Jack the Ripper is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The concentration of the killings at the weekend, and within a few streets of each other, has indicated to many that the Ripper was employed during the week and lived locally. Others have thought the killer was an educated upper-class man, possibly a doctor or an aristocrat, who ventured into Whitechapel from a more well-to-do area.
Despite the many and varied theories about the identity and profession of Jack the Ripper, authorities are not agreed on a single solution and the number of named suspects reaches over one hundred. Asylum puts some of the accused under the microscope and explains why they almost certainly were not 'Saucy Jack'.
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The trouble with the Jack the Ripper story is that there is an awful lot of "information" on the case that is simply not true.
Some of it is myth that was created at the time and reported by the press. Some of it has been made up since. Some of it is down to police methods at the time being somewhat slapdash. Perhaps the worst of the misinformation is that which was written in later fictional accounts of the case and has since entered the public's understanding of the case as "fact".
Some serious criminologists have spent a lot of time trying to filter out all this noise to leave the truth. However a lot more sensationalist people have spent their time muddying the waters even further.
One thing is for sure we will never know now.
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