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Letters, witnesses, memoirs and myths
Documents, nights and witnesses that cut across the cases.
The letters
Dear Boss, Saucy Jacky, From Hell, the Openshaw letter and the Lusk kidney: full texts, receipt chains, and the authenticity disputes.
The double event
The night of 29-30 September 1888, minute by minute on the map: Stride, then Eddowes, then the Goulston Street apron and writing.
Near misses: the witnesses
Every recorded possible sighting of the killer, the descriptions word for word and side by side, with time, place, distance and reliability.
Police memoirs
Anderson, Macnaghten, Swanson, Henry Smith, Abberline and others: what they said later, and how Anderson changed his words between magazine and book.
Myths tested
The royal conspiracy, Sickert, the Maybrick diary, the top hat, the fog and more, set against the sources.
The Whitechapel Murders file
The six other deaths in the police file: Emma Smith, Martha Tabram, Rose Mylett, Alice McKenzie, Pinchin Street torso, Frances Coles.