Reincarnation..or pissed off moderator
 

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- British police were racing against time on Wednesday to find the killer of five women, all thought to be prostitutes, before another person dies.

Five naked bodies have been found in and around the town of Ipswich, eastern England, in the last 11 days, striking fear into the community that a serial killer is on the loose.

Detectives have identified three of the dead women as prostitutes. Two other sex workers are missing and police fear the worst following the discovery of two more bodies on Tuesday.

Paula Clennell, 24, has not been seen since Saturday and Annette Nicholls, 29, has been missing for at least a week.

"The natural assumption (is) that these are the two missing women," said Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull.

The bodies were discovered in the Nacton area to the east of Ipswich, close to where the naked body of another of the victims, Anneli Alderton, 24, was found in woodland on Sunday.

In a chilling twist, Clennell spoke to a television crew last week when the murder hunt was underway.

"It could happen to anyone," she told ITV news in comments reported in British newspapers on Wednesday. "It's made me a bit worried about getting into cars."

The rapid discovery of so many victims has terrified locals in the provincial town and raised fears that another "Ripper" targeting prostitutes is on the loose.

The most notorious such killer was the 19th-century murderer known as "Jack the Ripper", blamed for the deaths of five prostitutes in east London in 1888 but never found.

The most prolific was Peter Sutcliffe, called the "Yorkshire Ripper", who murdered 13 women, mainly prostitutes, in northern England from 1975 to 1980 before he was caught.

British criminologist Colin Wilson said the Ipswich killer had surpassed "Jack the Ripper" in the speed of his killings and warned that more victims would follow.

"The police will have to move at the speed of light because the Ipswich killer will already be planning his next attack," Wilson wrote in the Daily Mail newspaper.

A massive police inquiry began on December 2 when the body of Gemma Adams, 25, was found in a stream in the west of the town. Police divers discovered 19-year-old Tania Nicol in the same stretch of water on December 8.

Officers are only officially linking these two murders but say there are similarities with the death of Alderton, who was found strangled.

Police have warned prostitutes to stay off the streets and women have been advised not to go out alone.

Earlier on Tuesday, Gull said he believed sex workers might have vital information that could help identify the murderer.

what is it with prostitutes ?

i guess they isolate themselves - making themselves easier targets ..
i dont think they are being killed because the killer hates hookers..
they want to kill women and hookers are more accessable..
(plus they probably count on the fact that the police dont care about them as much as an average citizen)

makes me wonder further if it is specifically women these guys want to kill - or just anyone ... but they are cowards and are afraid of men ?

probably women ... a lot of men hate women - for reasons i'll never understand.

Why does England name all their hooker slaying serial killers Rippers?

I guess it's out of respect to Jack.

I saw an interview with one of the victims tonight filmed only two days before she was found dead.

You actually hit on pretty much EVERY reason they target prostitutes. Gary Ridgeway (the greenriver killer) was a weasly little wimp of a man, but the most prolific serial killer in the US.

yeh, I live very close to Ipswich, twenty minutes away, and these are scaring people a lot! I think he either want's to be known and spoken about, or he is some sicko who idolises jack. The worst part is he has done it very well. He can kill five people in 11 days and not leave a trace of evidence or DNA.

I'm going to ipswich on saturday for some dry slope skiing and my nan, who lives there, says the mood has shot down dramatically. If jack killed seven over a large space of time, this guy is doing awfully better.

Jack didnt have the internet and 30 years of intense studies on serial killers at his finger tips to learn how to cover his tracks. Look on the bright side, you arent a hooker, are you?

find him then send him to NZ..
the prosties over here are all tranvestites..
they will fuck him over

Hold on a goddamn minute...

Newb, are you implying that if it's not a reincarnation of Jack then it's our Zwoti? Is that what you're saying? I just want to be sure on that.


I think Zwoti is a little too refined for prostitutes, unless he's on a secret mission from the Jade Orchid Empress or some such.

Well he did mention something about a "long and unhappy story" when questioned about his whereabouts a couple days back...