A biography of the victims of Jack the Ripper has won a major literary award. Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five has been awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, organisers announced on Tuesday.

Even 136 years later, the mystery of the Jack the Ripper slayings has amassed a fanbase in the age of true crime fascination. For some, unraveling Ripper’s identity has even become a career. Richard ...

NOTE: After this column appeared, I received a very polite note from Richard Patterson, the author of the theory discussed below, to correct me on several points. The major issue he took is that there ...

On Sunday, yet another amateur sleuth claimed to have solved the mystery of Jack the Ripper: the word’s most infamous serial killer—who, 126 years ago, committed his legendary slaughters of (at least) ...

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 ...