Bob Taylor obituary: policeman who caught murderer Michael Sams.
No-nonsense detective known as ‘Mr 100 Per Cent’ because he solved all his cases as head of CID at West Yorkshire police
The Times
Tuesday January 21 2025, 5.00pm GMT, The Times
Taylor put his success rate down to old-school tradecraft and “following the evidence”Working under George Oldfield on the Yorkshire Ripper case gave Bob Taylor an object lesson on how not to catch a serial killer. For six long years Peter Sutcliffe continued to murder young women while the assistant chief constable of West Yorkshire police bungled the investigation.Taylor would later solve every one of the 50-plus murder, kidnap, terrorist and rape investigations during his ten years as head of West Yorkshire Criminal Investigation Department (CID), earning him the sobriquet “Mr 100 Per Cent”.
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