For more than a century after Jack the Ripper became one of history's most feared and famous murderers, his identity remained a mystery. Then last year, on a tour of Scotland Yard, a best-selling American crime novelist met a leading British authority on the Ripper. In an excerpt from the resulting book, PATRICIA CORNWELL reveals how she and other investigators used state-of-the-art forensic science, including DNA tests, to make the case that the serial killer who terrorized Victorian England was the handsome, gifted young artist named Walter Sickert.
Historian Rod Beattie believes Bowden Endacott, a Met police officer who would have been patrolling the streets of London s Whitechapel, was responsible for the notorious murders.
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