Jack the Ripper and the London Press - L. Perry Curtis Jr

The Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 were a lot more important than they should have been. Five (or maybe six) prostitutes were killed in Whitechapel during the space of about two and half months, and their bodies were mutilated in unpleasant ways. The police never caught the perpetrator. And that was it, really. But somehow the crimes became bigger than they actually were. The public was outraged and alarmed, people were obsessed, there was something akin to mass hysteria in certain areas, and the end of the crimes coincided with the resignation of the Metropolitan Police Chief, the widely hated Sir Charles Warren. The press was largely to blame for this, of ...  Read the complete review