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Jack the Ripper’s identity ‘revealed’ by newly discovered medical records from asylums and hospitals

A former police volunteer claims to have discovered the identity of the figure behind some of the most shocking crimes in British history, unmasking the 19th-century murderer who terrorised the nation ...
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Jack the Ripper solved? DNA on a shawl points to a Polish 19th-century immigrant; experts say it can’t be

There are very few unsolved mysteries that still grip people the way Jack the Ripper does. In the autumn of 1888, a still-unidentified serial killer stalked the streets of Whitechapel in Victorian ...