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From the Archives: Tough terms for female convicts
Birmingham Mail
HISTORY is littered with tales of men committing crimes, from Dick Turpin to Jack the Ripper. But newly released files from the National Archives show women in Victorian Birmingham were no strangers to the courts. The fascinating records ...
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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.
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This link will take you to the key points in London where Jack the Ripper carried out his 5 murders
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never been established.
From the Archives: Tough terms for female convicts - Birmingham Mail
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HuffPost Exclusive: Craig Wedren's "Are We," Plus Conversations with The Civil ... - Huffington Post (blog)
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HuffPost Exclusive: Craig Wedren's "Are We," Plus Conversations with The Civil ...
Huffington Post (blog)
So, he ends up towards the end of his trip at a specific pub where Jack The Ripper was supposed to have hung out. He's there and has pretty much given up hope, so the bartender asks him what he's doing there and he tells him. ...
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Jack the Ripper - London's Serial Killer of 1888: Jack the Ripper
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Top 10 (PHOTOS) Unsolved Murders List - Post Chronicle
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Top 10 (PHOTOS) Unsolved Murders List
Post Chronicle
... five women were killed in the Whitechapel district of London's East End. All the victims had their throats slashed and their bodies mutilated in a similar way indicating they all met their fates at the hands of the same person, Jack the Ripper. ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Derek Jeter—From the Pages of the New York Times - Bleacher Report
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BOOK REVIEW: Derek Jeter—From the Pages of the New York Times
Bleacher Report
... reading the accounts of historic events from when they happened. Whether it's the on-field heroics of Babe Ruth, the crimes of Jack the Ripper, or anything in between, what was being written, said and thought at the time is what interests me the most.
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Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper | Product Reviews ...
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Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper Trailer - Gamefront
Strange Coincidence in the Jack the Ripper Case
Mel Gibson to star in new Jack the Ripper film « Ray Cook
Jack The Ripper | Image | BoardGameGeek
The Plain Truth: Jack the Ripper 'was invented to win newspaper war'
Monster Mash: Painting by possible Jack the Ripper up for sale ...
Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper Demo - Gamefront
Judge sends would-be killer from Woodbury to state hospital - Pioneer Press
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Judge sends would-be killer from Woodbury to state hospital
Pioneer Press
His probation officer reported that a search of Busskohl's computer "showed that he conducted hundreds of searches dealing with topics such as: serial killers, serial killer victims, Jack the Ripper, chemicals to be used to subdue a human being, ...
'21-year-old kid who scares us all'Minneapolis Star Tribune
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MacGregor students go abroad - Central Plains Herald Leader
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MacGregor students go abroad
Central Plains Herald Leader
The group has a lot of great events planned, like a Jack the Ripper tour and a ghost walk. Besides giving the students a chance to travel with their peers, Watson hopes the trip inspires the students to continue exploring the globe. ...
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Immediate assignment to the Nichols case
A better-than-fair fair zips toward the big screen in '13 - Monroe News Star
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A better-than-fair fair zips toward the big screen in '13
Monroe News Star
Jack The Ripper had terrorized London less than 10 years before. Neg. What I found interesting was that the zipper was introduced at the Chicago World's Fair. Until then, no zipper. Imagine a moment in the great Exposition Hall when a man stopped and, ...
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Television movies for the week of March 6 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
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Television movies for the week of March 6
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
A Scotland Yard investigator tries to stop Jack the Ripper from butchering prostitutes in 19th-century London. (R) (2:05) HBO: Mon. 3:15 AM (CC) • Full of Life '56. Judy Holliday. An Italian man moves in and completely disrupts the lives of his son and ...
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Lomography - the return of analogue - Pocket-lint.com
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Lomography - the return of analogue
Pocket-lint.com
... going out and about for a few hours with one of the Lomo shop staff, a loaned camera and a film to take shots of a specific event or area, such as Chinese New Year celebrations in Chinatown or a tour of Jack the Ripper's haunts in East London. ...
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Whitechapel returns for new series - The Press Association
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Whitechapel returns for new series
The Press Association
Previous episodes have seen the police grapple with crimes inspired by Jack the Ripper and the Kray Twins and the new series will see them investigate body-snatching and a series of murders in tunnels under the streets of Whitechapel. ...
