Jack The Ripper Suspects
A series of murders that took place in the East End of London from August to November 1888 were blamed on an unidentified assailant known as Jack the Ripper. Since that time, the identity of the killer or killers has been hotly debated, and over one hundred Jack the Ripper suspects have been proposed. Though many theories have been advanced, experts find none widely persuasive, and some can hardly be taken seriously at all.
Read more about Jack The Ripper Suspects: Contemporaneous Police Opinion, Contemporaneous Press and Public Opinion, Proposed By Later Authors, Further Theories
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