Was no one person Jack the Ripper?

It's a bold claim, but I am going to make it: I believe I have solved the mystery of Jack the Ripper. Between 3 April 1888 and 13 February 1891, 11 women were brutally murdered in the Whitechapel district of the East End of London. Most, if not all, were prostitutes. read more

My conclusion, after 40 years of study, is that there was no Jack the Ripper. The first murder created such a sensation in the newspapers, who screamed about an unknown killer in Whitechapel. The next four murders were all copycat murders, feeding off the frenzy created by those same newspapers. read more

Although there may not be any concrete, scientific evidence against him, the fact that the Jack The Ripper murders in London's East End ended after Druitt's suicide convinced one London detective (Melville Lesie Macnaghten) that Druitt was in fact Jack The Ripper himself. read more

The Ripper appears in novels, short stories, poems, comic books, games, songs, plays, operas, television programmes, and films. More than 100 non-fiction works deal exclusively with the Jack the Ripper murders, making it one of the most written-about true-crime subjects. read more