Come back with us to a gaslit era before anyone had heard of Jack the Ripper – and experience the horrified fascination the police must have felt as a series of apparently unrelated atrocities coalesced into the work of history’s most infamous serial killer…
In this series, you’ll read full case reports on ALL the “Whitechapel Murders,” compiled from police files in the National Archives. Seen here (right) are the original “Jack the Ripper” case files stored at New Scotland Yard before their move to the Public Record Office at Kew, now part of the National Archives.
At the beginning, there was just a file on “The Whitechapel Murder.” As 1888 rolled on “Murder” became “Murders.” Then the Dear Boss letter arrived and the legend of Jack the Ripper became indelible…