Jack the Ripper: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Works examining the Jack the Ripper case include Maxim Jakubowski and Nathan Braund (eds.), The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper (1999); Stewart P. Evans and Keith Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Companion: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (also published as The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 2000); Stewart P. Evans and Paul Gainey, The Lodger: The Arrest and Escape of Jack the Ripper (1995; also published as Jack the Ripper: First American Serial Killer, 1996, reissued 1998); and Philip Sugden, The Complete History of Jack the Ripper, rev. ed. (1995). A well-researched treatment of the lives of the canonical five is Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (2019).
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| Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Was Jack the Ripper a Slaughterman? Human-Animal Violence and the Worlds Most Infamous Serial Killer. | Aug 24, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: College of Southern Idaho Pressbooks Network - Uncovering Serial Killers - Jack the Ripper. | May 06, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - Does a new genetic analysis finally reveal the identity of Jack the Ripper? | Nov 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Nightlife - The identity of Jack The Ripper is a mystery. Or is it? | Sep 26, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: London Museum - Jack the Ripper. | Aug 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Dissecting Jack-the-Ripper : An Anatomy of Murder in the Metropolis (PDF). | Jun 16, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Augsburg University - Idun - Deconstructing �Jack�: How Jack the Ripper Became More Fiction Than Fact (PDF. | Apr 25, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Was Jack the Ripper a Slaughterman? Human-Animal Violence and the Worlds Most Infamous Serial Killer. | Sep 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Marquette University - Death by Gaslight: The Infamy of Jack The Ripper. | Mar 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Jack the Ripper. | Nov 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: History Today - How the Press Created �Jack the Ripper�. | Sep 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Texas State University - Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation - Jack The Ripper. | Jan 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Historic UK - Jack the Ripper. | Jun 30, 2022 | ||
| Article revised for readability. | Jan 21, 2022 | ||
| Article revised to mention historical research indicating that only one of the canonical five victims of Jack the Ripper was a prostitute. | Jan 20, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jun 08, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: British Library - Jack the Ripper. | Feb 06, 2020 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 07, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Crime Musuem - Biography of Jack the Ripper. | Feb 28, 2017 | ||
| Noted the graphic novel From Hell and added cross-references. | Dec 15, 2016 | ||
| Added the names of the victims and the dates they were found. | Jun 01, 2012 | ||
| Media added. | Jul 02, 2008 | ||
| Media added. | Sep 12, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Jack the Ripper. |
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Apr 26, 2007 | |
| Article revised. | Mar 31, 2004 | ||
| Article revised. | Apr 11, 2003 | ||
| Article revised. | Aug 23, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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