Jack the Ripper

noun

an unidentified murderer who killed at least seven prostitutes in London's East End between August and November 1888

Jack the Ripper

A criminal in London in the late nineteenth century apparently responsible for several ghastly murders by slashing. His identity is unknown.

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The series takes in a wide range of topics, from unmasking Jack the Ripper, to the day The Beatles came to Hull.

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Now, thanks to Bertillon, the police could determine if a man claiming to be John Reynolds was actually Jack the Ripper.

It has now been going for 10 years and is up to its 104th episode having covered everyone from Jack the Ripper to Charles Manson.

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"These were real women, Jack the Ripper was a real person - it's not Jekyll and Hyde or Frankenstein."

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Terror birds were the grizzly bears of birds, the great white sharks of the land, Jack the Ripper but with feathers.

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