Sarah Bax Horton
Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper
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Publication date: 18/07/2024
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Extent: 304 pages
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Enquire nowThis is a well-researched, well-written, and long-needed book-length examination of a likely suspect. If you have an idea of the sort of man Jack the Ripper might have been, Hyam Hyams could be it.
Paul Begg
A book that has been too long coming...her book is well researched and written. One-Armed Jack should be on the bookshelf of everyone interested in the Whitechapel Murders...Buy it now
Adam Wood, Ripperologist and editor of Crime Through Time
It debunks a commonly held misidentification of this perpetrator, who was formerly on the ‘long list’ of Ripper suspects
The author establishes a previously unknown connection between the perpetrator and an eyewitness in the Catherine Eddowes case
As has never been done before, the perpetrator is specifically linked to the crimes through his distinctive physical characteristics as described by multiple eyewitnesses
Draws on previously unpublished material from the London Metropolitan Archive, the Metropolitan Police and Home Office records at the National Archives, Kew, City of London Police records, and other sources originating from civilians and officials who had direct contact with the police investigation
The mainstream popularity of true crime is reflected in the success of podcasts such as Serial and Netflix documentaries such as Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. This book comes at a time when the success of the true crime genre is at an all time high.
His motivation for murder is studied in detail, and its relationship to the physical and mental illnesses he experienced
The author has used her professional skills in calculating the perpetrator’s escape routes from each crime scene and formulating a detailed true crime reconstruction for each of the six murders
Sarah Bax Horton is an experienced former civil servant for the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. She has an MA Honours degree in English and Foreign Languages (German) from Somerville College, Oxford. Her interest in genealogy and a family member related to the Jack the Ripper case inspired her to research the lives of personalities involved and to establish the previously unknown connection between the perpetrator and an eyewitness in the Catherine Eddowes case.