text: ds he fled back to his native Hungary where he vanished again three years ago, Abberline has heard rumors that he may be in London now.
  
  Finally there is Dr Francis Tumblety. Tumblety is currently wanted by the London Police for "committing indecent acts with other men" (as Abberline diplomatically puts it). Tumblety has skipped bail and fled to France where he has booked passage on a ship back to his native America. Because Tumblety is an out-spoken woman-hater he is being tracked by Abberline's officers who want to question him in connection with the Ripper murders.
  
  You will have to move fast as all of these suspects are constantly on the move and in the cases of Kelly and Szemeredy you are not even sure of their current locations. It is up to you to consider who you want to investigate first.
  
  > Joseph Barnett
  With some reluctance you return to Millers Court to talk to Joseph Burnett only to learn from the landlord that Burnett has understandably moved out of his and Mary's old room. The landlord explains that Burnett just couldn't keep bring himself to live in the room where his girlfriend met such a horrible death. Unfortunately he did not leave a forwarding address and the landlord has no idea where he has gone now. Your efforts to locate him are unsuccessful.
  
  > Another attack
  You are still trying to trace your various suspects, all of whom have vanished, when you read in the newspapers that the Ripper may have struck again in a bizarre attack. A prostitute named Annie Farmer took an unknown man to her home where he promptly cut her in the throat with a knife and fled the scene. The cut itself is described as a mere graze and the article describes how arriving officers found Farmer hiding several gold coins in her mouth leading to them to conclude she robbed the man and faked the attack on herself. The incident bears few similarities to the Ripper's own horrific killings but if you want to investigate the papers do list Mrs Farmer's address in Spitalfields.
  
  > look into this unusual case
  Traveling out to Spitalfields you find Annie Farmer's house and knock on the front door, it is opened by a nervous young woman who identifies herself as Mrs Hall, another resident of the house.
  
  "I heard everything," she tells you. "I sleep in another room and was woken by a yell. Running upstairs I saw Annie partly undressed and holding a bloodied rag to her throat. I asked if she knew her attacker and she said "yes, I was with him about twelve months ago and he hurt me then." She told me the man had a black mustache, dark clothes and she thought he was a saddler. He brought her drinks until she was drunk before she invited him to her home. He cut her a little in the throat and ran away yelling "what a cow!" Yes, it's true Annie had coins hidden in her mouth but she told me she didn't steal them."
  
  > This does not sound like a Ripper attack
  Soon after the Annie Farmer attack Inspector Abberline drops by.
  
  "We're not getting very far in our investigations," he admits to you. "Joseph Burnett and George Hutchinson have vanished into London, we can't find James Kelly or Alois Szemeredy and Francis Tumblety has escaped into some part of America. The one good piece of news is that the Ripper seems to have stopped killing. You heard about this Farmer woman's attack I suppose? That doesn't sound much like our man to me."
  
  Abberline scratches his head thoughtfully.
  
  "A new suspect has come to our attention though. We've picked up a young Polish Jew roaming the streets of London babbling incoherently in Yiddish. He became violent when we arrested him so we've transferred him to the lunatic asylum at Colney Hatch. We can't identify him so for now we're calling him David Cohen. There's nothing to prove he's the Ripper per se but he's definitely insane, somewhat violent and it's possible the depravity of his crimes have caused his mind to break altogether. In fact my superiors are leaning towards the likelihood that a lunatic such as this Cohen boy is responsible for these horrific crimes. You can go to Colney Hatch and talk to him if you like but I don't think you will get much sense of him."
  
  > go to Colney Hatch to talk to this lunatic
  You travel to Colney Hatch and are shown into David Cohen's cell. He is a plain-looking young man in a straight jacket sitting in the corner babbling incoherently to himself.
  
  "Don't let him fool you," a guard warns. "He's a spiteful little sod. He'll lash out and scream without warning and we often have to put him in a straight jacket to stop him tearing his clothes off. He spits out food if we give it to him, tears down piping if he can and smashes windows. Don't get too close to him."
  
