A man once called the modern-day Jack the Ripper has admitted to the murder of another teenage girl before he went on a ...

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 ...

Tourists often arrive in London with a checklist: Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, afternoon tea — and a Jack the Ripper tour. Every night, hundreds of tourists retrace the supposed steps of Jack the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — Historian Russell Edwards made the DNA connection between Jack the Ripper and Aaron Kosminski and is now looking to ...

On the morning of May 11, 1887, lighterman Edward Hughes made a gruesome discovery when he fished a sack containing a human ...

Jeff Mudgett learned the shocking truth at a family dinner: His great-great-grandfather was H.H. Holmes, the infamous con man and serial killer who operated a so-called “Murder Castle” during the 1893 ...

In the autumn of 1888, a monster stalked the streets of London’s East End. The slashed and mutilated bodies of the killer’s victims struck terror into the city ...

A former police volunteer claims to have discovered the identity of the figure behind some of the most shocking crimes in British history, unmasking the 19th-century murderer who terrorised the nation ...

When I went to the Ripper Conference in London in September for the 130th anniversary of the unsolved infamous crimes of 1888, I was prepared for plenty of arguments from Ripperologists about their ...

Any story about Jack the Ripper is all right by me. But conflating it with the London Matchstick Workers Strike of 1888 is true fiction. Playwright Maggie Lou Rader tries her damnedest to put these ...

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London (CNN) — By 8 p.m., three London tour groups are jostling for room in Mitre Square, where murder victim Catherine Eddowes was found with her face mutilated and kidney removed. “I once saw two ...