Since we will never be 100% certain who Jack the Ripper was it follows that we will never know for sure the exact number of victims that he had. Although it is generally said that he had five […]
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Within days of the murder of Mary Kelly, a witness had come forward to offer, what seemed like, some important information concerning her final hours. George Hutchinson walked into a police station to say that he had met […]
Read ArticleToday, it being the day after the murder of Mary Kelly on 9th November 1888, I thought I’d return to the scene of the crime, as it were, and look at the locations that featured in the story […]
Read ArticleAlthough the people of the East End couldn’t have known it, today in 1888 saw the final outrage by the killer who all them now knew as Jack the Ripper. By the early hours of the 9th November […]
Read ArticleMary Kelly was twenty-five years old and was the youngest of Jack the Ripper’s victims. It seems that she was quite popular in the area, indeed the worst that those who knew her could say about her was […]
Read ArticleIt seems unbelievable that 2012 is drawing to a close. The Olympics are now little more than a distant memory, Robbie Williams is due to switch on the Christmas lights on Oxford Street on 5th November and the […]
Read ArticleIt’s Hallowe’en and tonight’s the night when the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest. The Celts believed that on this night – which in their Calendar was the equivalent of our New Year’s […]
Read ArticleOne of the most misreported episodes in the hunt for Jack the Ripper is the story of how the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Charles Warren, attempted to use bloodhounds in an endeavour to catch the killer. The idea […]
Read ArticlePardon the dreadful pun on today’s Jack the Ripper news update, but I just couldn’t resist it! The reason for this dreadful title is because today I wanted to look briefly at what the area where the murders […]
Read ArticleDorset Street is no more. Indeed, it has long since vanished in both name and presence, and it is now nothing more than a nameless thoroughfare that squeezes between the White’s Row Car Park on its eastern side, […]
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