  Cohen completely ignores you the whole time you are there, muttering and hissing to himself endlessly and occasionally laughing.
  
  > Not getting anywhere here you go back home
  A month after Mary Kelly's death Inspector Abberline visits you looking worried.
  
  "We might have another murder on our hands," he tells you. "A prostitute called Rose Mylett has been found dead under suspicious circumstances. One of my officers found her body in a disused yard. She didn't have any injuries as such but our police doctors aren't sure if she died from natural causes or strangulation. We're pretty sure the Ripper's not behind this one but you might want to look into it anyway. We're still getting bombarded by suggestions and theories from the general public and as soon as news of this unfortunate death hits the papers we'll get a whole lot more."
  
  > do some investigating into Rose Mylett's death
  Your investigation into Rose Mylett's death leads you to her house on George Street where you talk to her friend, the exotically-named Mr Ptolomey.
  
  "I saw Rosie around 8pm having an argument with two sailors yelling "no, no, no"," he tells you. "I saw her later at 3am with two different men, she looked very drunk. I heard the Police found her body just off the high street around 4am, they don't know if it was murder or natural causes or what. Rose was a pretty girl but she had a terrible fondness for drink. I don't know how her health was but she was drunk most nights."
  
  > This doesn't look like a Ripper crime to you
  The year ends with no more killings and all of London seems to breath a sigh of relief. It seems the Ripper has definitely moved onto other parts and now you and Abberline have the difficult job of tracking him down. After a few months Abberline visits your home with a new lead.
  
  "Officers in Dundee have just arrested a man called William Bury for killing his wife," Abberline tells you. "It seems he strangled her with some rope and then stabbed her repeatedly in the abdomen with a knife. That's not the clincher though: when police searched his home they found some childish chalk scribbles in the basement that read "Jack the Ripper lives in this cellar." I've done some digging and it seems Bury was living in London during the Ripper killings but moved up to Dundee soon after Mary Kelly's death. Bury's scheduled for trial and an execution looks likely so if you want to interview him you'd better set off for Dundee at once."
  
  > go up to Dundee to talk to this suspect
  You journey up to Dundee in Scotland and arrange to see William Bury in his prison cell on the eve of his execution. He is a big bearded middle-aged man with a hard look about him.
  
  "I'm not the Ripper," he tells you as soon as you start asking questions. "But I never killed anybody except my wife... we had a fight when I was drunk and I got angry. A red mist came down and when it cleared she was lying there dead with that rope around her neck. I wasn't thinking clearly. I tried to cut her up with a knife but the blood coming out of her stomach made me feel sick. I went to the police and told them she'd hung herself but when they saw the knife wounds in her chest they knew the truth right away. I deserve to be killed I suppose but I wish to God I hadn't done what I did."
  
  Twenty-four hours later Bury is dead, hung by an ominously silent crowd.
  
  > return to London
  Spring turns into summer and it is now nearly a year since the first of the Ripper murders. You know he is out there somewhere but where? William Bury is dead, executed in Scotland for his wife's murder. Joseph Barnett, George Hutchinson, James Kelly, Alois Szemeredy and Francis Tumblety remain elusive. David Cohen is still in Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, incoherent and insane. The Ripper could be one of these suspects or one you have yet to uncover. It is very, very frustrating.
  
  Then the killings begin again.
  
  The first is a prostitute called Emma Jackson whose dismembered body is fished out of the Thames one piece at a time. Newspapers speculate that her murder is another Ripper killing but you and Abberline agree it does not sound like his work. Then one morning while reading the papers you are stunned to read of another killing that sounds just like his earlier victims: a prostitute called Alice McKenzie has been brutally killed and mutilated.
  
