| Introduction: By the Numbers - Dan Norder |
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'Considerable Doubt' and the Death of Annie Chapman
- Wolf Vanderlinden
Re-examining the witness and the medical evidence |
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Factor X: How the Study of Known Serial Killers Can Help
the Hunt for Jack the Ripper - Amanda Howard
Gary Ridgway, BTK, Chikatilo and others compared |
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The Sherlock Holmes of 'G' Division - Bernard Brown
The police officer who thought he almost caught Jack |
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A Run of Bad Luck? - Jeffrey Bloomfield
A look at two earlier prostitute murders |
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Mary. Mary - Quite Contrary! - Des McKenna
The two Mary Jane Kellys and the blotchy faced man |
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Dear Boss: Puppets, Prostitutes and Charles Fort -
Robert J. McLaughlin
A play about a paranormal investigator on the case |
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| From the Newspaper Morgue - Wolf Vanderlinden |
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| The Inquest - Jennifer Pegg |
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| News & Notes - Dan Norder |
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| The Bookcase - Wolf Vanderlinden and Dan Norder |
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| The Whitechapel Letterbox |
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| 'My Funny Little Games...' |
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On the cover: Front: Mary Jane Kelly, the last of the
canonical five Jack the Ripper victims, with the man described
by George Hutchinson. Illustration by Jane Coram.
Back: Charles Fort (Darren Keay) and Frederick Abberline (puppet
/ Burgandy Code) in Eric Woolfe's play Dear Boss. Photo by Brian
Harder for Vertigo Mystery Theatre copyright 2005.
Background: A Melville Macnaghten letter to George Sims describing
the murders he attributes to Jack the Ripper.
Special thanks to: Stewart P. Evans, for various images;
Donna S. DeCarlo, for transcription services this issue; Robert
Clack, for the maps used in Jeffrey Bloomfield's article.
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