2016-03-19 18:53
A trailer for the upcoming film, 7 Faces of Jack the Ripper, is now available at Dread Central. The website quotes the press release of the movie:125 Years ago the world's most notorio… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Yahoo Answers is sometimes pretty funny. A recent question was, "Do you think Jack the Ripper's victims knew each other?"One person answered, "Maybe, but I think he only killed prostit… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
The Global Times has the story of a play in China depicting Jack the Ripper. The play is actually humorous, and features cross-dressing detective and (of course) Sherlock Holmes.New Pl… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
This blog http://vincentaliasjack.com/wordpress/matches/ posits that Vincent Van Gogh was Jack due to similarities in Vincent's handwriting and some of the Ripper letters. The blog also sta… Read More
2012-06-22 02:25
In this Reddit post, users discuss this story about Carl Feigenbaum.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14207581I believe Reddit users are pretty well informed so it is an interesting alb… Read More
2012-06-13 00:52
Much news today regarding Magnotta, the porn actor who killed and dismembered his victim on tape. The video is available on the net if you know where to look. What is interesting to me is t… Read More
2010-10-30 01:50
A new board game based on the Jack the Ripper case is schedule for release. Nexus Games will debut Letters from Whitechapel, a multi-player strategy game, in either late November… Read More
2010-10-16 03:48
On this day in 1888, the "From Hell" letter was mailed to the head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, George Lusk. It contained half a human kidney.The letter read:From hellMr L… Read More
2010-10-02 01:47
September 29th was the evening of the "double event," the killing of Catherine Eddowes and Elizabeth Stride by Jack the Ripper.Interestingly, that day saw a cartoon published in Punch titled… Read More
2010-09-28 04:41
The Historic UK website publishes interesting facts about England, Scotland, Ireland, etc. on a day-to-day basis. Today's entry reads:27 September 1888: First use of the name Jac… Read More
2010-09-28 04:29
This post gives an account of a recent Ripper tour with Donald Rumbelow, well-known and respected Ripperologist Read More
2010-09-17 20:25
My updated edition of Jack the Ripper A to Z arrived today, so I'll have some fun weekend reading. On a related note, I found out today that I will be teaching the Jack the… Read More
2010-09-15 04:47
I’m still looking over Colin Wilson's History of Murder and I went back to the Ripper section where I found this passage relating to Joseph Sickert’s supposed involvement in th… Read More
2010-09-13 02:53
A new book entitled What Alice Knew has William and Henry James assist Scotland Yard in tracking down Jack the Ripper. Interesting conceit, and perhaps more promising than the tired Sh… Read More
2010-09-11 04:42
I am re-reading The History of Murder by Colin Wilson and am a bit disconcerted with his overuse of "homosexual" when describing people. By this I don't mean the term itself, but rathe… Read More
2010-09-11 04:35
After many months of pre-ordering, having the publication date pushed back, and Amazon finally canceling my order, the newly updated Jack the Ripper A to Z is finally on its way to me via Am… Read More
2010-05-27 02:18
Here's a site that gives you virtual panoramic views of a pub in Hannover, Germany, with the murder scenes depicted separately.http://www.360cities.net/virtual-tour/jack-the-ripper-hannover Read More
2010-05-27 02:06
A man in West Yorkshire is being questioned by police about the killings of at least three prostitutes. The man, Stephen Griffiths, is described as a "mature" student at Bradford Unive… Read More
2010-04-24 23:23
I just finished the book Panzram: A Journal of Murder edited by Thomas Gaddis and James Long. The intro is by Harold Schechter, one of my favorite authors.The Panzram book is mos… Read More
2010-04-24 01:23
The Smithsonian Magazine reviews a direct-to-video release of Sherlock Holmes timed to capitalize on the blockbuster starring Robert Downey Jr. In the cheap version, Holmes and Watson battl… Read More
2010-04-19 02:26
A student from the University of Southern California recently went on a Ripper Walk in London led by the legend Donald Rumbelow. Melissa Leu writes:Wind-blown and with my stomach in kn… Read More
2010-04-18 01:50
Last year, in my second class on Jack the Ripper's London, I had groups choose suspects and present their findings on each. The group that chose Aaron Kosminski used this as a prop for the… Read More
2010-04-17 18:58
My blog is featured in the latest Ripperologist journal! Many thanks to Mike Covell for the write-up, including questions on why I keep the blog going and what I would tell others who wish… Read More
2010-04-17 01:13
Phil Howard, a film-maker in Brentwood, announced that he plans to make a movie about Jack the Ripper, hoping to have "Ray Winstone and Danny Dyer, as well as Geoff Bell, Ian Virgo and Sebas… Read More
2010-04-04 03:19
The blog Murder by Gaslight takes on nineteenth-century crimes through straightforward retelling of the tales and, in this instance, a review of the Discovery Channel Ripper documentary Jack… Read More
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