628. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Unmasked (Part 5)

December 22, 2025

Description

Who are the prime suspects for the identity of Jack the Ripper? Why did he suddenly halt his hellish killing spree, and never strike again? And, once and for all, who really was Jack the Ripper…?...

Books Referenced

From Hell

Author: Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

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Mentioned as the comic book that was adapted into the 2001 film starring Johnny Depp and Ian Holm about Jack the Ripper

The Complete History of Jack the Ripper

Author: Philip Sugden

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Described as 'really the definitive survey of the case' and referenced multiple times throughout the episode as a key source for information about Jack the Ripper suspects

Jack the Ripper, The Final Solution

Author: Stephen Knight

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Described as 'perhaps the single most notorious book ever written about Jack the Ripper' which proposed the royal conspiracy theory involving Prince Albert Victor and Sir William Gull

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed

Author: Patricia Cornwell

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Mentioned that the crime novelist has written two books about Walter Sickert as a Ripper suspect, buying 30 Sickert paintings for her research

Walter Sickert: A Life

Author: Matthew Sturgis

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Referenced as Sickert's biographer who claims Sickert was in France for at least four of the killings, providing an alibi

The Identity of Jack the Ripper

Author: Donald McCormick

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Mentioned as the person who first proposed Walter Sickert as a suspect in 1959, described as someone who 'wrote kind of books about spy stories and murder mysteries'