Author: Richard Jones

Alois Szemeredy claimed that he was a “military surgeon.” In 1892, he was arrested in Vienna, on suspicion of murder and robbery, but he committed suicide whilst being held for questioning. In late September, 1892, articles began appearing […]

Barely has the year 1889 got underway than the residents of the East End of London were learning of another outrage that had taken place in their midst, this time in Limehouse. On Thursday, 10th January, 1889, John […]

Well, 2019 has now, well and truly arrived and, to celebrate, here is our first Jack the Ripper Quiz of the year. For those of you, and the number grows each month, who are seasoned veterans of our […]

The area now occupied by Bethnal Green Gardens, Paradise Row Gardens, and Museum Gardens, actually comprises the remnants of the area’s medieval green, which was known as “the Bethnal Green Poor’s Land.” From the 1860’s onwards, there was […]

Dorset Street, where Jack the Ripper carried out his final and most gruesome murder, that of Mary Kelly, on 9th November, 1888, was frequently in the news in Victorian times, and, it has to be said, most of […]

As January, 1889, began, and the spectre of Jack the Ripper began to diminish in the East End of London, many people were wondering what had happened to the fiend that had terrorised the enclaves of Whitechapel and […]

As people across London prepared to bid farewell to 1888 – the year of Jack the Ripper – temperatures across the country plummetted dramatically, and a dense fog descended over London. DENSE FOG IN LONDON The London Evening […]

The common lodging houses of the East End of London played a hugely important role in the saga of the Jack the Ripper mystery. With one exception – that exception being Mary Kelly – all the Whitechapel murders […]

The phenomena of the letter writers is a massively important part of the Jack the Ripper saga. Once the initial “Dear Boss” missive was made public, in early October, 1888, hoaxers across the land began reaching for their […]

Although there is a general consensus that, by October 1890, almost two years had passed since the final Jack the Ripper murder, that of Mary Kelly on the 9th November, 1888, that consensus is one that can only […]