Author: Richard Jones

One of the intriguing things about the Jack the Ripper crimes, is just how many former detectives, who claimed to have inside knowledge of the case, were happily chatting with the newspapers in the early years of the […]

In May, 1888, news broke in England that a man by the name of Michael Carroll had confessed in Australia to having carried out the murder of a girl by the name of Jane Maria Clousen in Eltham […]

Without further ado, let’s get started with our May 2020 Jack the Ripper quiz. The May 2020 Jack the Ripper Quiz HOW TO DO THE QUIZ As regular doers of our quizzes know, to start the quiz you […]

Seething Lane is a nondescript thoroughfare that is opposite the Tower of London. It is best known for having been the residence of the diarist Samuel Pepys, who is buried in the church of St Olave, which stands […]

In April, 1889, The East London Observer, began reporting on the scandal of a particular gang of thieves and pickpockets that had been active on and around Mile End Road, and whose members, so it appeared, were able […]

One of the first location we visit on our Jack the Ripper tour is Gunthorpe Street. This East End thoroughfare still possesses the atmosphere of the Victorian East End, and stepping into it as we begin the walk […]

Louis Diemschutz was the steward of the International Workingmen’s Educational Club in Berner Street, and was the man who found the body of Jack the Ripper victim Elizabeth Stride at 1am on the morning of the 30th September, […]

One journalist who frequently commented on the Whitechapel Murders was George Sims (1847 – 1922), who used his “Mustard And Cress” column in the Sunday newspaper The Referee make numerous observations on the case at the time of […]

It’s time for our monthly look at the television series Whitechapel, brought to you by our very special guest blogger Philipp Röttgers. SEASON ONE: EPISODE TWO The episode starts similar to the one before, this time with images of […]

Emma Elizabeth Smith, the first Whitechapel Murders victim, was attacked in the early hours of Tuesday, 3rd April, 1888. We actually know very little about her past. According to police officer Walter Dew, she had abandoned her family […]