Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed
Author: Patricia Cornwell
Between August and November 1888 five women were murdered in Whitechapel. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear for months in the East End, and gave rise to the sobriquet which was to become shorthand for a serial killer – Jack the Ripper.,,For over a hundred years the identity of the killer has remained on the world’s greatest unsolved mysteries. Until n….Read More
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