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Jack the Ripper Case's Identity Breakthrough After 130 Years
The notorious Victorian era serial killer Jack the Ripper's identity may have been discovered after 130 years due to new DNA evidence
Author Richard Wallace wrote a 1996 book titled Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend, in which he speculated that Alice in Wonderland writer Lewis Carroll may have committed the murders with an accomplice, the academic Thomas Vere Bayne. Ian Holm as Sir William Gull in ‘From Hell’Cover Images An unsolved case as sensational as the Jack the Ripper murders is ripe for adaptation, and the story has indeed been turned into countless documentaries, books and even fictional retellings in film and TV since the 1890s. Another notable, yet fictional, depiction of the case came in comic book writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell ‘s 1989 graphic novel From Hell, which theorized that lawyer Montague Druitt was framed for the crimes as a coverup for the true culprit, Queen Victoria’s surgeon William Gull.
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