I am pleased to announce the release of my fifth book. Spring Onions: His Life and Crimes is available in electronic formats and print from reputable sellers. William Onion was notorious as Britain’s most convicted man, allegedly being arrested over a thousand times before giving up alcohol and reforming as a street poet in his […]
The Routledge Handbook of Jack the Ripper studies will be published on 27 November 2025. This is an extensive multi examination of the 1888 Whitechapel murders across multiple disciplines with forty chapters written by experts in each field. My contribution covers copycat and legacy killings. More information is available here, https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Jack-the-Ripper-Studies/Kilday-Nash-Watson/p/book/9781032203348
I have an article in Issue 173 of Ripperologist, out this month, looking at the life and crimes of Lizzie Halliday, a woman accused of being Jack the Ripper. I first wrote about Halliday in my book about the Jack the Ripper suspects, published in 2018 which, coincidentally, is the last time I contributed to […]
The foreman at the inquest into the death of Mary Ann Nichols wanted the government to offer a reward and said he would donate twenty-five pounds himself. At the inquest into Jack the Ripper’s next victim, the coroner stated that the Government would not be giving a reward. Despite this a juryman asked if the […]
