40 1st October
Patrick Sharp looked as pumped as Wendy had imagined he might. As the force’s psychological profiler, he couldn’t have hoped for a juicier case to work on. The original Jack the Ripper case had eluded detectives — both professional and armchair — and psychological profilers for almost a hundred and thirty years. Copycat killers were always a particularly unique breed of serial killer, and the fact that someone in Mildenheath seemed to be replicating the Jack the Ripper killings with almost uncanny similarity was something that Patrick Sharp found both worrying and extremely exciting.
‘The killer is keeping remarkably close to the original killings,’ he said to a packed incident room. ‘It might not seem it in many ways, but we have to remember that the original murders were
