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One of the many problems that he police faced during their investigation into the Jack the Ripper crimes was the sheer number of people who seemed to feel the need to confess to having committed the atrocities. But, […]

There were all manner of superstitions and the like that were held across Victorian Britain. Much like today, people were desperate to know what the future held for them, and, of course, this left them wide open to […]

In my true crime tales I like to make trips outside of London to cover cases that took place in other parts of the country in the 19th century. To that end, I have covered cases such as […]

There were more unsolved murders in London than those carried out by Jack the Ripper in the 1880s. On Saturday the 21st of March, 1891, The Birmingham & Aston Chronicle published the following article that suggested that a […]

In March,1899, yet another murder occurred in London, and, once again, the newspapers sought to bring the details of yet another horrible crime to their readers. The Dundee Courier, published the following account in its edition of Thursday […]

My latest video on the Jack the Ripper case is one that I have been preparing for for the best part of the last twelve months. I have been purchasing first edition so Victorian books that contain photographs […]

Today we have a tendency to focus on particular crimes at particular times – the Jack the Ripper murder being a case in point. However, taken against the greater scheme of things, the Whitechapel murders were just a […]

On New Year’s Eve, 1888, a girl by the name of Harriett Sinfield appeared before Mr. Montagu Williams. the magistrate at Worship Street Police Court, charged with having stolen a purse from William Barrett, a sailor whose ship […]

As you study the 19th century newspapers, you become aware that it didn’t take much for an argument between to people to erupt into fatal violence. One such case was featured in The Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury […]

One of the main places for entertainment in Whitechapel was Toynbee Hall, situated on Commercial Street, right in the heart of the district where the Jack the Ripper murders occurred. Founded by the Reverend Samuel Barnet and his […]