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Oct 15, 2024 · The Press declared “an epidemic of murder” in 1888. As well as Jack the Ripper, the police were investigating another series of equally vile, equally unsolved crimes. Sarah Bax Horton investigates the 'Thames Torso Killer'.
Jul 16, 2023 · Sarah Bax Horton – whose great-great-grandfather was a policeman at the heart of the Ripper investigation – has unearthed compelling evidence that matches witness descriptions of the man seen with...
- Dalya Alberge
Jul 16, 2023 · Ms Bax Horton discovered that the medical notes of Hyams, who was 35 in 1888, recorded an injury that left him unable to “bend or extend” his left arm. He also had an irregular gait and an...
- Matt Mathers
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Jul 21, 2023 · Sarah Bax Horton, a relative of an officer on the original case, used medical records to, in an upcoming book, allege that the killer was a London cigar maker. Horton believes other facts...
Bax Horton argued that the crimes coincided with his mental and physical decline which started when he broke his left arm in February 1888 and ended before his incarceration in September 1889 in the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, where he remained until his death in 1913.
Jul 16, 2023 · He was permanently committed to a mental asylum in September 1889, and died in 1913. Bax Horton, whose great-great-grandfather was posted at the headquarters of the investigation, concluded...
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Sep 13, 2023 · Jack the Ripper terrorised London between August 31 and November 9, 1888, brutally killing five women in Whitechapel. The women; Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride,...
