Seweryn Klosowski, alias George Chapman, was executed on 7 April 1903. He poisoned three of his partners for unknown reasons. Rumours circulated that he was also Jack the Ripper. Inspector Abberline told a journalist that he felt Chapman was the man his officers struggled to catch fifteen years earlier. In 1994 Phillip Sugden regarded Chapman […]
On 8 April 1887, Good Friday, a fish porter named Joseph Barnet met a woman who called herself Mary Kelly. The couple agreed to a second meeting on the following day and then lived together. They settled in Millers Court, Whitechapel. Barnett left Kelly on 30 October. Nine days later she was killed by Jack […]
Emma Smith died on 4 April 1888. She is the first victim in the police files on the Whitechapel murders although there were, and remain, good reasons to believe that she was killed by a different assailant. The police investigation into the crime was perfunctory, at best. Chief Inspector West attended the inquest on 7 […]
A collection of items relating to Jack the Ripper murders were auctioned in Exeter on 22 March. They belonged to Inspector Joseph Helson who, as Head of J Division, led the investigation into the murder of Mary Ann Nichols, often regarded as the Ripper’s first victim in 1888. The collection included a photograph of Nichols […]
Pleased to have been interviewed for this article, https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2023/10/31/who-was-jack-the-ripper/71036418007/
I have updated my Amazon author page. Three new books added this year. Two of these are in Mitzi Szereto’s acclaimed The Best New True Crime series and the other is a fantasy story in Kingdoms of Wrath and Ice, edited by Liz Delton. Not on Amazon is my second brief encounter for The Doctor […]
Three different publications to announce. The sixth instalment of Mitzi Szereto’s acclaimed true crime series contains my piece on the Pype Hayes Murders. It is the fourth time I have worked with Mitzi in this series and, once again, she has edited a fantastic collection. It is available now. Khartoum is my second contribution to […]
Pleased to announce that a fabulous new anthology, Kingdoms of Wrath and Ice, will be published in November. It contains my 66th published story, alongside contributions from some very talented authors.
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