loan to John and Janice Dowler ref1, ref2
loan to Scotland Yard’s Black Museum ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
manufacture of ref1
previous DNA testing of ref1, ref2, ref3
scientific dating of ref1
significance of its Michaelmas daisy pattern ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Shoe Lane ref1
Shoreditch ref1
Shoreditch mortuary ref1
Sickert, Walter ref1
Simmons, PC George ref1
Simpson, Acting Sergeant Amos ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Simpson, Jane ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Simpson, John and Mary ref1
Simpson, Mary ref1, ref2
Sims, George R. ref1, ref2
Sion Square ref1
Sivvey, John ref1
Skinner, Keith ref1
Smith, Annie Eliza ref1
Smith, Eliza Mary ref1, ref2
Smith, Emma ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Smith, Fountain ref1
Smith, G. Wentworth Bell ref1
Smith, Acting Commissioner Major Henry ref1, ref2
Smith, PC William ref1, ref2, ref3
Sotheby’s auctioneers ref1, ref2, ref3
Southwark ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
spectrophotometry absorption test on dyes ref1
Spital Square ref1
Spitalfields Market ref1
Spitalfields silk designs ref1
‘Squibby’ ref1
Stanley, Dr ref1
Stanley, Edward ref1
Star, The newspaper ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Star Place ref1
Stephenson, Robert D’Onston ref1
Stepney ref1
Stepney Workhouse ref1, ref2
‘stink industries’ ref1
Stora Tumlehead, Sweden ref1
Stowell, Dr Thomas ref1
Stride, Elizabeth ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18
inquest into the death of ref1
funeral of ref1
Stride, John ref1
Suffolk and Essex Free Press newspaper ref1
Sutcliffe, Peter ‘the Yorkshire Ripper’ ref1, ref2, ref3
Sun newspaper ref1, ref2
Swanson, Chief Inspector Donald ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
marginalia annotations to Robert Anderson’s The Lighter Side of My Official Life ref1, ref2
Tabram, Henry ref1
Tabram, Martha ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
post-mortem report ref1
inquest into the death of ref1
Taylor, Joseph ref1
Ten Bells pub ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Ten Bells Publishing ref1
Thain, PC John ref1
Thalmann, Diane ref1, ref2
Thames Magistrates Court ref1
Thames Torso murders ref1
Thick, Sergeant William ref1, ref2
Thomas, Mark, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics ref1
Thompson’s Daily News newspaper ref1
Thrawl Street ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Times, The newspaper ref1
Totty, Dr Richard ref1
Tower of London ref1, ref2
Trafalgar Square ref1, ref2
Tumblety, Francis ref1, ref2
Turner, Henry ref1
Two Brewers pub ref1
United Synagogue ref1, ref2
University of Helsinki ref1
University of London ref1
University College, London ref1
Victoria, Queen of England ref1, ref2
her telegram about the murders ref1
Victoria railway station ref1
Victoria & Albert Museum ref1
vigilance committees ref1, ref2
Waddell, Bill, ref1, ref2
Walker, Mary Ann, maiden name of Mary Ann Nichols
Wandsworth ref1
Wapping ref1
Warren, Chief Commissioner Charles ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
resignation of ref1
Watkins, PC Edward ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Wellington Barracks ref1
Wentworth Model Dwellings ref1, ref2
Wentworth Street ref1, ref2, ref3
Western Australia Police ref1
Westminster ref1
Westow Hill market ref1
White Church Lane ref1
White Hart pub ref1, ref2
White House, the, dosshouse ref1
White, Martha, see Martha Tabram
Whitechapel Bell Foundry ref1
Whitechapel Club, Chicago ref1
Whitechapel High Street ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Whitechapel Infirmary ref1
Whitechapel Police Division ref1
Whitechapel Road ref1, ref2
Whitechapel Underground Station ref1
whole genome amplification (WGA) ref1
Wilkes Street ref1
Wilkins, Jane ref1
Wilmott’s dosshouse ref1
Windsor Magazine ref1
Wyatt, Chief Inspector Mick ref1, ref2
Yalford Street ref1
Yesterday television channel ref1
Yorkshire Ripper, see Peter Sutcliffe
List of Illustrations
1. The outer side of the shawl showing the Michaelmas daisies.
2. The reverse side of the shawl with Michaelmas daisy section folded inwards.
3. Martha Tabram, possibly the first Ripper victim.
4. A typical Whitechapel dosshouse.
5. The discovery of Mary Ann Nichols.
6. Mortuary photograph of Mary Ann Nichols.
7. Mortuary photograph of Annie Chapman.
8. The front of 29 Hanbury Street. The door directly under ‘29’ was the passageway to the backyard where Annie Chapman was murdered.
