In Pursuit of Jack the Ripper: An Introduction to the Whitechapel Murders

THE ULTIMATE COLD CASE From 1888 to 1891, London's East End was rocked by a series of brutal murders. The victims were prostitutes whose corpses were left gruesomely mutilated. These crimes came to be known as the Whitechapel murders and were attributed to an unidentified fiend who named himself "Jack the Ripper". The search for his true identity consumed an enormous amount of police resources and generated more than 1,600 pages of reports--but the case was never solved. Now, after 120 year...