Mystery Files

Jack the Ripper (1x2)

: 01, 2010

How do we get close to a killer the police haven't been able to identify for over 100 years? With the help of renowned British crime historians and authors Applying modern techniques and trawling the archives Mystery Files unearths new evidence to eliminate an age old suspect, and discovers a new likely candidate was right under the policemen's nose. Where the police went wrong in their 19th Century hunt for Jack the Ripper was in the initial approach they took to the case. Victorian London had never seen anything like Jack before, and they presumed that the only man capable of such horrendous deeds must be a raving maniac. With little knowledge of schizophrenia or other mental illness they disregarded 100's of suspects which modern policing would have picked up, and it’s here where Jack the Ripper still hides.