jack the ripper

Is this the right sub-forum? Maybe HLA would be better. British writer/director Bruce Robinson (of Withnail and I fame) thinks he has figured it out. In his new book (They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper, 800 pages of it) he claims to have finally solved the mystery of the identity of Jack...

There hasn't been a thread about Jack the Ripper for over a year, so I thought I'd check if anyone wants to deal with a possible conspiracy that goes back over a hundred years. I'll start off with the fact that I am very much an amateur when it comes to Ripper lore. I've seen a few...

So imagine the scene. It's sometime between 1910 and 1924. Chief Inspecter Donald Sutherland Swanson is reading the autobiography of his friend and mentor Sir Robert Anderson. Anderson has included in the book a statement that he knew the Ripper was a Polish Jew from Whitechappel. Seemingly...

Jack The Ripper, one of the most infamous criminals in history. 'Saucy Jack' as he was known then as well for the snyde remarks and saucy responses in his letters to the police, was never caught and little is known about this man, and no one knew who he was. According to the authorities then...

Recently I started reading a book called Jack The Ripper: The Final Chapter. THe basic thesis of the bok is that a diary kept by a man named James Maybrick contains a confession that Mr. Maybrick was Jack the Ripper. Apparently, this diary has been around for a while and is generally...