Author: Richard Jones

Today we continue our look at the infamous Whitechapel Murders with a look at how the public reacted to the Jack the Ripper crimes. It could be argued that the public’s perception of the killings changed in the […]

We continue the Jack the Ripper story with part eight of the documentary. In this instalment we look at the early hours of 30th September 1888, the night of the double murder, when, what appeared to be, a […]

London is an ever changing city. It has to be. As a major financial hub it needs to be at the forefront of the latest technology, and its office buildings need to be, architecturally speaking, with the best […]

Today (30th September 1888) sees the 125th anniversary of the so-called “night of the double murder.” To mark the occasion we are releasing the next instalment in our Unmasking Jack the Ripper drama/documentary, which you can watch at […]

Today we continue our Jack the Ripper documentary to mark the 125th anniversary of the Jack the Ripper crimes. In this instalment we take a look at the hunt for the killer that took lace in the wake […]

One of the streets in the East End of London that looms large in the Jack the Ripper case is commercial Street. Today, as in 1888, it is a very busy London thoroughfare and the traffic often builds […]

It is 125 years since Jack the Ripper brought terror and panic to the streets of the East End of London, and interest in his killing spree continues to grow. Yet nobody really knows anything about the person […]

I came a cross an article today that both shocked and saddened me. Police files across the UK contain details of 1,000 unidentified bodies, some of them, apparently, dating back more than 50 years. According to the article […]

With the murder of Annie Chapman on 8th September 1888 the unease that had been bubbling away in the East End of London since the murder of Martha Tabram in early August 1888 now gave way to outright […]

Today sees the 126th anniversary of the second Jack the Ripper murder, that of Annie Chapman on 8th September 1888. To mark the occasion the next instalment of our documentary has been released and can be viewed at […]