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The Slums of Spitalfields – ‘A human sewer clearing itself’ at the time of Jack the Ripper
During the late 1800’s Whitechapel and neighbouring Spitalfields in East-End London was a terrible place to live. It seems as if all of society’s…
Was James Maybrick Jack the Ripper – Ha-Ha Who has the Last Laugh?
In 1998 at a serial killer conference hosted by Liverpool University, I met author Shirley Harrison, author of The Jack the Ripper Diary, Chilling…
Authors’ Debate: Unmasking Jack the Ripper – James Maybrick or Walter Sickert?
Two authors, Patricia Cornwall and Shirley Harrison, tried to unmask Jack the Ripper. Ms Harrison’s candidate is James Maybrick and Ms Cornwall’s candidate is…
Killer-cops: The Pangaman and the Human Hunter – Double-faced Janus
Divided by 30 years, two brutal men held a city and a town ransom during a reign of terror. One went undetected by the…
Killer-Cop, Unmasking Serial Killer Kobus Geldenhuys Invisible Identity
South African serial killer and rapist Kobus Geldenhuys’ criminal career began by stealing money from his mother’s purse when he was a 10-year-old child. …
Killer-Cops, When Heroes Become Villains: Uyselen Nel killed his family in cold-blood
In 1996 South African police sergeant Uyselen Nel killed his wife and two toddler sons in cold-blood, much like the Greek hero committed familicide…
Serial Killer Brydone Brandt, is he Hercules or Cerberus?
Some time after Stewart Wilken, the cannibal serial killer of South Africa was imprisoned, I received a call from St Albans Correctional Facility summoning…
The Science of Decay at Body Farms – Forensic Taphonomy in the Flesh
In the early 19th century, two serial killers, William Burke and William Hare, set up an illustrious business by killing 16 people in Edinburgh,…