Author: Richard Jones

In a previous article I featured the details of the murder of Mr. Shepherd, which took place in December, 1832. At the inquest into his death it was suggested that a man named Samuel Newland may have been […]

In December, 1832, London was shocked by a terrible murder that had taken place in Clerkenwell, just to the north of the City of London. The Northampton Mercury  gave full details of what had occurred in its edition […]

Although murders such as those committed by Jack the Ripper were shocking, and were given plenty of press coverage, there were, nonetheless, plenty of other murders that took place in London at the time. There were stories of […]

As with so many tings, once the railways came, and made travel faster and more commonplace, people started figuring out what sort of crimes this new mode of transport could facilitate. All sorts of crimes and weird encounters […]

Dorset Street, in Spitalfields, was the scene of the murder of Jack the Ripper’s final victim, Mary Kelly, on the 9th of November, 1888. A few years later, it became even more infamous as the worst street in […]

One of the many frustrations when you attempt to investigate unsolved crimes from the distant past is trying to ascertain the actual facts about what happened, and to resist the temptation to speculate. The Jack the Ripper crimes […]

The most paranormally active site connected with the Jack the Ripper crimes is that of 29 Hanbury Street, scene of the murder of Annie Chapman, which took place in the backyard of the house on the 8th of […]

It is perhaps no surprise that ghost stories are told in connection with the Jack the Ripper murders, in fact the biggest surprise is that there are not as many of them as might be expected. MITRE SQUARE […]

For today’s murderous article I thought I would take you away from London, and make a trip up to Scotland, where, so The Fife Herald reported, on Thursday the 8th of June, 1848 a terrible murder was committed. […]

Cases of child murder crop up with tragic regularity in the 19th century newspapers, and they are often horrible beyond belief. I have previously covered the case of Sweet Fanny Adams, which shocked society in 1864. Another case, […]