Author: Richard Jones

Sir Charles Warren had been the Metropolitan Police Commissioner during the period when the panic and press sensationalism over the Jack the Ripper murders had reached a zenith. However, he had resigned his position in November 1888, and […]

It is generally assumed that the victims of Jack the Ripper were murdered because they picked up a client in the course of their activities as prostitutes, took him to a secluded location; and, before they could do […]

On the 10th of September 1889, Police Constable Pennett found the torso of a woman – which was missing the head and legs,and which was covered over by part of an old chemise – under a railway arch […]

It is interesting to note how, for many years after 1888, newspapers the world over were still publishing stories on new finds about the Jack the Ripper case, and many of these articles featured accounts of characters who, […]

By September, 1889, the excitement and panic that had been generated by the Jack the Ripper murders of the previous year had, to a large extent, begun to subside. It had been briefly re-ignited with the murder of […]

It’s Quiz Time again. My goodness, we are already into the third month of 2017, where does the time go? Still, the fact that time flies by has not deterred our Department of Ripperlogy, and our boffins have […]

A curious article appeared in The North-Eastern Daily Gazette on Wednesday September the 18th 1889. The article had been inspired by the resurgence of unease with regards the Whitechapel murders which had been rekindled by the discovery of the […]

Did you know that it used to be quite common for people to die from the effects of “Sucking The Monkey”? Indeed, the newspapers of the latter half of the 19th century contain numerous reports of such deaths, […]

One of the most common Victorian images used to depict the various suspects in the Jack the Ripper case is the illustration from The Illustrated London News, that shows a suspicious looking character being kept under surveillance by three […]

One of the most misreported police initiatives, with regards their investigation into the crimes now known as the Jack the Ripper murders, was the suggestion that bloodhounds might prove useful in attempting to hunt down the perpetrator of […]