Dissertations

Below are articles submitted by experienced researchers concerning a variety of Ripper-related topics. These articles do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the staff of Casebook: Jack the Ripper.

Contents

253 items in this section.

• A Closer Look at the Victims´ Wounds
• A Coroner for All Seasons: Sir Samuel Brighouse
• A Curious Find in Goulston Street
• A Cut-Throat Business
• A Life Less Ordinary: The Victims of Jack the Ripper on the Big Screen
• A Mystery Play : Police Opinions on Jack the Ripper
• A Piece of Apron, Some Chalk Graffiti and a Lost Hour
• A Reply to Kosminski and the Seaside Home
• A Ripper Victim That Wasn't: The Capture of Jane Beadmore's Killer
• A Slouch Hatted Yank: A Few Thoughts on the Newly Found Interview With Dr. Tumblety
• A Summarized History of Forensic Science
• A Tale of Two Frenchys
• A Talk With Neal Shelden
• A Theory on Francis Tumblety
• A Woman Alone in Whitechapel - Part One
• Aaron Kosminski Reconsidered
• Aaron Kosminski Reconsidered
• Albert Bachert
• Alternative Ripperology: Questioning the Whitechapel Murders
• American Connections to the Jack the Ripper Case
• An Alternate Kosminski Suspect and Police Witness
• An Analysis of The Star´s Coverage of the Whitechapel Murders
• An Appointment with the Hangman
• An East End Lodging House in the 1880s
• An Inspiration From Hell
• An Investigation into the Carrie Brown Murder
• Anderson and the Swanson Marginalia
• Anderson, Monro and Jsfmboe
• Another Look at the Lusk Kidney
• Anything But Your Prayers: Victims and Witnesses on the Night of the Double Event
• Arthur Griffiths, Robert Anderson, & Jack the Ripper
• Back to Basics - More Words About Buildings and Mood
• Blackwells Testimony – An Estimation of How Stride Was Lying in the Yard
• Bravo for Maybrick
• Butchers' Row and its Residents - Addresses
• Butchers' Row and its Residents - People
• By Accident or Design? A Critical Analysis of the Murder of Catherine Eddowes
• Cadosch – The Other Side of the Fence
• Catherine Eddowes: Wolverhampton and Birmingham
• Cats Cradle
• Charles Cross was Jack the Ripper?
• Charles Warren in Africa
• Coles, Kosminski and Levy – was there a Victim/Suspect/Witness connection?
• Connecting the Dots: Were the Ripper Crime Scenes Chosen to Form a Pattern?
• Considerable Doubt and the Death of Annie Chapman
• Cousin Jack
• Crisis for Scotland Yard: A Crisis Management Based Analysis of the Whitechapel Murders
• Crowley’s Ripper: The Collected Writings of Roslyn D’Onston
• Crowley’s Ripper: The Collected Writings of Roslyn D’Onston - Part 1
• Crowley’s Ripper: The Collected Writings of Roslyn D’Onston - Part 2
• Crowley’s Ripper: The Collected Writings of Roslyn D’Onston - Part 3
• Crowley’s Ripper: The Collected Writings of Roslyn D’Onston - Part 4
• Crowley’s Ripper: The Collected Writings of Roslyn D’Onston - Part 5
• Crowley’s Ripper: The Collected Writings of Roslyn D’Onston - Part 6
• Crowley’s Ripper: The Collected Writings of Roslyn D’Onston - Part 7
• David Cohen
• David Cohen (Part II)
• Dear Boss: Hoax as Popular Communal Narrative in the Case of the Jack the Ripper Letters
• Death and Rebirth - Durward Street in the 20th Century
• Dickens and the Ripper Legend
• Did Jack the Ripper Leave Any Clues?
• Did Jack the Ripper Use Chloroform?
• Did Kelly Have a Heart?
• Did Mary Kelly Survive?
• Did the Police Know Who Jack Was?
• Did the Ripper work for Pickfords?
• DOnston Stephenson: Dissecting the incident off Flamborough Head
• Double Trouble: Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes
• Dr. Anderson at New Scotland Yard: An 1892 Interview Rediscovered
• Dracula, Jack the Ripper and A Thirst for Blood
• Edward Buchan: Did Jack the Ripper Commit Suicide?
