Wasn’t there a Hitchcock film based on something similar? I am not sure I think the movie name was Frenzy or something like that.
Was real life similar to Frenzy? Well, probably not. In Frenzy the murders are committed by strangulation, and the MO of the serial killer is to use a necktie. Pretty tame stuff compared to Sutcliffe's brutal, ritualistic crimes. And Frenzy really focuses more on a "wrong man" theme than the serial murders themselves.