said about him

when he was incarcerated.

We're now ready to ask Alan Jackaman

what he thinks of our findings,

and if he would be willing to bring

any influence he has within

the Metropolitan Police to bear

in order to get the case reviewed.

Now, Alan, you and Jackie

were police officers.

If you suddenly get information

suggesting that a convicted

double child murderer with the kind

of profile of what he does

to his victims was living within one

of the key areas where the police

were investigating

a sequence of murders,

surely for you,

for any police investigation,

that's pretty important

information, isn't it?

He would shoot to the top of the

suspect list, without a doubt.

You'd never heard of Harold Jones

when you did the

first cold case review.

If you had heard of Harold Jones,

with all of this information,

how high up your suspect

list would he have been?

Well, as we know,

Harold Jones didn't feature

in the first inquiry at all,

but had I known then what I know now

much further research would have

been done on Harold Jones,

and he would have been in the

highest level of suspect.

In fact he would be Harold Jones,

a very good prime suspect. Yes.

There's lots of things that we do

know, there's lots of things

that we don't know, but don't we owe

to the victims' families,

who are still living,

don't we owe something to them

to pursue this a little bit more?

Because we've come so far

as civilians,

the Metropolitan Police

can take it further. Alan?

There are still avenues to pursue

and I would certainly

relish being involved

in any further investigation.

I'm really grateful to hear that

because this is a case

where there are still living human

beings who are intimately connected

to the six women who died,

and it seems to me we do

have a moral responsibility

to those descendants.

I think we need to be part

of the process that brings justice

to the descendants of the six

women who were killed

by Jack the Stripper. I agree.

It's almost 100 years

since Harold Jones

killed Freda Burnell

and Florence Little.

Over the years, their graves have

fallen into a state of disrepair.

However, the people

of Abertillery have now raised money

for the headstones

to be repaired, and the graves

have now been restored,

forming a fitting and enduring

tribute to two children

who lost their lives

but will never be forgotten.

No-one who's heard this story

can fail to be moved by it.

It's a pleasure to be able

to remove this cover.

I hope that Florence and her family

will rest in peace

knowing that

we've not forgotten her.

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I just can't speak.

It's wonderful to see that.

EVERYONE: Oh!

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