Author: Richard Jones

It is now generally accepted – and is often stated – that Jack the Ripper had five victims, and these five victims are often referred to as “the canonical five.” Their murders took place between August the 31st […]

One of the things we introduced a few years ago on our Youtube Channel, was a series of videos that offered the viewer an opportunity to take our quizzes by video, as opposed to on the page, as […]

At the end of the 17th century, there were approximately fifty crimes in England for which a person could be executed. But, in 1723, the number of crimes that carried the death penalty had increased dramatically to around […]

When it comes to Jack the Ripper suspects, the case against many of them tends to crumble at the first hurdle. Indeed, it has to be said that many authors who come up with a “new” suspect in […]

Domestic violence was a frequent occurrence in the Victorian East End, and the newspapers of the age carried frequent reports of attacks on wives by their husbands. The Illustrated Police News featured the story of one such attack […]

In my previous blog, I introduced you to Dr. John H. Watson, who, having been injured in the 2nd Afghan War, had found his way to London, where he was leading a meaningless existence in a private hotel […]

221B Baker Street is one of the most famous addresses in London, if not in the World. Most people will immediately recognize it as the residence of fiction’s greatest detective duo – Sherlock Holmes and his faithful sidekick […]

On Saturday the 16th of June 1838 The York Herald published the following article about the hunt for the murderer of Elizabeth Grimwood. APPREHENSION OF TWO MEN ln consequence of a letter having been received on Saturday by […]

In its edition of Sunday the 3rd of June 1838, The Examiner provided its readers with a description of a particularly gruesome murder that had occurred in the early hours of Saturday, 26th of May of that year:- […]

One of the most important things when it comes to naming a suspect in the hunt for Jack the Ripper is placing that suspect at the scene of the crime at around the time that the murder was […]