Author: Richard Jones

Following the murder of Mary Kelly, which took place in Miller’s Court, off Dorset Street, on November the 9th 1888, the Jack the Ripper murders appeared to have come to an end, and, for the next few months, […]

It is surprising how many times the name of Jack the Ripper turns up in the court records throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Indeed, combing through the newspaper accounts of court appearances during this period, […]

In 1923, William Le Queux (1864 – 1927), who had covered the Whitechapel murders for The Globe newspaper as a journalist in 1888, published a book entitled Things I know About Kings, Celebrities And Crooks, in which he […]

One of the important aspects in studying the Jack the Ripper case is to not take them in isolation. Indeed, to really understand the Whitechapel murders, and the impact they had on the district in which they occurred, […]

In the wake of the night of the double murder, the idea that the murderer – who, by this time was becoming universally referred to under the pseudonym of “Jack the Ripper” – carried a black bag had, […]

In 1939, William Stewart’s book on the mystery of the Whitechapel murders was published, and the newspapers began reviewing it. Thee book was a ground breaking tome in that Stewart, who was an artist by profession, included models […]

Murders were being compared to the Whitechapel murders long beyond 1888, the year in which the murders actually occurred. Indeed, for many decades, and well into the 20th century, newspapers were still drawing comparisons between gruesome murders and […]

One of the intriguing aspects of the Jack the Ripper case is the number of disguises that various people employed in their endeavours to catch the killer. From fairly early on in the investigation police officers in plain […]

Whilst scouring through the Victorian newspapers for suitable stories about the Whitechapel murders and the Jack the Ripper crimes, I came across the following article, which appeared in The Linlithgowshire Gazette on  Saturday the 10th of September 1898:- […]

The one certainty about Jack the Ripper is that nothing is certain, of that we can be certain! The truth is that, since we don’t have the faintest idea who Jack the Ripper was, then we really know […]