One survived long enough to reveal that she had been the victim of more than one assailant. Another was stabbed 39 times.
Seven had their throats cut. Four suffered grotesque abdominal mutilations.
Two were killed on the same night. Then, and ever since, some or all of these horrific crimes have been ascribed to an unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
He has become the most notorious felon in the annals of crime. More books have been written about him than any other murderer. But who was he?
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Recently the American crime writer Patricia Cornwell has convinced herself if few others that the perpetrator was the celebrated artist Walter Sickert. I now believe I know the truth. F or some years I have been writing historical detective stories inspired by the real-life friendship between Oscar Wilde , playwright and aesthete, and Arthur Conan Coyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
They were an odd couple, introduced to one another in the summer of by an American publisher who had come to London looking for up-and-coming authors who might be persuaded to write murder mysteries in the wake of the Jack the Ripper killings. At the time, Wilde lived with his wife and two young sons in Tite Street, Chelsea, where, extraordinarily, one of his immediate neighbours was Melville Macnaghten, recently appointed as head of the Metropolitan Police Criminal Investigation Department and tasked, in , with producing a definitive report on the Whitechapel murders.
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There was no hard evidence to link Druitt with the murders but according to the police, Druitt was a doctor, and because the murders involved body mutilation, doctors, barbers and butchers were seen as likely culprits. Looking at Artists Looking at Themselves.
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But horrified at the blood-soaked wrap, she never wore it, and it was stored away and passed down through the generations until it came to auction seven years ago. The author, who said he was part-inspired to take up the search for the killer after watching the Johnny Depp film From Hell about the Ripper murders, said police had identified Kosminski as a suspect, but never had enough evidence to bring him to trial. Kosminski was a Polish Jewish immigrant who, fleeing persecution in his Russia-controlled homeland, came with his family to England in and lived in Mile End Old Town.
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