My research into the Jack the Ripper suspects involves reading books that seek to connect individuals to other crimes with no evidence other than his presence in the same area. Contemporaries also made unwarranted connections. An American newspaper in October 1888 thought that the Ripper was identical with the Austin Axe murderer of 1884-85, a […]
A biography of the famous barrister, Sir Edward Marshall-Hall suggests that serial killer Thomas Cream had an underworld double. Marshall-Hall once defended Cream on a charge of bigamy at the Old Bailey and was amazed to secure an acquittal with proof that Cream was in prison in Sydney at the time of the offence. Aware […]
Six years ago, I published a book outlining the evidence for and against 333 Jack the Ripper suspects. Since then, the number of people accused has risen again. My most disturbing finding was the number of plausible candidates, men capable of committing such terrible atrocities. Given the lack of direct evidence my preference is to […]
In 1960 author and researcher, Colin Wilson, wrote a series of articles for the London Evening Standard about Jack the Ripper. Afterwards he received several letters, three of which intrigued him. One alleged that Jack the Ripper had died in an asylum run by the writer’s father. Another recounted a story from artist, Walter Sickert, […]
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 […]
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