ITV's Whitechapel recommissioned for third seriesseenit.co.uk
ITV orders third run of WhitechapelStage
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The forensic mind of the original Dr Death - Telegraph.co.uk
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The forensic mind of the original Dr Death
Telegraph.co.uk
Vacher is to French social history what Jack the Ripper is to ours; a serial killer of cunning savagery and showy sexual depravity whose case would sell tens of thousands of newspapers throughout Europe to a public both appalled and entranced. ...
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Did Jack the Ripper live in Rockhampton? - Brisbane Times
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Did Jack the Ripper live in Rockhampton?
Brisbane Times
She had just discovered that Jack the Ripper may have lived in Rockhampton, and if he did, most likely in a house in East Street – what's now Peter Busby's home. Frederick Bailey Deeming, an Australian serial killer, had lived in Rockhampton and was ...
Jack the Ripper: the suspectsTelegraph.co.uk
Was Deeming Jack the Ripper?Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
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Did Jack the Ripper paint this? New painting by Walter Sickert emerges after ... - Telegraph.co.uk
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Did Jack the Ripper paint this? New painting by Walter Sickert emerges after ...
Telegraph.co.uk
A previously unknown painting by Walter Sickert - the artist believed by author Patricia Cornwell to be Jack the Ripper - is set to fetch up to £60000 when it goes under the hammer next month. By Siddarth Rama 10:43AM GMT 21 Feb 2011 The work, ...
Painting Found By Jack The Ripper PainterThe Spoof (satire)
A mysterious painting by one of the West's most famous artists has come to ...Bath Chronicle
Unseen Painting By 'Jack The Ripper' Suspect Could Get $97KMyFox Washington DC
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What Could Prince William and Jack the Ripper Have in Common? - ABC News (blog)
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What Could Prince William and Jack the Ripper Have in Common?
ABC News (blog)
The last person to hold it was Prince Albert Victor, who died of pneumonia in 1892 at the age of 28. Years after his death, author Philippe Julien alleged Prince Albert was Jack the Ripper, the infamous murderer.
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Wills set to be given royal dukedom last held by prince ...Daily Mail
Jack the Ripper's Dukedom for Prince William?Examiner.com
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Royal Wedding Watch: A Nautical Bachelor Party, and a Dukedom That Recalls ... - Vanity Fair
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Royal Wedding Watch: A Nautical Bachelor Party, and a Dukedom That Recalls ...
Vanity Fair
What does Prince William have in common with Jack the Ripper? Probably more than he bargained for. Word on the street (what is the royal version of “word on the street”? “Pronouncement in the banquet hall”?) is that the Queen is likely to make Prince ...
Tourists follow in royal couple's footstepsWisconsin State Journal
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Monster Mash: Painting by possible Jack the Ripper up for sale; Broadway's ... - Los Angeles Times
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Monster Mash: Painting by possible Jack the Ripper up for sale; Broadway's ...
Los Angeles Times
Creepy: A previously unknown painting by Walter Sickert -- the artist who some believe to be Jack the Ripper -- is heading for auction. (Telegraph) Still raking it in: "The Lion King" musical, directed by Julie Taymor, beat out newer shows to become ...
Big Art Price Tag for Jack the Ripper the Painter?Who2 (blog)
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Dead Space 2 Studio Developing New AAA IP - NowGamer
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Dead Space 2 Studio Developing New AAA IP
NowGamer
Does the new IP have anything to do with the long-rumoured Jack the Ripper game? It seems unlikely given the length of time that's been bandied around, and the huge amount of work still to do on the new title.
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Andaz Hotel, London - Manchester Evening News
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Andaz Hotel, London
Manchester Evening News
But if your real passion is serial killers, you're not far from Jack the Ripper's haunts either. The first thing that strikes you when you arrive, though, is that the loud hubbub enveloping the environs of one of London's busiest stations miraculously ...
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Australia's Ned Kelly riddle fans a Ripper yarn
Forensic pathologist and Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine deputy director Prof David Ranson is heading to Britain to ask relatives of hanged English killer Frederick Bailey Deeming to come forward and give their DNA.
"A simple swab from the mouth of any person from the female line of the Deeming family will help us answer this fascinating piece of folklore," said Prof Ranson,
Deeming was a 19th century wife-killer, bigamist, thief and conman who murdered women and children on opposite sides of the world.
