Jack the Ripper: The Casebook

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This book didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know (because look who you're talking to here) but it was fun to look at all the memorabilia that they added in to make it interesting. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Barnett also stated that on the night of 8 November, the evening of Kelly's murder, he had visited her for around one hour. Richard Jones is an internationally renowned Jack the Ripper expert, and head guide on the widely acclaimed Jack the Ripper Walks.One by one the murder victims are revealed, their similarities discussed and the scenes and circumstances of their murders investigated. After this, in 1919 the electoral register recorded that he lived at 106 Red Lion Street in Shadwell with Louisa Barnett, who appears to be his wife, although there is no documented evidence to confirm whether he was married or had any children with her. Reading the book is one thing, but actually being able to handle the letters, papers and newspaper clippings as they were written really brings the case to life.

The killer probably had a profession in which he could freely experience his destructive tendencies. Barnett later testified that despite the separation, they saw each other again outside Miller's Court several times after he had moved out, though only as friends.

Lots of nice illustrations and photos but it's more of a coffee table type read (at least on my coffee table anyhow! Als deutschsprachiger Mensch aber Ripper-Interessierter muss man bald auf englische Werke zurückgreifen, da für viele Werke zu diesem Thema keine deutsche Ausgabe angeboten wird.