The well-known painter is celebrated for his works of ballerinas, bathing females and prostitutes. Kiki Schirr says the artist s subject-matter says more about him than was previously understood.
There are a lot of illegal ways to make money, but one of the most unusual methods is the act of extortion, coercing another party into paying you off. In
Respected businessman Henry Wainwright killed his lover Harriet Lane (above) in 1874 after racking up debt and realising he was unable to support her financially.
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.
Police researchers have rediscovered a walking stick, carved with the face of the man believed to have mutilated and killed five women in Whitechapel, London in 1888.