Word: ripper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lordship Jack the Ripper, if you please. Though much of the legend surrounding London's infamous sex killer of 1888 arises from the continuing mystery of his identity, a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons now claims that the police knew who he was all along. In an article prepared for Criminologist magazine, say London press reports, Thomas Stowell asserts that Scotland Yard kept Jack's identity secret for a peculiarly British reason: the mad murderer came from an aristocratic family. Certain as he is of his facts, the doctor declines to reveal Lord Jack...