His identity has stumped experts for more than 100 years - can you help crack the code of London's most infamously unsolved mystery?
Ripperologist JON REES explores the Jack the Ripper suspects named in the McNaughten Memoranda in 1894.
A number of theories have been put forward concerning the identity of Jack the Ripper but none of them have offered conclusive evidence as to his identity. Here are some of the suspects:
Rippermania has driven a 120-year-old investigation to identify the depraved perpetrator of the savage murder of five prostitutes in the East End of London. This book features personalities whose reputations have been tarnished by modern authors clamouring to name celebrities as suspects, accomplices or conspirators.
Scores of names have been put forward as Jack the Ripper's real identity since his heinous crimes in 1888.
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The Jack the Ripper murders occurred in London more than one hundred years ago. Never captured, Jack the Ripper remains the classic serial killer mystery.
Suspected as ‘Jack The Ripper’
Frederick Bailey (also written Bayley) Deeming, born in 1842, was said to have had an unnaturally strong relationship with his mother. Upon her death in 1873, Deeming became emotionally distrought, and remained in such a state for quite some time afterward.
Newspaper sketch
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Jack the Ripper is one of the most infamous unsolved serial killer cases ever. It has fascinated professional and armchair detectives alike for over 130 years. The shocking brutality of these murders, even by today's standards, is unbelievable. While a parade of suspects shuffled through Scotland Yard, a Jack the Ripper has never been truly
Like many, when I saw the news that Jack the Ripper had finally been identified, I thought, "Here we go again". Who was the serial killer going to be this time? Gladstone? WG Grace? After all, the list of suspects contains the likes of Prince Albert Victor, the Duke of Clarence and even Lewis Carroll, so I was bracing myself for somebody really spectacularly silly; perhaps even Queen Victoria herself.
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