Geoff Knupfer
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first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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No, I mean, I was a young, relatively young detective in those days.
I suppose the tentacles of the Ripper case... That's what I'm just thinking about, the tentacles.
...crossed everywhere, yeah.
All over the Northwest.
Yeah.
And even further afield into central England.
So we were all doing bits and pieces and keeping observations and what have you, but I was never directly involved in...
One other point, going back to the Ripper case, you know, it was all... All the filing was paper filing.
It was all card indexes and what have you.
And the police station that...
that this was run from.
I don't know whether you're aware of this.
They had to reinforce the floor because of the sheer weight of paper that they had generated, the case had generated.
And it was as a result of that that computerization of homicide cases, certainly in the UK, the home system, the Home Office Large Major Inquiry System, came about.
And I was very fortunate to work on the first case in...
Greater Manchester that used a computerized system.
This was before Holmes came about, and we had a small system that was an individual system, if you want, that we were really trying out to see whether this process worked.
And I can always remember working on this particular murder case.
I was in the serious crime squad at the time, so we managed, if you want, for a better description, murder inquiries.
And
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