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Elizabeth Stride and Jack the Ripper Elizabeth Stride and Jack the Ripper Dave Yost "As soon as the newspapers hit the streets on October 1st, 1888, Elizabeth Stride became world renowned as the third victim of Jack the Ripper. Reportedly, she was killed only an hour before fellow v… OL11947370W
Portrait of a Killer Portrait of a Killer Patricia Cornwell "Between August and November 1888, at least seven women were murdered in London's Whitechapel area. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear in the East End for months, and gave rise… OL134385W
Jack The Ripper Jack The Ripper Mark Whitehead So who was Jack the Ripper? No-one in the annals of crime is capable of arousing such passionate debate as the perpetrator of the Whitechapel Murders in 1888. Was he a demented Royal, a Masonic assas… OL15191362W
Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper Whitechapel Society Jack the Ripper is the ultimate whodunit. The Whitechapel Murders of 1888 remain unsolved and hundreds of theories have been suggested as to the killer's identity. OL19957216W
Naming Jack the Ripper Naming Jack the Ripper Russell Edwards After 125 years of theorizing and speculation regarding the identity of Jack the Ripper, Russell Edwards is in the unique position of owning the first physical evidence relating to the crimes to have… OL19987858W
They all love Jack They all love Jack Bruce Robinson A reinterpretation of the case of Jack the Ripper focuses on the "why" instead of the "who," theorizing that the residents of London society's finest homes created him as an outlet for their own hidd… OL22946919W
Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper Stewart P. Evans The murder and mutilation of at least five prostitutes in the Whitechapel district of London in the fall of 1888 continues to fascinate students of true crime, largely because the perpetrator, Jack t… OL2538383W
Jack the Ripper - The definitive history Jack the Ripper - The definitive history Paul Begg England in the 1880s was a society in transition, shedding the skin of Victorianism and moving towards a more modern age. Promiscuity, moral decline, prostitution, unemployment, poverty, police ineff… OL3586498W