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| Not Lizzie Borden, though she would be a cool suspect too. |
In 1888, someone killed five prostitutes in London's Whitechapel district and came to be called "Jack The Ripper".
Since then, everyone from Sherlock Holmes to officers on "Star Trek" have weighed in on who the killer might be.
The suspects are a Who's Who of people from the period because, apparently, it could just not have been some crazy, unknown sociopath, it had to be a member of Parliament or a famous writer.
John Morris has a new suspect - Lizzie Williams, the wife of the physician Sir John Williams (also a suspect), who he says killed the prostitutes out of anger over being infertile - a positively Freudian idea (Freud was also a fictional suspect).
Despair over her condition is also what drove her to remove the wombs of three of her victims.