Manchester's serial killer?

[AlanG]

http://www.queerty.com/is-there-a-modern-day-jack-the-ripper-terrorizing-manchesters-gay-village-20150113

[AlanG]

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/latest-updates-man-dies-after-8583195

Another canal death last night.

[AlanG]

Yet another canal death yesterday

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mans-body-recovered-river-irwell-8995189#rlabs=1

[AlanG]

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/manchesters-serial-killer/on-demand/62110-001

[Jon Guy]

This programme was utter shyte.

Although the blurb mentioned 80 or so bodies found in the canals, the ex copper who made the programme only looked at 3 cases, and all he did in the way of investigating was timing the final route of the victims caught on CCTV.

I really felt for the families of the 3 victims.
He opened it all up again for them and had no further info to give them in the end.

There was just no point to it at all, except self promotion for the investigator, and I made a mental note to stay away from canals or water at night if drunk.

[John Wheat]

This programme was utter shyte.

Although the blurb mentioned 80 or so bodies found in the canals, the ex copper who made the programme only looked at 3 cases, and all he did in the way of investigating was timing the final route of the victims caught on CCTV.

I really felt for the families of the 3 victims.
He opened it all up again for them and had no further info to give them in the end.

There was just no point to it at all, except self promotion for the investigator, and I made a mental note to stay away from canals or water at night if drunk.

I concur John

The program didn't answer wether Manchester has a serial killer or not. I was left with more questions than answers. The investigator was a joke.

Cheers John

[AlanG]

To be fair I do concur with you both...But how do you explain the 5 or so minutes of silence followed by 'an un-earthly scream'

[John Wheat]

To be fair I do concur with you both...But how do you explain the 5 or so minutes of silence followed by 'an un-earthly scream'

To AlanG

I can't but surely that's the sort of thing that the doc should have tried to answer.

Cheers John

[AlanG]

Unfortunately a Women has been found in a canal this morning. That is now 87 dead bodies in 8 years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-35380444

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/body-found-canal-audenshaw-pub-10773358

[PC2267]

There was a documentary on TV in the early hours of the other morning. It made very interesting viewing, it appears that they call `him` the Pusher. There's some conjecture about whether `he's` real or not. His MO appears to be pushing people into a canal and then watching them drown? GMP concluded that if `he` did exist there would be people coming, whereby `he'd` pushed them in but they swam to the other side and got out, thus not drowning, as this hasn't yet been the case they remain unconvinced. Interestingly Birmingham has a bigger head of population and more canals and yet no or certainly fewer unexplained drownings, it seems, or is that just WMP cuffing their HO crime stats?