Jack the Ripper is the ultimate cold case. The Whitechapel Murders of 1888 have remained unsolved for over 130 years and hundreds of theories have been suggested as to the killer's identity. Despite numerous books claiming to unmask the infamous Victorian villain, none have come close .... until now. The authors of this book are all members of H Division Crime Club, the world's largest body of experts on the Jack the Ripper murders. They have all come together for the first time in history to deliver their own personal research into each suspect and to finally nail down the identity of the man know as Jack the Ripper. Taking the original police reports, eye witness accounts and research by the world's leading authorities into account, we ask two crucial questions: Who did the police suspect at the time? Who was in the area to commit the murders? Using 21st century profiling techniques, it is time to reveal the truth behind the men most likely to have been Jack the Ripper. With each chapter discussing a separate suspect in detail, this book is the ultimate guide to solving the world's greatest murder mystery.
I picked up a banker's draft from a branch of my bank in Bury St Edmunds, and walked to the auction house, ... On the card was the name and profession of the previous owner, David Melville-Hayes, along with the inscription: 'Shawl in ...
Miscast in the media for nearly 130 years, the victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told in this eye-opening and chilling reminder that life for middle-class women in Victorian London could be full of social pitfalls ...
The story's shocking twists and turns, augmented with real, sinister period photos, will make this dazzling, #1 New York Times bestselling debut from author Kerri Maniscalco impossible to forget!
The Complete Jack the Ripper lays out all the evidence in the most comprehensive summary ever written about the Ripper.
Isenschmid was a butcher, he was insane,and George Tyler, his landlord,had told them thathe absented himself from his lodgings at nocturnal hours. Detective Inspector Styles, nevertheless, was bound to investigate.
Therefore it was decided that the best man for the job should be a military man, and that man was Sir Charles Warren. When he took on the role of commissioner to the Metropolitan Police Force in 1886, Sir Charles Warren seemed very much ...
... East End murder rapidly spread throughout the capital, across the land and beyond British shores. No immediate suspect of any merit came to light although Kelly's recent live-in lover, Joseph Barnett, was closely questioned by ...
How would their profilers describe England's first serial killer and who would they be looking to convict? As Roland makes clear in this book, nothing about the Whitechapel murders can be taken at face value.
Report by Chief Inspector Swanson, 19 October 1888, Evans and Skinner, Sourcebook, pp. 137-38. 94. The Times, 12 October 1888, p. 4. 95. ... M. Connor, “Did the Ripper work for Pickfords,” Ripperologist, 72, October 2006, pp. 25-30.
In 1888 he married Isabel Majendie Hill, the daughter of a step-cousin of Colonel Sir Vivian Majendie's. Druitt, Isabel Majendie, née Hill (1856–1925) Her marriage to Montague's cousin Charles linked the Druitts with the du Boulay, Hill ...