• Elisabeth Gustafsdotters Last Stride
• Elizabeth Stride: Her Killer and Time of Death
• Emily and the Bibliophile: A Possible Source for Macnaghten's Private Information
• Estimating Mary Kellys Time of Death
• Ex-Detective Inspector Edmund Reid And Jack the Ripper
• Exonerating Michael Kidney
• Finding the Victims Graves
• Freemasonry Dissertations
• From Buenos Aires to Brick Lane: Were Alois Szemeredy and Alonzo Maduro the same man?
• From Dublin Castle to Scotland Yard: Robert Anderson and the Secret Irish Department (Alan Sharp)
• From Hell: A Discussion of the Moore/Campbell Series
• From Hell: Fact or Fiction?
• Getting Better
• Grave-Spitting & Other Tall Tales
• Guardian of the Great: A Brief Biography of E. T. Woodhall
• H-Division Personnel
• Has DNA Evidence Finally Solved the Jack the Ripper Case?
• Heartless - The Evidence for a Copycat Killer
• Hey Joe! Your Porter Story Sounds Fishy!
• History of the Metropolitan Police Force
• Hyam Hyams
• Hyam Hyams: Portrait of a Suspect
• Inquest, London: The Life and Career of Wynne Edwin Baxter
• Inspector Spratlings Pass
• Interpreting Lipski
• Is there an Echo around here? An Addendum to Mrs Kuers Lodger
• Is Truth Stranger Than Fiction? A Response to Des McKenna
• Isaac Kosminski
• It was Christmas Day in the Workhouse
• Jack ´n Wax
• Jack in the Box
• Jack the Redeemer
• Jack the Ripper - by Aleister Crowley
• Jack the Ripper and ”The Coffee Connection”
• Jack the Ripper on Old Time Radio
• Jack the Ripper, the Green River Killer, and the Police
• Jack the Ripper: A Twenty-First Century Investigation?
• Jack the Ripper: What’s in a Name?
• Jack Through the Looking-Glass (or Wallace in Wonderland)
• Jacob the Ripper?
• Joe Barnett...Jack the Ripper...Not One in the Same
• Joseph Barnett
• Kit, Kitty, Kitten: The Story of Kitty Ronan
• Kosminski and the Seaside Home
• Kosminski´s Relatives
• Le Grand of the Strand
• Letter from the Sickbed: Donston Writes to the Police
• London Correspondence: Tales from the Streets of Whitechapel
• Long -vs- Cadoche
• Martha Tabram: The Forgotten Ripper Victim?
• Mary Kelly
• Mary Kelly is Dead
• Matthew Packer - Final Thoughts
• May My End A Warning Be: Catherine Eddowes and Gallows Literature in the Black Country
• Maybrick Diary Dissertations
• McCarthy, Kelly and Breezer's Hill
• Miscellaneous research resources
• Montague John Druitt
• Mr. Valentine's School
• Mrs. Kuer’s Lodger
• Murder, Death and the Lodging House: The Strange Case of Mary Ann Austin
• My Funny Valentine
• Odd Omissions: Scott Morro's Plea for Barnett's Innocence
• Off the Wall
• Old Wounds: Re-examining the Bucks Row Murder
• On the Origins of the Royal Conspiracy Theory
• On the Trail of Jack the Ripper: Szemeredy in Argentina
• Online newspaper archives
• Ostrog - An Adventurer at Eton
• Out of Africa
• Patricia Cornwell and Walter Sickert: A Primer
• Patricia Cornwell Delivers a Lecture at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville
• Pictures, Paint and Prosceniums: A Brief Biography of William D. Stewart
• Piecing it Together - A Possible Scenario of the Death of Elizabeth Stride
• Portrait of a Killer. Jack the Ripper: Case Closed?
• Problems with the Macnaghten Memoranda
• Providence Row Night Refuge
• Reader Reactions
• Rediscovering Austin's Jack the Ripper
• Reinvestigating Murder: How Did Long Liz Die?
• Reinvestigating Murder: The Kelly Enigma
• Reinvestigating Murder: The Mystery of the Knife
• Resources for Jewish genealogy
• Responses to the Ripper Murders: Letters to Old Jewry
• Ripper Films: An Overview
• Ripper Redux
• Rippercussions: Public Reaction to the Ripper Murders in the Victorian Press
• Rippermania: Fear and Fascination in Victorian London
• Robert James Lees and Visions From Hell
• Room 13 Millers Court
• September 1888 Elizabeth Stride
• Sergeant William Thick
• Sir Charles Warren and the Bloodhounds
• Smith's Beat
• So Long, Liz: Was Elizabeth Stride a True Ripper Victim?
