Author: Richard Jones

Some of the most dramatic reporting on the crimes of Jack the Ripper came about as a result of revelations that were made at the inquests into the deaths of the victims. Some of the information that was […]

EVERY VOTE COUNTS Given the fact that the suspect list is, to say the least, extensive, the vote button might not be readily visible, but if you use the scroll bar to the right of the white box […]

It is often said of the Victorian Police who investigated the Jack the Ripper murders that they were incompetent and that their incompetence contributed to the ripper’s ability to get away with his crimes. In all honesty, the […]

The other night I watched an episode of Criminal Minds in which the team addressed a group of criminology students about a serial killer whom they had hunted for, I believe, a period of 20 years before eventually […]

We begin part four of our Sherlock Holmes documentary with a visit to the building, on London’s Upper Wimpole Street, where Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle had set himself up as a medical practitioner when, due to a distinct […]

Although most people think of the crimes that took place in the East End of London in 1888 as the “Jack the Ripper Murders” they are, in fact, officially known as the Whitechapel Murders and, the first of […]

Part Three of the Sherlock Holmes Documentary Dr Bryan Charles Waller Today we continue our documentary on the people who inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes with a look at Dr. Bryan Charles Waller. Mary […]

The Man Who Inspired Sherlock Holmes Dr. Joseph Bell was the Edinburgh doctor who is said to have give Arthur Conan Doyle the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes’s amazing powers of reasoning and deduction. In our previous instalment of […]

Jack The Ripper Photos I have always enjoyed rummaging through archives and collections of old photographs that depict the streets of Jack the Ripper’s London as they were. Mostly, you uncover photographs that generations of researchers have uncovered […]

The Origins of Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper appeared on the London streets at around the same time. There is a major difference between them, however, in that, whilst one of them was all to […]