The End Of The Hunt?

[Sam Flynn]

Jeff, files on Broadmoor patients are closed for 100 years after death, and possibly more.

That's because they haven't come up with a viable indexing system yet - half of them are labelled "Napoleon".

[Monty]

Robert,

There was a slight reluctance to let him back in yes.

Monty

[garytelecastor]

There is correspondence from Monro (Home Office) in January 1889 (HO/144/221/A49301.G) stating that he was trying to decrease the amount of resources (personnel) being used in the case "as quickly as it is safe to do so." Now, whether that means they had already discovered who was behind the killings or simply a matter of economics is never clarified.
But, simply from personal reasoning, if they were still in hot pursuit of the killer I would think that they would not be pulling men off the case.

[claire]

That's because they haven't come up with a viable indexing system yet - half of them are labelled "Napoleon".

and there is a large number of Johns the Baptist, too...

re. the 1988 not 1992 question, I'd imagine it had to do with the centenary.