Were the Jack the Ripper Letters Fabricated by Journalists?

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#TIA – Only the most dedicated of Jack the Ripper fans will care about the authorship of these letters, but you could get hooked too.Only the most dedicated of Jack the Ripper fans will care about the authorship of these letters, but you could get hooked too.

n the autumn of 1888, in the midst of a grisly string of murders, the Central News Office in London, Scotland Yard and government officials began receiving a string letters.

“Dear Boss,” one postmarked on the 25th of September began. “I keep on hearing the police have caught me but they won’t fix me just yet.” The taunting letter, inscribed in red ink, was signed for the first time with a name that has sent shivers down generations of spines: “Jack the Ripper.”

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