Latest Jack the Ripper Theory Involves a Journalist

Very few Daily Telegraph readers are buying into author's who, what, where, when and why.

London’s The Daily Telegraph has exclusively serialized four chapters from The Real Mary Kelly: Jack the Ripper’s Fifth Victim and the Identity of the Man That Killed Her. The book by Wynne Weston-Davies, set for hardcover publication later this month, is the byproduct of the author’s extensive research into his family ancestry and on that front at least, has enough credence to have led to the apparent imminent granting of permission to exhume the titular woman’s body.

Weston-Davies’ broader theory, that Jack the Ripper slayed his first four victims in order to muddy the trail linking the killer to the fifth, his alleged estranged wife, is being greeted in the reader comments with overwhelming skepticism.

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