Taken from Casebook's page about Emma:

"The lodging house deputy, Mary Russell and lodger Annie Lee, amazed that she could even have made it this far, rushed her to the London Hospital on Whitechapel Road, apparently against Emma's will."

I hope Sam doesn't leave in a huffkin. It would be a pita.

And we're the ones who take suspect sources at face value? Numpty.

Am I right in thinking that the only evidence that exists that línks Catherine Eddowes to gallows ballads is a newspaper article that says she and Thomas Conway used to sell them? And there is no evidence at all that she and/or Conway actually wrote them?

Which books about the Diary do you fine people consider essential?

I only know what there is in the Michael Winner film and bits and bobs gleaned from the various Rippercast episodes where it's mentioned. After hearing the last four RC releases, I rather feel the need to read up on it...

Apologies for taking a while to start posting. I'm having a very busy few weeks, but I am still plugging away at the files when I get a chance.

I can say that I have been and continue to be surprised at just how much coverage there was in the Finnish press. It isn't just that different...

Oh how wonderful it is to be married to a librarian - my wife got the book ordered a month ago and it arrived on Wednesday. It's now sat on our book pile, ready to go.

I did buy a copy of 'The Ripper File' Barlow & Watt book, just to balance things out a bit, and that's arrived now,...

Oh no, how sad

Since my interest in the WM's has been rekindled, I've rewatched quite a few of the documentaries on the subject and it's always a joy when Mr. Fido appears. He will forever be an inspiration to me for his enthusiasm and his dedication to the subject.

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Oh, of course. Oops! Apologies!

Melanie Clegg wrote a novel called 'From Whitechapel'.

Alexander, Ian or Bob?...

Ooh interesting! The only Finnish serial/spree killer that has been mentioned to me since I moved here was Hans Assmann, the most popular suspect in connection with the Lake Bödöm murders.

I've only just watched this series all the way through for the first time and watched episode six last night.

Near the end of the last episode, Barlow talks about how he followed his own line of inquiry with the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in regard to Abberline, and...

No, my point was about Mary Ann Nichols being tired and drunk, who happened to have that lived experience.


Also, I haven't said that Nichols would choose to sleep on the footpath gin Buck's Row. The most I've said that she may have chosen was to sit down for a rest when she needed...

Unless one has been a practically homeless, alcoholic inhabitant of one of the poorest and crime ridden districts of the age, where the only options are to get 2p for a hang on a line, 4p for a bed for the night, throw oneself on the mercy of the casual wards or workhouses or walk the streets until...