Author: Richard Jones

Well, it’s time for another quiz and this time we’ve come up with a challenge that would test the mettle of Sherlock Holmes himself! In a nutshell, we’ve taken a series of names connected with the Jack the […]

In the early hours of 7th August 1888, the body of a woman was found on the first floor landing of a tenement block in George Yard Buildings, just off Whitechapel High Street. By the time The Star […]

Well, here we go again! Yet another author has come up with a sensational twist in order to flog yet another book claiming to have finally solved the Jack the Ripper mystery. MARY KELLY’S TRUE IDENTITY? Dr Wynne […]

An intriguing court case took place at the London County Sessions in August 1889 when a fireman by the name of William Wallace Brodie, aged 32, appeared on charges of having obtained jewellery by false pretences from Mr […]

On the 28th July 1888, no less a person than Dr. Thomas Barnardo, would find himself in a spot of hot water over an alledge assault he was accused of making on the person of  Eliza Whitbread in […]

Now, this one is a real humdinger of a quiz! The mission, should you choose to accept it, is to Beat the Ripper by answering 20 mind-jarring questions on the case in less than 6 minutes. Are you up […]

In a previous article we looked at the mysterious disappearance of local rate collector Mt Jas. Hood and ended by pondering what had happened to him. Well, on 31st August 1888, the same day that it reported the […]

In August 1888 the East End newspapers were reporting the strange case of a local parochial officer who had, apparently, vanished without a trace. On 18th August 1888, The East End Observer carried the headline:- MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF […]

When, in 1896, Alfred Harmsworth – later knighted as Lord Northcliffe – launched his lively new journal The Daily Mail his motto was “Get me a murder a day”! Harmsworth was well aware that murder and scandal sold papers […]

In this article we are just going to take a quick look at the Jack the Ripper saga, detailing some of the people who have, over the years, found themselves connected with the story, be it as victims, […]