After his execution in Melbourne in 1892 for murder, it was speculated he committed the Whitechapel Murders. His brothers and sisters distanced themselves by taking the name Bailey, their mother's maiden name.
The skull of Kelly, who was hanged for murder at Old Melbourne Gaol in November 1880, was stolen from a glass cabinet there.
Last year, West Australian farmer Tom Baxter handed in a skull, saying it was the stolen one and refusing to explain how he came by it.
Prof Ranson, on behalf of the Victoria coroner, is trying to determine whether the skull is Kelly's or Deeming's.
Scientists at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine had the skull examined by experts and gave it a CT scan, but were none the wiser, despite forensic pathologists managing to obtain DNA from one of Kelly's descendants.
Their problem is that not only is the skull a close match to the death mask of Kelly, but it also resembles one of Deeming. Both plaster casts are held at the jail, which is where both men were executed and buried close by each other in the prison yard.
They were later dug up and moved to Pentridge, and moved again when it was redeveloped.
When Deeming was hanged, more than 12,000 people in the street outside cheered wildly.
He had committed crimes on three continents, using at least 20 aliases.
Three months after his execution newspapers including the New York Times published stories that Deeming had been seen in Whitechapel in London's East End in 1888 buying knives.
In prison, he told fellow inmates that he was Jack the Ripper, but he never confessed to authorities.
Prof Ranson said: "We are hoping to find one of Fred Deeming's relatives in Ireland, England or Scotland who will be willing to help."
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A serious look at Ripperology
The dark, fateful 10-week period in 1888 London would become known as "the Autumn of Terror," historian and author Donald Rumbelow reminds us at the beginning of The Real Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper, the to-this-day unidentified serial killer who terrorized London's Whitechapel district -- an innocuous name for a neighbourhood variously described as "the most notorious criminal rookery in London" and "perhaps the foulest and most dangerous streets in the whole metropolis" -- has become the stuff of pop-cultural legend and the source of endless speculation. The Real Jack the Ripper, part ghost story, part historical documentary, strives to put a sober face on that speculation, separating fact from fiction.
Ripperologists, historian Paul Begg explains -- Ripper devotees have developed their own "ology" -- have produced a lot of solid information on a wide range of subjects, and not just Ripperology.
Begg himself is the author of Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, and he's one of several historians in the program sitting at a table, knocking back stiff drinks and handling various cutting instruments from the time.
In one of the program's more poignant moments, Canadian Maureen Nichols, great-great-granddaughter of the woman believed to be the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, recalls being startled the first time she saw a vintage, black-and-white snapshot of the Ripper's first victim and recognized the family resemblance. She returns to London, on a pilgrimage of a kind, trailed by the filmmakers.
The Real Jack the Ripper is an eye-opening, if not always illuminating, look at one of history's great unexplained mysteries. (History Television -- 9 p.m.)
Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/serious+look+Ripperology/3753766/story.html#ixzz14CBovA00
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British PhD Student Studied Jack the Ripper, Then Killed Like Him
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As a PhD criminology student, Stephen Griffiths studied 19th-century murders with a special focus on Jack the Ripper. Now he's been arrested for murdering three prostitutes in Yorkshire, England—one of whom he killed with a crossbow.
The arrest came after an apartment building caretaker reviewed the security footage from the night before and saw this, according to the Telegraph:
In a corridor of the flats, a man chased and grabbed a young woman before knocking her unconscious. The attacker then disappeared from view, only to return moments later with a crossbow which he used to fire a bolt into her head.Police believe the video shows 40 year-old Stephen Griffiths killing 36 year-old Suzanne Blamires, one of his three victims. When they arrested him at his house, he led them to the dismembered bodies of the two others.
Judging from media accounts he certainly seems like someone who would be a serial killer. In addition to his obsession with historical murder—he told his neighbor he was getting "a Ph.D. in murder and Jack the Ripper"—he kept two giant monitor lizards in his apartment, where he lived alone.
A neighbor said he bred mice to feed the lizards and kept 100 of them in a trunk in his apartment, according to the Telegraph. On his MySpace he goes by "Ven Pariah" and says he "is the misanthrope who brought hate into heaven." And he apparently bought parts for his crossbow on Amazon.
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