Once upon a time, Steve Bissette was creating a horror anthology called Taboo. Originally self-published, it got picked up by Tundra. Alongside a number of great stories, including one of my ...
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Who was Jack the Ripper?

For over 135 years, one unanswered question has haunted true crime enthusiasts, historians, and casual readers alike: just who was Jack the Ripper? The moniker, of course, belongs to an unidentified ...
From ghost tours, to books, Halloween costumes to theatre productions – and even a museum – the Jack the Ripper industry is well and truly alive. His is the name given to the unidentified serial ...
(NewsNation) — Historians say a theory about infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper‘s job could finally identify him. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, historians and hosts of podcast “The Rest Is ...
The notorious serial killer known as Jack the Ripper may finally have been identified more than 130 years after he terrorized Victorian era England. The story of Jack the Ripper has transfixed ...
Sarah Bax Horton, who was a relative to an officer who conducted the original investigation, claims Hyam Hyams is the real mysterious serial killer who went on killing spree in London in 1888. Michael ...
If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Author Julie Berry breaks down why we're so fascinated by stories of murdered young women and fantastical beasts, and what happens when ...
Forensic analysis by scientists in the U.K. may have unmasked Jack the Ripper more than a century after the murderer’s brutal killing spree sent shockwaves through Victorian London. Research by Dr.
The still-unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper killed his first known victim on this day in history, Aug. 31, 1888. On this day, a woman named Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, 43, was found murdered in ...
A new DNA analysis of stains on a silk shawl that may have belonged to one of Jack the Ripper‘s victims concluded that the killer was a Polish barber named Aaron Kosminski, according to a paper ...
News media was buzzing today with a claim that scientists had finally figured out the real identity of the notorious 19th-century serial killer Jack the Ripper thanks to DNA and an old shawl. The only ...