Announcements & Events

2009 Ripper Conference



The 2009 Ripper Conference will take place on 24th and 25th October at the King's Stores, Widegate Street E1.

Full details at http://www.ripperconference.com/

Best wishes
Adam Wood and Andy Aliffe,
Conference Organisers

We are about 25 hours away from the 125th anniversary of Martha Tabram's murder.  I suppose we can place that news in this "announcements" thread.
 
The Aug issue of the Ripperologist Journal has been distributed.  Simon Wood's article "One Lone Maniac Too Many - Part Two" deals with Martha's death as well as the Hanbury Street murder. There are plenty of Pros and Cons about Simon's work.
 
Back in April 2009, Simon emailed me to say that there was a problem with Abberline's statement about Edward Stanley being on duty at Fort Elson, Gosport. So he has been at this work for over four years now, and I am glad the day has finally come when he could share his research.

Hopefully more research will be done into Edward Stanley. I've always found this brief thread to be somewhat haunting:
 
http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=508
 
Congratulations to Mike Hawley for having another fine article appear in Ripperologist. He gave us a good lesson on the origin of Yellow Journalism.

Thank you John, and I'm looking forward to Joe's response to Simon's article...but I have to read his article first!

Mike

We should congratulate one of our fellow members here on the Jack the Ripper Writers web site. Siobhan has authored an e-book this year that can be found on the Amazon web link below.  It's entitled The Peculiar Sex Life of Adolf Hitler.

www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Siobhan+Pat+Mulcahy

I'm going to read the book this month.  And like all of Siobhan's work, I bet it is well researched, well written, and complemented by excellent picture images.

The May 2016 issue of Casebook Classic Crimes is now available.  

https://casebookclassiccrime.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/issue-4-may-2016-robbery/

Joe has an article in there about the hijacker D. B. Cooper.

The electronic magazine is run by Frogg Moody, and he is also the editor of the Whitechapel Society Journal.

It turns out that the timing of the D. B. Cooper article in the current issue of Casebook Classic Crimes couldn't have been better.  The FBI announced yesterday that they have finally closed the books on the D. B. Cooper case after almost 45 years.  It will now go down in history as an unsolved mystery, just like the Whitechapel Murders.

The Aug 2016 issue of Casebook Classic Crimes is now available.  This issue has some writers who are familiar names to the Ripper World, such as Wolf Vanderlinden and Robin Odell.

http://www.mangobooks.co.uk/CasebookClassicCrime_issue5.pdf

Congratulations to Frogg Moody for a successful run as editor of the Whitechapel Society Journal.  Samantha Hulass should do a very fine job as well.  Wishing her the best of luck and fortune.