Social media and the internet has become fertile territory for hoaxes, pranksters, and impostors. Fake news. Fake obituaries. Wild conspiracy theories. The demonising and bullying of innocent people. “Doxing” individuals by publishing their addresses and personal details. Yet – all of this has been going on, in different ways, for hundreds of years. Though especially…
In 1888, a Victorian woman wrote to The Times newspaper rightly indignant that Scotland Yard refused to countenance the idea of female detectives being sent to investigate the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel. Sir Charles Warren, London’s police chief, had just breezily dismissed the idea of women being recruited to investigate the Whitechapel murders….
For two years, I’ve been investigating the Jack the Ripper case – pouring over the original police and court records, as well as contemporary newspaper reports and other evidence. What I’ve uncovered will amaze you. On May 28, 2024 – I will reveal all in a new book: Jack the Ripper and Abraham Lincoln (Troubador…
