Over the Easter weekend, 1891, news was breaking in the papers that a murder had taken place at a house in Matlock Bank, Derbyshire. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson’s 1870 – 1872 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales […]
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These are difficult times for all of us. Here at the Jack the Ripper tour we have ceased operating our nightly walk for the foreseeable future until we are over this troubling time. However, that doesn’t mean we’re […]
Read ArticleOn Saturday, 4th April, 1903, Mdlle. Ida Fridauer boarded a train with the intention of travelling home to St. Cloud. However, as the following article in The Belfast Newsletter, of Tuesday, 7th April, 1903, reveals things didn’t go […]
Read ArticleInspector Robert Sagar was a City of London Police officer who, having started off as a medical student at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, decided to become a detective. Following the murder of Catherine Eddowes, on the 30th September, 1888, […]
Read ArticleDr Jospeh Bell (1837 – 1911) was a surgeon and lecturer at the medical school of Edinburgh University, who was famed for his powers of observation and deduction when it came to diagnosing illnesses and revealing the backgrounds […]
Read ArticleNorton Folgate is an eclectic thoroughfare that nestles, almost in a time-warp, behind the modern high-rise office blocks of Bishopsgate. It is one of a knot of streets that are lined with sturdy 18th-century houses. Nowadays these houses […]
Read ArticleGiven its sinister and decidedly gruesome history, Whitechapel really should be haunted. Indeed, so dark and creepy are some of the old streets and alleyways, that it would not come as any great surprise to spot all manner […]
Read ArticleFrancis Spurzheim Craig (1837 – 1903) was a journalist and newspaper editor whose name has recently cropped up on the ever-expanding list of Jack the Ripper suspects. In his book The Real Mary Kelly Dr. Weston-Davies makes the claim […]
Read ArticleThere is an old song that claims that “A Policeman’s Lot Is Not A Happy One” and, it must be said, that may well have been the case for many of the officers whose job it was to […]
Read ArticleIn September, 1898, the dismembered corpse of a young woman was found in a pond in Bridgeport Connecticut, in America. However, the gruesome discovery set in a motion a chain of events that would stretch from Bridgeport to […]
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