Jack the Ripper fiction

Throughout the centuries, Jack the Ripper’s identity has remained a mystery. Ever since the idea of Jack the Ripper has been thought of, suspicions has risen about numerous people. Today, there are over one hundred Jack the Ripper suspects. Lewis Carroll, famous for his work of “Alice in Wonderland”, is one of the hundreds that have been accused of being the murderous Jack the Ripper. The mystery began when Jack the Ripper, an unidentified serial killer, made his first killing around the…

Was Jack the Ripper really Jack the Ripper? Or was it someone else? Ripper was a serial killer and mutilated at least five prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888 and because no one arrested or tried for murders, crime buffs are still fascinated with Jack the Ripper case more than 115 years later. To criminally profile the man named Jack the Ripper, there is evidence of his types of victims, what he did to his victims and the possible suspects to his true identity. The women experts really…

During the 19th century, France had their own version of the famous Britain serial killer Jack the Ripper, and his name was Joseph Vacher. Joseph Vacher killed twice as many innocent people then Jack the Ripper. The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and The Birth of Forensic Science, written by Douglas Starr gives the story of Joseph Vacher’s life and the brutal crimes he committed. Starr also introduces the criminologist Alexandre Lacassagne, for whom he gives credits to for the…

Thomas Bond used evidence from a crime scene to describe the Jack the Rippers personality. In this case, Jack the Ripper, murdered five prostitutes and disfigured their bodies in different ways in the Whitechapel District in London. This lasted from August 7 to September 10, 1888. From the way he destroyed the bodies, criminal profilers, Bond and Phillips could tell that he had some background knowledge of human autonomy. “Jack the Ripper didn't just snuff out life with a knife, he mutilated and…

H.H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil/ By: Adam Selzer Skyhorse Publishing, 2017, 430 pages The book I chose was The True History of the White City Devil. In this book the author describes the many scandals and murders H.H. Holmes was involved in in the late 1800's. In this report I'm going to explain some of the crimes Holmes committed and some of the reasons I enjoyed this book Throughout this book the author tells about the life of Herman Webster Mudgett who later became…

A murderer always has a motive for killing someone. Everyone is different which means there could be billions of different scenarios, none of which having the exact same outcome. In the hit crime investigating show Criminal Minds, Season 5 Episode 21 tells the story of a BAU investigation team working to find a man who has gone on a killing spree, murdering five people the team believes to be all connected. The murderer of this episode is discovered to be a young sixteen year old boy whose only…

The Zodiac Killer The Zodiac Killer took blame for many murders in the San Francisco Bay area in the late 1960s. To this day he has not been caught. The Zodiac Killer has been directly connected to five murders at the least, he is likely responsible for more (Biography.com). On October 30 1966, Cheri Jo Bates was at riverside College coming from the library. Bates got in the car and it would not turn on. Police think Bates’s killer approached her with an officer to help. The killer drug Bates…

Jack the Ripper is a serial killer and still nowadays is remembered by the impeccable crimes he committed which didn’t attach him to any direct suspect. In this book, Patricia Cornwell narrates the story in her point of view where Walter Sickert, a painter and printmaker, was known for painting Jack´s crime scenes. Many of these paintings are all around the world and some of them were used against Sickert to blame him. Other perfect suspects could have been Prince Albert Victor who suffered from…

I chose the book Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed By Patricia Cornwell. This book is published by Berkley Books in 2002 and has 383 pages. In this book Patricia Cornwell lays out all evidence as to why she believes Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper all those years ago. This book goes into great detail explaining how Walter Sickert and Jack the Ripper are similar. This book begins by setting the date as Monday, August 6th , 1888 and in London. Walter Sickert was a well known…

at Texas State University, as identifying Flower and Dean Street as the epicenter of Jack the Ripper plausible residency. (Spencer) Kosminski was a known local of the Whitechapel district during the late 1880s and therefore he would have intimate knowledge of the surrounding area and the nefarious activities that took place after nightfall. Robert House shared essay ‘Aaron Kosminski Reconsidered’ on Casebook: Jack…