Author: Richard Jones

Jack the Ripper and East End philanthropy might, at first glance, seems like odd bedfellows. However, the Whitechapel murders did actually result in more attention being paid to the plight of the underclass that lived on the periphery […]

One type of crime that received extensive press coverage in the second half of the 19th century was the crime of “garrotting.” The crime itself had a simple, though effective, modus operandi whereby one of the perpetrators would […]

My guest today is Randy Williams, a US Private Investigator, martial artist of some note and Ripperologist for more than 40 years. Together with three of the world’s top criminalists and Forensic Scientists, Randy has written a novel […]

One of the best known officers who worked on the Jack the Ripper case –  thanks largely to the fact that he was portrayed by Johnny Depp in the film From Hell, and by Michael Caine in the […]

Given that Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror lasted a relatively short period of time (31st August 1888 to 9th November 1888, if you believe in the concept of the canonical five victims); the repercussions from his murders […]

A recurring feature concerning East End life and criminality in the 19th century that featured over and over again in the Victorian newspapers, was just what a difficult, not to say dangerous, area it was to police. There […]

By 1892, it was almost certain that something had happened to the person who had carried out the series of crimes that have passed down to posterity as the “Jack the Ripper murders.” What that something was, nobody […]

If there was one thing that the Jack the Ripper murders exposed, it was some of the shortcomings of the Metropolitan Police detective department that faced the onerous task of trying to hunt the perpetrator of the atrocities […]

It is often said – and, to an extent – it is true that the Jack the Ripper murders helped attract wider public attention to the horrific social conditions in the districts of Whitechapel and Spitalfields. Indeed, the […]

My goodness me – the year is half over. Still, the upside is that we have another seven Jack the Ripper quizzes to bring you, so that is one upside of the speed with which time passes! Anyway, […]