Hitchcock murder shocker a real killer movie, says Ripper
YORKSHIRE Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has revealed he is a huge fan of a shocking film about two killers.
The 74-year-old described Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope – in which a pair of university graduates murder a pal – as a “good movie”.
Sutcliffe also mocked the victim, whose body is put in a chest that is covered with a tablecloth and used to serve dinner to his family.
A collector of the notorious serial murderer’s letters passed the Daily Star Sunday a note in which Sutcliffe talks about the film. It is now being offered on a website selling killers’ possessions. Sick Sutcliffe, who used knives, hammers and screwdrivers to murder 13 women, wrote about the film in a letter to a US pen pal.
He said: “I have seen Hitchcock’s Rope with James Stewart it’s a good movie and these 2 young guys get caught out in the end for the crime against their ‘friend’ (so called!!).”
The flick shocked audiences on its release in 1948 by opening with a scene showing the man being strangled. The killers then give their victim’s father a bundle of books to take home, wrapped in the rope they used to murder his son.
It is based on the real-life killing of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
The Ripper sent the never-beforeseen note in 2013 from Broadmoor hospital before he returned to jail.
Sutcliffe, who signed the letter Peter, adds he is a fan of James Cameron’s environmental sci-fi epic Avatar and loves the “sad” sound of Roy Orbison songs.