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Unsolved Murders of Women in Late Victorian London
When discussing unsolved murders of women in late Victorian London, most people think of the depredations of Jack the Ripper, the Whitechapel Murderer. But he was just one of a string of phantom murderers whose unsolved slayings outraged late Victorian Britain.
The mysterious Great Coram Street, Burton Crescent and Euston Square murders were talked about with bated breath, and the northern part of Bloomsbury got the unflattering nickname of the ‘murder neighbourhood’ thanks to its profusion of unsolved mysteries. Marvel at the convoluted Kingswood Mystery, littered with fake names and mistaken identities; be puzzled by the blackmail and secret marriage in the Cannon Street Murder; and shudder at the vicious yet silent killing in St Giles that took place in a crowded house in the dead of night.
Rivals of the Ripper is the first to resurrect these unsolved Victorian murder mysteries, and to highlight the ghoulish handiwork of the Rivals of the Ripper: the spectral killers of gas-lit London.
30th September, 2024 in True Crime
Before Jack the Ripper, another monster prowled the waterways of Victorian London. The Thames Torso Killer has always lurked in the Ripper’s shadow, despite the fact he murdered and dismembered at least four people over two years. He started to kill in 1887, over a year before th…
21st April, 2023 in True Crime
In 1740s Britain, a pair of murders in Sussex would captivate the public imagination. Acts so brutal, they would destroy Britain’s most dangerous smuggling gang and drive a government purge of the Sussex smuggling community: the murders of customs officer William Galley and shoem…
20th September, 2016 in True Crime
The ‘Nude Murders’ shook London in the early 1960s. Like the gruesome crimes that the killer was named after they too have remained unsolved. Half a century on true crime author and former Flying Squad detective Dick Kirby re-examines the case of ‘Jack the Stripper’, bringing a c…
9th February, 2016 in True Crime, Women in History
When discussing unsolved murders of women in late Victorian London, most people think of the depredations of Jack the Ripper, the Whitechapel Murderer, whose sanguineous exploits has spawned the creation of a small library of books. But Jack the Ripper was just one of a string of…
18th December, 2015 in True Crime
Eleven separate murders, stretching from 3 April 1888 to 13 February 1891, were included in a London Metropolitan Police Service investigation and known collectively as the ‘Whitechapel murders’. Opinions vary as to whether these murders should all be linked to the same…
