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Who was Jack the Ripper?

For over 135 years, one unanswered question has haunted true crime enthusiasts, historians, and casual readers alike: just who was Jack the Ripper? The moniker, of course, belongs to an unidentified ...
Us Weekly

Jack the Ripper Case’s Identity Breakthrough After 130 Years: His Crimes and Famous Depictions

The notorious serial killer known as Jack the Ripper may finally have been identified more than 130 years after he terrorized Victorian era England. The story of Jack the Ripper has transfixed ...
New Republic

Our Jack the Ripper Obsession Is Misogynist

On Sunday, yet another amateur sleuth claimed to have solved the mystery of Jack the Ripper: the word’s most infamous serial killer—who, 126 years ago, committed his legendary slaughters of (at least) ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Were the Jack the Ripper Letters Fabricated by Journalists?

In the autumn of 1888, in the midst of a grisly string of murders, the Central News Office in London, Scotland Yard and government officials began receiving a string letters. “Dear Boss,” one ...
The Guardian

They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper by Bruce Robinson review – a huge establishment cover-up

A new, deeply researched Ripper theory from the writer of Withnail and I centres on Freemasonry and identifies a masonic grand organist as the serial killer Rarely has a book on Jack the Ripper been ...
Time

We Remember Killers, But Not Those Who Die. A New Book About Jack the Ripper's Victims Wants to Change That

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The Mirror

Jack the Ripper could finally be unmasked as a woman with DNA breakthrough

The story of Jack the Ripper and the mystery surrounding their identity has fascinated investigators, theorists and armchair detectives for years. Even the Victorians couldn’t get enough about the ...