  You read the article in a state of shock. It seems McKenzie's body was found in an alley by a patrolling policeman at 1am that morning. The unfortunate lady was killed by two stab wounds to the throat and several knife slashes were also made across her chest. Though it does differ in some ways from other Ripper murders (her throat being stabbed rather than slashed for instance) it does bring back vividly memories of your discovery of Mary Ann Nichols's body. You consider whether or not to investigate.
  
  > look into this killing
  Finding Alice McKenzie's address listed in the article you make your way to her home in Spitalfields where you meet her partner, John McCormack, who is an old Irish labourer. He looks devastated.
  
  "She's been my girl for nigh on seven years now," he tells you. "She never did a bad thing in her life except smoke like a chimney when she thought I didn't know. It's all my fault she ended up where she did, I came home from work at 4 in the afternoon and gave her some money to pay the rent. She went out and spent the money on drink. She was drunk when she came back and we had a row about it. She went back out and said she'd get the money back one way or another..."
  
  McCormack sniffs and carries on.
  
  "I heard from friends she went back to a pub and carried on drinking. They last saw her around midnight hurrying down Whitechapel Road. They asked her if she was alright and she said "Yes, I can't stop now". They said she looked like she was late for some sort of appointment. She hurried off and... and... they found her body soon after that. What do I do now my girl is gone? In a few days London will lose interest in her murder but for me this is my life. It's fucked now."
  
  Offering your condolences the best you can you leave.
  
  > Is this another Ripper killing?
  Soon after Alice McKenzie's murder Inspector Abberline turns up unexpectedly one evening at your home. To your amazement there is a faint smell of whiskey about him and he is swaying slightly.
  
  "Sometimes I hate this city," he says wearily accepting your offer of a seat. "As a policeman you only see the worst of it, never the good. The day after this McKenzie woman was killed a man called William Brodie got drunk and told everyone in a pub he'd killed her and was Jack the Ripper. It's taken us three days to prove he's been in South Africa for the last year. Did you know we've found another body? This one hasn't even made the papers."
  
  Abberline pulls a hip-flask from his pocket, takes a gulp and replaces it.
  
  "We found a woman's torso under a bridge, we think it might be a missing prostitute called Lydia Hart. You know that's the third dismembered body we've found in the last year? We don't think it's the Ripper so that must mean there's another serial killer out there and we don't have a clue who either of them are. Where's Burnett? Where's Hutchinson? Where's Kelly, Szemeredy or Tumblety? I've just heard David Cohen's died in Colney Hatch from what the doctors are calling 'manic exhaustion'."
  
  Abberline forces himself to his feet.
  
  "Still, we've got to keep trying I suppose. We keep going, keep searching then eventually we must find the Ripper. We must. I found another suspect you might want to investigate, a man called Hyam Hyams. He's has been in and out of lunatic asylums in London since shortly after Mary Kelly's murder and doctors say he's an uncontrollable drunk. The other night he cut his mother in the head with an axe and stabbed his wife with a knife. We've certified him as insane and incarcerated him in Colney Hatch. Perhaps you'd like to talk to this charming fellow?"
  
  > talk to this latest suspect
  Going up to Colney Hatch you are shown to Hyam Hyam's cell. He is a middle-aged man in a straight-jacket with grey hair and beard.
  
  "It's very nice to meet you," he says pleasantly. "How do you do?"
  
  "Be careful of him," the guard warns. "He is a dangerous maniac and he's already stabbed one warden in the neck with a piece of sharp steel. He covers the walls in filth and screams death threats to staff when the mania is on him, at other times like now he can be as nice as you could hope for."
  
  Hyams laughs pleasantly and shakes his head. When you try to talk to him further he just smiles, shakes his head and hums to himself. After five minutes of this you get the hint and leave.
  
  > Is this the Ripper?
  Time passes and still the Ripper remains as elusive as ever. Abberline drops by your home one morning, you are surprised to see his black hair is starting to turn grey.
  
