In the words of the immortal Sherlock Holmes:“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth.”The biggest clue to the identity of Jack the Ripper was that he was not caught. Simply put he should have been. A similar serial killer, Joseph Vacher, in a similar time frame (see “The Killer of Little Shepherds” by Douglas Starr) was caught and guillotined by the combined efforts of a detective an...

The biggest clue to the identity of Jack the Ripper was that he was not caught. Simply put he should have been. A similar serial killer, Joseph Vacher, in a similar time frame (see “The Killer of Little Shepherds” by Douglas Starr) was caught and guillotined by the combined efforts of a detective and a forensic specialist. The problem with bringing Jack to a similar end was that the police force was severely compromised by the British Establishment. And the web of lies and deceit surroundi...