Featuring the latest news and theories in the 130-year-old worldwide quest to identify the person dubbed Jack the Ripper, responsible for the murder of 5 common prostitutes around the seedy district of Whitechapel in London's notorious East End between 31 August 1888 and 9 November 1888. Will this serial killer's identity ever be revealed through DNA or other evidence?
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Picture of Buck's Row Whitechapel in London's East End (now Durward St) - site of Jack the Ripper's first murder on 31 August 1888. Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols' body was discovered 3 metres back from the corner of the tall brick building.
Take a Ripper virtual tour from the first murder scene. Click on the map below to view all 5 murder scenes and other key locations in the hunt for the world's first recognised serial killer.
Buck's Row Whitechapel
Jack the Ripper's London 1888
This link will take you to the key points in London where Jack the Ripper carried out his 5 murders
over 71 days from 31 August 1888 to 9 November 1888. You can use this map to make your own Jack the
Ripper walk around London or to trace the movements of the Whitechapel killer whose identity has
never been established.
Jack the Ripper - eBook for sale
Jack the Ripper
By: John Eddleston
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published on: 10/10/2001
Print ISBN: 9781576074145
Available Formats: PDF
Requires: Adobe Digital Editions
DownloadNote: You will need to download and Install Adobe Digital Editions in order to open this eBookDescription
Now readers can try solving this long-standing mystery for themselves. At their disposal in this new encyclopedia is a list of all the likely victims, with details about the evidence linking their deaths to Jack the Ripper.
Not merely a collection of interesting facts, this book compiles and connects a myriad of facts, myths, evidence, eyewitness accounts, and police investigations.T
he encyclopedia includes a list of more than 100 witnesses and what each one saw, descriptions of the locations where the murders took place and the police officers involved in the investigations, contemporary newspaper accounts, and psychological profiles and physical descriptions of The Ripper.
In the final chapter, John J. Eddleston, author of numerous books and articles on crime, reveals his own deductions about "whodunnit," narrowing the list of suspects to one man.