  "Another suspect," he says unenthusiastically. "A man called Jacob Levy has just been sent to Colney Hatch. He's insane and possibly violent. He could be our man, who knows? Anything's possible."
  
  Even Abberline is starting to sound defeated by now.
  
  > go to Colney Hatch and interview Levy
  Going to Colney Hatch you are shown to Jacob Levy's cell, which is quite close to Hyam Hyams's cell. Levy is a pitiful sight, a naked man with overgrown beard and hair crying uncontrollably throughout your visit before suddenly breaking into fits of laughter. It quickly becomes clear he is unable to answer any of your questions.
  
  > This is not getting you anywhere
  Later that year you read in the papers about an unusual double murder that has just occured in London. A woman called Mary Pearcey brutally slaughtered a rival called Phoebe Hogg and her eighteen-month-old baby with a poker and a knife. Arrested almost immediately what catches your attention is that Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories, has claimed he believes that Mary Pearcey is in fact Jack the Ripper, using her gender to lull her victims into a false sense of security. Mary Pearcey has been sentenced to death for her terrible crimes so if you want to talk to her you'd better move quickly.
  
  > go to Mary Pearcey's prison and interview her
  You go over to Holloway Prison to talk to Mary Pearcey. You find her in her cell, a very strong-looking woman who is chanting softly to herself the same words over and over: "killing mice, killing mice, killing mice". She refuses to talk to you or acknowledge your presence at all and you examine her wondering if she is capable of inflicting the horrific injuries the Ripper did. The fact that all the witness sightings of the Ripper's victims describe them as being accompanied by men rather than women making it seem a bit unlikely she is the Ripper.
  
  > Days later Mary Pearcey is put to death
  After Mary Pearcey is executed at you continue your search for the Ripper. One morning you are flicking through a newspaper when you are stopped by a headline that screams RIPPER KILLS AGAIN! The article goes on to describe how a policeman was walking down Chamber Street at 2am when he found the body of a prostitute called Frances Coles lying on the ground.
  
  As the policemen knelt to examine her Coles suddenly opened her eyes and stared at him but couldn't speak because her throat had been slashed apart. Though the policemen heard a man's footsteps running away down a nearby street he tried to staunch Coles's wound rather than pursue the man but she died moments later. Apart from her slashed throat Coles had no other injuries but journalists covering the story are convinced her murder is the work of the Ripper. You frown wondering whether you should investigate for clues.
  
  > look into this murder
  The article mentions that a man called James Saddler has already been arrested for Frances Coles's murder. Going to a local police station you find Saddler, a middle-aged Irishman with a bruised face.
  
  "Like I keep telling everyone I had nothing to do with that woman's death, I only met her two days ago," he insists to you. "We had been drinking all day and on the way back to my lodgings I got attacked by two thugs and robbed of all my money. I couldn't afford money for a bed so I went out again. I got into two more fights and I suppose I was in a pretty bad way when I booked myself into the London Hospital at 5am. The first I learned that Frances was dead was when those coppers came round and arrested me."
  
  Saddler sighs and shakes his head.
  
  "It couldn't have been me. Frances was with her friends until half hour before she was murdered. They said a man came up, a little man with a dark mustache and blue trousers who looked like a sailor. He was looking for some fun and when one of the girls turned him down her punched her. He spoke to Frances and she went with him. They walked off down White Street and that was the end of her. Her friends will clear me, they know it wasn't me."
  
  As it turns out Saddler is right, the testimony of Coles's friends help acquit him and he walks free.
  
  > Is this the work of the Ripper or just another prostitute killing in this rough town?
  Not long after Frances Coles's murder your is caught by an account of a newspaper article about another violent murder, this time across the Atlantic in New York. A prostitute called Carrie Brown checked into a hotel room with a man and was found the next morning strangled and mutilated. According to the doctors who examined her body she had been slashed and hacked savagely and it appeared that her killer had tried to remove her organs.
  
