An unidentified man, nicknamed "Jack the Ripper," was held responsible for murdering five London prostitutes in 1888. The five prostitutes were stabbed to death between August 31 and November 9. Jack the Ripper, so named for his skill with a knife, was...

William D. Rubinstein reviews the achievements of the 'Ripperologists' and lends weight to the argument surrounding the Ripper Diaries. THE BRUTAL MURDERS OF FIVE prostitutes in London's East End in the autumn of 1888 by an unknown killer who came to be...

Shirley Harrison. Smith Gryphon. 15.99.[pounds] 1856850501. The game's afoot, Watson. Still. Five years after the centennial mark, with its sanguineous froth of celebrant volumes, a haemorrhagic trickle of three new-sponsored pretenders to the bloodstained crown have appeared. The first, and most...

An eminent South African historian believes he has stumbled on the identity of Jack the Ripper.Charles van Onselen said at first he wasn't sure he wanted to publicize the conclusions he drew when he noticed parallels in the century-old, unsolved Ripper case and the background...

Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad does not deserve a new trial in Maryland, a state appeals court ruled Monday in a sharply worded unanimous decision that compared Muhammad to Jack the Ripper.The state Court of Special Appeals said Muhammad terrorized the Washington region in a...