Author: Richard Jones

In the very early stages of the investigation into the Jack the Ripper murders, there appears to have been a consensus that the crimes were the work of one of the local gangs attempting to extort money out […]

In October, 1888, with the police no nearer to catching the perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders – who was now becoming better known as “Jack the Ripper” – criticism of the Metropolitan Police began to increase dramatically. Much […]

The Jack the Ripper murders most certainly exposed many of the horrors of every day life that, by 1888, had become endemic to the East End of London. As the murders increased in ferocity, and it became more […]

Following the night of the double murder, the 30th of September, 1888, the people of the East End of London were gripped by a wave of panic at the outrages that were being perpetrated by Jack the Ripper. […]

During the first week of October, 1888, all sorts of theories and discussions were taking place in the daily newspapers concerning the East End murders that were being carried out by the killer who was by then becoming […]

Between Saturday the 15th of July, 1905 and Saturday 17th February, 1906, The Illustrated Police News treated its readers to a series, written by Guy Logan, which was titled “The True History of Jack the Ripper.” The first […]

In early October, 1888, the London newspapers were reporting on two new Whitechapel murders (well, one Whitechapel and one City of London) that had taken place in the early hours of the last day of September. At 1am […]

There can be no doubt that the Jack the Ripper murders presented the Victorian public with a series of crimes the details of which were so shocking that people found themselves genuinely disturbed and terrified by them. Yet, […]

Let me ask you a question. Suppose that you are/were a lawyer – and if you are a lawyer please ignore the “suppose” instruction – and the police had done something that they didn’t actually do – but […]

By the 25th September, 1888, the mood in Whitechapel and Spitalfields has begun to relax somewhat, with regards the series of murders that had taken place in the district over the previous few months. Today, we are familiar […]