  The description of the man that checked in with Brown sounds familiar to you: around thirty years old with a light mustache, slim build, dark suit and hat. The article is light on details making you ponder. You know Dr Tumblety was last seen in America, though where he, Barnett, Hutchinson, Kelly or Szemeredy are now is anyone's guess. Jacob Levy has recently died of syphilis at Colney Hatch leaving Hyam Hyams your remaining suspect incarcerated there.
  
  Once more Inspector Abberline visits again, balding now and weary.
  
  "Another suspect," he tells you. "Thomas Cutbush. He's a medical student who has been certified insane after stabbing a woman with a knife in a fit of madness. He's being held in Broadmoor Hospital currently if you want you to go and talk to him there."
  
  > talk to Cutbrush
  You go to Broadmoor where you are introduced to the medical student Thomas Cutbush. He is a fair-haired young man who sits in absolute silence, refusing to talk to you for the whole time you are there.
  
  "He's been catatonic since he arrived," a guard explains to you. "Never says a word."
  
  > Your suspects don't seem to be very talkative
  One evening Inspector Abberline pays his last visit to you.
  
  "He's beaten me," he says wearily. "I have no more idea who the Ripper is now that when we began this investigation. I've just announced my retirement, I'm handing the entire case over to you. The police are drawing a line under it, no one's investigating now. Out of our suspects Bury, Cohen, Levy and Pearcey are dead, Cutbrush and Hyams are in asylums and Burnett, Hutchinson, Kelly, Szemeredy and Tumblety are who knows where. It's all in your hands now but I am certain that if anyone can find and unmask this monster it is you."
  
  Determined not to let the man who snuffed out the lives of several women go unpunished you keep searching. Soon you read about a man called Frederick Deeming who has just been arrested in Australia for cutting his wife's throat and smashing her head in. What links the case to London is that the bodies of Deeming's first wife and there four young children are found rotting beneath the floorboards of a London house where Deeming lived prior to emigrating to Australia. Their throats had all been cut. Predictably the newspapers are full of speculation that Deeming is Jack the Ripper. You could travel to Australia and interview him but as he has already been sentenced to death you will have to go as fast as you can.
  
  > go to Australia to interview Deeming
  Crossing the world by steamship you reach Deeming's prison cell in Melbourne on the eve of his execution and manage to secure an interview with him. The ruthless killer is a fierce and tough looking man who laughs loudly when you ask if he is the Ripper.
  
  "How could I have been?" he asks. "I was in Cape Town, South Africa mining diamonds out of the Transvaal the year those prostitutes were hacked up. I didn't get back to England until a year afterwards. Hang on, you don't reckon if I say I am the Ripper they'll stay my execution and send me to a new trial in England? It'd be nice to see the old girl one last time."
  
  Nothing comes of his idea: Deeming is executed the next day before a cheering crowd and you return to London.
  
  > So ends another suspect lead
  Your search for the Ripper unearths another suspect a few months after Deeming's execution when yet another serial killer is arrested in London. You read in the papers Dr Thomas Cream was arrested after poisoning and killing four prostitutes with strychnine over a six month period for his own enjoyment. It is later found he was also responsible for the poisoning murder of a man in Chicago in 1881. Again the papers are full of claims that Cream is the Ripper, though his method of killing with poison is far different than the Ripper's brutal slaughter of his victims with a knife. Still, when Cream is sentenced to death in Newgate Prison he is only a short way from where you live if you want to visit him.
  
  > go and interview Cream
  Going to Newgate Prison you meet the murderous doctor in his cell. He is an amiable middle-aged man with a moustache and glasses who is amused by your suggestion that he is the notorious Whitechapel murder.
  
  "How could I be killing prostitutes in London in 1888 when I was serving a ten year sentence for murder in Missouri until 1891?" he asks with a smile and sighs. "I wish I had been Jack the Ripper. His killings were the sort of thing us medical fellow can appreciate, so skillfully done!"
  