• So You Want to be a Ripperologist?
• Spring-Heeled Jack: Fiction Based on Fact
• Statistical Shortfalls: Loanes 1887 Report in Review
• Step-by-Step Pattern of a Serial Killer
• Stephen White, Amos Simpson and Eddowes' Shawl
• Summing Up and Verdict: Liverpool 2003
• Summing Up and Verdict: Liverpool 2003
• Suspect and Witness - The Police Viewpoint
• Taken in for Questioning: Barlow and Watt Revisited
• Tea, Scandal and the Rippers Shadow
• Terror in Whitechapel!
• The Art of Murder
• The Artistic and Psychological Effect of Jack the Ripper on Vincent Van Gogh
• The Belle of Philadelphia
• The Broken Pipe
• The Butchers Row Suspect – Was He Jack the Ripper?
• The Cable Street Dandy: Severin Klosowski aka George Chapman
• The Camden Town Murder
• The Canterbury Encore: The Further Adventures of Dr. Tumblety
• The Carrie Brown Murder Case: New Revelations
• The Case for Re-canonizing Martha Tabram
• The Diminishing Case of Mr. Druitt
• The Eloquence of Stone - A Long Look at Christ Church
• The Enigmas of Millers Court
• The Enigmas of Millers Court
• The Funeral of Catherine Eddowes
• The Funeral of Mary Jane Kelly
• The Goulston Street Graffito Debate
• The History of the Cloak & Dagger Club: A Personal Reminiscence
• The Hitler Diaries
• The House Where Jack Swilled?
• The Identification of Liz Stride
• The Importance of Fairy Fay, and Her Link to Emma Smith
• The Ipswich Ripper Murders
• The Jack the Ripper Syndicate
• The Kelly Crime Scene Photographs
• The Kozminski File
• The Life and Crimes of Frederick Bailey Deeming
• The Life and Possible Deaths of Sir William Gull
• The Lighter Side of My Official Life - Textual Comparisons
• The Man Who Saw: The Face of Joseph Lawende Revealed
• The Man Who Shielded Jack the Ripper: George Hutchinson & his Statement – An Analysis
• The Marking of Catherine Eddowes
• The Men Who Suspected Kosminski
• The Murder in Cartin's Court
• The Mystery of Mary Jane Kelly
• The New York Affair, Part II
• The Origins of Mary Kelly
• The Pensioner, and a Brief History of Fort Elson
• The Polish Jew Suspect - Jewish Witness Connection: Some Further Speculations
• The Real Rose Mylett
• The Riddle of New Cottage
• The Ripper in America
• The Ripper in Literature
• The Search for Jack el Destripador
• The Secret Life of Arthur J. Munby
• The Silence of Violence: A Witness to the Tabram Murder Exposed
• The Star Interview - Mark Galloway
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Saucy Jacky
• The Strange Case of Dr. John Hewitt
• The Streets of Whitechapel
• The Thames Torso Murders of 1887-89
• The Third Man
• The Victim Photographs
• The Victims Photographs and some Wall Writing
• The Victorian Medico-Legal Autopsy
• The Victorian Medico-Legal Autopsy: Part II
• The West of England MP Identified
• The Whitechapel Club: Defining Chicago´s Newspapermen in the 1890s
• The Whitechapel Dossier: Dorset Street and Miller’s Court
• The Windsor Street Stakeout
• The Witness: How Well Do We Know Him?
• Thomas Bulling and the Myth of the London Journalist
• Time is on My Side
• Toxic Repetition: The Cultural Uses of the Whitechapel Murders, 1888
• Tumblety Talks
• Turning a Modern Eye Toward an Old Investigation
• Walking the Beat
• Was Jack the Ripper a Medical Man?
• Was Jack the Ripper Left-Handed?
• What Happened at Miller's Court?
• Where We Are with Bury
• Who was the Mortuary Photographer?
• Whodunit? : Choosing a Ripper Suspect
• Why Did Jack Stop? Or Did He?
• Windows and Witnesses
• Yours Truly, Robert Bloch