The true identity of Jack the Ripper, whose grisly murders terrorized east London in 1888, has been a mystery ever since.

The families of the victims of one of London’s most notorious serial killers, Jack the Ripper, have called for a fresh ...

Researcher Russell Edwards believes he has definitively identified Polish immigrant Aaron Kosminski as being Jack the Ripper. This week, descendants of the Ripper's victims backed Mr Edwards ...

Analysis of two famous letters ascribed to Jack the Ripper suggests they were faked by journalists to boost business. It has long been suggested that two notes purported to have been penned by the ...

They were all homeless at the time of their deaths in 1888. And they were all murdered by Jack the Ripper, one of the most notorious serial killers in British history. In the 130 years since the ...

when Jack the Ripper returns to London, with a shattered post-Brexit England operating a Victorian theme park in exchange for military and financial protection from America. When an American mogul ...

Queen Victoria scolded the then Prime Minister Lord Salisbury for the failure to catch Jack the Ripper. Historian Lucy Worsley discovered the dressing-down in a telegram the monarch sent to the PM ...

In episode one, Lucy investigates how the Jack the Ripper case shaped the way we cover true crime today and looks at how the shocking killings created a world of entertainment based on murder.

Jack the Ripper’s crimes took place 133 years ago but historians argue that its impact is still very much evident in the way we consume content. Today, true crime is a multi-billion pound ...

For instance, we’ve got quite a bit wrong about the story of Jack the Ripper, the name given to the serial killer who murdered five women in Whitechapel in 1888 and whose macabre shadow ...

How did the Jack the Ripper case shape the way true crime is covered today? Lucy Worsley investigates how these shocking killings created a world of entertainment based on murder. Show more True ...

The crowd is overwhelmingly American. There were some clichés ... that every single person in my field of vision is on a Jack the Ripper tour: not just our guide’s, but seemingly two or ...