Gossip Column #30

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Today there are endless ways to learn about Jack the Ripper. A website entitled Jack the Ripper 1888 encourages armchair detectives to study the details and cast their vote as to whom they think is the real killer. 

Author Hallie Rubenhold has written an excellent book called The Five. In it she reveals fascinating details about the lives of the Ripper’s victims, and argues skillfully that The Ripper was not merely stalking prostitutes. 

Thrill-seekers visiting London can sign up for a Jack The Ripper walking tour that aims to take people back in time to the “mean streets of the Victorian East End.”

Pictured above is The Princess Alice Pub (owned and operated today by a gastropub called The Culpepper). It is a stop on many Jack the Ripper tours because it was the last place the Ripper’s last known victim was seen alive.

The pub was a common haunt of a frightening figure known to the Whitechapel inhabitants as “Leather Apron.” Many suspect that Leather Apron and Jack the Ripper are one and the same.

Do you have thoughts about the real identity of Jack the Ripper? Leave your ideas in the comments section below.

Previously: Murder Is Good for Business – Part V

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