Author: Richard Jones

By early October, 1888, with newspapers more and more eager to publish any stories that they could on the latest atrocities by the killer who was now becoming universally known as “Jack the Ripper”, there were numerous reports […]

By the 19th of November, 1888, it was becoming more than apparent that the police were no nearer catching the perpetrator of the Whitechapel atrocities than they had been prior to the murder of Mary Nichols. And yet, […]

The Whitechapel murders, although specific to the East End of London impacted on the country as a whole. Newspaper readers across the land could not get enough of reports on the case, and editors were more than happy […]

On the 4th of October, 1888, Mr. A. Eubule-Evans had written to the London Evening Standard to offer advice to the police on how they might best catch the man who had carried out the murders of Elizabeth […]

By the 13th of November, 1888, the full horror of what had occurred in Miller’s Court on the 9th of November had spread throughout the country, and newspapers, as well as trying to convey the sheer brutality of […]

The Sydney Evening News, on Saturday, 19th March, 1904, published an interview with a man who it described as, “the worst man in London” and, fittingly, the location chosen for the conducting of the interview was a tavern […]

On the morning of Friday, 9th November, 1888, the horrifically mutilated body of Mary Kelly was found in her room in Miller’s Court, of Dorset Street, in Spitalfields. However, since the body was not discovered until 10.45am, the […]

Despite the fact that there had been no Whitechapel murders throughout the whole of October, 1888, the press reporting of the case, coupled with the intense excitement being generated by the number of letters, signed “Jack the Ripper”, […]

Once the original “Dear Boss” letter had been released, and the name of “Jack the Ripper” had entered the public lexicon, hoaxers across the land found the urge to join the snowballing letter-writing pastime, and, by the end […]

The delightful village of Kessingland in East Suffolk has much to offer the casual visitor. Its village church, dedicated to St Edmund, is one of the finest in the area, and it boasts an imposing 98 foot high […]