Jack The Ripper

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The Lodger, The Arrest and Escape of Jack the Ripper

In 1993, a cache of Edwardian letters came into the possession of Stewart Evans, a British policeman who collects true crime memorabilia. In the packet was a single letter of enormous importance. Written by the head of the Secret Department (later to become the Special Branch), this letter revealed the identity of the man police at the time believed to be Jack the Ripper — the killer responsible for a hideous string of murders in the Whitechapel district of London. This book unmasks the Ripper as an American doctor arrested shortly after the last murder, who fled police custody and escaped to America — where he continued his horrific killing spree. Black-and-white photos.

In February 1993 Stewart Evans, a policeman who collects true crime memorabilia, was offered by an antiquarian bookseller a cache of Edwardian letters, Little did he realise what he was acquiring, for one of these letters was by the head of the Secret Department (later to become Special Branch), who had access to all information relating to the Ripper investigation Evans was amazed to discover in this letter the identity of the man the police believed was Jack the Ripper. He was the prime, if not the only suspect, at the time of the murders.

‘The letter revealed, too, that this man, an American, was arrested shortly after the last killing, Yet he escaped the grasp of Scotland Yard to flee on a steamer to his native shores. Further research by Evans and Gainey was to reveal that a series of Ripper-style murders subsequently took place on the other side of the Auntie,

However, crucial police files on this case have disappeared, was the fact that the police had allowed the killer to escape the reason behind the cover-up, particularly the missing files? As Evans and Gainey began to investigate, they discovered amazing evidence to corroborate the letter on both sides of the Atlantic. The man I question turned out to be a more notorious and extraordinary character than anyone could possibly have imagined, a man famous in his own country, at once flamboyant and secretive, an habitué of both high society and the underworld, a man driven by an obsessive hatred of women,