Jack-the-Ripper has been an historical prism for international studies of crime, history and societies. This article re-examines the infamous violent homicides from a new medical perspective. In a cold case review, original evidence of a secret trade in the dead poor is presented, neglected in crime historiography. Trafficking in bodies and body parts to teach human anatomy to medical students was the norm in the East End of London in 1888. The business of anatomy – peopled by body dealers and their accomplices – had the medical infrastructure to provide a deadly disguise for the serial killings. Those that fell from relative to absolute poverty, in death, supplied dissection tables in major teaching hospitals across London. Its social wall...
The classic English detective/murder story always ends with what is now popularly referred to as ‘cl...
In 1888, several murders in the London boroughs of Whitechapel and Spitalfields became the first mod...
In 1888, several murders in the London boroughs of Whitechapel and Spitalfields became the first mod...
Jack-the-Ripper has been an historical prism for international studies of crime, history and societi...
Serial killers have become as much a part of popular culture as athletes and celebrities in the mode...
Serial killers have become as much a part of popular culture as athletes and celebrities in the mode...
Serial killers have become as much a part of popular culture as athletes and celebrities in the mode...
Serial killers have become as much a part of popular culture as athletes and celebrities in the mode...
Serial killers have become as much a part of popular culture as athletes and celebrities in the mode...
Hundreds of theories exist concerning the identity of “Jack the Ripper”. His propensity for anatomic...
By examining what Victorian newspapers headlined ‘mysterious’ or ‘suspicious’ deaths, this article a...
Hundreds of theories exist concerning the identity of “Jack the Ripper”. His propensity for anatomic...
Hundreds of theories exist concerning the identity of “Jack the Ripper”. His propensity for anatomic...
This paper will take a broad look at the underlying problems associated with the East End of London ...
The classic English detective/murder story always ends with what is now popularly referred to as ‘cl...
The classic English detective/murder story always ends with what is now popularly referred to as ‘cl...
In 1888, several murders in the London boroughs of Whitechapel and Spitalfields became the first mod...
In 1888, several murders in the London boroughs of Whitechapel and Spitalfields became the first mod...
Jack-the-Ripper has been an historical prism for international studies of crime, history and societi...
Serial killers have become as much a part of popular culture as athletes and celebrities in the mode...
Serial killers have become as much a part of popular culture as athletes and celebrities in the mode...
Serial killers have become as much a part of popular culture as athletes and celebrities in the mode...
Serial killers have become as much a part of popular culture as athletes and celebrities in the mode...
Serial killers have become as much a part of popular culture as athletes and celebrities in the mode...
Hundreds of theories exist concerning the identity of “Jack the Ripper”. His propensity for anatomic...
By examining what Victorian newspapers headlined ‘mysterious’ or ‘suspicious’ deaths, this article a...
Hundreds of theories exist concerning the identity of “Jack the Ripper”. His propensity for anatomic...
Hundreds of theories exist concerning the identity of “Jack the Ripper”. His propensity for anatomic...
This paper will take a broad look at the underlying problems associated with the East End of London ...
The classic English detective/murder story always ends with what is now popularly referred to as ‘cl...
The classic English detective/murder story always ends with what is now popularly referred to as ‘cl...
In 1888, several murders in the London boroughs of Whitechapel and Spitalfields became the first mod...
In 1888, several murders in the London boroughs of Whitechapel and Spitalfields became the first mod...