On 9th November 1888 Mary Kelly was murdered in her room in Miller’s Court, off Dorset Street. She is generally believed to have been the last of Jack the Ripper’s victims. However, the Whitechapel Murders continued and several […]
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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 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 ArticleStoke-on-Trent is not the sort of place you’d readily associate with Jack the Ripper and yet recently it became the scene of the murder of the woman who, many believe, was the last of his victims, Mary Kelly. […]
Read ArticleI was asked an intriguing question last night on a tour. We had arrived at the site of Miller’s Court, where Mary Kelly, the last victim of Jack the Ripper, was murdered on 9th November 1888. I had […]
Read ArticleYesterday I ended the blog with one of those wonderful old cliché cliff-hangers TO BE CONTINUED. My adventures in Ripper land last week took me to Chiswick Mall where the body of a major Jack the Ripper suspect […]
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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