  Cream dies unrepentant at the end of a noose soon after.
  
  > Another one bites the dust
  After searching for them for so long you finally begin to get some closure on your missing suspects Burnett, Hutchinson, Kelly, Szemeredy and Tumblety. You learn from police reports that Alois Szemeredy has surfaced in Hungary. After committing a series of burglaries, one of which resulted in him beating a shopkeeper to death, Szemeredy is finally tracked down and arrested. As he is taken into custody he produces a hidden razor blade and cuts his own throat, bleeding to death before help can arrive. Whatever secrets he might harbour go to the grave with him.
  
  It is not so with Dr Francis Tumblety, who to your excitement finally surfaces in the town of Rochester in New York where he is practicing medicine and giving newspaper interviews insulting the London Police and ridiculing claims that he is Jack the Ripper. Now you have finally found him your first thought is to go to America and interview this important suspect at once in case he slips away again.
  
  > travel across the Atlantic to interview Tumblety
  You book passage on a liner across the Atlantic and within months you are standing in Dr Francis Tumblety's house. The doctor is a man of medium height with graying hair, a mustache and wears a suit. When he shakes your hand you notice three cheap brass rings on his fingers which look strangely out of place alongside his gold watch chain and diamond stickpin. Weirdly various organs float in glass jars of alcohol on different tables behind him. He sees you looking at them and smiles.
  
  "That's just my collection of wombs," he says as if wombs are normal household decorations. "Anyway you say you are from London? I have no idea why the London Police considered me a suspect in these Whitechapel killings. They hadn't one single piece of evidence against me. I have never done a single human being any harm and there are many I have helped. Though I don't care much for women personally but I have often helped many of them out of difficulty. I am no woman hater, in fact there are some parts of them I rather admire."
  
  He smiles benignly, playing with the three cheap brass rings on his fingers as he does so.
  
  > Slightly unnerved by this strange man you return to London
  One morning out of the blue you are surprised to receive a note inviting you to visit Scotland Yard. Once you arrive you are led into the office of Chief Constable Melville Macnaghten, a rising star in the force despite only having joined the police recently. He shakes your hand briefly and invites you to sit down.
  
  "I understand you have continued to investigate the Ripper Case even though everyone else seems to have given up on it," he tells you looking pleased. "I understand you have some suspects but I want to see this investigation concluded and have found some suspects of my own I'd like you to investigate to see if we can bring a case against them. There is a lawyer called Montague Druitt who drowned himself the month after Mary Kelly was killed, a highly suspicious coincidence eh? There is a Polish Jew called Aaron Kosminski who was certified insane soon after Mrs Kelly's murder, I consider him a likely suspect as well. Finally there is a mad Russian Doctor called Michael Ostrog who was in London at the time of the murders. I would be very glad if you could investigate these suspects for me and report back your findings."
  
  Your attempts to get him to listen to who you consider the most likely Jack the Ripper suspect is politely ignored.
  
  > investigate the background of Montague Druitt
  You look into the case of the lawyer Montague Druitt who drowned himself on the last day of 1888. You quickly discover that at the times Mary Ann Nichols and Annie Chapman were being murdered Druitt was playing cricket and when Stride and Eddowes were killed when he was in Cornwall. The only murder that occurred while he was in London was that of Mary Kelly. Following these discoveries you turn your attention elsewhere.
  
  > investigate Aaron Kosminski
  A search into the background of Aaron Kosminski reveals he is still alive and living in a lunatic asylum. You visit him there and find he can't speak any English except "hello" and "bye bye" and seems to have the mind of a child. He seems quite peacefully content and weaves a wicker basket the whole time you are there while his guards cheerfully inform you he is never any trouble at all. He doesn't seem like Ripper-worthy material to you.
  
