During the search for Jack the Ripper members of the public wrote to the newspapers and the police with their theories. On 3 October 1888 the Daily Telegraph published a letter from X of St Albans who reported that a lunatic, considered dangerous to women, had escaped from Leavesden asylum the previous year. His name […]
One of the interesting aspects of Jack the Ripper research is the discovery of coincidences and connections between seemingly unrelated events or individuals. In October 1895 newspapers published an interview with a recently released prisoner about her encounters with Florence Maybrick in Woking Prison. In 1889 Florence was convicted of poisoning her husband, James Maybrick, […]
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