Much has been written about the brutal crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, and--35 years after he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 13 women--scarcely a week goes by without some mention of him in the media. In any story featuring Sutcliffe, however, his victims are incidental, often reduced to a tableau of nameless faces. But each woman was much more than the manner of her death, and in Somebody's Mother, Somebody's...