9. The backyard of 29 Hanbury Street. Annie Chapman’s body was found between the step and the fence.
10. The Booth Poverty Map.
11. Mortuary photograph of Elizabeth Stride.
12. An artist’s impression of Elizabeth Stride, as shown in The Illustrated Police News.
13. Artist’s impression of Louis Diemschutz discovering the body of Elizabeth Stride.
14. Berner Street. The gateway is where Israel Schwartz saw a man attacking Elizabeth Stride shortly before her murder.
15. Artist’s impression of Catherine Eddowes.
16. Mortuary photograph of Catherine Eddowes showing the gruesome nature of her injuries.
17. Mitre Square murder scene.
18. Goulston Street doorway. The graffito was written on the inner wall and the piece of bloodied apron found on the floor below.
19. Inspector Frederick Abberline.
20. Amos Simpson, Acting Sergeant of the Metropolitan police at the time of the murders.
21. Chief Inspector Donald Swanson.
22. An artist’s impression of Mary Jane Kelly.
23. Dorset Street, where Mary Kelly was living at the time of her murder.
24. A sketch of a dosshouse on Dorset Street.
25. Mary Jane Kelly crime scene. This is the only photograph of a Ripper victim as she was found.
26. 13 Miller’s Court.
27. The Swanson marginalia, naming Aaron Kosminski as a suspect.
28. Colney Hatch Asylum.
29. Colney Hatch Asylum’s observations of Kosminski.
30. Leavesden Asylum.
31. Attendants at Leavesden Asylum pose for a photograph.
32. Jari in the lab.
33. Jari taking samples from the bloodstained shawl.
34. The shawl laid out in the lab for testing.
35. Russell and Jari look at the shawl’s stains under a UV light.
36. Close-up of various stains being tested.
37. A vial containing a captured cell ready for testing.
38. Russell and Karen.
1. The outer side of the
shawl showing the Michaelmas daisies.
2. The reverse side of the shawl with Michaelmas daisy section folded inwards.
3. Martha Tabram, possibly the first Ripper victim.
4. A typical Whitechapel dosshouse.
5. The discovery of Mary Ann Nichols.
6. Mortuary photograph of Mary Ann Nichols.
7. Mortuary photograph of Annie Chapman.
8. The front of 29 Hanbury Street. The door directly under ‘29’ was the passageway to the backyard where Annie Chapman was murdered.
9. The backyard of 29 Hanbury Street. Annie Chapman’s body was found between the step and the fence.
10. The Booth Poverty Map.
11. Mortuary photograph of Elizabeth Stride.
12. An artist’s impression of Elizabeth Stride, as shown in The Illustrated Police News.
13. Artist’s impression of Louis Diemschutz discovering the body of Elizabeth Stride.
14. Berner Street. The gateway is where Israel Schwartz saw a man attacking Elizabeth Stride shortly before her murder.
15. Artist’s impression of Catherine Eddowes.
16. Mortuary photograph of Catherine Eddowes showing the gruesome nature of her injuries.
17. Mitre Square murder scene.
18. Goulston Street doorway. The graffito was written on the inner wall and the piece of bloodied apron found on the floor below.
19. Inspector Frederick Abberline.
20. Amos Simpson, Acting Sergeant of the Metropolitan police at the time of the murders.
21. Chief Inspector Donald Swanson.
22. An artist’s impression of Mary Jane Kelly.
23. Dorset Street, where Mary Kelly was living at the time of her murder.
24. A sketch of a dosshouse on Dorset Street.
25. Mary Jane Kelly crime scene. This is the only photograph of a Ripper victim as she was found.
26. 13 Miller’s Court.
27. The Swanson marginalia, naming Aaron Kosminski as a suspect.
28. Colney Hatch Asylum.
29. Colney Hatch Asylum’s observations of Kosminski.
30. Leavesden Asylum.
31. Attendants at Leavesden Asylum pose for a photograph.
32. Jari in the lab.
33. Jari taking samples from the bloodstained shawl.
34. The shawl laid out in the lab for testing.
35. Russell and Jari look at the shawl’s stains under a UV light.
36. Close-up of various stains being tested.
37. A vial containing a captured cell ready for testing.
38. Russell and Karen.
About the Author
Russell Edwards is an entrepreneur who has been involved in property speculation and investment for over twenty-five years. He is also studying for an MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling. Russell has long been fascinated by the East End of London and by the crimes of Jack the Ripper. He lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and children.
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