  > investigate Michael Ostrog
  Your search into the background of Michael Ostrog reveals he isn't quite the "mad Russian doctor" Macnaghten apparently believes he is but rather a fairly unsuccessful criminal who has been in and out of prison ceaselessly for petty burglary charges. Though he has a history of insanity his records show he was serving time in prison for the theft of a metal cup at the time of all the Ripper Murders. It doesn't seem likely at all that he is the Ripper.
  
  > wrap up your final investigation
  When you return to Scotland Yard and tell Chief Constable Macnaghten that you have not found any credible proof linking his suspects to the Ripper Killings he looks unhappy.
  
  "Each to his own opinion I suppose," he says grumpily. You tell him your own theory about who you think the Ripper is most likely to be but Macnaghten just shrugs and tells you it's a nice theory. You are frustrated by his lack of support but there is nothing you can do. After so many years of research it seems the Police are unwilling to help you catch the Ripper at long last. You feel utterly failed by the London Metropolitan Police.
  
  Despite your frustration with the lack of support you continue to watch for Ripper-related news. In 1894 a man called Carl Feigenbaum slashes the neck of his landlady in New York and is promptly arrested. His lawyer claims he is Jack the Ripper soon after his client's execution but there is no real evidence to prove it one way or the other. Far more interesting is another article that you read with a jolt: the murderer James Kelly who you have hunted since the start of your career has walked into the British Consul in New Orleans in America and offered to surrender himself and return to prison in England after eight years on the loose. Immediately your first thought is to go and meet him.
  
  > interview Kelly when he returns to England
  You take a train up to Liverpool and weeks later you finally meet the man you have hunted for so long. James Kelly is a handsome man with a mustache who greets you with a handshake. As you stare into the killer's face you become uncomfortably aware that you are the only person who has come to meet him when his ship from America docked, no police officers or officials are on the scene presumably because Kelly's ship has arrived a day early. Kelly has noticed this too and sighs.
  
  "I guess they're not that interested in me after all," he says. When you eagerly ask him about the Ripper murders Kelly just smiles. "I was in London at the time but I didn't kill anyone," he replies. "In December I went to France and then America. I guess if no one is here to meet me I'll just take a walk. It was nice meeting you." Kelly shakes your hand and that is that, the pair of you part ways once more. By the time the police show up the next day the killer has vanished once more.
  
  > One last suspect
  The years pass by slowly, after arresting officers missed him in Liverpool James Kelly continues to elude capture. You never do find Joseph Burnett or George Hutchinson. Thomas Cutbush, Hyam Hyams and Aaron Kosminski remain in asylums, Michael Ostrog remains in prison following further thefts. Dr Francis Tumblety remains at large in America. Finally, fifteen years after the Ripper murders, one last suspect emerges.
  
  A Polish man called George Chapman is arrested on suspicion of poisoning and killing his three previous wives. He is found guilty of the murders and sentenced to hang, it quickly emerges in the papers that as a young man he lived in London during the time of the Ripper Murders. The shop where he worked was just opposite the George Yard buildings where Martha Tabram's body was found. Inspector Abberline, by now in his 60's and looking quite healthy now he is free from the stress of his job, drops by your home brandishing the article.
  
  "Well, they've caught Jack the Ripper at last," he tells you happily. "I'm sure this is the man we struggled so hard to catch fifteen years ago."
  
  Though you are not a young man yourself anymore you consider making one last trip up to Wandsworth Prison to interview Chapman before his execution.
  
  > go and talk to your last suspect
  Going to Wandsworth Prison you meet George Chapman. He is a ruthless looking man with dark eyes and a mustache. He looks quite capable of the three murders he has been convicted of. When you ask him about the Jack the Ripper murders he says nothing, he simply faces you with blank eyes and a cold smile. Feeling glad he is to be executed soon you return to your home.
  
  > Time to close this case
  Soon after George Chapman's execution, you are invited to the office of Private Investigator John Littlechild and he looks excited.
  
