The tools that Peter Sutcliffe used to beat, hit, strike, smash, stab and mutilate his victims.
Police received a warrant to search Sutcliffe’s home on January 4, 1981. They found a number of tools and various hammers. When investigators told Sutcliffe they had found the knife and hammer he had hid within the oil barrel, without fuss, Sutcliffe then admitted to being the Yorkshire Ripper.
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A Tool Albert Fish Had Others Use on Him
As a masochist, Fish often involved his children in his "games" of humiliation and pain. He had devised an activity involving a paddle punched through with nails. He would also get down on all fours on the floor of his living room, and have one of his children hold a stout paint stick or hair brush behind him. The child was directed to hold up a number of fingers, which Fish could not see. He would then "guess" the number of fingers held up. If he was wrong (as he invariably was) the child had to strike him on the buttocks with the stick or brush as hard as he could equal to the number of fingers the child was actually holding up. [One child reported later in court that Fish would many times "guess" numbers much greater than the number of fingers a person had, much to the children's confusion].
