More than a century after his death, the ghost of James Maybrick would rise from his grave in an explosion of furor and excitement that would rock the foundations of many crime historians, lecturers and most certainly wannabe detectives, all of whom had spent decades trying to uncover the real identity of the world’s most…
Category: Jack the Ripper
MARY ANN NICHOLS (1888) | Whitechapel
Shortly after 3.40am on Friday the 31st August 1888, a cartman by the name of Charles Cross was making his way to work along the narrow, cobbled street of Buck’s Row, Whitechapel when he came across a dark bundle lying on the pavement close to the door of a stable yard on the left side…