  "Sir, I have just come from a meeting with Chief Constable McNaghten, former Inspector Abberline and the Home Secretary and together we have decided to act on the evidence you have been gathering on the identity of the man behind the Whitechapel murders, the killer known as Jack the Ripper. If you can supply us with enough evidence me and my private team of Detectives will act on it to arrest the person you name."
  
  This is the moment you have been waiting for!
  
  You run your list of suspects through your head to decide on the one you think is most likely to be the killer.
  
  So, who is Jack the Ripper?
  
  > Joseph Barnett
  Joseph Barnett could have been Jack the Ripper.
  
  Eagerly you explain your theory to Inspector Littlechild, that Barnett may have started killing prostitutes with increasing savagery to discourage his girlfriend Mary Kelly from entering that particular line of work. When she did not change her ways he slaughtered her with unimaginable savagery. His apearrence matches many eyewitness descriptions but Inspector Littlechild is quick to point out the main problem.
  
  "We don't have any proof whether this theory is correct or not," he says unhappily. "No one has seen Barnett for fifteen years and we are unlikely to find him now."
  
  You are forced to concede that this is true.
  
  > settle with this one
  You are disappointed that your hunt for Jack the Ripper could not have ended more satisfactorily.
  
  As the years pass you find yourself interviewed ceaselessly by journalists fascinated with the mystery of Jack the Ripper. The killer's victims, mother of four Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman who battled terminal illness in her struggle to survive, Elizabeth Stride, who once ran a successful coffee shop, Catherine Eddowes, who battled alcoholism while trying to hold a relationship together and Mary Jane Kelly, a beautiful and social party girl, are all but forgotten while towering over them is the killer whose name has become synonymous with brutality and mystery: Jack the Ripper.
  
  Thank you for taking the time to read my story.
  
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  For my research in writing this story I mainly used casebook.org, a one-stop world about Jack the Ripper.
  
  It is no wonder Jack the Ripper remained uncaught as the police at the time were awful. They believed the Ripper was literally a foaming-at-the-mouth madman and because they were anti-Semitic they guessed he was probably Jewish too, hence "the mad Jew" theory that crops up in police documents like the Macnaghten Memorandum. Frederick Abberline was probably the best of a bad bunch while I think the later detective John Littlechild was on the right track too.
  
  Since the Victorian era literally hundreds of books have been written naming possible Ripper suspects. Though anyone who was in London and alive at the time could be a suspect I think there is something in believing that the Ripper could have been a known serial killer like George Chapman. Strong cases have been made for non-killers, books like Miriam Rivett's and Mark Whitehead's Jack the Ripper (naming suspect Joseph Barnett) and Donald Rumbelow's The Complete Jack the Ripper (naming suspect Francis Tumblety) particularly stand out.
  
  Though Tumblety is the most likely of all the suspects to my mind it's certain the mystery of who Jack the Ripper was will never be solved. I have included sixteen suspects in this book but there are literally hundreds including artist Walter Sickert, Lewis Carroll (who wrote Alice in Wonderland), Thomas Bernardo (founder of Bernardo's children's homes) and of course members of the Royal Family who usually get blamed by someone when bad things like car crashes and mad cow disease happens.
  
  One thing I don't like is that while killers like the Ripper, Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer have become celebrities their victims are forgotten. All of the Ripper's victims left behind families who had to cope with the pain. They were trapped in a cycle of alcoholism and prostitution, if you go to the red light district in Soho, London (as me and my friends sometimes would in our uni days, purely for research purposes of course) you will see things have not really changed much since the Ripper's time except it's drugs rather thank drink that fuel the sex trade now. In dark worlds like this it's easy for modern-day serial killers to operate anonymously in the shadows just as the Ripper did.
  
  If you're still reading by this point either you're very polite or have become interested in Jack the Ripper, if you have your own theories I'd enjoy hearing them.