Was Jack the Ripper ever caught by the authorities?

Lacking any hard evidence, police never arrested Kosminski for the crimes. He remained institutionalized until his death in 1919 from gangrene. Edwards has long theorized that the shawl was of too fine a quality to have been worn by a London prostitute and belonged to Jack the Ripper, not Eddowes. read more

Jack the Ripper was the subject of an exhaustive police investigation at the time and there were at least a dozen witnesses who provided descriptions to the police all of which were reasonable matches to each other. This by the way is a serious point against the idea that Jack the Ripper did not exist. read more

Jack the Ripper mystery solved by top detective after 125 years THE Jack the Ripper mystery that has kept the world enthralled since the killer first struck on the streets of Victorian London has been blown apart on the 125th anniversary of the grisly crimes by a former murder squad detective. read more

Jack the Ripper is the best-known name for an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. In both the criminal case files and contemporary journalistic accounts, the killer was called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron. read more