Paul Begg

Jack the Ripper: The Forgotten Victims
by Paul Begg

Wow, this is so well researched! Fascinating too! It goes beyond the iconic Five victims attributed to Jack the Ripper and tells about others before them, during and after in great detail. In GREAT detail! Like one lady died from maybe a heart attack from reading the newspaper about the killings! The newspaper had grizzly art work depicting the murder scene.

Although the book is just facts, it also gives the reader a feel for the life there at that time. The filth, the roads, the daily grind the poor would have to deal with consistently. I really felt the atmosphere and it was awful enough without throwing in a serial killer. There were gangs that ran the streets too.

There was a lot to absorb in here. Could Jack just be one of the street gangs? Some of the later killings were very different I thought. The bodies were chopped up and thrown in the river. Were there two serial killers? Interesting history. Sad but interesting. Graphic too so beware.… (més)

This is an exceptionally detailed, and as a result, deep and sometimes brutal investigation of the Jack the Ripper murders. Reconstructions of the scenes, including the few photographs taken at some of the later murders, as well as news paper prints and pictures from the time are available throughout the book. You get a real sense of not just the brutality and uniqueness of the murders, but the time period and areas in which they were committed. A must for anyone interested in one of the worlds greatest unsolved murder cases.… (més)